What to do with a drowned Range Rover?

What to do with a drowned Range Rover?

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Mr Gear

9,416 posts

191 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Sell the whole thing on ebay as a job lot. Someone will love it back to life.

julian64

14,317 posts

255 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Did you disconnect the battery before you left if for a night in the sea. If so the electrics have a chance, if not then forget it.

redstu

2,287 posts

240 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Wash it, make it run, put it in an auction. Job done. But hey it's ONLY 10k anyway!

10JH

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2,070 posts

195 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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julian64 said:
Did you disconnect the battery before you left if for a night in the sea. If so the electrics have a chance, if not then forget it.
Nope, he left it with the ignition (not the engine) on.

Apparently, for a short time all you could see were the lights on under the sea!

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

204 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Looks like it was a nice car, sorry to see it in that condition.

GuinnessMK

1,608 posts

223 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Hope she was worth it smile


Rocksteadyeddie

7,971 posts

228 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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I'll buy the thin bit of trim at the bottom of the centre console from you, and the bonnet release lever and spring. Start the ball rolling!!

Edited by Rocksteadyeddie on Thursday 4th March 17:47

Wacky Racer

38,177 posts

248 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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jdw1234 said:
Looks like footage is already on YouTube.

10JH...is this your brother and dad at the start of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKcr1lM3rQ&NR=...
That AA "driver" used to work as a driver in Mike Baldwin's factory in Coronation Street about twenty years ago...He was called Steve Fisher.........biggrin



WR.

(National Coronation Street quiz champion 1993)

TheRoadWarrior

1,241 posts

179 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Hope he enjoyed himself.. looks like an expensive mistake.

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

204 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Wacky Racer said:
jdw1234 said:
Looks like footage is already on YouTube.

10JH...is this your brother and dad at the start of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBKcr1lM3rQ&NR=...
That AA "driver" used to work as a driver in Mike Baldwin's factory in Coronation Street about twenty years ago...He was called Steve Fisher.........biggrin



WR.

(Sad Git 2010)
wink

_Batty_

12,268 posts

251 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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i'd take on a project like that smile
give it a go, or let someone else try, i bet it could be a useable shed (even without all it electronic gizmos!)

dugt

1,657 posts

208 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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I think your valuation is about right, as ive been looking at them in the classifieds. Possibly its a bit high with that millage.

Anyway, realisticly, you have to get rid off the car. I wouldn't want to keep driving it. your just going to be gambling with electrical faults.

best bet is to strip t your self, but this involves time/money/space which you might not have.

If i was buying a car to strip, say as a donor or just to sell on parts, a water damaged one would be the last resort. Bt your brother wont be driving on the beach anytime soon though.

wagon and horses

12,230 posts

195 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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we did the same with a 30k tractor when launching a boat - whoops

a bloody tractor foor gods sake!

motoroller

657 posts

174 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Put a weedy basic engine in it, and use it as-is... :P


die fahrt

1,046 posts

196 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Oh dear, as others have said - stick it on eBay and sea what you get!
getmecoat

edo

16,699 posts

266 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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10JH said:
I need some PH advice. Our Range Rover has been written off, it drowned.

My brother took it on the beach at night and got it stuck in sand and then the tide quickly started coming in. To cut a long story short, it spent the night underwater!

The Land Rover garage has told us it is a write off, it won't ever work again. We aren't claiming through insurance (for various reasons). What should we do with the car? At the moment it is stuck at the dealers (after the recovery truck dropped it off there).

What are the options now? Crush it, sell it for scrap/parts? Any advice appreciated.

Here are some photos of it getting pulled out, the morning after..









Yikes, unlucky.

As above, I would say that the best option would be to clean-up and sell seats/wheels/other parts.

Failing not wanting to do that, I would get it valeted (yes really), in a garage with a dehumidifier for a week or so, polished up and stick it on ebay.

Does it actually start?

theironduke

6,995 posts

189 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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wish i can afford to write off 10k and carry on with a smile on my face....

unlucky though, don't think i'd walk away if i did that to my old mans motor.

The Black Duke

1,642 posts

194 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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A bit of Polish and a hoover, you will be fine.



Sorry to hear about the car though.

thinfourth2

32,414 posts

205 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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Stick your brother back in it

Weld the doors up

Return it to the same place he left it

2 problems solved

R11ysf

1,936 posts

183 months

Thursday 4th March 2010
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redstu said:
Wash it, make it run, put it in an auction. Job done. But hey it's ONLY 10k anyway!
This is the best option of finances versus hassle. A running, clean version chucked through an auction would make £5k easy even if it sounded like a dog. It's a diesel engine so it should run again.

Can't expect you stereo will have held your presets though getmecoat