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    J-T got a reaction from 500tops in HMC- AUTOSHITE 2.0   
    Saxo VTS I believe. That and the SPORT badge from RenaultSport Clios made their way on to many vehicles in the early 00s
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    J-T got a reaction from HMC in HMC- AUTOSHITE 2.0   
    Saxo VTS I believe. That and the SPORT badge from RenaultSport Clios made their way on to many vehicles in the early 00s
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    J-T reacted to HMC in HMC- AUTOSHITE 2.0   
    Ive removed the load bay liner in preparation for the rear seats ive got coming off e bay.


    Having had 2 RR classics in the past, i was a little bit wary/ having the fear about what id find. Turns out the boys at lode lane did a great job of not making it rot. 
    Actually the whole car is incredibly sound. my then 17 year old classic was eye wateringly crusty in these bits that are blemish free on this 27 year old p38. So its not as iconic; but it doesnt dissolve so VIGOROUSly either, at last bodily if not electrically.

     

     


     

     

     

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    J-T reacted to Dave_Q in Dave's shonkers - one in   
    As mentioned above, I've not done anything with the S3 other than drive it.
    I did think I hadn't heard an idle misfire for a while, so fired up VCDS:

    Zero misfires logged, left it on for a few minutes. 
    Guess this points back towards some sort of intermittently dodgy wiring or connector but like fuck am I touching it when it's behaving.
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    J-T reacted to dome in Domes shonky autos - Manta progress!   
    OK, time for an update.
    Manta
    First off, I started assembling the 2.5 Duratec for the Manta. The block and crank have been checked and polished by an engine builder so I started by installing that along with new bearings. 

     
    Pakora sauce applied


    And I'm happy to say it rotates beautifully, as you'd expect.
    I'll get round to the pistons, the new rings are filed and ready so it's a case of fit them to the existing conrods and get them mounted.
    Jeep.
    LPG leak. Bugger. It was definitely leaking from near the tank/solenoid valve.
    It has copper pipe from the tank to the engine bay.
    This didn't look too clever

    And nor did this.

    Don't worry about the rust, it's surface rust on the spare wheel well, the tank is inside that. 
    I decided to replace the copper pipe with the correct hose for LPG. If that didn't fix it I'd take to A Professional as fuck messing with the scary bits of LPG. I knew that the shutoff solenoid worked and that the leak was downstream of that. I also knew that the tank was pretty much empty as I'd ran it out on the way back up the road. 
    Anyway, it took me a month because
    1. I ordered 3m of hose and needed at least 4

    2. When I finally got enough hose I discovered that I had the wrong size of fitting for the tank end. Thankfully I managed to get the correct fitting from my local guy who also gave me some confidence in what I was doing and identified where he thought my leak was from the old pipe/fitting
    3. The weather here is pish just now.
    Anyway, I finally got a chance this week and cracked on.
    Snake!

    More snake!

    Got enough hose this time

    And the compression fitting fitted and ready to go. 

    The hose is routed along the inner chassis rail and runs alongside the brake/fuel lines. I'm pretty happy it's secure but will double check it after a few miles. 
    With this fitted and ready to go it was time to test it. I hoped there would be enough LPG in it to get it switch over and idle so I could check for leaks. 
    Handily we had 30mph winds on the day I was doing this so I drove it on petrol to somewhere remote within walking distance of home and switched it over to LPG.

    And-it worked! Either that or I've lost my sense of smell...
    I celebrated by driving it to the local LPG station and filling it up. It's running fine on LPG with no leaks. Win! I even treated it to a wash but it's getting dark so you're out of luck for a pic.
    It felt strange getting back into it after a month of driving more modern stuff but you soon get back into the way of an old school 4x4, it burbles along very happily and is a nice way to cover distance. Which could come in handy as...
     
    911 
    After a week or so I got a phone call from Hartech with the results of the strip down. It had spun a main bearing wrecking the crank. They also reported bore wear on the engine and gave me a price for a rebuild. It turns out that the £10k rebuild from the "specialist" pictured a few pages back was essentially a work of fiction. 
    I've thought long and hard about it and have [Pistonheads]pulled the trigger[/Pistonheads] on a full rebuild with an upgrade to their 3.7 conversion. 
    I'm also shipping the car down to them for them to get it running and mapped with the new engine, possibly trailering it down with the Jeep.
    Because fuck installing it myself with the money I'm spending on it😶
    So, the Porsche has gone from scratching an itch and hopefully getting out with my wallet relatively intact to being a long term keeper. At least until 996 values approach what I'll have in it. I'm thinking of it as a long term investment plan. Which will go like fuck and get used as much as possible. Euro trips coming up!
     
