Thread: hi from tassie

Welcome to the forum exjeeper!
Be prepared to do a LOT of reading... also spend time on Range Rovers lots of stuff there on common problems and fixes for all models of Range Rover.

Search for the RAVE data and download it... 4000 pages of searchable in pdf format overhaul manuals etc etc.

there are a number of online LR parts suppliers in the UK from whom you can import various bits and pieces at about 1/2 the cost from a local dealer including shipping. In NW tassie I suspect you need to be as self sufficient as possible in this regard.

Look up www.blackboxsolutions.com. They sell an excellent DIY diagnostic tool for use with a laptop which will enable you to look at and diagnose all sorts of stuff. Don't bother seeing a pyschiatrist about this growing addiction which all LR nuts like us gladly suffer from ... use the $$$ instead on decent tools and spare parts

Originally Posted by exjeeper

anyone tell me a good mechanic in .... tassie?

Dunno if it's N.W .... But a link for you .....
Tasmania - Australian Land Rover Owners

Originally Posted by exjeeper

..... its a small air type sound ....

You'll have to describe it a bit better ... as half the car can make this noise


Welcome .... and many happy miles to you

Mike

Sounds like a cracked exhaust manifold, it is very common. It is made from stainless and is easily welded.

Not sure where in tazzie, but try justin cooper, he is landy mechanic.

Andy

Yep, Justin Cooper (hes in Hobart) is the Land Rover God in Tassie... 6229 1102

if your willing to drive to Launceston i would recommend Austune, (can give you a phone # and address if you want), these blokes have just gained a lot of experience from my P38 , they also have just had a very good mechanic join them that is ex local LR dealers .
if it is a cracked manifold they repaired one recently on another P38.
would have to agree about Justin Cooper .... top bloke

...............tasi

ps Andy, EAS bypass fitted and functioning ...thanks heaps.

mmm, I'll have to keep austune in mind for another mechanic in town

Originally Posted by Phoenix

mmm, I'll have to keep austune in mind for another mechanic in town

their old 4 post hoist had my name on the side of it 'Phils Rangy'.
we just started putting in their third new 2 poster on Saturday, apparently we are going to have a Bundy naming ceremony for it 'Phils Newish Rangy Project'.
i walk in with a box of new bits and a gleam in my eye 'hey fellas do you reckon we could....' they hide under benches, in the dunny, the tea room, muttering no no no no go away.

........tasi

Phil and rangies, that sounds like the phil that my brother knows with rangies. he has a white 2 door and a blue rangie ute