and in a moment of minor comedy, over the weekend the Range Rover had to rescue our outgoing mark 2 x-trail after it broke down with a failed starter motor.

I got the car from a friend who had purchased it from new. He also had problems with the turbo, was on its third by 20,000 miles, but on the last one they changed the intercooler & map and from then on it was good. I always found the handbrake pretty useless thinking about it.

Can't say that about ours. bought it at 242,000 miles, used it hard, sold it three years later at 280,000 and it was still doing the same mpg as when it was new.

The first one we had was bought from it's first owner at 242,000 miles for £300 to use a mobile skip to clear a lot of rubbish from out house. At the end of it's labours I sent it to the car cleaners and it came up like we hadn't touched it so we ran it for another three years and sold it doing...

Thank you all for the welcome. Reassuring to know that help is at hand. Pictures as requested.

Thank you. Planning on doing as much as I can myself, have some mechanical sympathy and a decent supply of tools. So far I've fixed the stuck back door with a new battery, window with a new motor and switch pack, cruise control with some tube and pieced bits of the interior back together. The...

I've inadvertently purchased a P38 for scrap money and to my great surprise it has passed it's MOT and I've managed to fix most of the little niggles, assisted by reading through this site. It's a green 2001 4.6 Vogue with LPG conversion and after a thorough clean has come up quite well. I've...