Range Rover advice

Oneball

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Ewan said:
If you want an easy car to steal, take a look at an old Landie. Mine (like many) has a fabric roof. But you don’t even need a pen-knife to get in. You just untie the rope! Comical. The insurers asked what security it had, so I said ‘a piece of thick string’. That seemed to satisfy them, as the insurance is buttons.

(Though it probably helps that it’s in a gated complex with 24hr security guards, monitored entry/exit points and CCTV.)

Anyway, the fact that RR theft rates are down to 0.07% has to be a good thing. Maybe the thiefs have cottoned on to all the internet stories about JLR unreliability, so have moved on to stealing Porsches. Oh. No, hang on…
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Yoof of today would never get it started. A good few years ago I woke up to something that I thought was my car starting. Turned out it was but the idiots hadn’t pulled the choke out so it kept stopping every couple of yards.
 
lifes2short

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Oneball said:
Yoof of today would never get it started. A good few years ago I woke up to something that I thought was my car starting. Turned out it was but the idiots hadn’t pulled the choke out so it kept stopping every couple of yards.
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choke, good old days, had to use a clothes peg on my mini clubman as it wouldnt stay out :D
 
Wack61

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Well , I found out what the vibration when turning slightly left at speed is

Internet wisdom suggested 21" L405 wheels were a bolt on swap which they are

The problem is at motorway speeds the suspension lowers then they don't fit , the vibration is quite violent, shakes the whole car like running on the rumble strip so I was convinced it was something mechanical like a wheel bearing or a driveshaft

But no , at speed with the suspension lowered the NSF tyre rubs on the inner arch
 
Nayf

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Ewan said:
If you have to go for one the three blue ones, I’d have the one from the Vogue centre. It looks the nicest to me, has the darkened rear windows (which to my eyes help the shape of the car) and comes from a garage that know to what look for and could sort any early niggles or warranty claims.

But I’d still take the green one instead.
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I think the green one has been bought by McGurk
 
Wack61

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I'll stick with mine that cost 1.1% of that 220k :D

Fixed the ambient air sensor today, broken wire , no more eml
( for now, it is a JLR product after all)

18 months I've had it now and I still really like it, I really don't know what I'd change it for , apart from minor faults that aren't worth fixing on an 18 year old car it's not let me down
 
outrun

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Do you still want a new RR? A pal of mine in London ordered a new one and the lowest insurance quote was £26k. Madness. Brand damage on a monumental scale, what are they doing in the JLR boardroom?
 
Ewan

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Still waiting for my new one. But not surprisingly, it’s the one everyone wants (P460e) so the queue is still a year long. (Some other models are available sooner.)

The reality is that the theft rates on new Rangies is now minimal and the insurance on my current one is less than a grand a year. Which is good news for me, but doesn’t make for good copy for sensationalist video makers.
 
lifes2short

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outrun said:

Do you still want a new RR? A pal of mine in London ordered a new one and the lowest insurance quote was £26k. Madness. Brand damage on a monumental scale, what are they doing in the JLR boardroom?
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got to hand it to these crooks, they're always one step ahead of the car manufacturer boffins, if it's man made then it's defeatable with other tech, the good old days of physical security was the best, transmission locks, hidden cut off switches etc, all this new tech has simply made the crooks job a piece of p1ss

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MarkMas

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lifes2short said:
got to hand it to these crooks, they're always one step ahead of the car manufacturer boffins, if it's man made then it's defeatable with other tech, the good old days of physical security was the best, transmission locks, hidden cut off switches etc, all this new tech has simply made the crooks job a piece of p1ss

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"Clever crooks in France have figured out how to steal supposedly cybersecure vehicles made by the likes of Peugeot and Toyota in less than a minute, using a modified JBL Bluetooth speaker to break past their defenses."

How does that work, then?
 
CatmanV2

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MarkMas said:
"Clever crooks in France have figured out how to steal supposedly cybersecure vehicles made by the likes of Peugeot and Toyota in less than a minute, using a modified JBL Bluetooth speaker to break past their defenses."

How does that work, then?
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They use the case of a speaker. You can't just go buy a JBL speaker and use it. Lord good job no one ever knew how to pick or break a lock

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lifes2short

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MarkMas said:
"Clever crooks in France have figured out how to steal supposedly cybersecure vehicles made by the likes of Peugeot and Toyota in less than a minute, using a modified JBL Bluetooth speaker to break past their defenses."

How does that work, then?
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as per catman, it looks like a normal speaker externally just in case a "stop and search" by coppers but has some sort of techy stuff inside for the crooks
 
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