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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 31 March 2007, 13:14:07
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1) Parking brake lever has no reserve travel
2) Offside Front (Inner wheel arch) brake master cylinder/servo mountings prescribed area is excessivly corroded
3) Anti-lock braking system warning lamp indicates an ABS fault
4) Nearside rear (inside door wheel arch) seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded
5) Offside rear (inside door wheel arch) seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded
6) Nearside rear wheel bearing has excessive play
7) Offside rear wheel bearing has excessive play
8) Nearside front wheel bearing has excessive play
9) Offside from wheel bearing has excissive play
10) Nearside front (joint) exhaust system has a major leak of exhaust gasses
11) Nearside (lpg tank) fuel system component insecure
12) Offisde (lpg tank) fuel system component insecure
13) Rear (vallance) body has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting it's strength within 30cm of the body mountings
14) Nearside (inner sills and mounts) body has an unsatisfactory modification, serously affecting it's strength within 30cm of the body mountings
15) Offside (inner sills and mounts) body has an unsatisfactory modification, seriously affecting it's strength within 30cm of the body mountings
16) Nearside front (inner wheel arch) body has an unsatisfactory modification, seriously affecting it's strength within 30cm of the body mountings
17) Offisde front ( inner wheel arch) body has an unsatisfactory modification, seriously affecting it's strength within 30cm of the body mountings
18) Nearside rear (inner wheel arch) seat belt anchorage prescibed area is excessively corroded
19) Offside rear (inner wheel arch) seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded
20) Offisde front (trailing arm axle mount) suspension component mounting prescibed area is excessively corroded
21) Nearside front (trailing arm axle mount) suspension component mounting prescribed area is excessively corroded
22) Service Brake efficiency is below requirements
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Now that is a failure list!! ;D
Bit of a rust problem on it James? ;)
I guess that will be dismantled for bits then!
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The words "death" and "trap" come to mind.... ;D ;D ;D;)
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Typical Range Rover......aluminium body panels and steel internals.....which slowly and less obviously rot....
Which engine is it ....3.5?
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Typical Range Rover......aluminium body panels and steel internals.....which slowly and less obviously rot....
Which engine is it ....3.5?
3.9 V8 EFI.. beautiful engine...
It's strictly not mine anymore... a mate bought it from me for spares or repairs, or to off-road in... I think he's just going to trailor it around and use it off road.. the strange thing is, it looks SOOO tidy!!!
The even stranger thing is, it went in for MOT a month before this test was done.... and he fixed all the bits that came from that ticket... so goodness knows where this list has come from!
As far as the wheel bearings go, that's bullcrap.. they are fine... the garage he took it to, are just used to testing brand new cars and don't know what to look for on these old beasts....
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Taking the list at face value as regards the rust, I hope your offroading pal is long enough of tooth to realise that if he takes some yomps at a bit of speed with a bumpy landing, the suspension bits may well pop through the alloy body or be left behins in a shower of rusty stoor (thats dust, to those from Englandshire.. :D)
Or the gas tank may come adrift and clobber the occupants!
B
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Really that wants to just be stripped down for parts. Starting with the engine to Mark as he will be very interested in a 3.9 efi version of it! :)
With that amount of rust i would not want to be offroading it, way way too risky!
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i agree - he should strip it ! that engine can be shoehorned into many a 4 door saloon....
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I'll give him 50 quid for the short engine...
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I'll give him 50 quid for the short engine...
I'll ask his plans!
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Funny,
I'm tentatively looking for a Range Rover at the moment.
Nice list, I think I'll print that off and take it with me if I go to view any!! ;D
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Certainly seems a good Aide Memoire, in case you forget how to spell R U S T Y B I T S ;D
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My main recommendations when looking at a Range rover.....
1) Always check the chassis memebers adn inner wings etc.....they are quite thin steel......and rot....
2) If a V8, stick your finegr into the oil filelr and feel for 'black death', they tend to be full of it!
3) If auto, check the box carefuly.....Range Rovers can not be reliably taken off road as the auto box throws in the towel...
4) Remember, they have more role than Paris Hilton....
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My main recommendations when looking at a Range rover.....
1) Always check the chassis memebers adn inner wings etc.....they are quite thin steel......and rot....
Well, I'm well aware they're rotboxes, but it's good to know specifically where to look.
2) If a V8, stick your finegr into the oil filelr and feel for 'black death', they tend to be full of it!
Is there any other type? When you say 'Black death', I assume you mean sludge yes?
3) If auto, check the box carefuly.....Range Rovers can not be reliably taken off road as the auto box throws in the towel...
Good call!!
4) Remember, they have more role than Paris Hilton....
I assume you mean 'roll'? Yeah, I'm not expecting handling akin to the MV6!! ;D (It'd be cool to get a hold of an overfinch wouldn't it!! Like that's gonna happen for the budget I have in mind!!)
Thanks Mark!! ;)
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Yes...thick black hard sludge.......the V8 realy needs 3K oil changes but, they never get it....as a result you get bad cam wear, loose timing chains and I have even known there to be sludge the shape of the rocker cover in the top end when you strip them down!
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i agree - he should strip it ! that engine can be shoehorned into many a 4 door saloon....
Fitted one into a Marcas once. Along with manual gear box. What a motor, great in a straight line, crap around corners. Brakes went when going round a bend down near Spalding, car careered into a
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DaveL
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We used to have a manual 3.9 supercharged (belt driven blower) and stiffened suspension with handling kit. Went really well upto about a ton, keeping pace with tuned 530's and other 'fast' cars of the day. Used to have an appetite for heads though. And diffs. And gearboxes. And petrol.
Must have been those size 12 boots most of my workmates had.... ;D