TERRIBLE NEWS FOR ANY TDV8 RANGE ROVER OWNERS
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- Some of you may know that this Range Rover broke down last December with gearbox problems. The car was stuck in gear and nothing seemed to fix the issue. I had only been driving the car for 3 months after the engine rebuilt in September 2023.
The Range Rover took a while to fix, in this video I explain some of the reasons why it took so long and why I now have the perfect daily driver.
The only thing I don't like about the car is the colour (I would prefer a brighter colour) but in general most of the cheapest anything on Ebay tends to come in black or white.
In total have now spent £10 000 on the car (including purchase), the car is fully sorted and running like a dream.
Exhaust pipe ?? Its a tubular side step just get it re powdercoated and lock cap wont make any difference it just covers the hole for the key to go in underneath incase of flat battery
Unless I missing something your front offside tyre looks a bit illegal at 2.23 ?
No you are not, well spotted! I was told that the type was fitted the wrong way round before I bought the car. I took the car to the type shop and they said it was OK to drive (and it passed an MOT) but I am currently looking for new wheels and will get a set of 4 new Pirelli's or Continental tryes. Very well spotted.
Sorry but if you buy a 14yr old LR/RR vehicle of any model you are gaurenteed faults,normally huge ones.
Poor guy, stressful
I have two BMW E91 Touring a 330i and 325i with the N52 engine for reliability. Those are my cheap reliable daily drivers that have never let me down
The Ingenium 2.0 diesel engines are plenty powerful enough. The issue is a poor design and quality of the timing chain and guides. I very nearly bought a First Edition Defender 110, whose performance was actually OK, but I had a very lucky escape. Ingenium have been continually improved in production of course and may well now be good engines. Every brand has their problem engines and/or transmissions from time to time, witness the Ford Ecoboost and Ecoblue and some BMW and Mini engines. The Ford made pre-ingenium V6 3.0 litre engine used by JLR that commonly snaps crankshafts.
Irrelevant to this model of RR.
@@chrisglover2133 Very relevant to the brand and plenty of models before the Ingenium though. It’s a systemic problem with JLR going back to the 1970’s and I’ve had a large number of their products, both utility and luxury since then. Would have had many more if only they backed up their poor engineering and, historically, assembly also. They are a terrible company and the worse of the worse and it took me the longest time to finally dispel myself of the desire for their products. Only yesterday I was offered a Defender 90 250 with only 2500 miles covered in a year and I declined to purchase it from a private seller. I might have been tempted if he was willing to sell it for £10,000 less than the current new selling price, but he was not and I breathed a sigh of relief.
The quality of JLR alloy wheels have always been very poor and they always suffer from corrosion. In contrast I have a 25 year old Toyota Land Cruiser that has near zero corrosion and also a 10 year Old Ford Ranger working in filthy conditions [it’s a work truck] that has zero corrosion on its alloy wheels. JLR just are cheaply built where it matters. They are certainly not built to be reliable and use cheap parts typified by the alloy wheels and poor unreliable engines.