The Range Rover Classic thread:
Discussion
Rangeroverover said:
Well done on pulling the trigger, just make sure you keep on top of any niggly bits that stop working or fall off; a catering pack of waxoyl is a worthwhile investment and getting all the bushes done. the handling will be transformed as you can bet nobody has attended to them in recent years.
Thanks, the suspension has all been replaced (HD spec coils and new dampers) so I'd assume (hope) he PB'd it at the same time (will check). Had all the rusty bits replaced (the before pics were shocking!). No sunroof to leak or A/C to go wrong. Will pop a CD player in (even has the sub in the boot) and some seat covers (drivers seat fabric is a lil worn) and that should be it 
. Only thing slightly concerning me is a slight noise from the PAS when turning on full lock but the fluid is a little low so I'll top it up before I drive home and see how I go.Had a picture message from the seller showing the brand new MOT cert. 3 advisories. 2 for windscreen and one for.... an oil leak (It's a fecking Landie, they only don't leak when they are empty!)
Got a job lot of used engine oil (joys of a 7 litre (ish) sump in the IIA) that I'll give the underside a good dosing with (while saving up for a tanker of Waxoyl
)DickyC said:
I'm using my RRC this week, it's been in hibernation since February when I got my Cooper S. I've started it a couple of times, but it had been left alone for 2 months (outside but under a tarp). It fired straight on the key, and everything still works perfectly, superb!
Thoroughly enjoying cruising round in it again, making me not want to sell it...
So I have collected le big barge tonight and already ended up in with a marquee in the back and a small offroad excursion. When I eventually got 'er up to speed (my 200TDi Series IIA would thrash 'er in a drag) I sat at 50-60 all the way home in surprisingly quiet surroundings. The only downside is that at some point between test drive and collection something is loose in the squab on the drivers seat. Will have to take the fabric off for a nose at some point.
Will be putting a new CD player in (checked and no sign of autochanger) and cleaning out the intercooler. Added bonus is the service book shows a FULL service history, from the first service in '94 up to the oil change in January '15.
Also came with some shots of the work done to it (rear as an example)...
Will be putting a new CD player in (checked and no sign of autochanger) and cleaning out the intercooler. Added bonus is the service book shows a FULL service history, from the first service in '94 up to the oil change in January '15.
Also came with some shots of the work done to it (rear as an example)...
It's good that has been sorted. Worth taking the boot carpet out every so often to make sure it still looks like the bottom photo and not the top!
The CD changer fits under the sub woofer on the right.
Mine was pressed into service after a scout event. I bumbled around a park whilst two very giddy cubs jumped in and out of the back picking up tent pegs and what have you.
The CD changer fits under the sub woofer on the right.
Mine was pressed into service after a scout event. I bumbled around a park whilst two very giddy cubs jumped in and out of the back picking up tent pegs and what have you.
Brings back fond memories of my RRC - a 91 model Vogue 3.9i shed. Bought it for £600 complete with LPG. It was bought sight unseen (not even a photo) off a certain online auction site....
A family of hippies had lived in it for a year while travelling round Spain. I t was interesting what we found under the carpet etc when we cleaned it out (first priority as it was a tip inside). The head lining sagged more than a bedouins tent so that was the first thing to be sorted.
Over the next couple of years it had a blown headgasket so the engine was pulled, new cam, followers, heads skimmed .020" and all put back together (it was in great nick for 180k miles!). Fitted a pair of tubular manifolds and a stainless straight through exhaust and went out and had some fun. It got a 2" lift for a while when I was playing with it off road and a set of bigger wheels (Wolf wheels shod with G90s off my Defender). It was great fun!
Clip of it in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LVhQ98C984 (7:54 on is best - the load whirring is the electric fans running).
Sold it about a year after this for £600.
All in all it was a great car and never needed any welding on the chassis - just the usual corner of the rear arch/C pillar junction.
A family of hippies had lived in it for a year while travelling round Spain. I t was interesting what we found under the carpet etc when we cleaned it out (first priority as it was a tip inside). The head lining sagged more than a bedouins tent so that was the first thing to be sorted.
