Roffle Range Rover Roffel - It's All Over Now! Caution: Victim established!

[dave21478]

oh and if its still less than 80% broken in springtime, I would be interested in raffle tickets.

[purplebargeken]

That is bloody ace. A most excellent purchase.

 

Better headlining is available.

 

My Golf has adjustable rear seat belt height. 

[mat_the_cat]

  On 09/10/2016 at 10:12, cros said:

This vehicle is susceptible to stray signals from household devices upsetting the balance of its two computers. A friend had no problems at all until he installed a Bluetooth controlled cistern in his outside bog whereupon the P38 consistantly refused to start the mornings after he'd been out for a curry.

 

Surely the only reason for concern in this example is why anyone would need or choose to have their toilet cistern controlled by Bluetooth?

[Jim Bell]

I would sit on that tailgate in a meadow and eat a pie and be very happy.

[michael1703]

I'm on my second p38, they are great* cars.

 

Current one is a 4.0 auto that I bought from 'scooters' of this parish, numerous problems but mainly my mingebaggery to not fix things before they go wrong is the reason.

 

My air suspension packs up every 3 months like it has a countdown timer to expire, I take it to a guy that has a £10k purple diagnostics thing that looks like an etch a sketch board and it normally goes again. I've just bought an eas reset doodah to try on it as I've not driven it since June when the airbag popped.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/321967809794?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

I've got some good secondhand airbags for £20 a piece to fit and see if I can get it going again.

 

I bought these too http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271823410680?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

 

My hevac book has been on for two years and it works ok, my other p38 had the same problem too.

 

The other one was on 16's and the current one is on 18's they do tend to wear steering parts more on 18's

 

Balljoints are a bastard to change when they go

 

My other one was a 2.5 BMW m51 engined manual on coil springs, it was glacially slow, I drove it 2,500 miles around Europe on holiday to Italy but it wasn't keen on the mountains

[Skizzer]

 

And Junkman's spirit, in a Range Rover for revenge,

With Conrad by his side come hot from hell,

Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice

Cry 'HVAC' and let slip the dogs of warmth.

[Junkman]

  On 09/10/2016 at 19:46, WilsonWilson said:

I would sit on that tailgate in a meadow and eat a pie and be very happy.

I'll get pished there with Pimm's cups. Sadly it's RHD.

[scruff]

  On 09/10/2016 at 06:50, dollywobbler said:

This is proper edge-of-the-seat stuff. Brilliant. I have driven a 2.5 diesel manual, and was thoroughly underwhelmed. 

 

That very same P38 was a dog though. It had been monged with coils and was a base spec (DT?) to start with. As well as various electronic mayhem, it did the splitting radiator trick Tayne mentions, the head went porous, the wheels went porous (all four), the heater seals went, and the manual gearbox shat itself. No pub bollocks I'm afraid, but like I said it was a shit example anyway. I did quite a bit of work on it, including changing the hubs (wheel bearings were fubar'd) and it was quite easy to work on.

[Kiltox]

Wish I had the steel stones required to have a go in one of these. Love it

[Captain Furious]

It makes me sad when I see them for sale and 'converted to coils' is listed as a positive selling point

 

No no no, I want the suspension to go up and down!

[Junkman]

  On 09/10/2016 at 19:55, michael1703 said:

I drove it 2,500 miles around Europe on holiday to Italy

 

Not sure I'd have the balls for that.

Insufficient petrol supplies might be encountered en route, what with those Ausländer and their love of frugal little shitboxes.

But it would do a lot for The Climate improvement®, thus potentially render WBoD requirement obsolete in the future.

 

I'll have to brim it tomorrow and I bet it'll feel like it sucks the petrol station dry.

And yes, it actually gives me the confidence to brim it, something my last WBoD never managed.

[Noel Tidybeard]

"converted to coils" is the RR equivilent of "disconnected propshaft for economy"

[dome]

  On 09/10/2016 at 20:58, Frank Gallagher said:

"converted to coils" is the RR equivilent of "disconnected propshaft for economy"

Funnily enough I found one on Gumtree with the front propshaft disconnected. Obviously a fucked transfer box.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/range-rover-46-hse-auto-p38/1186350031

 

Not that I've been looking at them of course.

[Junkman]

Junkdaughter #2 just told me to never ever sell it.

Now I'm in serious trouble. She is cute.

[michael1703]

Mine shat it's rear diff, bought a secondhand one for £40, fitted it and ran it for a month and bang, another rear diff shagged

 

It was at that point I twigged the transfer box is shagged, so mine is a RWD until I can be arsed to put my spare transfer box in

[Junkman]

  On 09/10/2016 at 21:08, dome said:

Funnily enough I found one on Gumtree with the front propshaft disconnected. Obviously a fucked transfer box.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/cars-vans-motorbikes/range-rover-46-hse-auto-p38/1186350031

 

Not that I've been looking at them of course.

 

Oh, of course not...