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    J-T got a reaction from Back_For_More in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Ive been working this thing hard these last couple of weeks. That’s about 12 sacks of rubble it swallowed in one go. Started it up and the air suspension did as it should and didn’t explode so I’ll take that as a win. You could feel it rising up and levelling itself. It swallowed an (admittedly small) kitchen, gas oven and extractor in one go the day before.
    It may cost about 80p a mile in fuel but it definitely saves on skips!
    As expected, I’ve dealt with precisely none of its issues and worked it like an old pit pony, which is likely to continue for another month or so. I absolutely love driving the thing, I had a brand new MG4 XPower company car delivered in December and that’s done a total of 500 miles because, unless I’m going somewhere for work, I pick up the keys to this every time.
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    J-T got a reaction from Dave_Q in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Ive been working this thing hard these last couple of weeks. That’s about 12 sacks of rubble it swallowed in one go. Started it up and the air suspension did as it should and didn’t explode so I’ll take that as a win. You could feel it rising up and levelling itself. It swallowed an (admittedly small) kitchen, gas oven and extractor in one go the day before.
    It may cost about 80p a mile in fuel but it definitely saves on skips!
    As expected, I’ve dealt with precisely none of its issues and worked it like an old pit pony, which is likely to continue for another month or so. I absolutely love driving the thing, I had a brand new MG4 XPower company car delivered in December and that’s done a total of 500 miles because, unless I’m going somewhere for work, I pick up the keys to this every time.
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    J-T reacted to Gaffer in Gaffers fleet of (mostly LR) shite   
    Fleet update!
    Disco Commercial
    Last seen looking a bit sad with a faulty gearbox and bust crossover pipe:

    Work has been absolutely mental so the first chance I got to do anything with this was over Christmas. Autobox out, crossover pipe replaced and a good used gearbox refitted. Bit of drama with the crossover pipe nuts seized but we got there in the end. Now MOTd and running great, sold a couple of goodies off it I didn’t want and now owes me a whopping £600. Got some huge 18” mud tyres and some lift rods coming for it so I can really wanker it up.

    Overfinch Range Rover
    New top hose cured a coolant leak, new front air bag cured an air leak and front drop links cured some horrendous knocking. Properly good motor this but can’t see it staying long - neither me or the missus have really gelled with it I’m sad to say. 

    D3.5
    Still in daily service, now upto 268k miles. Treat it to a wash and a fancy roof rack that I’ve always wanted, plus a black pack grille and side vents.


     
    Finally managed to get all the Solihull outcasts together for a photo, shiters may have noticed a disturbance in the force earlier as a black hole of unreliability opened up somewhere in South Yorkshire! Keen eyed viewers may notice the blue one that featured earlier, my mate still has it and hasn’t put a foot wrong in 4K miles. He absolutely adores it, so much so he sold his other motors and is currently in search of a facelift auto version.



     
    #allLandRoversareshit
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    J-T got a reaction from dome in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Phwoooar etc



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    J-T got a reaction from dome in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Looks like I never brought this ungrateful Jag tale to a close. In brief, I fired the fucker through an auction. Got most of my money back so all was not lost. It looked increasingly like it had a warped manifold and I didn't have the space/time to get involved with that.
    So, after having so much trouble with the 4.2 Supercharged V8 donk, what was the sensible thing to do? Yes, that's right! Purchase an 18 year old Range Rover with the same engine. Enter @Wack's old one.
    Well, I've always wanted one, I need something for shifting shite as I'm renovating a house and selling another and this cropped up 2mins from my Mum's house at a price I couldn't refuse. As in I couldn't find one cheaper that ran and had MOT. Of course, any 18 year (or month!) old JLR product will not be without issue and this is no different. It's the full fat fancy pants Vogue SE which I think was top dog in 2006 when this was new. That means it is loaded with equipment, much of which no longer functions as intended. Here's a list of character features off the top of my head:
    DVD player - missing
    TV - inop
    CD Changer - inop
    Parking sensors - inop
    Harmon Kardon Logic 7 sound system - sounds like a fart in a tin due to a blown door speaker
    Rear wiper - inop
    Rear view camera - missing & therefore inop
    Spare wheel well - water receptacle (have landrover ever made a car that doesn't leak?)
    Heated steering wheel - inop
    Driver's heated seat - inop
    Diffs - whining
    Prop - clunking
    Glass - covered in a clear film that's gone weird so some windows are like looking through a jam jar. Think it might be UV protection. Or was.
    EML - glowing brightly (believed to be a code for a downstream O2 sensor. Not again, arrrrgh)
    Rust - present in the usual places
    Driver - wafting about like the lord of the manor and couldn't give a flying shit 
     