Over the next couple of years it had a blown headgasket so the engine was pulled, new cam, followers, heads skimmed .020" and all put back together (it was in great nick for 180k miles!). Fitted a pair of tubular manifolds and a stainless straight through exhaust and went out and had some fun. It got a 2" lift for a while when I was playing with it off road and a set of bigger wheels (Wolf wheels shod with G90s off my Defender). It was great fun!
Clip of it in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LVhQ98C984 (7:54 on is best - the load whirring is the electric fans running).
Sold it about a year after this for £600.
All in all it was a great car and never needed any welding on the chassis - just the usual corner of the rear arch/C pillar junction.
The 300tdi auto L89DRU was mine from 2005 until March last year - and it certainly didn't have a full service history then. IIRC the first owner was some television person or other, (Dinnage?), and I bought it from a bloke in Leicester, and sold it to someone near Shrewsbury. It had been regularly serviced earlier in its life, with stamps in the book, but I did everything myself.
When I sold it, the rear floor and body crossmember were rotting, the ABS light was hidden by a piece of card in front of the bulb ( I told the buyer!), and it was leaking from the heater O-rings. Still regret selling it.
Kevin
When I sold it, the rear floor and body crossmember were rotting, the ABS light was hidden by a piece of card in front of the bulb ( I told the buyer!), and it was leaking from the heater O-rings. Still regret selling it.
Kevin
Autolycus said:
The 300tdi auto L89DRU was mine from 2005 until March last year - and it certainly didn't have a full service history then. IIRC the first owner was some television person or other, (Dinnage?), and I bought it from a bloke in Leicester, and sold it to someone near Shrewsbury. It had been regularly serviced earlier in its life, with stamps in the book, but I did everything myself.
When I sold it, the rear floor and body crossmember were rotting, the ABS light was hidden by a piece of card in front of the bulb ( I told the buyer!), and it was leaking from the heater O-rings. Still regret selling it.
Kevin
Well I'll be! Hello When I sold it, the rear floor and body crossmember were rotting, the ABS light was hidden by a piece of card in front of the bulb ( I told the buyer!), and it was leaking from the heater O-rings. Still regret selling it.
Kevin
Someone (unlike when I service my MX-5) appears to have filled in the book pretty well (if not all dealer stamps) complete with lots of notes about when extra bits were done (cambelt etc). Something I should really do when I service my cars (but invariably forget.
As you can see the interim owner (bought it from the guy in S'bury, He's after a TD5 Disco to replace it as he wants the 7-seats) fixed the floor and crossmember, ABS light now functions and (small oil leak aside - it wears a green oval after all) doesn't appear to be leaking. Did have a funny noise from the NS swivel housing. Put a 1-shot sachet of grease in earlier (all of it
) and it seems a lot happier .Any interesting info or pics you could PM me? Has quite a chunk of old receipts/ MOTs etc but it's always nice to have more (I'm sad like that
) Edited by carmadgaz on Friday 26th June 01:15
Hi,
One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
Autolycus said:
Hi,
One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
Ahh yes the SRS light still appears inoperable. Astoundingly goes through an MOT like it! Cambelt has now been done. Wiper and plipper now work but the damper is still a little weak.Even had a new headlining One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
Yeah my IIA was sat for several weeks after I tweaked my sciatic nerve, couldn't operate the clutch
. Yeah the TLA are a pain, one of the appeals of DRU were the lack of A/C or sunroof. Old girl has done 188k now so don't expect 'er to be perfect.Thanks
carmadgaz said:
Ahh yes the SRS light still appears inoperable. Astoundingly goes through an MOT like it! Cambelt has now been done. Wiper and plipper now work but the damper is still a little weak.Even had a new headlining
Yeah my IIA was sat for several weeks after I tweaked my sciatic nerve, couldn't operate the clutch . Yeah the TLA are a pain, one of the appeals of DRU were the lack of A/C or sunroof. Old girl has done 188k now so don't expect 'er to be perfect.
Thanks
Of the steering fluid has been leaking for a while then it's worth checking for play on the panhard road at that end as the fluid speeds up the deterioration of the rubber bush. Once that starts going you start getting more wobbles when driving. Yeah my IIA was sat for several weeks after I tweaked my sciatic nerve, couldn't operate the clutch
. Yeah the TLA are a pain, one of the appeals of DRU were the lack of A/C or sunroof. Old girl has done 188k now so don't expect 'er to be perfect.Thanks
If it does have play then you can replace the rod for a few quid and it transforms the drive.
