Into town today

[JDNSW]

Today I took the 2a into town to get a pink slip. No issues. My mechanic is not very happy - he just got 30 days to vacate his workshop - which he has managed to get extended to February 7th.

Trip into town was uneventful, it is running very well. During my pre-roadworthy check last week, I found the LH rear U-bolts were loose, and tightened them - stopped an annoying clunk on bumps I was wondering where came from! (I thought it was the big hammer in the locker behind the rear wheel)

When I checked the gauge this morning there had been 1mm overnight, and it was sprinling when I left, and continued to do so in town, but not enough to worry you walking in it (it is still pretty hot). Then, while I was in the supermarket, it started to rain in earnest! Unloading a shopping trolley onto the LH seat and footwell while trying to shelter under an umbrella was not fun. Also found I had left the vents open, and the rain was so heavy that a lot splashed in. But this paled into insignificance compared to what ran in off the umbrella and the lot running off the roof and coming in the door.

Eventually I managed to get everything in, parked the trolley, then got in and transferred some of it through the cab rear window into the back - I have a 3/4 canvas - tidied up the cab and headed for home. A couple of points became apparent on the way home. One is that the demister does not do a good job of clearing the windscreen, at least with the amount of water there was loose in the cab (of course by this time my clothes were fairly wet as well).

Then, this being the first time I have driven in significant rain for about five years another point became apparent: It leaks. There is a small leak at the top of the LH windscreen between the glass and the frame, and there is water coming in somewhere above the windscreen frame, either between it and the cab roof, or between the cab roof proper and the cab roof frame. Possibly a leak round the door, but so much had come in while I was getting the groceries in that it was hard to tell.

Anyhow, by the time I got home to the front gate, the rain had dropped to a sprinkle.

[Geedublya]

Today I took the 2a into town to get a pink slip. No issues. My mechanic is not very happy - he just got 30 days to vacate his workshop - which he has managed to get extended to February 7th.

Trip into town was uneventful, it is running very well. During my pre-roadworthy check last week, I found the LH rear U-bolts were loose, and tightened them - stopped an annoying clunk on bumps I was wondering where came from! (I thought it was the big hammer in the locker behind the rear wheel)

When I checked the gauge this morning there had been 1mm overnight, and it was sprinling when I left, and continued to do so in town, but not enough to worry you walking in it (it is still pretty hot). Then, while I was in the supermarket, it started to rain in earnest! Unloading a shopping trolley onto the LH seat and footwell while trying to shelter under an umbrella was not fun. Also found I had left the vents open, and the rain was so heavy that a lot splashed in. But this paled into insignificance compared to what ran in off the umbrella and the lot running off the roof and coming in the door.

Eventually I managed to get everything in, parked the trolley, then got in and transferred some of it through the cab rear window into the back - I have a 3/4 canvas - tidied up the cab and headed for home. A couple of points became apparent on the way home. One is that the demister does not do a good job of clearing the windscreen, at least with the amount of water there was loose in the cab (of course by this time my clothes were fairly wet as well).

Then, this being the first time I have driven in significant rain for about five years another point became apparent: It leaks. There is a small leak at the top of the LH windscreen between the glass and the frame, and there is water coming in somewhere above the windscreen frame, either between it and the cab roof, or between the cab roof proper and the cab roof frame. Possibly a leak round the door, but so much had come in while I was getting the groceries in that it was hard to tell.

Anyhow, by the time I got home to the front gate, the rain had dropped to a sprinkle.

I reckon the locals will want you to take the 2a to town more often if this is what happens.

[bemm52]

John my 2a leaks in the same spots as my Defenders......driver right foot, leg and passengers left foot, leg.... so I feel I did a pretty accurate job of the rebuild

on a more serious note on a high country run the other week with LRCOV during a rainy weekend I was more concerned about rear side windows steaming up making some right hand turns a bit of Russian Roulette . I have no demisters but find a bit of old flannelet sheet clears windscreen fog fairly well

Cheers Paul

[goingbush]

Interesting to note, the only LandRovers Ive ever had that don't leak are canvas roof soft tops. Don't Leak & don't have condensation issues. But all my hardtops leaked . Must be a LandRover thing .

[Zeros]

Weirdly my Puma doesn’t leak anywhere...yet! It’s unlandroverlike! Except of course when it’s raining, you open the front doors and the gutters’ perfect design flows inside.

My Tdi on the other hand, all the usuals.