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Jay
| | Posted on Thursday, December 05, 2002 - 09:45 pm: | 
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hi,
can close on a deal tommorow for a 1998 Range Rover SE. The car has 119,000k. But has been well maintained with every major service done, and oil changes done every 2500 miles. A full tune up was recently done and all major components of the EAS were replaced. I'll be paying $15k for it.
Think its worth it?
Ive heard a well maintained engine will last forever but can I expect it to be a good daily driver?
Thanks in advance.
Jay |
Geoff Wakefield (Geoff)
| | Posted on Thursday, December 05, 2002 - 10:11 pm: |
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Check prices on E-Bay for similar RR's. Consider purchasing an extended warranty for $3-4K. Expensive, but I can tell you I have easily spent that in parts alone for a '93 RR. Check www.rangerovers.net. |
hum
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 03:52 am: |
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i sugest that you buy one more rover, increasing the number to two! one for the road and one in the shop. GET AN EXTENDED WARRENTY. this will be the best money spent. and it will give you smiles over christmas while it is in the shop. you will be thinking ( thank god i have extened warrenty, at least this mechanic will fix it right, cant wait to get it back, maybe i should have bought two.) think about that rovers???? hum????? under powered cant pull, tow, pass at speed climb hills with out down shift, sensor for this sensor for that, no cup holders, turn heads yes they do, great off road yes they are, if puppied and used lightly, wouldnt want to break an axle or dif. humm? rovers?? hum buy it you might like it |
GregH
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 03:23 pm: |
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hum-your concern for cupholders and your lack of knowledge about the costs and the performance of Land Rovers is telling.
My '89 RRC (owned since '92) has cost me less in repair and maintenance than any ONE of several domestically-built vehicles I have owned. |
oh my word.... sensing tension
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:09 pm: |
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1957- s1 107 pick up , 1969 s2a safari wagon , 1968 s2a dormobile , 1954 s2 88 , 1974 s2a 88 , 1973 s3 88 , 1963 109 safari , 1962 pick up , 1971 88 , 1974 range rover , 1992 county , 1995 disco , 1997 disco. 1994 chev z71 , 1968 international , 1974 international , 1999 f-250 deisel, 1968 280s benz, 1974 280 benz, 1979 nova, 1985 impala, 1981 malibu, 1987 yj modified, 1990 yj. 1979 chev one tonne, 1992 f-250 monster truck. list goes on and on. been through it all my favorite by far are rovers! best off road terrible on road. been through enough axles to fill two five gallon buckets with broken stubs. been through enough diffs to fill a utility trailer. rebuilt four 2.25 petrol engines still could only max at 65 mph @ 4500 rpm; which i dont mind. what gets me is the wat people talk so highly of rovers, this that. seems to be the only vechile that if reved up and then dumped "the clutch" would break something. right? rovers are great! so dont get me wrong. but if you want to compete with the every day hustle and bustle of the big city, humm well so much to decide from ... well... you be the judge! i use my rovers sparingly, but when it comes to the game of money i will choose other to pull, tow, speed, let me know when the weekend comes. offraod anyone! thats when we call on the rover see ya all later |
beer here
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 05:17 pm: |
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p.s i can send you our home video if you like for free called ON TOP OF IT ALL local trails local friends local fun, local high and local lows great shots. great good old hick fun. |
GregH
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 10:16 pm: |
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I won't bore you with my list of vehicles but I generally keep mine for around 400K miles(except for several GM and Ford that I couldn't afford to keep that long). I now prefer to maintain them rather than destroy them by sidestepping the clutch even though I did that frequently when I was 17 and I hadn't learned the value of money...
Anyway, I'm trying to make sense of your rambling but I still cannot understand your "love" for Rovers and yet you feel compelled to drive them "sparingly" and "lightly" (i don't know what "puppied" means) because you are constantly breaking something on your rig. And yet they are "great" in your opinion? |
Greg Hirst (Gregh)
| | Posted on Friday, December 06, 2002 - 10:49 pm: |
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BTW-you wouldn't happen to be that guy that works at an LR dealer that has 6 rovers and routinely drives them into trees and beats the hell out of them and thinks they're "great" would you?
Naah, didn't think so... |
AndyC the WB
| | Posted on Monday, December 09, 2002 - 04:18 pm: |
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http://www.cunningham.me.uk/rangie has some things to check for under the "Buying One" link on the left. This may be a bit late to help. |
tall tales tollen twice
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 04:53 pm: |
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i grew up on a farm and back home we would not be with out our trusty series one. it did a lot of things for us. but when the down time was costing too much we adpted other vehicles to take over. so as i grew so did the collection. i have been inside, outside, on top and all over our rovers. started to work on them at the age of five. they have been apart of my life since i can remember. this is why i love them so much. but like i was saying i just dont get why people say this and that about them. pro con situation. you know as well as i do the problems with these trucks. ie, luscas electrical- the prince of darkness, east coast rovers- up grade your axles to 24 spline, up grade rover diffs to salisbury rear ends. up grade your 3.9 to 4.6 or 5.2. why? wouldnt be to get more hp, wouldnt be to stop half shaft failure. maybe ill up grade to suffix something our other.d e f r t h g k l i mean god dam the best dam truck ever to haul our hay wagons was the chev one tonne. it ill run all day and still pull 8 tonne. cammal trophy looks all great on film but if you havent noticed its strictly for a publicity advertisment. they never seem to tell us about all the problems that occured. those 110's are full to the hilt with spare parts that need replacing. 1974 darien gap crossing those rovers where breaking down every few miles and if not for the british pound they would never had made it. let a lone face humiliation by the press. they ended up air lifting some specialist in to the jungle to fix the rovers. geof miller was his name "with a massive load of spares"..... they eventually made it out but he had to work non stop for three weeks untill all the repaires were made. any way dont mean to make enimies. as you know. they are the best four by four by far |
dont be alarmed
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 04:58 pm: |
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ps NOW THATS TELLING!. get it now! rover know it all u you must be a shamed of your self trying to tell lies to others humm |
GregH
| | Posted on Wednesday, December 11, 2002 - 05:12 pm: |
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I give up-yes, I am very ashamed. Just don't make me read any more of your "paragraphs"... |
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