DonkeyApple said:
Of the steering fluid has been leaking for a while then it's worth checking for play on the panhard road at that end as the fluid speeds up the deterioration of the rubber bush. Once that starts going you start getting more wobbles when driving.
If it does have play then you can replace the rod for a few quid and it transforms the drive.
Apparently the panhard was done among the refurb bits If it does have play then you can replace the rod for a few quid and it transforms the drive.
. It did come with a set of replacement bushes for it as well Have a chat with Bill at Autoland in Dunstable - he's a mine of knowledge and probably knows a car
Autolycus said:
Hi,
One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
One correction to my last post about L89: it was the SRS light that was blanked off, not the ABS. Past my bedtime when I posted. It had a leak from the steering box for years, but a quick rub over with a rag kept the MoT tester happy. The rear wiper didn't work, the central locking worked from the key but not the plip, the steering damper was weak, and it was desperately overdue a cambelt and brake fluid change.
But it was the most comfortable car to drive that I've ever owned, never let me down, and towed superbly, albeit a bit slowly on long motorway inclines. Wish I'd looked after it better. My lady wife complained that it smelled horrible inside, even before the heater leak became obvious.
I'll see what I can dig out about it, but I think I handed most of it over. I followed it up with a Defender 110 200tdi, but Land Rover clutches and my knee are no longer a viable combination, so I'm actively looking for another automatic Range Rover, ideally with even fewer toys. I'll live without ABS, TC, SRS, and indeed TLAs generally.
Kevin
Hi I have a 3.9 on lpg, i paay about 65p per litre for it which with probably 80% efficiency makes it seem in money terms like 28-30mpg.
The drawback I have is a lack of lpg forecourts close to me, nearest is about 8 miles and not usually on my way to anywhere. If you have lpg available easily it's worthwhile otherwise you do end up using petrol for the sake of convenience.
I don't regret it and having now driven a diesel classic much prefer the petrol/lpg version
The drawback I have is a lack of lpg forecourts close to me, nearest is about 8 miles and not usually on my way to anywhere. If you have lpg available easily it's worthwhile otherwise you do end up using petrol for the sake of convenience.
I don't regret it and having now driven a diesel classic much prefer the petrol/lpg version
Rangeroverover said:
Hi I have a 3.9 on lpg, i paay about 65p per litre for it which with probably 80% efficiency makes it seem in money terms like 28-30mpg.
The drawback I have is a lack of lpg forecourts close to me, nearest is about 8 miles and not usually on my way to anywhere. If you have lpg available easily it's worthwhile otherwise you do end up using petrol for the sake of convenience.
I don't regret it and having now driven a diesel classic much prefer the petrol/lpg version
I'm in a similar position. I pay 58 ppl through the countrywide scheme but Swindon only has this and one other fuel station with LPG and they are virtually next to each other. So I have to do a couple of extra miles to fill up. I put quite a bit of petrol through too but it is a bit scary watching a tank full disappear.The drawback I have is a lack of lpg forecourts close to me, nearest is about 8 miles and not usually on my way to anywhere. If you have lpg available easily it's worthwhile otherwise you do end up using petrol for the sake of convenience.
I don't regret it and having now driven a diesel classic much prefer the petrol/lpg version
Best solution for fuel economy is to simply never look at the pump when filling up. Over 21 years of driving cars I know are thirsty I couldn't tell you the MPG of any, except one and that was the Overfinch when I became a little suspicious so for once checked the pump numbers and calculated a London mpg of 4.5
But knowing a fun car's normal MPG cannot ever bring any form of pleasure so I never calculate it or pay any attention at the pump.
It's like going bald. It happens. Spending more money on fancy solutions isn't going to make your hair grow back and checking it in the mirror every day isn't going to bring any happiness.
But knowing a fun car's normal MPG cannot ever bring any form of pleasure so I never calculate it or pay any attention at the pump.
It's like going bald. It happens. Spending more money on fancy solutions isn't going to make your hair grow back and checking it in the mirror every day isn't going to bring any happiness.
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