A few more jobs done:
One of the pads (OSR outside) had delaminated meaning these was much scraping of backing plate against disc - this is becoming a recurring problem on pads recently, I suspect "better for the environment" adhesives as this never used to happen.
I put new Brembo discs & pads on and a partial fill with V-Power and saw a significant rise in mpg, now up to 45 rather than the 40 I got on the trip home on Thursday. I'll put the standard diesel in tomorrow to see if it's the fuel or just the friction reduction that's brought the benefit
It seems that over the past few weeks the car has decided it can get 580+ miles out of a tank of diesel, so the internal calculator seems to be working correctly once again. Unless of course, this is down to different levels from the two sensors, one being used for the fuel gauge, the combined being used for DTE, and the one used for the fuel gauge has lost it's stickyness
Replaced the drivebelt idler pulley, at a cost of £13. However, because I was in a rush I reassembled without testing the tensioner pulley. The noise remains, so I guess that is next. As this is going to be the original, I think i will just replace the whole assembly, rather than go for the pulley only.
Though not on this car yet, I have been doing a lightbar repair on the petrol NG. I added to the handy thread on UKS, but 40 replacement LED's cost less than £3 and a fiver for a voltage regulated power supply, which to this point has been for testing purposes only