Remember this day. When we recommended you buy a Range Rover with racing stripes...
Normally Shed refuses to engage in politics, but now that our glorious leaders have exited their battle buses and disconnected themselves from their bungee hooks he feels it’s OK to put the final boot in by reminding you of Winston Churchill’s reputed reply to 1920s socialite Viscountess Nancy Astor after she had accused him of being drunk. “Yes madam, I am drunk,” he said, “and you are ugly, but tomorrow I will be sober.
Sticking any kind of stripe onto a Range Rover is a bit like sticking Mrs Shed into a leotard, i.e. the last recourse of a complete bounder. If we’re talking glue rather than paint here, it shouldn’t take you long with a suitable scraper and a hot air gun to reveal the correct amount of bodywork. That technique should work on the car too.
Top of the flops list would be the air suspension. Height sensors and compressors fail with depressing regularity. Thing is though, neither of these faults needs to be difficult or expensive to resolve. The good thing about Land Rover as a marque is that it’s supported by a vibrant community of owners who see problems and low-cost solutions as part of the fun. The compressor issues are often nothing more than leaky seals.
The 2007-on 4.4 litre TDV8 was leagues better in this regard but it’s a sure bet that you won’t find an MOT’d one of them for £1,690. There are some quite well-qualified folk who will tell you that the M57 was the worst engine ever, but it did have a 15-year production lifespan from 1998 to 2013 so it can’t have been that bad. As ever, it’s all about the maintenance, and unfortunately that’s seen as optional by many used RR owners who are hoping for the RR lifestyle without the RR bills.
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