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

[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]

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]

"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]

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]

 

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]

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]

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]

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]

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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[Junkman]

I just spent £912 sorting a clio gearbox out.

 

 

You only spent 760 quid sorting the gearbox out. A whopping 152 you were fleeced by HM's myrmidons for abslutely fuck all.

[chaseracer]

There may* have been some value added to said Clio gearbox... 

[Junkman]

I doubt a gearbox becomes more valuable by using it in a car, but even if, wouldn't it be well paid with  - let's say - ten percent?

[chaseracer]

A working gearbox in a car surely has a greater value in terms of utility than the obstacle/doorstop that is a broken gearbox.  Whether this equates to the arbitrary and flexible 20% payable to HMG is very debatable!

[xtriple]

As a fellow owner of something which considers large garage bills as no more than a slight 'meh' I admire and salute your choice of wbod. Personally I hate RR P38s with a vengeance as a friend had one for a decade, loved it more than life itself, cosseted it, garaged it, treated it to all the best... it still broke down with alarming regularity (usually suspension or some electronic device - seats frequently) and the amount of time it spent with the drivers seat out while various ecu's were accessed was alarming.

 

I have always sworn that I will NEVER have one but the guy over the roads 322 is looking mighty appealing and apart from a £3K bill for the (BMW) engine doing a camchain dance has been reliable... ish.

 

I will admit that when they are going right, they are cracking things to waft about in and sound lovely with the warbly V8.

 

 

 

 

Please note, the P38 mentioned above had been totally re-wired by some idiot with nothing other than blue wire which may have had some bearing on its electrical maladies!

[Junkman]

Brimmage:

 

 

OMG FTP oh dearage:

 

 

[Ghosty]

You can't be SRS

[Keymaster]

 

 

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.

If ever anything was certain after saying that, it was that you would end up broken down after brimming it

 

Hope it's not too serious/expensive to put right