 

It would not look bad next to mine, though:

 

 

Not sure I'd pay more than what I paid for mine for it though, what with it having nearly 100,000 miles from new more on the clock and being royally fucked.

[dome]

  On 09/10/2016 at 21:14, Junkman said:

 

Oh, of course not...

 

It would not look bad next to mine, though:

 

 

Not sure I'd pay more than what I paid for mine for it though, what with it having nearly 100,000 miles from new more on the clock and being royally fucked.

Aye, I'm a bit jealous of yours. If i was going to do a P38 it would be an early orange indicator 4.6. Let me know when you want to swap for my Jag...

[scruff]

What is the OMGMPG then JM. When I was a cool cat and could afford it I had a 3.9 and it averaged out at 17mpg 

 

Curious fact, the people who moan about V8 fuel consumption are never the people who own one.

[Junkman]

According to that computer programmed by a SEM working from home in Bangalore, it's allegedly 16.6 at the moment,

so I don't believe that one little bit (oh, run from the pun!).

Considering this was achieved over 127 miles with an average of 23 OMGMPH (so much for the infrastructure in this country),

plus a lot of idling in the front garden and being driven in and out of said garden a lot to make space for other cars,

I don't think this is halfways bad and pretty much in line with what I expected.

 

As I said before, there will be a full brimmage tomorrow (subject to the availability of sufficient quantities of petrol) and that will help

to establish a fairly reliable figure, although the mile counter cannot be trusted, because it's also that stupid computer.

[Junkman]

  On 09/10/2016 at 21:21, dome said:

Aye, I'm a bit jealous of yours. If i was going to do a P38 it would be an early orange indicator 4.6. Let me know when you want to swap for my Jag...

 

So that I get the full whack of all Shagwire grenadisation pub tales since 1966? Yep, let's talk about that in Spring.

It feels strangely appealing to SWOP a perfectly functional Range Rover for a ticking time bomb which's casing turned into pastry.

But please accept, that I bought this WBoD for a reason and need it during this Winter.

 

On a different note (and to be gentlemanly fair to you, Dome) the gearbox oil looks like what comes out of the sump of a Diesel.

Hence I'm going to change it, which will inevitably lead to gearbox borkage and that patronising little shit of a computer presumably pissing its kecks.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Changing the gearbox oil? You've got your priorities all screwed up. You should be hunting down the original satnav unit first.

[Junkman]

Would you actually believe now, that quite a few of those girlie compasses are currently on my eBay watchlist?

Let that agricultural implement stir tar for all I care.

[cros]

  On 09/10/2016 at 19:37, mat_the_cat said:

Surely the only reason for concern in this example is why anyone would need or choose to have their toilet cistern controlled by Bluetooth?

Lord have mercy, you're not still pulling a chain to flush yours are you?

[JohnDeere]

You are doing nothing to put me off owning a P38. This is an itch I''ll have to scratch.

[burraston2006]

Looks great. I await your updates with interest. I bought one two weeks ago- much kudos to you as my balls were only big enough for the 4.0 not the 4.6! Mine also has the HVAC light on - they must all come on in sympathy with each other! Can't post pictures of mine as sat on holiday at the moment! When we get home I'll pop some up.

[Honey Badger]

congratulations on the purchase of this fine english institution.

 

I can see the appeal of this kind of motor, I've just spent the last week  wafting down to Cornwall and back in complete comfort in our aging RX, enjoying the detachment from all the stress and hassle occuring around us while making suprisingly rapid progress, abet with only 6 cylinders vs your 8.

[dollywobbler]

  On 09/10/2016 at 20:16, scruff said:

That very same P38 was a dog though. It had been monged with coils and was a base spec (DT?) to start with. As well as various electronic mayhem, it did the splitting radiator trick Tayne mentions, the head went porous, the wheels went porous (all four), the heater seals went, and the manual gearbox shat itself. No pub bollocks I'm afraid, but like I said it was a shit example anyway. I did quite a bit of work on it, including changing the hubs (wheel bearings were fubar'd) and it was quite easy to work on.

In that case, I definitely concur that a coil conversion is a very bad idea. When the P38 was launched, I did attend a demo session at Lode Lane. I was only 16 but recall being very impressed as our driver hurled the thing around a short handling track.

[chaseracer]

  On 09/10/2016 at 20:29, Junkman said:

I'll have to brim it tomorrow and I bet it'll feel like it sucks the petrol station dry.

 

Don't do that - the proprietors will shut up shop immediately and retire.  Can Stockport afford to lose another filling station?

 

[beko1987]

I'd deffo roll one as a second car, infact one of my lottery win fantasies is to buy an average example, and then drive it because I'd be able to afford fuel! tank a day, why the devil not! I also have the same dreams about a 4.0 jag XJ. Way out of my running budget at this stage of my life though, but I can live me dream through you for this winter!

[nacho man]

There ace lookers and would love to waft in one.

 

And pah to big bills if anything goes wrong, it's only money!!

 

I just spent £912 sorting a clio gearbox out.

 

 

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