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Any thoughts on this?

1993 LAND ROVER RANGEROVER VOGUE SE AUTO GREAT IN SNOW on eBay (end time 27-Dec-10 18:46:05 GMT)

I was searching for a 300Tdi Disco but I do have a fetish for RRC's :D

If it's as good as it seems (and i'm aware ebay ads rarely are!), is it worth two large? It went up for sale on Monday (funnily enough when we had snow in the area) so I suspect a few hundred has been stuck on the price for the 'great in snow' ability.

Tempted to offer £1700 plus 6 month's rent.

Should I?
 
bit steep, dont look like a minter-it should be for that money.But that dont mean it wont be worth an offer
 
Reason it can't sell in denmark..apart from rhd..is import duty..i'd guess another £5000 for that. Road tax then would be about £800 a year.

If you take the back seats out and make it a van you can get away with maybe 2 grand in import duty...lol
 
Eas on that one?

Fuse cover off, why you would have to ask?

No mention of underbody conditon which is normally someone who has had a few and had nothing to hide would mention??
 
Ok, whats wrong with it then?

To be honest it seems to be about as good as i've seen for a long time down here - decent Landies of any variety in Cornwall for sub £2.5k are about as common as an honest politician.
 
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Bustrucket said:
Ok, whats wrong with it then?

To be honest it seems to be about as good as i've seen for a long time down here - decent Landies of any variety in Cornwall for sub £2.5k are about as common as an honest politician.
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good:Brooklands kit, lpg, full mot, looks straight.
Bad:high milage, average interior(cant tell if its brown or grey leather-grey is better imo), tatty looking boot carpet and interior of the tail hatch-howevr the exterior of the hatch looks rust free,which is good.
 
To be honest mileage is the least of my worries. If it's that high a mileage and still looks as straight as it is, chances are it's been relatively well looked after. It's a grey interior as far as I can tell (at least neither the grey or brown Classic interiors are as awful as the baby-****-brown P38 'tan' interior!).
 
10 owners over a 17 year period doesn't strike me as good. Assuming the first owner kept it for couple or 3 years just to cover his costs and then your left with 9 owners in 14 years. Looks like people couldn't wait to get rid of it.
 
Got a link to the advert?

Must have LPG and an autobox.

Edit: Found yer advert - looks good but no LPG :(

Cheers anyhoo.
 
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Hmm, I was gonna say it sounds good value - 1993 car on LPG for £2k! BUT, with 190k miles and looking a bit tatty, I reckon £1,600 - £1,800 max, inc tax! And you WILL need to budget to repair/replace something. I picked up my 1991 Vogue SE (no LPG) for similar money (bit more, actually) a few weeks back and that was in good nick with 88k, but still spent £300 on a few bits and pieces - big stuff like welding holes in the boot floot, 1 new tyre and a coolant flush as well as smaller stuff like alternator belts, boot struts, and ISO leads for a CD player. All add's up though, so if you gave him £2k for that by the time you've taxed it and repaired some niggles it'll be a £2,500 car, easy! And for that money you could get a better vehicle I reckon.
 
Mike - Just cottoned on to who you are - I post as GTO Scott on PH. It's your fault i'm even looking at RRC's again! :lol:

I'm probably going to look at it either tomorrow or Sunday, a friend of mine who knows his Rangies very well (he's had everything from a 1971 2-dr to his current steed, a 2002 P38 Westminster) will be coming with me to give it the proper once over. Boot floor and sills are the only concerns at the moment, though unless the MoT is dodgy i'd imagine them to be good for at least another 12 months.

Cheers
 
LPG in the boot space!! why do they do that... scrimping on the installation, looses boot space and just looks ugly. If you don't want it under the car then put it in the spare wheel space.
For me to be interested it would need to be around the grand mark... even then I'd be witching me noise and rubbing me chin.
 
Bustrucket said:
Mike - Just cottoned on to who you are - I post as GTO Scott on PH. It's your fault i'm even looking at RRC's again! :lol:
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Glad I could be of service!!! :D

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Boot floor and sills are the only concerns at the moment, though unless the MoT is dodgy i'd imagine them to be good for at least another 12 months.
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Don't count on it! The sills can be an MOT failure and all mine were solid, but despite having the MOT only a week before I bought it, the boot floot had FOUR holes in it that needed welding up! Could only see one when I viewed the car so built in £50 to my offer for that, but that became £200 for all 4!! Turns out the boot floor isn't structural so therefore not an MOT failure...

Still, good luck but don't just buy it because it's there! Haha!
 
Definitely not - I've a good idea of an RRC's weak points but I am prone to bouts of 'want that'! Hence the reason for taking someone who knows what he is looking at for an unbiased opinion (that and the fact that he'll be helping out with repairs if needed!). As for holes in the boot floor, they can be a failure within a certain distance of seatbelt mounts and body mounts. It's also a pain to replace the boot floor because the panel isn't available (most repairs I've seen use either sheet steel cut to size or a pair of Discovery I boot floors cut and spliced to make one long enough for an RRC).

I have to admit I prefer the LPG tanks to be underslung, but it's no big problem when it's in the load area.

At the end of the day, I can't find another RRC within my budget that's a reasonable distance away with the spec I want at the moment, but if this one turns out to be mutton dressed as lamb I won't spend my hard earned on it.
 
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LPG in the boot space!! why do they do that... scrimping on the installation, looses boot space and just looks ugly.
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underneath is bad for the offroaders. And if you put it in the spare wheel where does the wheel go?(i know where it goes but im making a point:cool:)

Bustrucket said:
Got a link to the advert?

Must have LPG and an autobox.

Edit: Found yer advert - looks good but no LPG :(

Cheers anyhoo.
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are all vogue se auto?
 
Yes, all Vogue SE V8's are auto (I believe)! Spare wheel is in the side of the boot on an RRC, but you can fit a tank there, or two torpedo's underneath, or the usual huge tank in the boot!
 
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