Range Rover advice

mjheathcote

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Wack61 said:
Still on the fence regarding chopping the GR in

I could walk away from the GR at no cost for my 10 months ownership which would give me 10k to put into one of land rovers finest 10 year old 100k on the clock products

When you type it out it sounds even more stupid than thinking it. :D

But , a big suv would replace my van so only one lot of tax and insurance and no monthly payments

Decisions decisions
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Yes, but you forget your monthly payments will simply be transferred to the monthly repair bills keeping a 10 year old 100k miles JLR product on the road!
 
zagatoes30

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We love our L322 and despite all the warnings it has been relatively trouble free unlike the earlier one we had. Build quality changed from 08 onwards so buy later than that. Ours is the S/C 5/0 V8 and it has more poke than most sportscars, the first time people drive it they are shocked by the acceleration if you push the loud pedal too hard.

We keep talking about selling but it is just so versatile and comfortable that we never get further than talking
 
Wack61

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mjheathcote said:
Yes, but you forget your monthly payments will simply be transferred to the monthly repair bills keeping a 10 year old 100k miles JLR product on the road!
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It is a risk , I'm hoping to find one fully maintained by a worrier that fixes things that aren't broken because he might not make it to waitrose for the weekly shop and asda is the only alternative in walking distance.
 
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I’ve just got rid of my Subaru Outback and Alpina and got into an early L405 SDV8. The Alpina wasn’t been used much and as it was a good time to find a buyer at a good price and the Subaru was on its last legs I got rid.
I’ve had various FFRR’s and never had much go wrong just silly small stuff occasionally.
As a one car to do everything they are unbeatable for me. I was looking at the S/C cars but couldn’t justify the 10k price jump and the V8 diesel suits the car anyway. Buying a good one is the tricky part..
 
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Paul C

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I was being pressured by a good friend to buy myself a Range Rover before I turned 50. I only like L322's and only allowed myself 3k, so quite a challenge! I looked at everything from spares n repairs supercharged and V8 diesels, to tired high mileage TD6's. It really had to be a TD6 as it's mechanically relatively simple to maintain, so I narrowed the search to well serviced, genuine private sales that had at some point a full gearbox rebuild. (You're lucky to get 90k out of one as they were "sealed for life" according to the dealers).
I must have been lucky, because patience paid off and it's been trouble free motoring.
It's not fast, it's not good on fuel, but everything works and it really is great to drive. Not bad for 3 grand!103698
 
Wack61

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It was 3 years ago , I got another engine out of a 330D which I saw running , had the car a year and still more or less broke even on it when I sold it , if the first engine had been good it would've been a very cheap car
 
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Paul C

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Wack61 said:
It was 3 years ago , I got another engine out of a 330D which I saw running , had the car a year and still more or less broke even on it when I sold it , if the first engine had been good it would've been a very cheap car
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I looked at a few non runners and Spares or repairs cases, but being blessed with more interesting Italian things to take up my time I went for the absolute best I could find in my budget. The problem with L322's is you can pay 3 times what I did and still end up with a project.
I know I'm living on borrowed time, I'll just enjoy it while it lasts!
 
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I had a 3200 for 4 years, im scared of a range rover.
Just so many for sale with serious issues. I went w163 2003 merc instead a ml500 lpg. Nothing went wrong in 3 years.
 
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Paul C said:
I was being pressured by a good friend to buy myself a Range Rover before I turned 50. I only like L322's and only allowed myself 3k, so quite a challenge! I looked at everything from spares n repairs supercharged and V8 diesels, to tired high mileage TD6's. It really had to be a TD6 as it's mechanically relatively simple to maintain, so I narrowed the search to well serviced, genuine private sales that had at some point a full gearbox rebuild. (You're lucky to get 90k out of one as they were "sealed for life" according to the dealers).
I must have been lucky, because patience paid off and it's been trouble free motoring.
It's not fast, it's not good on fuel, but everything works and it really is great to drive. Not bad for 3 grand!View attachment 103698
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You need a set of led sidelights on that. I may have some sat in the garage ;)
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Ewan

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allandwf said:
Downside of the 4.2 SC , it took £163 of petrol yesterday lol.
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I seem to recall that during my ownership of that car, it averaged 18mpg. Maybe you can do better than me! Fingers crossed.
In the hybrid RR I changed it for, I’m averaging about 34mpg. So the LR engineers have made some progress.
The new hybrid is obviously better again, but is somewhat expensive. I’ll have to wait a couple of years or so and then take a look at the second-hand values.
 
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18 MPG is about what we average, it will do low 20s on a run but you don't want to look at mpg on short winter school runs
 
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