    I should clarify this was all made clear in the advert! I proper love it man. You feel more like you're captaining a ship than driving a motor vehicle and it's HUGE and so tall, but I find it 100x easier to park than pretty much any modern because you can actually see out of it properly and can tell where the corners are. And I just love that woofly noise it makes as you waft about.  There's a trip computer display on the centre screen that shows a readout of MPG, so that's been turned right off, don't need a constant reminder of that, cheers. And I've already done a fix; it recently had a new battery and the key had lost communication with the car, so had to be inserted in the lock and turned like some kind of tradesman, which would then set the alarm off until it was started. Most unbecoming. Thankfully, I've managed to pair it again so remote operation is resumed. It clearly likes me. Other good points, it's in my favourite colour. The aircon works. It's been well serviced. The air suspension is wor...I'm not finishing that proclamation.
    It's currently sporting a set of 21" wheels from an L405 Range Rover with 4 Pirelli Scorpions which are in great nick but they're a bit big and it doesn't really need making taller. It think it needs to come down a tyre profile but there's no way I'll be doing that. I might keep an eye out for some 19/20" wheels with good tyres and flog these as they seem to bring good money. I may address some of the other bits over time, but really I'm wanting this as a bit of a workhorse and I've proper skinted myself this month buying it, so don't hold your collective breath!
     
     
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    J-T got a reaction from mercedade in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Phwoooar etc



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    J-T got a reaction from mercedade in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Looks like I never brought this ungrateful Jag tale to a close. In brief, I fired the fucker through an auction. Got most of my money back so all was not lost. It looked increasingly like it had a warped manifold and I didn't have the space/time to get involved with that.
    So, after having so much trouble with the 4.2 Supercharged V8 donk, what was the sensible thing to do? Yes, that's right! Purchase an 18 year old Range Rover with the same engine. Enter @Wack's old one.
    Well, I've always wanted one, I need something for shifting shite as I'm renovating a house and selling another and this cropped up 2mins from my Mum's house at a price I couldn't refuse. As in I couldn't find one cheaper that ran and had MOT. Of course, any 18 year (or month!) old JLR product will not be without issue and this is no different. It's the full fat fancy pants Vogue SE which I think was top dog in 2006 when this was new. That means it is loaded with equipment, much of which no longer functions as intended. Here's a list of character features off the top of my head:
    DVD player - missing
    TV - inop
    CD Changer - inop
    Parking sensors - inop
    Harmon Kardon Logic 7 sound system - sounds like a fart in a tin due to a blown door speaker
    Rear wiper - inop
    Rear view camera - missing & therefore inop
    Spare wheel well - water receptacle (have landrover ever made a car that doesn't leak?)
    Heated steering wheel - inop
    Driver's heated seat - inop
    Diffs - whining
    Prop - clunking
    Glass - covered in a clear film that's gone weird so some windows are like looking through a jam jar. Think it might be UV protection. Or was.
    EML - glowing brightly (believed to be a code for a downstream O2 sensor. Not again, arrrrgh)
    Rust - present in the usual places
    Driver - wafting about like the lord of the manor and couldn't give a flying shit 
     
