"Why did I Just Say That?"
EXACTLY! And somewhere within the next wee period of hours or weeks or days, when you are where there is NIX U can do about it a.t.t. it's gunna let you know why you should NOT have said that.
But you KNOW that.You obviously have been the miles.
Required replacements on mine thus far:
Engine (liner leakage)
W/Pump on replacement donk (Took chance pump WOULD be ok. Should have known better, This IS a Range Rover) And it picked a late am Sat slot to produce this, prior to 1,00O km trip home departure, when ALL outlets that might've had a pump were closed. Three days more to get home........
T/case (dealer only fixed front output U-J, deliberately did not replace the output/support bearing. It is an external load, circlip retained, so it's supposed to be routine replacement. REMEMBER THIS, as what it supports is the torque splitter, and you DO NOT want to have to pay for THAT replacement.)(Dealer is no longer dealing).
Front hubs
Front rotors (wave pattern from above hubs laxity)
Exhaust, and re-do heat popped air lines to air tank and R rear airbag.
Shock(er)s. Bilsteins are! 100,000 km and stuffed. Now Koni Heavy Tracks.
Re-weld driver's seat base (twice) - and it shows signs where it had been done before i got it also. I'm only 96kg. Get's int'restin' when it lets go.
Rear brake hoses (Hacksawed @ centre junction by well-meaning dissident and pulled from support clips so it would look (hopefully) like maintenance neglect vibration fracture when the intended mountain country and, naturally, "excessive speed" wreck was sussed).
Well I'm here writing this, aren't I. Needless to say, did not occur. And MAY not be so likely in the future as recurrence/s, either.
Engine ignition sensor
Fuse block
Coil packs
H/T leads
Descending heater hose to thermostat replaced with plain hose where the factory "kinked" one rubbed on (and through) on the serpentine belt. Now that is witless engineering if I ever saw it.
Tailgate lock now "modified" to internal and "Armstrong" operation when it does not do its widdle electwonic twiddlwings on push of button.
Have had to re-make upper tailgate lock three times.........
Air-con vents block and flood the passenger side floor.
Air-con compressor replacement and re-gassing. It is giving me "THE BOOK" a.c.t. also, but while it IS working it can stay such.
Or should I say HALF-working, Drivers side front only has a/con or ambient, but zilch heating function. Real good for bird 'flu and the winter.
Then there's the EAS! Don't even bloody tALK to me about this piece of "under-achieving" tripe! Kerrist! On RR EAS back @ the first Easter there is NO way "HE" would have ever risen again, let alone "from the dead".
AND IT CONTINUES!
Vehicle is an outback Oz Qld vet truck, and the things it has to do you'd have Patrol and 'Cruiser wagons on their head and in the gullies. And, funnily enough, I LIKE the thing. Which may be helped by that it is backed up by RRC's, a '75 in throes of refurbishment @ current, and an '86 4-door whose auto is feeling a bit "tired" currently, having borne the brunt of service while it's nose-up-in-the-air big brother got itself sorted [EAS] these last near-twelve months or so.
