Thread: Preparing my L320 Sport for a big trip ..

By doing a coil spring conversion, you know that you'd lose most of the terrain response capability, don't you? Those nice dials and buttons on the centre console will be strictly ornamental?

I would have thought your money would have been better spent taking it to a Landy specialist before you go to give it a once over, and buying a few spares, such as air hose and a few connectors.

You may also want to ask the mods to move this to the correct forum, the D3/D4/RRS Forum is the place to be.

Thanks Dave - I guess its a balance between outright reliability and the need for TR - so far (3 years) haven't used the TR even in my country travels - I'm finding that my 'extreme' driving is a 'bad' soft road - maybe its my senior years showing!

If you're worried about the longevity of the current components in your RRS, you could import a new compressor and 4 new air springs from the UK for about the same price as that kit you've linked to. Replace the lot before you go, and worries over!

Other than the compressor running out of puff at about 80,000km the RRS/D3 air suspension is completely reliable and you will waste your money and as Sheerluck says capability in changing to springs.

You said you had a Rangie and don't want the same suspension issues - I assume that was a P38 where there were issues (but mostly resolved these days) and the RRS/D3 system is light years ahead.

Save your money and save up for a new compressor for when the time comes and keep your car as is.

As mentioned you have posted in the old farts Range Rover section when you should have posted in the young and Sporty RRS section - RRS/D3/D4 section .

Garry

thanks Garry apologies for both age and wrong location. My P38 lost EAS 800km west of Longreach etc etc. Will speak to NCL Prestige and hope theyll give a realistic assessment.

Happy to contact mods but using Tapatalk on my OF phablet and cant see a link etc. .any help apprec!

I really think you are worrying about nothing. The quality of the bags in the RRS are superior to those in the P38 and there have been few failures as they age. The rest of the system is fairly bullet proof.

The achillies heel is the compresor but if you buy from the UK not all that expensive - however preventative maintenance will keep it going reliably.

In my view the compressor itself is pretty robust but the desiccant can clog up making the compressor overheat and maybe fail.

My car has now done 75,000km and I have had no issues - at the next service I am going to either replace the desiccant or revive it in an oven (do a search on this in the RRS/D3/D4 section) and replace the valve assembly ($18 from a dealer) and check the compressor relay. Also I have LLAMS (height controller - see LLAMS in the Verandah Section) and run it at -20mm so my height rarely gets adjusted around town so lessening the use of the compressor. I assume you do not have LLAMS so I would resist going from onroad height to access height each time you get in an out.

One aspect of changing to springs in a RRS - who is going to buy when it comes time to sell - no one unless you discount it extremely as no one will want a coiled RRS.

Cheers

Garry

Originally Posted by hiker

Happy to contact mods but using Tapatalk on my OF phablet and cant see a link etc. .any help apprec!

Request sent.