it never ends argh!

[RRV80]

Ok so i have spent alot of money on my rangie, and i have decided never to sell if becuase i have spent too much on it, and i like it so why should i sell it (i have spent what i did buying it on doing stuff to it, i've had it for 2years and probably nearly owes me nearly $20k).

4 months ago it was the alternator, starter and battery - the starter was too oil soaked from previous oil leaks to be repaired and it was cheaper to buy a new alternator than repair the original. The radiator has been sad for a little while, and it's getting to the stage the bent end plates are unrepairable so $720 for a new one becasue of course the softdash has the same radiator as an update disco which is twice the price of an older rangie radiator, to add salt to the wound the header tank has split around the seem last week, the viscous fan isn't doing the best job and now the aircon doesn't get cold becasue the TX valve is blocked.
To top it all off i have put up with noisy transfer case bearings for a while, it is due for cam and lifters and my shocks and bushes are coming to their life spands end.

But hey at the end of the day it's only money right? or at least that is what i keep telling myself so i can sleep at night knowing the camper trailer project isn't going to be finished anytime soon, and my goal was to have that done by christmas but with all the stuff for the car i'm not quite so sure.

But then again, i don't think the boffins at LR intended for the rangie to do what i do with it, so i have no one to blame but myself and i should give it a break, i mean it is a 15 year old car, and at least when i'm done with it everything will be NEW.

[spudboy]

I know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately I never seem to learn.

When I was 17 I bought a VW Beetle for $3,000. Over 3 years I spent another $5,000 on it. I sold it when I went overseas, for ....... $3,000 :(.

I am still doing the same thing after 20 years.

I did love that car though, and every time I see a yellow SuperBug drive past it reminds me of the old Beetle.

[mike 90 RR]

i've had it for 2years and probably nearly owes me nearly $20k

Is this parts only ... or Parts + labour :eek:

[350RRC]

Hi,

For comparo or just info:

Bought 74 RRC, 350, lpg LT95 about 10 years ago for $8500. Spent 2k getting new driveshafts and diffs reco'ed ignorantly to try to get rid of driveline lash.

Rust issues........ bought an 81 2 door for 2k in reasonable nick with C9 Ritters conversion, perfect tailgate, fuel tank etc. Did the body swap, recoed the C9 ($850), custom torque convertor (480), EL thermos (200), brakes (780), that's about it.

Sold a lot of the extras the 81 came with (3.5 with Landi gas set up, spare 3.5 in bits, BW 35 conversion, etc) for about 600.

I just get in it and drive it. 60,000 k's in this incarnation. Cheap fun motoring if you get it right.

cheers, DL

[B92 8NW]

Despite a few problems earlier on, I've had a flawless run out of my Land Rovers recently. I'd elaborate, but this forum has taught me, inter alia, the value of reticence. Keep at it, once the problems are sorted you easily have one of the best vehicles.





I know exactly what you mean. Unfortunately I never seem to learn.

When I was 17 I bought a VW Beetle for $3,000. Over 3 years I spent another $5,000 on it. I sold it when I went overseas, for ....... $3,000 :(.

I am still doing the same thing after 20 years.


:D

I had a car that cost me $450 per kilometre. So I chopped it up:D. Don't need any W123 parts per chance?

[big guy]

I tend to do exactly what spudboy is doing.
I get the car just running sweet and than sell it as its no longer a challenge.
I mean I get in every morning and everything works, thats not any fun.

I recently bought a 97 tdi and spend almost my purchase price on it again.
I just don't seem to be able to help myself.

[spudboy]

I had a car that cost me $450 per kilometre. So I chopped it up:D. Don't need any W123 parts per chance?

Yours is a Diesel/Wagon? Yes? I am after some 280 petrol engine electical bits (amplifier, Distributor, and so on).

You should make a bit of money parting it out. Must have been pretty bad if you couldn't rescue it :(

[RRV80]

That is what i have spent on parts, i am a mechanic so i do not pay for labour. The reason i don't mind so much is at the end of the day if i spend money on it, the parts are usually new. And i havn't had a problem with any 'new' parts i have put in.

-I have replaced a blown auto with a 2nd hand one which also **** itself which i had rebuilt with 4hp24 internals
-I have blown 3 rover rear diifs and one front, an arb now resides in the rear and a fully reco-d rover in the front and a 2nd hand front housing asit was damaged when the front blew.
-I have spent countless hours getting the abs and tc to work and it is flawless now - remarkably the cheapest repair i have done.
- i have done a couple of ball joints in the rear
-i have replaced the stuffed vc transfer with a 2nd hand lt230 - which **** itself, so a reco'd centre diff went in it, then the cdl wouldn't unlock and i needed the car mobile i put the transfer out of my fire damged disco (i bought it like that) into it which has noisy output bearings.
-i've put new a/c fans on, new receiver dryer, a couple of regas's - now needs a tx valve, which is not too expensive but it looks like a dash out job
- new heater core
- put in anew stereo which cost a bomb, which now looks like it has blown the outputs causing a very irritating noise whenever the unit is on wether the car is running or not.
- then there is the consumable like tyres, ive recently spent 500 on front and rear brake rotors and pads (slotted fronts and bendix 4wd pads)
-numerous oil pressure swithces and i found today i have a pronounced oil leak coming from the valley.

