https://www.pistonheads.com/regulars/ph-features-sheds/shed-of-the-week-range-rover/37860

As expected, a comment thread of full people touting unavoidable doom and gloom from the second you turn the key.

Yep and most of them never even been in one!!

Well they sound like people who know what they're wailing about...

except it didn't have the 'connolley' leather, or whatever they're talking about... the leather on those seats is the bog standard '3 bar' seats the early ones had... nothing special there...

Tapping when hot = new block with top hat liners... yeah.. bit more proof needed first before just condemning something...

All in all, looks to me that it's written by someone who has bought one, aware of their reputation, and whilst going on about the various 'problems' they all have, doesn't actually have one with those issues themselves...

They got one thing right though... they are manageable to repair...

I love the comments,
The guy who went through a flex plate a year apparently,, or only 3 mpg,, what a load of bollocks,
I’d like to see what there cars are like in 20yrs, oh ,, that’s right, they’d be crushed by then as totally shagged and worth nothing.
gotta luv the idiots who all drive round in there company cars never having to do , or know what maintaining a car is..

Well it's really just a "Blah Blah Blah / semi-amusing anecdotes / hackneyed stuff" piece of course.... but at least it ends:

"A P38 is a perfectly viable choice. The trick is to think of it as a plaything rather than a maintenance-free means of transport.
With that sort of mindset you shouldn't go far wrong."

• Can't really argue with that, and to be fair I've done lots of tinkering in my 'shed' !!

The problem with Pistonheads these days is that while it used to be inhabited by people with a practical interest in cars, these days it's full of diesel BMW drivers with their cars on PCP or those with so much money they don't even consider getting their hands dirty (even if they had the knowledge to do it).