Dr Mark's Tardis

That worked out well. I bought a compressor off eBay for £30 from a BMW E53 X5 with air suspension. I'd wondered if it would perform better than my tired old one and be cheaper than even a refurb kit would be. It's great.Waterproof too, with a 10mm pipe for air intake. Quickly got up to my normal 4 bar pressure.and now adjusted up to 8 bar, so that should be good for the pneumatic seats if I ever get to work on them. I fitted an air filter: RangeRover P38 (£5.99 from Ebay) on the end of the inlet pipe.Which sits about 300mm above the chassis rails.

Wow that's bright. It is actually very hard to chose ad LED light bar. The adverts exaggerate the power and the brightness figures are usually missing. On the bright side ha  ha ... the reviews are always pleased with how bright they are. It was tempting to get one the full width of the roof, but for me the unflated power levels were a turn off. A high current draw is bad for me and severely limits how much I could use on without the engine running. So I bought a 30" 198W bar from Wow LED on Ebay. I did not wnat curved ones and preferred post mounted rather than end mounted. Wiing is not trivial. It needs a relay and a cable from the battery feed at 30Amp (actually even a 10 Amp fuse was fine - so much for 198 Watts). Wires to the roof, but a switch inside. Not rocket science, and eventually completed. I went for mounting on the cab roof. I had considered the bumper. Low is supposed to be better for snow and bad weather, but mounting on the bumper would make it more vulnerable

A very satisfying project. How to improve the music in the cab. With a cheap ldi radio and tinny mismatched speakers things coudl only get better. The Radio I used to have cheap radios, like you get from Aldi or Lidl for £20 to £30. With the front cover broken I searched for a new one and was persuaded to up my budget to about £100. Excellent advice. Still a mean old git I bought a refurbished unit from used car stereo on eBay.   SONY MEX-N7300BD / DAB+ / FLAC / Bluetooth / USB / AUX / microphone for  £89  Great buy, and a good company to deal with (I bought another one from them for the camper). Good points: The sound is great 55W per channel. I definitely need more than 30W in the noisey truck. DAB radio that's a nice to have. Microphone for hands free phone calls - I had not appreciated how good that would be. Can load the CD without moving the fascia (that removes one frequent failure mode) Takes input from high quality bluetooth codecs and Android mode. USB charging built in