P38, bought unseen from Ebay...what could / will go wrong?
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What could possibly go wrong?
4.0 V8, on springs, 163k miles, 6 months MOT for less than a grand. The plans are to build a gun box in the boot and use it for shooting trips on Sunday mornings. The fact that it's from Manchester, it may have already had some experience with this type of activity
Being delivered on Monday morning by Shiply, I didn't fancy a 200 mile trip home in it myself.
Now to tell my wife...
4.0 V8, on springs, 163k miles, 6 months MOT for less than a grand. The plans are to build a gun box in the boot and use it for shooting trips on Sunday mornings. The fact that it's from Manchester, it may have already had some experience with this type of activity
Being delivered on Monday morning by Shiply, I didn't fancy a 200 mile trip home in it myself.
Now to tell my wife...
I'll just leave this here...I figure you'll be doing similar soon.
https://youtu.be/w1OxvtQSua8?t=1m9s
https://youtu.be/w1OxvtQSua8?t=1m9s
Range Rovers, especially when new and newish have a bad rep. and probably rightly so.
I think they "improve" with age - although this perception may well be a combination of lowered user expectations combined with many of the niggles and poor build quality having been flushed out with time and repairs.
My old Classic V8 had stood unsold in the corner of a dealer lot for many months if not years before I bought it. Yet all I did was wash the mildew off, change the oil and use it - never gave me a moment of trouble.
Yours looks pretty tidy, hope it's a good 'un for you.
I think they "improve" with age - although this perception may well be a combination of lowered user expectations combined with many of the niggles and poor build quality having been flushed out with time and repairs.
My old Classic V8 had stood unsold in the corner of a dealer lot for many months if not years before I bought it. Yet all I did was wash the mildew off, change the oil and use it - never gave me a moment of trouble.
Yours looks pretty tidy, hope it's a good 'un for you.
My experience was that they continously go wrong and it's always expensive. The V8 weeps oil from the head gasket at the back of the head.
No air springs so that's 6 or £700 saved. The build quality of the interior fixtures and fittings for such a expensive vehicle is pretty rubbish imo.
They do around 14mpg, on a long run 19mpg.
Still being on the road with those sort of miles tells you that money has been spent on it.
Are you going to convert her to LPG & put the tank in the spare wheel well?
No air springs so that's 6 or £700 saved. The build quality of the interior fixtures and fittings for such a expensive vehicle is pretty rubbish imo.
They do around 14mpg, on a long run 19mpg.
Still being on the road with those sort of miles tells you that money has been spent on it.
Are you going to convert her to LPG & put the tank in the spare wheel well?
Mr Teddy Bear said:
My experience was that they continously go wrong and it's always expensive. The V8 weeps oil from the head gasket at the back of the head.
No air springs so that's 6 or £700 saved. The build quality of the interior fixtures and fittings for such a expensive vehicle is pretty rubbish imo.
They do around 14mpg, on a long run 19mpg.
Still being on the road with those sort of miles tells you that money has been spent on it.
Are you going to convert her to LPG & put the tank in the spare wheel well?
It’s already been converted to LPG but I probably won’t use that. I’ll only use it occasionally for 20 mile round trips to work, and sunday mornings for shooting. My daily was starting to get trashed using it for tip runs, throwing muddy boots in etc. so this will do those duties.No air springs so that's 6 or £700 saved. The build quality of the interior fixtures and fittings for such a expensive vehicle is pretty rubbish imo.
They do around 14mpg, on a long run 19mpg.
Still being on the road with those sort of miles tells you that money has been spent on it.
Are you going to convert her to LPG & put the tank in the spare wheel well?
Cracking things, these. I had one years ago and everything broke, cost me almost a grand a month on average before it finally cracked a liner and broke the gearbox flex plate in the same week and was sold to some poor sod at auction.
I still really want another though, and for under a grand they make perfect sense. It was just great at everything, town, country, motorway, the lot.
Still the only car I've driven with a stereo so powerful it can make its own cd player skip.
I still really want another though, and for under a grand they make perfect sense. It was just great at everything, town, country, motorway, the lot.
Still the only car I've driven with a stereo so powerful it can make its own cd player skip.
Mr Scruff said:
Damn, I want a cheap Range Rover...
So long as it doesn't behave like a cheap Range Rover!
Lots of dogs out there i'm afraid. Facelift (MY2000) models are much better, better torque and gearbox stays in the right gear thanks to the Bosch electronics over the original GEMS setup.So long as it doesn't behave like a cheap Range Rover!
Main terminal fault on these things is overheating/coolant loss. Slight coolant loss is ok, as long as you keep a regular eye on it - letting it get low, will lead to overheat and a shagged engine.
Predictably, the list of jobs I'm noticing is growing:
Runs like a dog and stalls on petrol
A/C & heater uncontrollable (blend motors?)
Rough spray job on rear bumper
Cracked front bumper
Many, many scratches
Stinks like a 40 a day smoker's car
Fixed:
Passenger seat belt replaced
Sticking passenger window
Leaking LPG filler valve
Runs like a dog and stalls on petrol
A/C & heater uncontrollable (blend motors?)
Rough spray job on rear bumper
Cracked front bumper
Many, many scratches
Stinks like a 40 a day smoker's car
Fixed:
Passenger seat belt replaced
Sticking passenger window
Leaking LPG filler valve
eliot said:
strangehighways said:
Watching this with interest. The interior looks very comfortable. I imagine the P38 is a nice relaxing thing to punt about when it's working well.
They are indeed comfortable.CAPP0 said:
I had a MY2000 4.6 Vogue SE for a while. It was indeed a lovely old wafter and was what persuaded me to spend a lot more on an L322. Mine developed the "I won't shut down properly so I'll drain the battery" problem but otherwise was a really nice thing to drive around in. Definitely more barge-tastic than the 322. If I could find "the one" which was in perfect condition with all faults permanently fixed I'd seriously consider it as a permanent keeper. Until then however, I shall keep buying the white unicorns which seem to be easier to locate.
Shutdown problem is caused by wireless thermostat interfering with the rf module. Can be fixed permanently by replacing the module for about £150 or worked around by removing the aerial wire, which just shortens the range - which i’ve been doing for years now.Perfect p38 would have top hat linered engine, new air bags and height sensors, overhauled eas unit.
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