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Bloke

Member Since: 13 May 2019
Location: On the road to Oban
Posts: 120

2009 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Buckingham Blue

Ronnie the Red Range Rover

Meet Ronnie The Red Range Rover. He's an 2004 TD6 HSE in stunning Alveston red. Deffo the best colour ever!

Bought on a whim really in Feb this year as I've always admired the L322. Ronnie has served 4 pretty careful owners prior to me, he's just turned 150,000 miles the other week. Thus far we've enjoyed two long trips down south and even revisited his place of birth, the Solihul factory and Ronnie's done everything tasked and even returned a high of 28mpg, with the average being around 24. Econowagen!

It's not been all joy & happiness however. He did fail to start yin day and had to be recovered to an Indy LR specialst who diagnosed a failed electric fuel pump. The AA paid for that thanks to their breakdown insurance cover, which was nice.

I've been going through the little jobs that needed doing, rear wiper arm, all wipers renewed, new rear tailgait struts, new discs and pads on the front, NSF height sensor wiring loom repair and most recently rear discs and pads and replacing the totally rotten backing plates. This was another job for the Indy who cuts them in half and welds them back together to save removing the hubs. NSR brake caliper was also replaced as it was seized, as they do.

Just last night I've equipped Ronnie with a neat little gadget which converts the cd multichanger into an A2DP bluetooth streaming device and also HFT, all controlled from the big chunk buttons on the steering wheel. Pretty neat. https://ebay.us/Ltrb3Y

Next job is to remove the bumpers to find out why 3 of the ultrasonic sensors are not funtioning - my guess is - wiring? And then a full coolant drop and refresh as the big, ahem, BMW lump doesn't really get up to proper temp and tends to sit at a quarter on the guage....

Did I mention the Indy was also tasked with renewing the transmission fluid and filter? Yeah that's been done too as a precaution and because I quite like Ronnie really and want him to be reliable and a happy chappie. I'm looking forward to taking Ronnie off-road and shall shortly be joining https://www.scotgrc.co.uk/

That's about it for now. Happy motoring.

15th May 2019 9:50pm

UK Marine

Member Since: 22 Jul 2016
Location: Durham, County Durham UK
Posts: 828

2003 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 V8 Zambezi Silver

That is one sweet looking Range Rover, but I’m biased as my last P38 was in alveston red.

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15th May 2019 10:04pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

Member Since: 03 Aug 2011
Location: Gloucestershire
Posts: 16284

2015 Range Rover SVAutobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Pretty

Welcome sir

15th May 2019 11:16pm

supershuttle

Member Since: 20 Mar 2011
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 3779

2013 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Luxor

At the risk of upsetting people RED is the best colour and it looks great on Ronnie Geoff

16th May 2019 6:00am

Weegie

Member Since: 09 Jun 2014
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 3233

2008 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

Welcome aboard.

Looks very, very nice.

The coolant not reaching temperature is probably down to thermostat. Either the EGR one or the main one. Common problem and lots of info on here. Have a search. John
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16th May 2019 6:21am

Tugger

Member Since: 28 Feb 2019
Location: Scotland
Posts: 247

2009 Range Rover Westminster TDV8 Stornoway Grey

Red is very nice, great looking car you’ve got there 👍

Scotgrc looks good, hadn’t heard of them before but quite keen on a bit of off-roaring myself and not too far from me so will have a look at that. Oh, and welcome to the forum 👍 09 RR Westminster 3.6TDV8 - Stornoway Grey / Black interior - now gone (sad face)
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16th May 2019 7:46am

Bradders

Member Since: 03 Dec 2018
Location: Gods own country
Posts: 417

2012 Range Rover Westminster TDV8 Zermatt Silver

Looks stunning. Can't believe he's 15 years old. Current: FF Westminster money pit

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16th May 2019 8:08am

Baltic Blue

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Location: North Wales
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2011 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 Baltic Blue

I’ve seen pictures of the Queen in an identical one, same colour, only difference, hers wasn’t as shiny
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16th May 2019 8:20am

Joe90

Member Since: 29 Apr 2010
Location: Hampshire
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Red is the best colour So much better than boring silver/grey or black , and yours looks great.

