Portland, OR Land Rover Shop needed ASAP!

logigeek

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I need to have a buyers inspection done on a RR Classic in Portland, OR in the next few days... anyone have any recommendations of good shops?

I know there's LR of Portland.. but I just want to bring it to the "best" place possible who'll "inspect" it the best. If the dealership is the best, then I can take it there too.

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logigeek

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I found 2 indie shops in PDX.... Shipman's and Boulevard.... Anyone have any experience?

Called LR of Portland and they said they have a "Pre-buyers Inspection" which is only 30 minutes and $75. Seems like it could be too basic and I doubt they'll really look at the car very closely unless somethings visually falling off or something!
 

logigeek

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Awesome. Just spoke to Doug, nice guy.

He said he could do a quick 10-15 look-over (and he said he can usually tell what's wrong with it just by that) for free

or a full testing (compression, etc) for $100.

Do these have compression problems? Assuming the head gaskets and stuff look ok?

Sounds much better than what the dealership was telling me.

Thanks!
 

craig

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I think Doug is actually selling his wife's RRC right now. It sounded like it is practically a new truck with all the work he's done to it. You might want to just buy his instead of the one you are looking at. :)
 

logigeek

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oops. he should've mentioned it to me. oh well. I might have me a new Rangie tomorrow. Will post pics! :D
 
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drg

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I've so far had pretty good luck with "The Jag Shop" on 54th and Burnside. They have a Rovacomm and they seem like pretty good guys. You see a smattering of everything British, plus there's usually a red or yellow Ferrari around (which at first made me wary, but maybe the car's owner knows the shop owner).

My '95 RRC had a hot start problem. They spent quite a few hours chasing it down, and then eventually figured out that it was a bad ECU. They told me that they didn't feel good about the time they spent scratching their heads, so they didn't charge me for the diagnosis time, only for a used ECU and the labor to replace it.

More recently, they met me in the parking lot to chase down a check-engine light just before a longer trip. That was nice because their normal backlog is about 5 days.

They have an Autologic for Rover, and I always see Rovers in their lot.

They also diagnosed and replaced a failing fuel pump in my '98 4.6 that LR Portland couldn't figure out.

I'd stay away from LR Portland if I were you. They're incredibly polite, helpful people... but their techs seem to be unimaginative at best, and stupid at worst. I've been there 4 times with my 4.6 and once (for the fuel tank recall) with my SWB. I was happy with the tank recall work (replaced the fuel pump while in there for parts cost only), and for the first visit with the 4.6 where they replaced a bad belt idler, but have not been at all happy with their diagnostic skills with the other three visits.

But I didn't know we had a Rover specialist in town. I'll have to visit Ships Mechanical.