And numerous other things, i might not mind so much if it looked the part but it is covered in dents, the paint isn't flash the rearlhr quarter is the wrong blue, so i need a new roof and bonnet as they are beyond repair, im going to get some lra flares to fix up around the gaurds where they have seen better days, and i want new suspension, then by the time thats done the engine will be due for a rebuild, so another 3 years and 10k i'll have 30k classic RR that i can sell for 6k if that becasue by that stage you will probably be able to get a decent p38 for 7k and l322 for 27k - maybe not quite.

[justinc]

I wouldn't dare add up the costs of my RR since purchase, BUt it does everything I want it to, superbly:)
I still want a decent rollcage, a winch, some more suspension work, etc etc but hey, its only money:eek:

The other halfs LSE is about to get the Tdi transpant after sitting dismantled for 12 months. Soon we'll have 2 RRC's on the road:o

I reckon if I were to sell them, I'd get less than 20K for the both :( :(

JC

[dungarover]

Rangie ownership doesn't have to cost you the earth, you just have to be smart about what you buy and where you spend it. I go down the budget line after what happened to the last Rangie. I've had a gutful of spending countless $$$ on my Land Rover, cheap is the way to go for me (within reason, I never scab on safety though).

To be quite honest, I've been pretty lucky with the dunga. I paid $850 for it and it was a collective purchase with GuyG on the forum (had a bar, step, carrier and so forth which I didn't want so guy got them as part of the deal)

Put the rear diff lock in ($2700 inc. the HT axles fitted),
Had the radiator cleaned ($140),
New front shocks ($220),
New winch ($595, one of those Tigerz11 jobs and recomended for a budget winch),
Set of Silverstone MT117 sports I bought off Grimace ($1000 inc. a new one I had to buy from melbourne because the boffheads up here didn't have one in stock).
I got a front diff lock as a trade for a LRA bodylift kit that was on the Vog and the dunga had a 25mm bodylift fitted already (std 10 spline ARB with std axles, haven't broken on yet :twisted:).

I also had replaced the master cylinder which cost nil as I took off my Disco wreck as well as the alternator (didn't need replacing but I wasn't going to have a near new one sitting there doing nothing either :mad:). Estimated inc. purchase I would ahve spent $6.5K on it cheap off-road rangie for that sort of money. it's not a competition Rangie or as elaborate as some of them out there but it still goes the same places the big dollar rangies can although maybe do it a bit tougher than they do but I don't care it's cheap and it's not about what you have fitted it's how you drive it.

Mechanically it's needs some work but the tired 3.5 just keeps going (doesn't use any oil either considering it's done over 400K) and the 5 speed whilts not staying in the vehicle for too much longer has been okay. I overheated it late last year on the forum trip to Sundown apart from that it's been great. Has no rust either so I have decided to hang onto it, fit the auto I have in the shed and tidy it up a bit (panels are off atm, prepping for a respray and replacing the rusty doors that were on it when I bought it).

Trav

[Rangier Rover]

I'm about to break the rule..... If it ain't broken don't fix it:eek: I think this is the starting point of overcapitalisation most cases:D

I've been one of the lucky RRC owners ad have had a great run out of my 89.
1 viscous, 1 alternator, 1 TX valve(air con),1 oil pressure switch,1 oil pressure relief valve spring,1 brake master cylinder, Now a swivel seal and front slave. That's it! Not bad for a 20 yr old 4x4 with over 400k on it.

Like Trav's the 3.5 just refuses to die:cool:

[Rngie427]

Ok so i have spent alot of money on my rangie, and i have decided never to sell if becuase i have spent too much on it, and i like it so why should i sell it , i mean it is a 15 year old car, and at least when i'm done with it everything will be NEW.

Same goes this end. ;)

Got so fed up of having to fix it, I thought I would teach my 87 rangie a lesson. :twisted:

Ended up doing a 4 year restoration by taking the body off and rebuilding it replacing every rubber, bearing, seal, etc.
Just in the process of painting it.

Did I rebuid it to sell it on? NO
Will I ever sell it? NO
Was it worth it? HELL YES :D

Unless you have ever owned a classic rangie, you just wouldnt understand :wub: