Land Rover Discovery Restoration - Transmission Install / S4-Ep32 

Thanks Rob. We land in Detroit on SEP 1 at 13:00h and our flight departs at 18:54h. So there would be time to go to Taco Bell if you feel like stopping by at the Airport. I hope my time off work will not be that stressfull for you. Christian

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You did everything correctly if it got 320t k on it! Christian

I got the worst organized sock drawer in Germany ! Christian

My faith in humanity is restored !@@Vera_and_Christian

Yes, our new management sucks. Christian

@@Vera_and_Christian I hate stuff going in the bin when it’s useful, but that why our workshops are full of stuff lol

@@Vera_and_ChristianMy favourite recent quote, which I’ve already found occasion to repeat (with attribution) is: “The difference between a collector and a hoarder is that a collector knows what he has”. Christian, in that regard & in good humoured know-how, you remind me of my foster dad who, in the 1970s taught a morose teenager how to do all sorts of mechanical things. In those days, cars that ran well & safely were owned by people with money or those who knew how to maintain & repair them at home. We were the latter. If a job required a tool we didn’t have, it would be bought or made. The task was never “bodged”. I’m a hundred miles lower than your skill level, but I at least understand everything you describe. I know that the resourcefulness you both show is life-affirming. I regret that where we are (southern England) few people know how to do much for themselves. I think it’s a severely retrograde step that , commonly, neither the owner nor the dealer really understand the engineering in their vehicles. I greatly dislike the “fixing by replacing one component after another”. It’s all bean counting and little original thinking. Root cause analysis must succeed (eventually!) and it is very satisfying. Loved your honesty with the “trash bag” fault with “The Queen”. So entertaining and educative at the same time. Never change.

👍 I say: people who care about their company check the metal bin! I can see there if we screwed up or not. Christian

Lol. Christian

I would say fortunate rather than lucky. Christian and Vera’s workshop & parts store is the result of years of decision making. A good quality lathe & the skill to use it enables remarkable things, such as the manufacture of special tools. I believe Christian’s dad is a master toolmaker.

😅We have lived in Michigan for almost 10 years. We have probably been there already👍🙋‍♀️

No, that is not the problem, problem is they bought so many spare parts over the years, that they have to take the LR apart to get them used before they get to old, and then they can start all over in another 250TKM!!!!!!!!