Wise words buddy and yours must be a good one if you have had it for 11 years so fair play to you for sticking with her for soo long. Long may it continue.
She is a good one, but only because she has been looked after. She came to me having been looked after and I have looked after her since. She has had a new engine, due to a mechanic damaging the original. She has had the gearbox/TC done, a fault that lies firmly at the door of BMW, and she's had other bits and bobs. Which add up to a lot of money but you don't buy an expensive vehicle and expect to run it on the cheap. To paraphrase what they say of childbirth: once she is back in your arms, you forget the pain in your wallet :)
I get compliments on her every time I go out.. I wouldn't dream of selling her, and I certainly wouldn't sell her for the prices advertised.
The problem is how quickly they lose/lost their value , meaning anyone can afford to buy one. However, people buy them without realising that the maintenance budget is more than double a 'normal'' car. So they try to run them on the cheap. This ends in the poor beasties being run into the ground and selling for the silly money that they do. Then someone buys it because it's cheap , not realising a £2k vehicle will need at least that again to run, and the cycle continues.
In short , I love my Golden Girl and, like others on here, she is an example of what these, almost 20 year old, vehicles can and should be.
 
She is a good one, but only because she has been looked after. She came to me having been looked after and I have looked after her since. She has had a new engine, due to a mechanic damaging the original. She has had the gearbox/TC done, a fault that lies firmly at the door of BMW, and she's had other bits and bobs. Which add up to a lot of money but you don't buy an expensive vehicle and expect to run it on the cheap. To paraphrase what they say of childbirth: once she is back in your arms, you forget the pain in your wallet :)
I get compliments on her every time I go out.. I wouldn't dream of selling her, and I certainly wouldn't sell her for the prices advertised.
The problem is how quickly they lose/lost their value , meaning anyone can afford to buy one. However, people buy them without realising that the maintenance budget is more than double a 'normal'' car. So they try to run them on the cheap. This ends in the poor beasties being run into the ground and selling for the silly money that they do. Then someone buys it because it's cheap , not realising a £2k vehicle will need at least that again to run, and the cycle continues.
In short , I love my Golden Girl and, like others on here, she is an example of what these, almost 20 year old, vehicles can and should be.

Agreed, is yours a 2002 model?
 
Amazing mine was built in Oct 2001 so there is only a few months between them ;)

And they couldn't be more different ;) :)
I know! Personally I think this was part of the problem. They brought the programme forward, leap frogging the Discovery 4 programme. Perhaps if they had got to the L322 in the order/time frame they intended, the wrinkles would have been a little more ironed out , having been tested through the D4.
 
The problem is how quickly they lose/lost their value , meaning anyone can afford to buy one.
They go like that start to disappear a bit then price rockets.
Classics did, p38 prices have risen only few years ago I had a choice of cheap ones. L322 getting ridiculously cheap now - not looked after ones will disappear- then they start to climb
 
Had another go at getting the replacement FBH working as I am getting flame detection fault. Took the fuel pipe off the FBH and it was dry as a bone (something dry on an L322 can't be right) so primed it with 12 v to the pump and now I think I've flooded it, even got diesel in the FBH exhaust port. Pretty sure there's a flame cos the case is getting warm, looks like I'll be pulling it all apart again over Christmas.
Oh and the f@@king bonnet release cable snapped again so had to get the pliers out. :mad:
 
@kds I think I've watched all of them now, and read everything I can find but it's too bloody cold to start messing about with it for any length of time. Hopefully my local indi can stick his tool on it next week when I go for a bonnet release cable. :D
 
I have been fixing the poll - en filter
I must ask for a bit of help please :)




VOTE KURT IN THE C.O.T.Y Award please

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They are cheap but at £1k , that's too cheap. Like anything else the cheaper they are the more problems they'll have. I wouldn't dream of selling the Golden Girl for that type of money. The way I look at mine is : I couldn't buy one as good for what they are selling for.
Everyone derides the L322 , and yes they do have their issues, but so do £90k brand new Range Rovers.
If we go all nostalgic , the Classic suffered with body roll when it first came out and they had to lower the body and put in anti-roll bars. So 1st generation had issues. I'm sure there were probably other issues that I haven't read about. They are now old and this forum reflects that and makes allowances for an old vehicle to have issues.
The P38 when reviewed was the best in it's class but just an updated version of the Classic. Nothing to write home about and with the exception of air suspension and possibly stereo system, very little new to learn how to fix ( I'm sure someone will tell us just how much was different but it doesn't seem like a lot when you try researching). When BMW took over and wanted to make it a game changer , it couldn't handle the tweaks. So it got a facelift. Due to this the L322 production jumped the queue. The P38 is also old and keeps these pages going with issues that owners have.
Then we have the much maligned L322. Now I can speak with experience, rather than book knowledge. As I have had the same one for almost 11 years. Yes they have issues. I have had several of the biggies*. However, the biggest problems I have found were from it being the first of it's kind. Loaded with all types of wizardry. This resulted in independent garages not having a clue, and Land Rover dealers being unwilling to work on any vehicle over 3yrs old. So those, like myself, who took them on around the point that issues were showing had to learn on the hoof. @Saint.V8 is a god amongst men because of his knowledge of the L322. Without him ,many, including myself would have given up long ago. Much of the knowledge my little indy had, when working on mine, came from Ant. The L322 is different from any that came before, and that made it's issues stand out more. Oh and it's old. My L322 will be 19 next month, I expect issues on any 19yr old vehicle, let alone one with the first version of serious electrickery for the brand.
If the Classic or the P38 had electrics as complex as the L322, or been owned by a company that was putting bits from different vehicles into it, they would have had just as many issues. However, they are simpler vehicles. It is like comparing a watch that has a dial and two hands, to my Suunto 7.
I will now step off my soapbox ;)

*the two major issues I have had with my L322 lands firmly at the feet of incompetent mechanics, whose egos were greater than their abilities.
Sorry not been around lately - lots going on, not just with the 'rona thing (myself and family have been covid-free so far....luckily where I work we are tested everyother day so we all good!), but also we have moved (again) and am now further west in Dorset in a small farmhouse, which meant we had to change our daughters school, get our boy settled into a new nursery, figure other stuff out etc etc...so it has been hectic for us, as it no doubt has been for all y'all too...

Now things have settled slightly, I am hoping to be more visable on here again.

Your kind words Goldie are appreciated, but I stand on the shoulders of the giants that came before me - I learnt from them, they learnt from others, we all learn together.

Yes the L322 is getting cheaper, but the problems are also getting more frequent - heck, our L322 is now 18 years old and she is starting to show it. I can't afford to run her everyday, but on the weekends I do drive her, she is very much a load lugger and utility vehicle now, as she can handle the loads and she is now far from showroom - but I tell you what the L322 makes a good loadlugger and looks good covered in muck and poo!

God speed everyone, I look forward to being back!
 

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