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

[dollywobbler]

Cornering flat is UTTERLY BORING. I know I might be slightly biased, what with my 2CV tendencies, but I had huge fun chucking my wallowy Rangie (and P6 for that matter) around. Roll is all part of the fun.

[RoadworkUK]

This thread reminds me of the 1/18 scale models they did some years back.  They were about £50 new, seems they have now gone up

 

 

http://silentautosmodels.com/AUTOart-70011-Land-Rover-Range-Rover-Green-1-18-diecast-scale-models

 

Aye, this is my one

 

 

It really is an outrageously good model and I picked mine up for some ludicrously attractive figure. Obviously, or I wouldn't have it.

[Captain Furious]

Years ago I had a mk3 Golf GTi (yeah I don't know why either, I was going through a 'try lots of cars out that I didn't own when I was younger' phase)

 

Anyway the journey home from work was one I knew well, a twisty country road, prime GTI territory with its lowered spax suspension and TSWobbly wheels. Quite regularly I'd follow a guy in a Citroen Dyane, Jesus H he was shifting, I could barely keep up, this thing was practically on it's side in the corners, it was a fantastically hilarious spectacle.

 

Bet he was having far more fun than me

 

As for the P38, I'm still in, but watching this thread intensely

[Junkman]

Cornering flat is UTTERLY BORING. I know I might be slightly biased, what with my 2CV tendencies, but I had huge fun chucking my wallowy Rangie (and P6 for that matter) around. Roll is all part of the fun.

 

That and even if I wanted something to corner flat, a Range Rover would possibly not be among my primary choices.

It'd be a bit like bringing a St. Bernard to a dog race.

[Junkman]

Right.

 

The P6 of much blue is ready, so the Range Rover will break down tomorrow on the way to pick it up.

Should it make it there nevertheless, it will remain there for an MoT, which is a change to the original plan,

namely breaking down on the way to the ASITC-ASMM-SVM-GGG-Cannock event.

[barefoot]

Cornering flat is UTTERLY BORING. I know I might be slightly biased, what with my 2CV tendencies, but I had huge fun chucking my wallowy Rangie (and P6 for that matter) around. Roll is all part of the fun.

 

 

I'm sorry to be dull, but my little old Scarecrow leaves all the roly poly 4x4s for dead thru the corners and makes me chuckle.

 

Enough of this and on with the exciting FTP fun.

[Junkman]

I'm sorry to be dull, but my little old Scarecrow leaves all the roly poly 4x4s for dead thru the corners and makes me chuckle.

 

Who in his right mind would expect a hippopotamus to corner like a squirrel?

If cornering fast is what makes you happy, do not buy a cement mixer.

[JohnDeere]

Remind me, when Is the roffle?

[Royale80]

Here's a few more of mine.

 

 

The rag on the floor in the last pic has been catching the odd drip from the heater matrix "O" rings for the last 7 years.

 

Steve

[brickwall]

lush

[Junkman]

That looks rather tasty that. I bet the HVAC shows the book too?

Well, mine made it to the Rover Sanatorium today without a glitch.

Sadly it didn't self repair the SRS light on the way, which I actually kind of expected to happen.

[brickwall]

Have you checked the yellow plug? It 's under one of the seats. I've fixed thid several times by fiddling with wiring entering the connectors. The crimping is terrible, but the connectors seem fine.

[Junkman]

I haven't checked a bloody thing. I have checked enough in my life.

I have my servants check things now while I wait in the club until they are finished checking things.

[EssDeeWon]

Relax its a nice old Rangie.

 

Friend works at Mercedes servicing/repairing new and almost new Mercs, far worse stories are told than the odd iffy SRS warning like.

 

Waft and waft alike, I am actually quite jealous of this WBoD

[Junkman]

Actually, I'm quite jealous of myself.

[Royale80]

That looks rather tasty that. I bet the HVAC shows the book too?

Well, mine made it to the Rover Sanatorium today without a glitch.

Sadly it didn't self repair the SRS light on the way, which I actually kind of expected to happen.

No warning lights or symbols are present!

 

Steve

[Junkman]

No warning lights or symbols are present!

 

That would make me extremely nervous.

 

And now on to something entirely different.

 

This is one of only two poshish WBoDs I ever had.

All others cement a remarkable track record of driving clapped out and usually completely unsuitable rubbish on its last legs,

with not a remote chance to pass another test, as Winter beaters.

The other one, many years ago, was a Saab 9000.

Like back then, it doesn't feel like I actually own it. If I see it in my driveway, I first think some arsehole parked his chod there.

Only then I remember that it's actually mine. Then I get inside and the first thing that comes to mind is where is the bloody choke on these?

Then I drive it down the road and really, really love me for what I did for me.

[hairnet]

one word - speshul

[Royale80]

I did have warning lights! (memory is not what it was!)

 

Towing the tin tent to the Lakes 6 years ago the air suspension warning lights came on-luckily I had bought when I got the car a "EAS Kicker" which  will reset the system. If I hadn't had this I would have been on the back of a tow truck. Plugged it in and all fine-until the journey home it happened twice -conveniently just before service stations -the journey up was 5.5 hours on the way back it took 8.5 hours-traffic all the way.

 

Did a bit of thinking when I got home and suspected overheating of the EAS solenoid drivers (big transistors (MOSFET's)).

 

The design of the box where all the suspension gubbings is stored is flawed in a typical Land Rover way. Air can only enter from below-the box sits high next to the engine. Heat cannot escape. Also the compressor is in the box and is only fed with hot air.

I drilled holes high up on the box to let the hot air escape and cool enter for the compressor and it's been fine since.

 

Stvee

[forddeliveryboy]

There should be more Nobel Prizes handed out.

[burraston2006]

As promised last week here's a couple of piccies of mine:

 

Interior with peeled cow,

Pez station shot (regular occurance!)

HVAC symbol on in sympathy with everybody elses!

[burraston2006]

Sorry struggling with my wanky 'phone! It'll only attach one pic at a time!

 

[burraston2006]

Why are they updide down? I'm not aussie!

[Junkman]

Passed MoT test.

No fault found.

Fault codes reset.

[dome]

Good job.

 

There's a cheap one near me on Gumtree.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/land-rover/range-rover-p38-hse/1194331714

 

WCPGW?

[Junkman]

It's a bit too spazzed for my taste, but my mission here is not to talk you out of it, so GIB, ffs!

[cort16]

Good job.

 

There's a cheap one near me on Gumtree.

 

https://www.gumtree.com/p/land-rover/range-rover-p38-hse/1194331714

 

WCPGW?

 

DO IT

[Junkman]

I say, if you can get it for something starting with a 5, you can't lose.

[cort16]

Even the dog thinks it's ruff, ruff

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sorry

[Junkman]

Oh, it's far from being rough, and evidently it's been well kept, but for example that grade A mong exhaust would make me expect the lambda probes and catalysers throwing a fit,

consequently that daft computer pestering me with a stupid error message, which will then necessitate shelling out for passing the next emissions test.

Also, I'm not sure whether that is actually a social climber plate or not, but if it is, it's shit, as usual.