Range Rover 2003

[SimboRS]

Looking for a wee bit advice, seen a Range Rover vogue for sale fairly local, it’s a 3.0 diesel with an automatic box. It’s done 126k and they want 3700 for it . Is it worth a punt at that kind of money or is it likely to be nothing but trouble?
Range rovers seem to have quite bad reputations, is this justified?

[Howard-]

Complete waste of time IMHO. It's likely to be a huge liability and take away any enjoyment you may otherwise have of it. Ask yourself if you can afford the potential running costs, and if so, perhaps consider spending more money on a newer one?

[Jag_NE]

I would say it depends...if you can have it properly checked over to be sure it’s in good order AND you are going to use it sparingly as part of a small fleet it might be sensible. If you are going to use it as a daily it has the potential to ruin you.

[gizlaroc]

Here is a 2002 3.0td6 RR for sale on the ffrr forum, shows the work he has done to keep it going...

Work done....
2010 01 092135 New LR replaced and fitted Automatic Gearbox
2010 01 092135 New Rear Wiper Assembly inc. Motor
2010 03 106505 New Steering Control Arm
2010 07 108500 Front Brake Discs
2011 07 000000 New Air Con Condenser
2011 07 119933 New Steering Control Arm
2011 08 120764 Gear Selector Lever
2011 10 000000 Front Suspension Airbags and Struts (Delphi)
2011 11 000000 Engine Thermostat
2012 04 000000 Rear Brake Discs
2013 04 000000 All Rear Suspension Bushes, inc. inners and Toe Links replaced (JLR)
2013 04 137100 Front ARB Drop Links
2013 09 000000 Coolant Tank
2013 09 000000 EGR Thermal Valve
2013 09 000000 New Radiator
2013 10 000000 All Rear Subframe Bushes replaced (JLR)
2014 03 000000 3 new Glow Plugs
2014 05 000000 2 new Diesel Injectors
2014 06 150100 All Brake Pipes and Hoses replaced (JLR Rear Flexis)
2014 07 000000 New Air Con Condenser
2014 10 000000 EAS Compressor
2016 10 000000 Drive Belts x 2
2016 10 000000 Engine Thermostat
2016 10 000000 Water Pump
2017 03 000000 Rear Height Sensor
2017 06 000000 LH Toe Link Bracket welded for MOT
2018 03 000000 LH rear wishbone replaced with refurbished one
2018 03 181330 New Battery Varta L1


Then the not so good bits still....

The Not So Good Section:
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Low Range...you can go to low range, but you can't get back to high range !!
(Despite my best efforts and with help from RRPhil, unable to resolve. Everything "works" just not this!)
Regardless, car has still gone wherever I have pointed it, mud, snow, sand, gravel. To be fair, 99.5% on road.
But unless you want to really become a tractor, don't touch that button!

"Folding" mirrors, let's just call them mirrors!
LH rear quarter panel has some rust, (and a not so good bodywork repair done by me!)
Heated windscreen - only a couple of bars work now, also a couple of stone chips, but not affecting MOT area
High level brake light reflector/cover missing in action after the big freeze in 2018 - still works OK though
Fuel Burning Heater - not working - believed to be the fuel pump in the rear axle

It is a 16 year old car so the bodywork has suffered a fair few stone chips and other age related marks,
nevertheless still a fine looking beast and the paintwork still holds a good shine



http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/post482340.html#482...



Great cars, I loved my TDV8, but at 10 years old I moved it on earlier this year.
I have a garage, and even so, it was a drain, and I had it as a second car along with a 2012 Mercedes E350, which never had a single thing go wrong in its 6 years and 112k miles.

I did turbo hoses, water pump, battery drain, loads of suspension bits. Problem is, even if you get low voltage it goes into limp mode and everything shuts down, on an older car loads of things to cause battery drain and trying to find it, and then replace parts starts to get very time consuming. So, great if you are happy to get your hands dirty, but even if you can do the work yourself a 15 year old Range Rover will still be an expensive car to upkeep.

Looking at the ownership cost threads, I worked out that buying a say a 2012 new shape on PCP at £400 a month works out cheaper than running a 10 year old one without even taking purchase price into account, 8 times out of 10.

[SimboRS]

Oaft, ok gents thanks for the input. Look like it would be an expensive piece of kit, I’m gojng to give it a miss! Lol they are lovely cars but seem to be nothing but trouble. Why are they so unreliable and troublesome?
Thanks again.