Temp gauge issue probably either one or both of the thermostats
There is the main one, then the EGR one, best to do both
The TD6 runs very cool anyway
See the wiki for howtos

Parking sensors, yes, could be the wiring, for some reason, even though nothing should be moving, the wires disintegrate behind the bumper. Or just a matter of chasing the broken sensors with a good one (swap sensors and test). Of course this is a bit easier with a diagnostic tool. .
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16th May 2019 9:20am

dolph34

Member Since: 14 Sep 2015
Location: Kildare
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2015 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Corris Grey

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16th May 2019 9:27am

UK Marine

Member Since: 22 Jul 2016
Location: Durham, County Durham UK
Posts: 828

Joe90 wrote:
Red is the best colour So much better than boring silver/grey or black , and yours looks great.l.

Mines silver

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Range Rover Classic 3.5 efi - Gone
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Range Rover Classic 4.2 LSE - Sadly gone
Land Rover 110 3.5 - Gone
Range Rover P38a 4.0 SE - Pleased it's gone
Range Rover P38a 2.5 DHSE - Just sold
Range Rover L322 4.4 v8 Petrol - Current

16th May 2019 9:35am

Bloke

Member Since: 13 May 2019
Location: On the road to Oban
Posts: 120

Thanks for the warm welcome and kind words about Ronnie, folks. Tis appreciated. Got the rear bumper off today and after checking the wiring loom and finding it to be, fine. I narrowed in on the two sensors identified by the Icarsoft LR V2 as being faulty, returning DTCs. Once I'd swapped them around to double check all the wiring was good with the two working sensors. I ordered a couple of pattern part sensors from Ebay for £25 delivered. OE sensors are £97 each, which is a bit salty, and Brit Part were £35 each. Hopefully once the new sensors are fitted it all be working once more. There was also a DTC showing for the NSF outer left sensor, but that seems to have cleared and stayed clear? Hope so as I'd rather not have to take the front bumper off too.

Here's Ronnie laid up with his rear end hanging off in drydock for now...

16th May 2019 7:13pm

Bloke

Member Since: 13 May 2019
Location: On the road to Oban
Posts: 120

Joe90 wrote:
Red is the best colour So much better than boring silver/grey or black , and yours looks great.

Temp gauge issue probably either one or both of the thermostats
There is the main one, then the EGR one, best to do both
The TD6 runs very cool anyway
See the wiki for howtos

Parking sensors, yes, could be the wiring, for some reason, even though nothing should be moving, the wires disintegrate behind the bumper. Or just a matter of chasing the broken sensors with a good one (swap sensors and test). Of course this is a bit easier with a diagnostic tool.

Thanks. I changed in the internals of the EGR yin with a Circoli BMW styley yin as it was cheaper and it made little if any difference. Think I'll try a backflush and coolant change before considering the motor stat as I think the waterpump is replaced at the same time? As you say the big BMW lump runs cool being a diesel equipped with a viscous fan and this aint no hot climate.

I have, when testing the performance parameters of the vehicle

seen the temp guage reach very nearly halfway but it doesn't stay there long when back to a more appropriate cruising speed.

More on this story, later....

16th May 2019 7:57pm

Bloke

Member Since: 13 May 2019
Location: On the road to Oban
Posts: 120

Baltic Blue wrote:
I’ve seen pictures of the Queen in an identical one, same colour, only difference, hers wasn’t as shiny
Mike.

One does approve. One prefers a red one does one.

16th May 2019 8:03pm

Stephen.125

Member Since: 25 Jun 2009
Location: Frodsham
Posts: 1511

2017 Range Rover SVAutobiography 5.0 SC V8 Indus Silver

That's a belter! Welcome. Happy motoring Formerly happymadison1978

16th May 2019 8:56pm

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