Thread: 1998 Hse

If I hadn't done most of the repairs on my P38A myself, I couldn't have afforded it. Even so, it has cost a motza. I'm nopt game to add it up.

New front air suspension bellows two weeks ago, compressor rebuild last week. Water pump 2 months ago (second in 3 years), timing case/oil pump about 6 weeks ago (that's expensive!).

Now it's getting hot going up Lapstone hill when the temps are over 40 deg C. The radiator was replaced about a year ago (second replacement in 4 years, the first replacement failed).

Ron

Originally Posted by cartm58

beginning of 2005 bought a 1993 range rover spent $800 to replace all 4 air bags and another $1100 to replace the two front ride sensors in 2006. Air suspension works a treat and gives a comfortable ride.
Personally l would stick with air suspension as vehicle designed to ride that way

Cartm58
1993 range rover

Just wait til your valve block and compressor start to crap themselves, but hopefully for your sake they don't

I owned a 93 Rangie like yours prior to my 87 (I rolled it, would still have it otherwise), it costy me $800 for coil springs to be fitted and no more bull**** EAS issues. I agree the EAS is superb system but is it really worth all the issues and aggravation to get it right?

I personally cannot see the point sinking money into a unreliable system and have you get paranoid when and where it will break down. My old mans 98 Rangie had been back to our local LR specalist for several EAS issues. The valve block was the culprit and $1200 later it's back in working order. As an estimate, it has been almost a $3K expense to rebuild the EAS system. Money IMO that could be spent elsewhere.

Trav

Originally Posted by aquarangie

Just wait til your valve block and compressor start to crap themselves, but hopefully for your sake they don't

Fortunately, one can buy a rebuild kit for the compressor so that's not expensive. Re the valve block, mostly it's O-rings but occasionally diaphragms. Not too expensive to rebuild if you do it yourself.

The air suspension rubber bellows are easy to replace and not that expensive either. They just wear out - just like coil springs sag. I consider them consumables.

The RR classics with EAS were more problematical than the P38A.

In the four years ownership of my P38A, only once have I had a problem which put the EAS into hard fault. It was quickly reset once I could get to a dealer. Had I owned my own RovaComLite, I could have reset it on the road. It was my own fault. One of the front airbags had been leaking for ages and I'd done nothing about it.

Ron