Something like this one
www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Range-Rover-Vogue-2001-P38-/232136716512?
that I came second (!) in the auction for would fit your spec then Clive?
Ah yes, that would be a good idea, but then I'd be left with a 'ole where the filler migrated from! Maybe before the respray.
Had some fun with M!crocat reading the build spec for this particular car. Interesting that the piano black lacquer wood comes from the parts bin with Westminster on it for instance.
Also the steering wheel is original and it didn't have wood trim, lacquered or otherwise. The DSP amp is special to these 17 speaker models (and thus even more unobtanium), the list goes on and I won't turn into an originality bore- yet!
Found some pics of a minty looking one that I can use as inspiration/ aspiration:
Ah yes, THAT one. Seen that one pass through eBog at least twice. At least he's now being honest about the fact that it's a pretty pile of cr@p
EDIT- too late Chris. He's pulled it off eBog (again!)
Gilbertd wrote:
Here's a classic one to avoid unless you want to spend a lot of time getting it sorted http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Range-Rover-4-6-HSE-V8-P38-Vogue-Alloys-Autobiography-Wood-NO-RESERVE-/122228188219?hash=item1c755e243b:g:0PcAAOSwTA9X4Zd- (although Chris will probably go and buy it.....).
I'll be like a kid in a sweet shop once it gets here. As with all these things it's proving to be a bit of a logistical challenge.
If you have a spare working door latch assembly lying around in your bits pile, you could just plug it in without installing and use it to enter EKA?
You might have a problem there Chris. The GEMS (earlier ones at least) doesn't allow EKA code via anything other than the lock (or a Marty level hack of the BECM/ ECU). Late ones and Thor do though.
With Marty being away now, you might have to take BECM to Callrova in Brighton to get it sorted.
I need my nano at the moment for digging into my new car when it arrives tomorrow, otherwise I'd pop it in the post to you.
As Chris says ^ Clive, low mileage is no guarantee that you'll get a great car. Perishables (air bags, hoses, lines) fail with age not mileage. Corrosion happens with age (and environment of course) not mileage.
I'll be a bit controversial and say that head gaskets, heater cores, air bags, EAS pumps and valve blocks, water pumps are service items and if they haven't been changed at least once on a 15 year old car, then they'll need doing.
My old '95 HSE 4.6 lpg 130000 miles has had all of the above (and a lot more) in its time and, faced with a long towing trip, although the shininess of a low mileage unproved alternative would be attractive, I'd choose my old one every time!
I'm sure Gilbertd, as resident towmeister and mileage king would agree.
Consider one with an lpg fit as well. Even if your friend's rolling in cash, the savings on running costs are an eye-opener.
Thanks Richard.
Tony- the original pics are still there:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Range-Rover-P38-Vogue-SE-A-LPG-Sequential-4x4-Black-lightstone-/142178589523?
You just have to click on the "see original listing " link beside the title then scroll down the page that comes up. The original ad is displayed there in full.
I was wondering same thing. Guessing/ hoping that by Jan 02 which is pretty near end of production, they had lots of bits left in the parts bins so put piano black on. Either that or it's been brush painted with matt black emulsion :)
So, I'm having the new P38 trailered down to me. It's likely to involve an overnight stop in a locked storage facility. Seller hasn't much of a grasp of tech stuff so can't ask him to do anything TOO demanding to prepare it!
If transported with EAS active it'll be constantly trying to self level and battery will probably be flat by time I get it. My thoughts to transport are:
Once on trailer, don't lock. Keep fob outside of car.
Lower to Access
Pull EAS timer relay
Secure to trailer via wheelstraps rather than tie down points
Worst that will happen is suspension depressurises if leaky bag or something and it rattles around on bump stops all the way
Thoughts?
I reckon finding a piano black walnut finished steering wheel will be hard to impossible, although if I can find a "normal" walnut one I guess I can refinish it. Are the steering wheel trims actual veneers or just plastic Chris?
The extra dash speaker is a bit special and I've never seen one in the flesh either. Of course it's fed by the DSP amp, so chances are that'll go phut in the near future.
The bubbly arches will be dealt with for the respray, but I'll probably just cut back the corrosion, treat and do a spot repair until spring. Not planning on painting till then.
In the meantime I'll run it around to ascertain what state the rest of the moving parts (props/ axles etc) that haven't been replaced already are in and swap them out as needed.
I wonder how long it takes to do a complete axle swap over on one of these? I'm guessing a day per end to allow time to replace knackered brake pipes etc while axle's out of the way...
It's earmarked for a respray in it's future. New headlining too- another one for Winter Camp perhaps?
Self collection logistics didn't really work. Has to be collected this weekend. No flights to Norwich on a Saturday. Train would have got me there late afternoon meaning a night 350 mile drive in a P38 that hasn't really driven anywhere in a couple of years.
An overnight shuttle on a series of RAC flatbeds didn't really appeal!
Going to re-seed the flat bit Morat. It's the newly constructed flyover between the bottom and top lawns that needs turfing 'cos its just dirt and shale. It'd be nasty underfoot even if grass did grow on it.
That one's first gen SE (I think) as well. It's an amazing little car, for the £350 that I paid for it with full MOT, 50k miles. Perfect for my daughters 1st car.
Best thing about it is the engine note. With 800cc and 3 cylinders it sounds exactly like a Triumph Trident or Laverda Jota (70's 3 cylinder motorbikes). Floor it and close my eyes and relive my youth.
Hah! Tried that one but she says "according to the Royal Horticultural Society",
When to lay turf. Turf is best laid in mid-autumn, but can be laid any time between mid-autumn and late winter whenever the soil is not too wet or frosty.
So apart from the not too wet criteria, it's ideal, unfortunately :(
Another couple of days have passed with no significant progress to report, apart from going to dig out the ginger car and finding that the battery had finally given up the ghost so, thanks to Battery Megastore a nice new one is now sitting in a box ready to go in when it stops raining for long enough.
Oh yes, that and the fact that apparently I now have to procure and re-turf the Somme before I'm allowed to continue construction! The prime stakeholder is wise to my "of course I'll tidy it up when I've finished" approach and won't fall for that again!
Opening Time seems to have been throwing a 500 error since v early this morning. Oily and Electric OK!
Take the money :)
Oil consumption's a bit of a worry depending on how many miles to use 1.5 litres. My '95 has 130k on it and only goes from max to 1/2 way to min between oil changes (3000 miles or 6 months).
It'll be stable after I've laid the rebar mesh, built the shuttering and pumped many cubic metres of cement into it :)
The shale is stable, the topsoil not very, as it stands at the moment
Morat wrote:
More seriously, are you certain that bank is stable? It would be a sad moment if you woke up and found it had arrived in your new shed after a heavy night of rain....
Aftermath of the battle. The Western Front is quiet. No birds sing.
The monsoon that obviously happened last night while I was sleeping did not do the lawn any favours. Another couple of runs with dumper this morning and it's now a scale replica of the Western Front trench system in WW1 :(
I'll put a pic up when I stop sobbing (with fear about what other half will do to me when she gets home)
You're right Gilbertd- shillett is a local term for shale. Maybe it's not water the lawn is saturated with. It's oil squeezed from the shale? I'll go outside with a match...