    I should clarify this was all made clear in the advert! I proper love it man. You feel more like you're captaining a ship than driving a motor vehicle and it's HUGE and so tall, but I find it 100x easier to park than pretty much any modern because you can actually see out of it properly and can tell where the corners are. And I just love that woofly noise it makes as you waft about.  There's a trip computer display on the centre screen that shows a readout of MPG, so that's been turned right off, don't need a constant reminder of that, cheers. And I've already done a fix; it recently had a new battery and the key had lost communication with the car, so had to be inserted in the lock and turned like some kind of tradesman, which would then set the alarm off until it was started. Most unbecoming. Thankfully, I've managed to pair it again so remote operation is resumed. It clearly likes me. Other good points, it's in my favourite colour. The aircon works. It's been well serviced. The air suspension is wor...I'm not finishing that proclamation.
    It's currently sporting a set of 21" wheels from an L405 Range Rover with 4 Pirelli Scorpions which are in great nick but they're a bit big and it doesn't really need making taller. It think it needs to come down a tyre profile but there's no way I'll be doing that. I might keep an eye out for some 19/20" wheels with good tyres and flog these as they seem to bring good money. I may address some of the other bits over time, but really I'm wanting this as a bit of a workhorse and I've proper skinted myself this month buying it, so don't hold your collective breath!
     
     
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    J-T got a reaction from Schaefft in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
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    J-T got a reaction from mk2_craig in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Looks like I never brought this ungrateful Jag tale to a close. In brief, I fired the fucker through an auction. Got most of my money back so all was not lost. It looked increasingly like it had a warped manifold and I didn't have the space/time to get involved with that.
    So, after having so much trouble with the 4.2 Supercharged V8 donk, what was the sensible thing to do? Yes, that's right! Purchase an 18 year old Range Rover with the same engine. Enter @Wack's old one.
    Well, I've always wanted one, I need something for shifting shite as I'm renovating a house and selling another and this cropped up 2mins from my Mum's house at a price I couldn't refuse. As in I couldn't find one cheaper that ran and had MOT. Of course, any 18 year (or month!) old JLR product will not be without issue and this is no different. It's the full fat fancy pants Vogue SE which I think was top dog in 2006 when this was new. That means it is loaded with equipment, much of which no longer functions as intended. Here's a list of character features off the top of my head:
    DVD player - missing
    TV - inop
    CD Changer - inop
    Parking sensors - inop
    Harmon Kardon Logic 7 sound system - sounds like a fart in a tin due to a blown door speaker
    Rear wiper - inop
    Rear view camera - missing & therefore inop
    Spare wheel well - water receptacle (have landrover ever made a car that doesn't leak?)
    Heated steering wheel - inop
    Driver's heated seat - inop
    Diffs - whining
    Prop - clunking
    Glass - covered in a clear film that's gone weird so some windows are like looking through a jam jar. Think it might be UV protection. Or was.
    EML - glowing brightly (believed to be a code for a downstream O2 sensor. Not again, arrrrgh)
    Rust - present in the usual places
    Driver - wafting about like the lord of the manor and couldn't give a flying shit 
     
    I should clarify this was all made clear in the advert! I proper love it man. You feel more like you're captaining a ship than driving a motor vehicle and it's HUGE and so tall, but I find it 100x easier to park than pretty much any modern because you can actually see out of it properly and can tell where the corners are. And I just love that woofly noise it makes as you waft about.  There's a trip computer display on the centre screen that shows a readout of MPG, so that's been turned right off, don't need a constant reminder of that, cheers. And I've already done a fix; it recently had a new battery and the key had lost communication with the car, so had to be inserted in the lock and turned like some kind of tradesman, which would then set the alarm off until it was started. Most unbecoming. Thankfully, I've managed to pair it again so remote operation is resumed. It clearly likes me. Other good points, it's in my favourite colour. The aircon works. It's been well serviced. The air suspension is wor...I'm not finishing that proclamation.
    It's currently sporting a set of 21" wheels from an L405 Range Rover with 4 Pirelli Scorpions which are in great nick but they're a bit big and it doesn't really need making taller. It think it needs to come down a tyre profile but there's no way I'll be doing that. I might keep an eye out for some 19/20" wheels with good tyres and flog these as they seem to bring good money. I may address some of the other bits over time, but really I'm wanting this as a bit of a workhorse and I've proper skinted myself this month buying it, so don't hold your collective breath!
     
