Range Rover advice

You can't beat a Rangie can you...?

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Used to see this early one regularly in the staff car park at Leamington Spa station...

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Although my dad had loads from the early 80's onwards, and my oldest mates all have them, including Defenders old and new for good measure too as well, I can't bring myself to own one!
 
MarkMas said:
Everyone should have one!
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At least once in their lifetime.
Fond memories of my two P38 and the L322.
I certainly wouldn't want a Discovery or a Defender though but that's just the advice from the 46 years as a mechanic telling me that ;)
 
philw696 said:
I also used mine for towing when I had my Four Winns 18 footer bow rider it also towed my Toyota Celica GT4 Rally Car and got the Project 4200 home that I did the oil water pump in.View attachment 144440
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It also left a puddle of oil on my drive Phil... but as you were there fitting the timing belt on my MK1 Golf Cabriolet I let that slide.
 
safrane said:
It also left a puddle of oil on my drive Phil... but as you were there fitting the timing belt on my MK1 Golf Cabriolet I let that slide.
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Ah that was my Hybrid one that had a Mitsubishi Shogun 2.8 Turbo Diesel in it that had a rusty sump pan on it Peter.
 
Strange we keep going back to these. Bizarrely the Auto Italia Ireland, which I'm in, have an amnesty weekend each Bank Holiday and this weekend it was full of Range Rovers and Land Rovers.

We've had three but this was my favourite and was only sold due to the stupid road tax here. We ran it for 6 years put over 60k miles on it and sold it for £1500 less than we paid. Other than servicing, suspension bushes and a supercharger nose cone it was faultless.

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I sold my old (2015) Autobiography Hybrid Rangie yesterday.

Had it on Autotrader for 6 weeks at £20,500 and received not one call/message/email - just total silence. Even though that was a low price, and the car itself was in excellent condition, below average mileage, had full history, new MOT, only two owners, best colour etc.
So I uploaded it to the "Motorway" website, which is trade-only bidding platform. And within a day accepted an offer at a price higher than I had the car advertised at originally. Go figure!
Anyway, that was Friday, and the dealer (a 4x4 specialist) came yesterday morning as arranged, paid the money and took the car. All very quick and easy.

I'd not used Motorway before, and did not have high hopes. But I have to say that the service was easy to use, the process quick, and overall, I was impressed.

It's free to put a car on it, so might be worth a go for anyone else looking to sell. (Though maybe not so much with a Maserati, as we all know the trade tend not to be so keen on them.)
 
My oldest son put his really horrible Honda Jazz on Motorway, after a series of derisory offers around £200 from WBAC. Eventually someone made a better offer, and a couple of blokes came to pick it up. They then refused to do the deal at the agreed price, since they felt that it should be possible to select a gear, and to open the passenger door, and should not be possible to hear the engine from a mile away. In they end they offered £500 for it, and he was glad to be rid.
 
MarkMas said:
Everyone should have one!
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I've thought about it on and off, at one point about five years ago we went along to Guy Salmon on the outskirts of Cov and looked at two to three year old examples, we came home and had a good old natter about it but were put off by the stories of unreliability. Still fancy an older L322 / P38 one though.
 
P5Nij said:
I've thought about it on and off, at one point about five years ago we went along to Guy Salmon on the outskirts of Cov and looked at two to three year old examples, we came home and had a good old natter about it but were put off by the stories of unreliability. Still fancy an older L322 / P38 one though.
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Neither of the P38 I had or the L322 went on a low loader.
The L322 I drove the whole of New Zealand in it the same as the Mini Cooper trouble free mate.
Just Service them Well and buy the nicest you can find.
 
Ewan said:
I sold my old (2015) Autobiography Hybrid Rangie yesterday.

Had it on Autotrader for 6 weeks at £20,500 and received not one call/message/email - just total silence. Even though that was a low price, and the car itself was in excellent condition, below average mileage, had full history, new MOT, only two owners, best colour etc.
So I uploaded it to the "Motorway" website, which is trade-only bidding platform. And within a day accepted an offer at a price higher than I had the car advertised at originally. Go figure!
Anyway, that was Friday, and the dealer (a 4x4 specialist) came yesterday morning as arranged, paid the money and took the car. All very quick and easy.

I'd not used Motorway before, and did not have high hopes. But I have to say that the service was easy to use, the process quick, and overall, I was impressed.

It's free to put a car on it, so might be worth a go for anyone else looking to sell. (Though maybe not so much with a Maserati, as we all know the trade tend not to be so keen on them.)
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I used motorway to sell my GT, got 2k more than WBAC offered. I had wanted 12.5k privately but top bid was 1k below that but no haggling once they came to collect. suspect they will fix the headlining and parking sensor then list her for 15-16k. think they are the better option out there and so long as you are open about what needs fixed/condition they have no room to haggle.
 
P5Nij said:
I've thought about it on and off, at one point about five years ago we went along to Guy Salmon on the outskirts of Cov and looked at two to three year old examples, we came home and had a good old natter about it but were put off by the stories of unreliability. Still fancy an older L322 / P38 one though.
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Unreliability.
Yes that is what has put myself off.
Yes many have little or no issues, but know plenty first hand that have, including the Jaguar F pace.
Looking at a couple of possible rust free import Mitsubishi Pajero's to replace my Pinin, as a bad weather/tip vehicle.
Reliability was spot on with the Pinin over 7 years, but rust was the killer after 25 UK winters!
 
There's a half decent 97 one here for sale and they're asking €25,000 for it.
You Guys don't realise how Lucky you are with car prices in the UK.
 
It will be the costs involved to restore it against it's potential value when finished making it a loss loser I'm guessing.
 
Didn’t know Callaway did Range Rovers. His Vettes held the speed record until the Veyron came out. They’ve only just started to get the recognition they deserve they used to struggle to get £20k for them IMG_0037.jpeg
 
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