LSE Soft Dash

**PLR** · 16th May 2016, 02:02 PM

G`day ,

i know there is some interest in LSE numbers .

Last month , just rained , wife in a hurry to get back to see her father in the nursing home ( see takes him up to lunch each day ) .

Luckily she`s ok as she hit the bank rather than go over the drop into the river and nothing was coming the other way .

The softy had an normal classic non airbag ARB bar on it .

Both bags fired and wife is pleased they were there .

I was always a bit apprehensive about putting the bar on it because of all the stories told but from my understanding of the SRS system in these i couldn`t see why it would be hindered .

There`s no knowing for certain but luckily for me in this instance every thing worked as it should .

The insurance deemed it a total loss which i expected and they gave us market .

So if you have one it has increased in value yet again .

There`s one for sale in Perth at the moment ours was the same car almost , ours actually was first registered in Perth .

The asking price of that one is pretty much RACV market .

**VladTepes** · 16th May 2016, 03:05 PM

Very happy your wife is OK.
Sad that there's one less LSE in the world though, I miss mine a lot.

**Grumbles** · 17th May 2016, 03:26 PM

Very pleased that your wife came out of it okay but what a shame yours was written off.

It won't be long and my soft dash LSE will be an endangered species....or has that happened already......

What will you be replacing the LSE with?

**gavinwibrow** · 17th May 2016, 06:05 PM

Glad all is well.

Any spare parts?

**PLR** · 17th May 2016, 09:29 PM

Originally Posted by Grumbles

Very pleased that your wife came out of it okay but what a shame yours was written off.

It won't be long and my soft dash LSE will be an endangered species....or has that happened already......

What will you be replacing the LSE with?

Thanks ,

we`re looking at L322 but not set on them it`s a hard decision to make , if i was a discovery person , we won`t have Range Rovers .

Like i said elsewhere in my opinion the classic type are the only real Range Rovers

Our other registered car is a basic 84/5 RR that has been a daily for over 20 yrs , it needs work to be the main car but not alot .

We still have another Soft Dash shorty with a 4.6 and on lpg that i could put back on the road its done over 300,000km like the LSE had but it has been used for the LSE .

Things like take the arms off the shorty , fit new bushes swap with the LSE and switches and other stuff but it`s not past putting back on the road and being white a cut and polish and it would be like new , well from a distance .

We also have one of the last model Hard Dash shorty 94 compliance that could do the job the short softy was doing but it only done 200,000km .

So quite a few things that could happen but i also wouldn`t mind just buying something and doing the others when i had the motivation .

Cheers

**Vern** · 17th May 2016, 09:42 PM

Well there are still 2 soft dash LSE 's in Sth Gippsland that I know of. Mine, and a young fellas down the rd.
Did you get out keep the car?

**PLR** · 17th May 2016, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow

Glad all is well.

Any spare parts?

Thanks ,

yes , i advertised the back doors and roof ETC locally but then i realised we are the only ones around here with Classics so i took it all out the tip .

Not really , i don`t know what the insurance co did with it or where it went to , i didn`t ask .

Do still have the wheels off it , but they`ll fit the others .

In the last 6 mths , i`d replaced all the suspension bushes , fitted a heater core , fitted new cv joints both sides , both heads reco , new mud flaps , new fuel pump and more stuff , the viscous still worked so i was not happy to see it go .

Cheers

**PLR** · 17th May 2016, 09:53 PM

Originally Posted by Vern

Well there are still 2 soft dash LSE 's in Sth Gippsland that I know of. Mine, and a young fellas down the rd.
Did you get out keep the car?

No , i probably should have but at the time , thought i should just let it go .

**Grumbles** · 18th May 2016, 03:18 AM

You truly are a paid up member of the Rangie Tragic Club PLR. What a collection! More power to you mate.

Like you I am not a Disco fan and wouldn't own one but a schmicko Defender could maybe sneak into my possession. Apart from my LSE I also have a Jap fourby and my heart says swap it for another RR but my head says keep it.

Have you considered another LSE? Every now and then an unmolested one turns up for sale.

**PLR** · 18th May 2016, 11:07 AM

Trouble is they turn up at the wrong time .

There was one in Melbourne late last or early this .

Couldn`t justify what was asked and couldn`t justify the trip to get yet another one .

Was a good one in Hobart same time need a gearbox but still drove and had been resprayed , it was cheap but i couldn`t get away at the time and cars from Tassie need $1500 added if you not going yourself .

Mainland car cartage is surprisingly cheap if you shop . Some dealers seem to need a profit margin for it but if you arrange it yourself it`s much cheaper .

Wife also likes RR , after insurance got back to us wanted to know if we could get another , she thinks if she wasn`t in the RR the outcome may not have been as good .

One reason i didn`t keep the LSE is because i know it would have been upsetting for her to see it all the time .

She likes the look of P38a and i could get a few of them for the same money as what a L322 would cost .

We looked at X5 s but they don`t have the room in them , i think our old RR has more leg room in the back but they are related to the L322 so some parts would interchange and there are alot of X5 s about .

I won`t actually know what we do till it`s done and there is not really any rush .

Though i have been sort of looking for the last 2 years and still can`t come up with a definite replacement and that was not to replace the LSE but the other one

Cheers

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