Range Rover Vogue - what do these buttons do?
Range Rover Vogue - what do these buttons do?
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Lanby

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238 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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We're looking at getting a 2008ish Range Rover Vogue as a kids/dog mover and browsing PH ads some models have these buttons on the centre console, some don't, but what are they for?


Shaw Tarse

31,836 posts

227 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Bum wamers?

PorkaFly

502 posts

187 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Cooled and heated seats (l & r). Button in middle switches them on, and dial is moved from 12 o'clock position to right for heat and to left for cooled...

PF

Lanby

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238 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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That's what I thought, but this one has f/r heated seats as well, so what does the first one do that this one doesn't?


ehasler

8,576 posts

307 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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The ones with dials are for the seats that cool as well as heat.

Moycie

536 posts

221 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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In your second picture (this is probably from a HSE/Vogue), the heated seat buttons are in the centre of the left and right temperature controls.

On the Vogue SE/AutoB, the seats were air cooled/heated, so there is the addition of rotary controls in the lower panel either side of the clock (as per your first picture), also pressing them allows just seat and back, or seat or back (if I remember right). At the same time, the heated seat buttons you see in the Vogue are gone and now solid, and replaced with temp symbols.

Moycie

536 posts

221 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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You can see the different buttons here - these are 2010+ model dash buttons, they changed shape a bit, but its the same set-up for 2005+

Vogue SE/AutoB: air cooled/heated controls


HSE/Vogue: standard heated seats


Lanby

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238 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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I assumed those buttons that had a thermometer decal on them did something, I didn't realise they were solid.
It all makes sense and now I can go look at one and look knowledgable smile
cheers

RedLeicester

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269 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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God I want another Rangie cry

Moycie

536 posts

221 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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If you're only doing lowish annual mileage, the man maths = get a Supercharged biggrin

RedLeicester

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269 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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Moycie said:
If you're only doing lowish annual mileage, the man maths = get a Supercharged biggrin
It would be. Went from L322 V8 to Disco3 V8, wouldn't go Derv unless it was the 4.4 and even then the purchase price of the V8s set against the cost of diesel more than outweighs the paltry handful of extra MPG the diesels offer.

Phil.

5,777 posts

274 months

Friday 7th February 2014
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RedLeicester said:
It would be. Went from L322 V8 to Disco3 V8, wouldn't go Derv unless it was the 4.4 and even then the purchase price of the V8s set against the cost of diesel more than outweighs the paltry handful of extra MPG the diesels offer.
I have a JE remapped 4.4 that is almost as quick as a S/C but with loads more torque and has averaged nearly 31mpg over the last 7k miles according to the tacho. That's a bit more than a paltry saving over the 25k miles I do each year when compared to a S/C and the depreciation will be similar even if the initial outlay is higher. Obviously fewer miles per annum makes the difference closer.

I think we're local to each other so you're welcome to try it if you want smile

RedLeicester

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269 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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Phil. said:
I have a JE remapped 4.4 that is almost as quick as a S/C but with loads more torque and has averaged nearly 31mpg over the last 7k miles according to the tacho. That's a bit more than a paltry saving over the 25k miles I do each year when compared to a S/C and the depreciation will be similar even if the initial outlay is higher. Obviously fewer miles per annum makes the difference closer.
I'll bet it's a bit of a monster! Still, £16k for an S/C vs £38k for a 4.4 is quite a lot of petrol!

I do see however the 3.6 is getting cheaper now, more down to S/C sorts of levels, though I seem to recall that is somewhat less efficacious than the 4.4.




Moycie

536 posts

221 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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RedLeicester said:
Phil. said:
I have a JE remapped 4.4 that is almost as quick as a S/C but with loads more torque and has averaged nearly 31mpg over the last 7k miles according to the tacho. That's a bit more than a paltry saving over the 25k miles I do each year when compared to a S/C and the depreciation will be similar even if the initial outlay is higher. Obviously fewer miles per annum makes the difference closer.
I'll bet it's a bit of a monster! Still, £16k for an S/C vs £38k for a 4.4 is quite a lot of petrol!

I do see however the 3.6 is getting cheaper now, more down to S/C sorts of levels, though I seem to recall that is somewhat less efficacious than the 4.4.
Yeah, that sounds like a monster indeed thumbup

I bought my 4.2 S/C about 3 years ago (MY07 with terrain response), and at the time the 3.6 TDV8 equivalent was around £15k more. I had also been told real world mpg was not hugely better. Given higher service costs on diesel (generally), and my low annual miles, petrol was a no brainer.

Phil.

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274 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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Definitely go for a S/C if your annual mileage is 10k or less smile


Siscar

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153 months

Saturday 8th February 2014
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Moycie said:
Yeah, that sounds like a monster indeed thumbup

I bought my 4.2 S/C about 3 years ago (MY07 with terrain response), and at the time the 3.6 TDV8 equivalent was around £15k more. I had also been told real world mpg was not hugely better. Given higher service costs on diesel (generally), and my low annual miles, petrol was a no brainer.
MPG is significantly better, getting out of the teens (the right direction) in a S/C is a bit of a dream but my 3.6 TDV8 used to average around 28, the last 4.4 was around 30 and current one (new model) is around 32.

MPG isn't necessarily the reason to buy, but it is better still with good performance, particularly the new one which can really move.

Rocksteadyeddie

7,971 posts

251 months

Monday 10th February 2014
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I've just bought my second SC. Replacing the 4.2 with the 5.0. Rationale was similar to above really as I only do about 7k miles a year. See classifieds for a great baragin 4.2 wink

Lanby

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Wednesday 28th May 2014
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We ended up getting a 2012 Vogue SE - I'm impressed with how it goes for a diesel smile

Phil.

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274 months

Thursday 29th May 2014
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There aren't many 2012 Vogue SE's about, loads of Westminster's, so your resale value should be good. Nice choice!

Now have you considered a JE remap wink

Phil.

5,777 posts

274 months

Thursday 29th May 2014
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There aren't many 2012 Vogue SE's about, loads of Westminster's, so your resale value should be good. Nice choice!

Now have you considered a JE remap wink