Nice to hear something positive Sean. I prefer automatic gearboxes as there is less to go wrong however the L322 seems to have a history of gearbox faults so I guess a manual is better? From what I read a poor battery will cause all sorts of computer faults. I guess any L322 that has a long history with one owner and is still looking and running OK will have all the initial faults rectified. I only do 8k a year and at the age of 70 I no longer drive a car hard or fast.
The L322 still has the rural Land Rover look unlike some of the later ones which look like the Beckham's designed them. As for repairs I am lucky to have a one man garage that only charges £20 an hour of the folding stuff. I have never taken a car to a main dealer in my life.
I appreciate this is a site for people who have problems and I am grateful for the help they have offered in the past. I discovered that the air suspension pump could be fixed for under a fiver with a kit from Ebay.
Are you intentionally trying to insult those you have come to for advice?
First we're "not normal drivers", now we're all people "with problems".
You came here in 2008 because
you had a problem.
You got help then buggered off, then came back in 2009 because you had another problem and you believed you had possibly screwed up due to " been a bit of a cheapskate over the years buying only cheap oil and changing it infrequently."
At that time you were paying £45ph for work
You got help and yet again, instead of sticking around to try to help others, you buggered off.
For all we know you've been lurking since then , making use of the wealth of knowledge and help that is in these pages full of not normal drivers , with lots of problems. Or maybe just taking your vehicle to your £45ph twenty pound local garage.
Whichever it is, you came back to these not normal drivers, yet again, in 2015 to ask for advice on buying an L322 and got honest reviews. You didn't like them.
2016 still without joining in , or even trying to give help, to others struggling, you were back again asking for help. Which people freely and gladly gave. Then off you buggered, once again leaving a thread hanging.
Then joy of joys , you reappear in 2020, yet again, asking for advice on buying an L322. Yet again you were given an honest review by people who were living with them. You didn't like them. So yet again you disappear off the pages,
Then a few days ago here you appear again. Once more asking a bunch of people who are"not normal drivers, with "lots of problems" for advice.
If you think the owners and vehicles on these pages are so bad, why keep coming back? Wouldn't sense dictate you go ask "normal drivers", whose vehicles don't " have lots of problems" for advice?
Anyway, you ignore logic and sense , and here you are, with less budget than last year, and looking for cars in an older age range, because you 'hoped' the reviews would have changed in the last 6 years. The vehicle model you are asking about is now 6years older , yet somehow you 'hoped' that the issues the model has will have changed as the actual vehicles grow older? Once again, you are given honest reviews. And yep, once again you don't like them.
Accept the fact the L322 is a problem child. The ones you see pre-2010 in good condition are kept running because of people like those on this site, sharing their hard won experience and knowledge, in some cases expertise, with others. Without it many would be stuck, including the mechanics from independent garages, who use these pages, whether they admit it or not.
So your posts, looking down your nose at those who use these pages, are so far out of line they are in a different postcode!
