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Bellhouse

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I have a 2008. I’ve bought it recently and is about to make it to it’s former glory.

I’m new to the brand and new to DIY on cars so bare with me.

When I’m driving and hitting a small bump, a sleeping police man or whatever I can feel it very clear in the steering wheel and in the whole car actually, and sometimes the steering wheel “goes with the bump”. It doesn’t feels like I’m driving a car with air suspension. What could be the problem?

The other problem is that I have to help the car to get in a straight line after turning. It doesn’t “correct it self” if you know what I mean.

Thanks in advance!
 
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Take it to a garage. You know there's a problem but don't know where too look. Your like me. I know there is a problem but I would not be able to tell what which tells you how able I am to do it myself. Hense just take it to a garage and let them loose.
 
Bellhouse said:
I have a 2008. I’ve bought it recently and is about to make it to it’s former glory.
I’m new to the brand and new to DIY on cars so bare with me.
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And you bought a stRange Rover ?
You should've start with something that is a lot easier to work on like a decent Defender 90 (or 110, other flavours exist) 3 different spanners and a hammer and you can (almost) change the engine by the side of the road..
 
Bellhouse said:
Yes, a Peugeot. Can you help me with that? Yes I can help, I've got the matches if you supply the petrol.

It’s a RR Westminster 4.2 V8 Supercharged.
It's a fat old thing riding on 13 year old suspension, do you think we have crystal balls here?
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My Supercharged rode perfectly compliantly, and was on standard 20" wheels with quality tyres, time to get it seen to by someone who knows.
 
Honestly the above is true. I bought an l322 range too and took it to the garage and asked them to go through it from bumper to bumper and tell me the truth. They did, I gulped and it a good one now but that's because Keith knows what he is doing. I fix his bicycles because I am good at that. I leave what he is good at to him.
 
Yes, maybe that’s the thing to take it to a garage and have them take a look at it and give me a price on changing the necessary things.

I bought I quite cheep and much on the vehicle works fine. I don’t want to have a bill that’s way higher than what I bought the car for. Or do how you think about these things?
 
Well I spent twice as much as I paid for mine on essential stuff, like copper brake lines, rust repairs and other stuff. Mine had no has good paint and it all worked however there were hidden problems.

These cars do need money spending on them. If you do a bit a time it will spend more time in the garage than on the road. You will most likely have to spend more than its worth. That a range rover. If its cheap then you probably will be catching up on all the things that have been neglected over the years.

You might be lucky I hope you are but you may not be. If it mechanical stuff that needs doing it fixable. It's an old car and stuff wears out. If major sill, jacking point and door shut repairs are required then that sortable too it will just cost you alot. In fact if there is any bubbling in the door shuts, get the sill covers off and start poking. Or do what I did give it to someone competent and get them to tell you the unvarnished truth before you start spending your hard earned.

The cheaper it is the more that it will probably need. Remember it got sold for a reason.

If you can maintain it properly and keep on tip of stuff then it should be manageable.

The only work intend to myself is engine service and gearbox oil and filters every 5000 miles.

The more often this stuff is done the longer the engine and gearbox will last.
 
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Agarange said:
Well I spent twice as much as I paid for mine on essential stuff, like copper brake lines, rust repairs and other stuff. Mine had no has good paint and it all worked however there were hidden problems.

These cars do need money spending on them. If you do a bit a time it will spend more time in the garage than on the road. You will most likely have to spend more than its worth. That a range rover. If its cheap then you probably will be catching up on all the things that have been neglected over the years.

You might be lucky I hope you are but you may not be. If it mechanical stuff that needs doing it fixable. It's an old car and stuff wears out. If major sill, jacking point and door shut repairs are required then that sortable too it will just cost you alot. In fact if there is any bubbling in the door shuts, get the sill covers off and start poking. Or do what I did give it to someone competent and get them to tell you the unvarnished truth before you start spending your hard earned.

The cheaper it is the more that it will probably need. Remember it got sold for a reason.

If you can maintain it properly and keep on tip of stuff then it should be manageable.

The only work intend to myself is engine service and gearbox oil and filters every 5000 miles.

The more often this stuff is done the longer the engine and gearbox will last.
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Totally agree, if you buy a cheap Range it will definitely cost you in repairs. But don’t be too scared and have a good look at all the body metalwork underneath because there’s no point spending money on mechanical parts just to give them to a breakers yard at the next MoT test because you can’t justify the body or chassis repairs.
Feel free to post any pictures if you need advice on what may be potential rust repairs, hopefully everything is good underneath and you can go forward with making her run sweet.
Tricky :)
 
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Agarange said:
Well I spent twice as much as I paid for mine on essential stuff, like copper brake lines, rust repairs and other stuff. Mine had no has good paint and it all worked however there were hidden problems.

These cars do need money spending on them. If you do a bit a time it will spend more time in the garage than on the road. You will most likely have to spend more than its worth. That a range rover. If its cheap then you probably will be catching up on all the things that have been neglected over the years.

You might be lucky I hope you are but you may not be. If it mechanical stuff that needs doing it fixable. It's an old car and stuff wears out. If major sill, jacking point and door shut repairs are required then that sortable too it will just cost you alot. In fact if there is any bubbling in the door shuts, get the sill covers off and start poking. Or do what I did give it to someone competent and get them to tell you the unvarnished truth before you start spending your hard earned.

The cheaper it is the more that it will probably need. Remember it got sold for a reason.

If you can maintain it properly and keep on tip of stuff then it should be manageable.

The only work intend to myself is engine service and gearbox oil and filters every 5000 miles.

The more often this stuff is done the longer the engine and gearbox will last.
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Or did I find a car where the owner didn’t know it’s true value? ;)

I will take the car to a garage and find out what could be wrong with it. Will make an update when the final decision has been made.
 
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