Good on you.
Thats the one I want, shall keep a keen eye on your wheels and see how you like it over time.
Hope its all positive, all the best.
Well while I was getting the rego changed from QLD to WA I had the opportunity to enter the inspection pit and check out the underside of our new Rangie.
View of tranny and heat shields
View of rear diff
Transfer case
Tranny case and self contained cage
Front diff and not much room for anything else.
And the BMW donk with an appropriate Landrover oval
Oh well off to bed soon to read the 3 manuals![]()
Good on you.
Thats the one I want, shall keep a keen eye on your wheels and see how you like it over time.
Hope its all positive, all the best.
ecauseof the complexity of the electricks make sure you have warranty and extend it for the period you intend to own the car. I spent 2 hours yesterday just familiarising myself with what everything does, for example if the computer senses the outside temp is 4deg or less it pre heats the windscreen and headlight washer water.
By far the most luxurious car I have owned, dislikes so far the engine noise in the cabin is quite loud when your giving it a bootfull, bit too loud for a luxury type car and the wind noise is evident over 130km/h![]()
Very Nice Dirtydawg.
I have been driving one of these for the last 2-3 weeks & it is a nice vehicle, the one i had is an 02my so a little different.
But the BMW 6 isnt a bad donk. Little unrefined but still pulls the cover off the custard damn quick.
Hope all goes really well, they are a great vehicle.
Read the manual, very thick & a LOT of info..
Cheers.![]()
Hi DirtyDawg, that is by far the best vehicle I have ever owned ( excluding my current RR ) and I’ll be surprised if you don’t like yours.
I had the opportunity to take mine to the ton and let the cruise control have it’s way for about 20 kms. Brother did that little run use some fuel.
But it you keep it around the 100 to 110, you can expect some good fuel figures.
As to the electronics, sniegy would be more up on this but I think you will find mechanical problems are more like to be the case as the electronics are pretty well sorted now.
Yours is actually a more comfortable RR than the new one and I found the new V8 is not as quick off the mark as my TD6 was.
Td6's rarely have problems....
They dont leak oil (look at the photo's) & they just drop in & get there routine service done! Great if u have purchased &/or own one.
I do have a great resepct for these vehicles now, Was dubiuos when the BMW motor went in & a few gremlins on the early ones but if its an 06my, I think u will be a very very very happy man!
I will keep saving for my new beast...
Nice Vehicle
Will be very interested to hear follow up comments.
I have been watching the price of them particularly 2004 models.
They seem to represent good value.
Nice to hear they are relatively trouble free.
Regards
Chuck
Yeah - I agree with the comments about the harshness of the motor under full acceleration, at certain revs it resonates a bit, but still acceptable considering it is a diesel.
I hadn't driven mine for about 3 weeks and when I came to start it this morning it was very sluggish to turn over, then gave up. Had to jump start it.
Then I got a message on the console ** Air Suspension Inactive ** which didn't make me very happy. Anyway, after a 20 minute run and a restart the message went away, so not sure what that was all about.
Generally, it has been better than I expected, and so far more reliable than my 93 Classic which had continual Air Suspension issues![]()
Our petrol v8 is pretty loud and snarly too a lot of the time.
Just that bit more noise than you would expect from a big luxury slushobarge so i think it's very much by design. Does sound fantastic though so i'm not complaining - i was just surprised it wasn't more muted at first after having had Jags etc for years.
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