Henry_b's Range Rover P38 Vogue Project'ish

[Henry_b]

Haven't had a chance to give her a wash/polish till now.


Before..








And a couple of after shots.

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godzilla84 said:

I have a full set of Mondials That I took off my D2 in my shed. where are you based?

Ahh sorry mate i'm having the commets refurb'd


Cheers for the offer though!

[Henry_b]

Cheers.

They are lovely cars to work on and very capable offroad.


They sound fruity aswell lol

[Henry_b]

task said:

Looks smart, a great car for a 17 year old!

I'm currently running a 2001 Vogue as a daily to keep the miles off my 4.6 RRC, which spends a lot of its time towing trailers and the caravan;





I've done quite a lot of remedial work to it fixing previous bodges and bring it up to scratch and added a few things along the way too like a tow bar, exhaust, reverse camera using satnav screen, colour coded bumpers, bluetooth/USB Audio, GEN3 springs.

Good luck with the spannering and feel free to drop me questions in messages if you want.

Thats a lovely looking car!

Oxford blue?

[Henry_b]

Just a few more Shiny/pose pics!!

[Henry_b]

D4MJT said:

This is all very good.

Looks a lovely base for some tinkering mate, one of the rarer colours too. The plans sound good, I'd nudge you towards "losing" the massive centre silencer in the exhaust, for a cheap mod they sound so much better, and it isn't in your face loud either...

Thanks for the kind words on mine

cheers!

I am going to remove the silencer!

so it'll sound like a proper v8, i hate the fact they shushed it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X84DEw5qC2E

he he he ^^^^


On a separate note she is getting 3mpg lol

the Maf is fooked so its running rich constantly not good!!!


Hopefully i'll get her near the level yours was.

over the coming years.

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Edited by Henry_b on Monday 26th February 18:31

Edited by Henry_b on Wednesday 28th March 22:40

[Henry_b]

Ok PH'ers

I went out today to open the boot, the minute i pressed the button that releases the tailgate i heard a crackle and pop!
now the boot won't open.

Not only that the inside of the car stank of brunt plastic, not good.

I pulled the fuse cover off of the BCM and found fuse 15 had melted, went to replace it but the minute a new fuse touched the terminals POP it blows!

Now the really bad bit, i pulled the plastic trim off the floor and around the seat and found the wiring loom that runs along the floor was submerged in water!!

Also the sound deadening is soaking, but the carpet is dry?!

I've mopped up most of the water


Fuse 15 controls the tailgate, fuel filler flap and the God damn immobiliser!

I hunted around forever pulling plastic trim panels off looking at ground points inspecting the loom etc etc

Then I found out that the lock actuators have a habit of going up the creek and considering the fuse blew when i attempted to open the boot!!

I managed to RIP the trim off the inside of the tailgate and manually open it, then i disconnected all wires.









This fixed the fuse blowing issue but the car was still immobilised.

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The other problem i had was the Inside of the drivers door handle had disintegrated and the door lock actuator was making a horrible fukin racket, probably my fault to slamming the door a tad too hard lol

Anywhoo the actuator has a chip in it which recognises the Key and if it's faulty the BECM will immobilise the car.

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I pulled the door card off and found a tell tale hallmark of a previous issue, i'm assuming it had this issue in the past..

Hmm lovely top quality job lol




Door card off.





Ok so i delved in and i went fishing around, and found this...







My main issue is, i don't know where the fk that goes, but one issue at a time eh?

I'll update with more pictures tomorrow this is as far as i've gotten lol

Edited by Henry_b on Thursday 15th March 21:05

[Henry_b]

Oh and on a separate note..




lol lol

[Henry_b]

Ok i've got the darn door lock actuator oot!!


What a POS.

Anyway..

LR changed the actuators in 2001 and as my luck would have it they hover around the £200 mark!!

lol have to wait for a cheap 2nd hand one




It has apparently been "tested" it checked out ok but that was 4yrs ago lol




Oh and she's in a bit of a mess after i had my escapade

[Henry_b]

Love the colour!

Edited by Henry_b on Monday 13th August 12:10

[Henry_b]

Just to add to this "blog"

Had the front seat out, to remove the cooked BeCM.





Opened the BeCM and found a burnt track, my fault really as i accidentally put a 30amp fuse in a 10amp fuse slot.

It has to be reconditioned eventually

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Well...

It's been a while since I updated this 'fred.

So why not now?

To put ya'll out of your misery she is fixed,ish..

Works ok thanks to a forum member on LZ who replaced the Faulty bits.

She is now currently coming back together, but I thought best to start at the beginning instead of jumping directly to the present,,

Ok..

I bought this..




Need not worry though she was just to tide me over..

until I got this for free.





Then I suddenly decided that I needed to fix the P38 so i can have 3 unreliable cars to look after, the TD5 D2 is Brill BTW.

Anyway...


As you do I was ripping this thing apart to find the fault/short that caused the ECU explosion..

The DSP AMP for the HK system was last on my list, and thank the car gods I checked it, looks a tad crispy.




I've never been so excited about something being burnt out in my life, so to confirm I got a tad trigger happy and ripped the AMP apart.


And hazzah!





Once that was removed and the plug taped up, the computer fixed etc

She sprung into life!!


Now..

Next update coming in 3-2-1.. etc lol

[Henry_b]

Interior juices...


Are not pleasant, i'm not going to go down the seat replacement like D4MJT but I did clean the 19yrs of gunge and what have you off the seat(s)

Little did i know that Lightstone is a relatively white colour - not a creamy brown!! yuck!




Anyway, after a good scrubbing and rubbing and wire brushing and vomiting., we have this..




And my P38 is the super rare 6 seater model


The same went for the rear seats










And anyone who has had the pleasure of a LR of any description is familiar with a saggy headliner..

Saggier than a withes labia.



So i shamefully glued it back up "temporary" mind you.

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Next I polished my Wood which isn't nearly as exciting as it sounds





And getting there..

Don't worry we'll be returning to the interior in a lttle bit..

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Just to let everyone know, this stuff it shyte,.




But it did help glue my spare tyre cover back together, as the carpet had peeled off, another p38 foible.




And during!




Done.




The carpet like the seats was mank..




So as per usual i gave it a rub with some Autoglym interior cleaner, also hoovered the whole car.






Yeck.



And after.



Smells much fresher!

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And then I played with my Knob(s)




A tad scuffed from years of use so i raided the shoe care box and came up with some shoe scuff shizzle which seemed to do the trick!

1. Excuse the dust!

Much better!







Next installment.

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I finally got the seat in and the cumspewter..




Then I put a new draft thingy in the door and refitted the door card..




Also the wood was wiped down..






Also added an air freshner!

Look at that walnut shine!






Anyway later that day I took her for a spin around the farm lanes.





She said hello to the sheeps.






I've also got the economy that all P38 owners are use to seeing!

I think thats a new record. .

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And as per usual I shined her up good and proper!





The exterior trim was also treated with trim care and the chrome was polished up!



Did the bumper too!





So she's getting there

[Henry_b]

I've ordered some and it should be here soon!

The wheel is the worsts bit tbh lol

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Croutons said:

1) Have you managed to insure it yet?

2) Is the LPG working?

3) Tell me more about this 6-seat option...

I insured it when I first bought it and only stopped when it broke!!

Yes the LPG works

6 seater option is gone now the seat is back in its rightful place