     
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    J-T reacted to Wack in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    I had intended to get Ian bodsworth to flush the gearbox this summer, he quoted me about £300, comes highly recommended on the land rover forums, goes under the name of bodsy 
     
    Mobile, comes to you to do it 
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    J-T got a reaction from Back_For_More in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    In that incarnation they had gained a plastic inlet manifold which did the usual thing of gunking itself up with shite from the EGR valve and featuring misbehaving swirl flaps so it was probably that. Can’t remember the last time I saw a 147 in the wild now, or a Stilo (which we also used to have) 
     
    I should make clear, I’ve a company car so it’s probably only getting used about once a week. Hopefully it’ll tolerate this inconvenience.
    Noted on the diff oil, I don’t think the noise is anything to worry about it might even be the tyres or just general transmission noise at 140k miles!  
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    J-T reacted to stuboy in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    nice beasty
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    J-T reacted to Back_For_More in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    I was drooling over this from Wack too..... Cancellation of my contract means I'm forcing a no buy rule so kept schtum. 
    Will keep an eye on this - see how you get on. Keen to see how this pans out. 
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    J-T reacted to Dave_Q in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    We had a 147 with the poor persons 120hp JTD and it ended up getting punted on due to Old Diesel Malady. 
    Ran a bit shit, slightly better with the MAF unplugged but sometimes just died when the wife was trying to drive it out of a junction. It had no codes and the injectors seemed OK from a leakoff test so it was either a lengthy course of parts darts or punting it on so we went with option B.
    Not sure if JTDs are especially worse than any other similar age diesel, but once they start playing up it's bad times.
    Well played with the RR and sad to hear you never got the Jag running right, but it's good news that you didn't lose out on it too much.
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    J-T reacted to Wack in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    It's a very handsome looking car, especially in the green 
    I had the oil changed in the rear diff when I got it so don't do that again, the oil was expensive , I thought it was the centre bearing that was noisy 
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    J-T got a reaction from Stevebrookman in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
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    J-T got a reaction from Stevebrookman in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Looks like I never brought this ungrateful Jag tale to a close. In brief, I fired the fucker through an auction. Got most of my money back so all was not lost. It looked increasingly like it had a warped manifold and I didn't have the space/time to get involved with that.
    So, after having so much trouble with the 4.2 Supercharged V8 donk, what was the sensible thing to do? Yes, that's right! Purchase an 18 year old Range Rover with the same engine. Enter @Wack's old one.
    Well, I've always wanted one, I need something for shifting shite as I'm renovating a house and selling another and this cropped up 2mins from my Mum's house at a price I couldn't refuse. As in I couldn't find one cheaper that ran and had MOT. Of course, any 18 year (or month!) old JLR product will not be without issue and this is no different. It's the full fat fancy pants Vogue SE which I think was top dog in 2006 when this was new. That means it is loaded with equipment, much of which no longer functions as intended. Here's a list of character features off the top of my head:
    DVD player - missing
    TV - inop
    CD Changer - inop
    Parking sensors - inop
    Harmon Kardon Logic 7 sound system - sounds like a fart in a tin due to a blown door speaker
    Rear wiper - inop
    Rear view camera - missing & therefore inop
    Spare wheel well - water receptacle (have landrover ever made a car that doesn't leak?)
    Heated steering wheel - inop
    Driver's heated seat - inop
    Diffs - whining
    Prop - clunking
    Glass - covered in a clear film that's gone weird so some windows are like looking through a jam jar. Think it might be UV protection. Or was.
    EML - glowing brightly (believed to be a code for a downstream O2 sensor. Not again, arrrrgh)
    Rust - present in the usual places
    Driver - wafting about like the lord of the manor and couldn't give a flying shit 
     
    I should clarify this was all made clear in the advert! I proper love it man. You feel more like you're captaining a ship than driving a motor vehicle and it's HUGE and so tall, but I find it 100x easier to park than pretty much any modern because you can actually see out of it properly and can tell where the corners are. And I just love that woofly noise it makes as you waft about.  There's a trip computer display on the centre screen that shows a readout of MPG, so that's been turned right off, don't need a constant reminder of that, cheers. And I've already done a fix; it recently had a new battery and the key had lost communication with the car, so had to be inserted in the lock and turned like some kind of tradesman, which would then set the alarm off until it was started. Most unbecoming. Thankfully, I've managed to pair it again so remote operation is resumed. It clearly likes me. Other good points, it's in my favourite colour. The aircon works. It's been well serviced. The air suspension is wor...I'm not finishing that proclamation.
    It's currently sporting a set of 21" wheels from an L405 Range Rover with 4 Pirelli Scorpions which are in great nick but they're a bit big and it doesn't really need making taller. It think it needs to come down a tyre profile but there's no way I'll be doing that. I might keep an eye out for some 19/20" wheels with good tyres and flog these as they seem to bring good money. I may address some of the other bits over time, but really I'm wanting this as a bit of a workhorse and I've proper skinted myself this month buying it, so don't hold your collective breath!
     
