L322 Anyone want to watch an L322 burn?

I've never bashed it, but it's previous owner took it offroad so I dont know for sure. I had noticed the indicator is just hanging there, keep forgetting to add it to the list!

I don't recall Ant ever mentioning having 'bashed' the vehicle and as he is a true gentleman and honest as the day is long, I am sure when he would have told you when you bought it. At the same time he told you what mechanical work needed doing to it.
A quick search on here will show that he looked after that vehicle better than most of us could hope to. Under his ownership that vehicle was the envy of many on here, his work on it being recorded and posted, so we all could learn.

Yeah, Ant told me he accidentally drove it into a post or a tree stump (cant remember which), which ****ed him off as it scratched the drivers door.

Pluribus said:

Yeah, Ant told me he accidentally drove it into a post or a tree stump (cant remember which), which ****ed him off as it scratched the drivers door.

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Which supports my belief that had he 'bashed' it in any manner that would have caused damage to the headlight, he would have told you

Just take the thing to a main dealer, could be alot cheaper than throwing money at it, just diagnostic/investigation work would be worth the money saved

It's at the specialist now. It just needs a belt and tensioner. I'll be getting it back tomorrow.

Pluribus said:

It's at the specialist now. It just needs a belt and tensioner. I'll be getting it back tomorrow.

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Now tell it you're sorry for all the nasty thoughts!

No!

Pluribus said:

Yeah, Ant told me he accidentally drove it into a post or a tree stump (cant remember which), which ****ed him off as it scratched the drivers door.

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gold rover said:

Which supports my belief that had he 'bashed' it in any manner that would have caused damage to the headlight, he would have told you

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Sorry to hear you are having a mere of a time with the old bus.

The 'bash' was not onto a front corner, it was onto the drivers door as I turned through a gate to tight.....linky to the vid here: the 'incident' is at around 10:25 into the vid...then I get out and swear at myself!!!

The steering issue sounds like a slipping belt, which could also cause the belt to slip on the alternator pulley reducing electrical production and the ECU's to store spurious faults....as your mechanic chap said - the engine runs and sounds fine....and you have said yourself it pulls like a fecking train.

Range Rover ownership is not for the faint of heart as we discussed, I owned her for 5 years and spent nearly 3 times my purchase price in that time (nigh on £22k on niggles, diagnostics (when the Allcomms didn't help), parts, suspension bags and ball joints, ABS ECU, LCM, Various wiring harnesses, etc etc etc).

But, also as discussed, with a young daughter and the costs associated with her, running the Range Rover was becoming more and more untenable to me and I had to draw a line.....

The headlamp issue, I had ongoing problems with the passenger side one as it would be fine for 6 months then play silly buggers for a couple of weeks then be fine again. I could be the ballast or the connections thereto as they can get damp and the connections corrode.

The indicator issue with it being loose I think is probably the missing plastic clamp nut as when I replaced the indicator bulb, I dropped it down into the depths and couldn't reach it, then forget to try and get it later on - it could still be down in the bowels of the front wing or fallen out by now.

She was off-roaded and been along Greenlanes - why own a Land Rover product and not do that??!! - so shows some battle scars, but she was never whacked or bashed into trees - just a stupid mistake scrapping along a fence post hidden in the brambles!

If you had misfires on 3 cylinders and a blocked cat - she would run like a pig, never accelerate (due to the back pressure of exhaust gases) and shake your teeth out....you can drop on cylinder on a V8 and never notice unless pushing hard - but 3 would make her run so lumpy and off balance - you would know it!

Seems your vid is copyrighted and cannot be viewed,
for me at least.

myfirstl322 said:

Seems your vid is copyrighted and cannot be viewed,
for me at least.

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And me.

myfirstl322 said:

Seems your vid is copyrighted and cannot be viewed,
for me at least.

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kds said:

And me.

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Opps....working on it - give me a minute.....

Had your minute, now wheres the vid ?

kds said:

Had your minute, now wheres the vid ?

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Cheeky fecker.....Youtube is still editing it....

The problem was because I was listening to the radio in the car, it has copyright striked the vid and banned it from playing - so I have pressed the 'remove this song' button in the youtube video editor and now I am waiting for it to finish doing whatever it is youtube are doing!!!!

In that case sir you are forgiven.

kds said:

In that case sir you are forgiven.

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Should be OK to view now!

If there was no sound, then I'd of sworn, at 12 mins in, given Mrs Saint's crane banks-person hand signals, she'd stumbled upon the farmers 'caught short' small room.

Soz. Looked I've opened a can of worms

Yeah, I keep forgetting to look at the indicator, I noticed it a few weeks after buying it but it doesnt bother me at all. Just something to fix when I get round to it.

All I was interested in was the mechanics and they're all good now. The garage called about 3 hours ago and said she was fixed so I'll go pick her up tomorrow morning. It was just a slipping belt and a worn tensioner. Both replaced with gen LR parts so good for a long while yet.

I want to be very clear that Ant never hid anything from he and we went over her from bonnet to boot telling me everything he had done and the few things that needed doing. Not many people selling a car are that honest!