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JayGee Member Since: 27 Jul 2021 Location: London Posts: 3167 |
Is it paint or a vinyl wrap? 2012 TDV8 Vogue (L322) |
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25th Jul 2022 6:24am |
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Haylands Member Since: 04 Mar 2014 Location: East Yorkshire Posts: 8150 |
He said.....
So I guess it's paint... Pete __________________________________________________ 2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior 2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold 2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold 2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold -Click for Project Fatty off roader- |
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25th Jul 2022 11:09am |
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kevinp Member Since: 28 Sep 2019 Location: Telford Posts: 1199 |
I'd nickname it ' Matty'. |
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25th Jul 2022 11:54am |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I picked it up this morning, went straight to collect a trailer, and within 250 yards, the suspension dropped, I can't connect to the Diagnostics with proper Land Rover or aftermarket diagnostics. I used to be able to when I have been to this car before, The diagnostics recognises the car, but won't connect to any systems. It has just had a new suspension strut on the front passenger side, I ran out of motivation to do anything else today, so dragged the trailer home and after trying to run diagnostics, just went indoors. I was supposed to be driving to York tomorrow, but that is definitely not happening now. Chances are, I will end up in my Discovery now to do the York run. But tomorrow and Sunday are definitely going to be fun, as I have to do roughly 250 miles, just moving cars from London, Sussex and in Kent to my new Premises. So at least everything will be localised to one location.
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29th Jul 2022 4:26pm |
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MR GLOVER Member Since: 03 Jan 2015 Location: grimsby Posts: 600 |
You love a project good look |
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29th Jul 2022 7:21pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Thanks |
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30th Jul 2022 9:19pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Today this poor little beast has been used and abused. I believe the suspension ECU is faulty so managed to get another one today. But had to use it as it is with the suspension down. But it has done really well, moved a car transporting trailer, a little off roading, dragged then pushed my Navara on to the drive I am actually really enjoying using this car.
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30th Jul 2022 9:35pm |
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CongoBoy Member Since: 11 Sep 2020 Location: Wiltshire Posts: 126 |
You all need to sleep if not you'll be on the "who's got insomnia" page!
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30th Jul 2022 9:37pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Thanks, and yes, with all the stress of the new business, my business partner catching covid leaving me to do all the work at the moment has lead to me hardly sleeping, I think at some point on Friday, I can allow the exhaustion to set in and I might actually get a whole nights sleep. But this weekend has been all about moving cars that I had parked all over Essex, London, Kent and Sussex as well as buying more and putting them all in one place, which the premises was supposed to atleast have the parking ready by today, so now my premises Landlord has a ton of motors on his driveway, tomorrow I may have time at some point to swap the ecu's over, but got building works to sort out, collect 3 more vehicles, and then move all of the vehicles I parked today onto the new site. Luckily the landlords property is next door. And in addition to this one, I have 7 vehicles to get fixed and some sold. This one was initially ear marked for being sold on cheap, but I knew it to well, and after driving it, just knew it had to stay Oh and not to mention that I let slip that the rental cost of the business premises was double that of our house so now in the dog house
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30th Jul 2022 10:07pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I have put the grill from my last Range Rover on this one now, and now I have changed the Air Suspension ECU, got the suspension to raise, but still can't get any diagnostics to connect to it, every fuse has been checked, done a hard reset, and even though the front left strut, airbag and height sensor have all been replaced, that corner is still staying down. Today got too hot so my brain stopped working as for the normal trouble shooting process I go through in my head. I also tried chucking another compressor on to see if that would work, a used one, but that only helped get it to raise to normal height. So tomorrow I am rebuilding the original compressor to see if that helps with anything, But I now suspect the BCM might be faulty. I am confident that I have a spare one, so will try that tomorrow as well. My mate who was in the car behind me sent me a photo as we were leaving work of how my car is sitting.
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11th Aug 2022 5:37pm |
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Bill Member Since: 18 Nov 2017 Location: Essex / Normandy Posts: 1226 |
Envious that you are capable of taking on such a project…. Things just have to work in my life. Good luck…Bill Filters are in fact so good that in certain circumstances, when the ambient air is already polluted, a diesel car will tend to extract more particles from the air than it emits. Emissions Analytics worked with........etc etc
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11th Aug 2022 5:49pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
I had planned on spending the afternoon working on the Range Rover, but with the new workshop still in the back of the van waiting to be built and it being too hot to really do anything, I thought after transporting quarter of a ton of sand in the back of the RR, to rebuild the compressor, it was in a shocking state inside, never seen anything like it considering I have done over 100 of these. This one had bad moisture and sticky residue in addition to the normal wear and tear, so I tore the entire pump apart and cleaned, dried and replaced everything that was replaceable including modifying the external filter that gets blocked. So now it has all new seals, piston ring, drier balls etc... then it felt like someone ramped the temperature right up again and a neighbouring resident to the work site decided to light a bonfire so decided at that point, to close the business and site for the day and go home and enjoy the aircon in the house
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12th Aug 2022 3:17pm |
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green-oval-nut Member Since: 02 Sep 2016 Location: Tunbridge Wells, Kent Posts: 929 |
Finally gotten around to tinkering with this beast again, I hired an apprentice and decided to let him have fun and do my own cars before being let loose on customers cars. Since I last posted, the 20” stormers that used to be on my V8 are now on this one, and the same exhaust backboxes are in the process of being fitted. This will be finished tomorrow morning.
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27th Oct 2022 8:53pm |
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knares Member Since: 22 Jun 2017 Location: Perth WA Posts: 734 |
good to see you back on deck RR 2005 4.4 petrol
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30th Oct 2022 11:05am |
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