     
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    J-T got a reaction from Back_For_More in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Phwoooar etc



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    J-T reacted to DirtyDaily in DirtyDaily antics. 4.4 L322 2006   
    New strut fitted! Not much hassle, lower pinch bolt took 20/30mins of heating and turning and whacking to get it out but other than that not a bad job. Quick drive and it's all fixed and also driving much nicer. That shock absorber was blown and bouncing about. Didn't get any picture because F***ing freezing and dark. All in I'd say it took 2 hours including gathering all the tools in and out the house. Very happy.
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    J-T got a reaction from Back_For_More in JT’s fleet: Home, home with the Range (rover)   
    Looks like I never brought this ungrateful Jag tale to a close. In brief, I fired the fucker through an auction. Got most of my money back so all was not lost. It looked increasingly like it had a warped manifold and I didn't have the space/time to get involved with that.
    So, after having so much trouble with the 4.2 Supercharged V8 donk, what was the sensible thing to do? Yes, that's right! Purchase an 18 year old Range Rover with the same engine. Enter @Wack's old one.
    Well, I've always wanted one, I need something for shifting shite as I'm renovating a house and selling another and this cropped up 2mins from my Mum's house at a price I couldn't refuse. As in I couldn't find one cheaper that ran and had MOT. Of course, any 18 year (or month!) old JLR product will not be without issue and this is no different. It's the full fat fancy pants Vogue SE which I think was top dog in 2006 when this was new. That means it is loaded with equipment, much of which no longer functions as intended. Here's a list of character features off the top of my head:
    DVD player - missing
    TV - inop
    CD Changer - inop
    Parking sensors - inop
    Harmon Kardon Logic 7 sound system - sounds like a fart in a tin due to a blown door speaker
    Rear wiper - inop
    Rear view camera - missing & therefore inop
    Spare wheel well - water receptacle (have landrover ever made a car that doesn't leak?)
    Heated steering wheel - inop
    Driver's heated seat - inop
    Diffs - whining
    Prop - clunking
    Glass - covered in a clear film that's gone weird so some windows are like looking through a jam jar. Think it might be UV protection. Or was.
    EML - glowing brightly (believed to be a code for a downstream O2 sensor. Not again, arrrrgh)
    Rust - present in the usual places
    Driver - wafting about like the lord of the manor and couldn't give a flying shit 
     
    I should clarify this was all made clear in the advert! I proper love it man. You feel more like you're captaining a ship than driving a motor vehicle and it's HUGE and so tall, but I find it 100x easier to park than pretty much any modern because you can actually see out of it properly and can tell where the corners are. And I just love that woofly noise it makes as you waft about.  There's a trip computer display on the centre screen that shows a readout of MPG, so that's been turned right off, don't need a constant reminder of that, cheers. And I've already done a fix; it recently had a new battery and the key had lost communication with the car, so had to be inserted in the lock and turned like some kind of tradesman, which would then set the alarm off until it was started. Most unbecoming. Thankfully, I've managed to pair it again so remote operation is resumed. It clearly likes me. Other good points, it's in my favourite colour. The aircon works. It's been well serviced. The air suspension is wor...I'm not finishing that proclamation.
    It's currently sporting a set of 21" wheels from an L405 Range Rover with 4 Pirelli Scorpions which are in great nick but they're a bit big and it doesn't really need making taller. It think it needs to come down a tyre profile but there's no way I'll be doing that. I might keep an eye out for some 19/20" wheels with good tyres and flog these as they seem to bring good money. I may address some of the other bits over time, but really I'm wanting this as a bit of a workhorse and I've proper skinted myself this month buying it, so don't hold your collective breath!
     
     
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