Someone elses Obsession - Range Rover Diaries.

[Mercguy]

Andrew St Pierre White's as bad as the rest of us.

Many of you will have heard him bang on about his RRC before, but not like this

made me laugh a lot.
Enjoy

YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1az9mThDlYc)

[Konradical]

I need to show this to my partner, she may get what it is that I see in my old girl. Saying that, my two kids already see it and they named the D4 "Hoppy" from bouncing down the chopped up sand dunes on the Canning.

Thanks for sharing..

[PhilipA]

He has selective memory IMHO.
The front wheel bearing was of course his fault, and nothing to do with a CV. While they are noisy , surely he could hear or feel a wheel bearing dying. The bearings were greased not oiled.

And what happened to his Hydromat? The springs were light because the back was held up by the Hydromat. It had obviously died but he didn't work that out. I replaced mine in Saudi Arabia when it was obvious that it had died.

And no good in sand? I have some shots in the Saudi empty quarter that say it was good in sand. We had to abort a trip through the dune belt because the bloody Nissan Patrols in the group kept on getting bogged.

Once you replaced the alternator with a Bosch /Hitachi or whatever they had few electrical problems. Just as well as there were only 3 fuses!
I clearly remember banging my hand on the aircon changing to third in my 77. The 81 in Saudi had the "short"throw AFAIR as I don't remember knuckle hitting in that.
Regards Philip A

[dungarover]

Was a good watch, owning a classic is an obsession which I agree with. That Rangie being a suffix A would be worth a small fortune now, any 2 door is going for decent money these days.

Re- wheel bearing. Older models had oil greased wheel bearings from memory so if he ran it out of oil no wonder the wheel bearing **** itself. My later 80's and early 90's classics all had greased wheel bearings, my old 75 Rangie years ago as oil lubed and found that it was the better to maintain, as long as you don't run the bastard out of oil!!

Trav

[Baggy]

I agree ... it was good to watch and he did indeed has a soft spot for his Rangie ..... who doesn't :)

I believe the one aspect he's forgotten and the reason he bought the Rangie was it was technically far superior to anything else at the time ...

Even for an old vehicle ... given some of the rough roads back then his back and equipment would have been a jarring mess in a Toyo or Nissan equivalent and how many additional times would
he have been bogged.

I have the DVD of Top Gear where they go to South America and Clarksons driving an old RRC .... Hammond in a (Toyota HJ40) and May in a (Suzuki sierra) and you see him driving on a corrugated roads
effortlessly .... the others most uncomfortable in their leaf springs and up at high altitude it was only the carburetor Rangie that would start after being pushed ...

Great DVD .... there final decision ... "the most unreliable car is the most reliable car" ..... lets celebrate Landrover and the Range Rover Classic.

Baggy