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Dutchgit

Member Since: 17 Sep 2023
Location: Emmerich am Rhein
Posts: 178

2008 Range Rover Vogue TDV8 Stornoway Grey

New addition to an old addiction will I ever come clean ?

Yep, gone and done it. I was pushed by my wife to agree that we buy it too !

Seeing we live in Germany my wife's argument was that we should own a FFRR because it is still possible!
We both are Dutch and also work in the Netherlands but owning a FFRR is pretty much extortionate over there.

It's not like owning one is a cheap affair in general but the road tax we would be paying are calculated to various factors which mostly come to a certain amount by fuel type (diesel is the most expensive), passenger licensed car or van (van is no option as in Holland you can only pick that option if it is a company vehicle) and weight of the vehicle. Guess what, we would have all the expensive boxes ticked which adds to around €4000,- per annum !

Anyway, we're not paying that much as we're in Germany so we have more or less "only" the fuel and running costs

Have been through most of the model line up at LR although not all variations of each model.

I'm a pretty good self taught mechanic but I'm sure there might be trouble ahead

Cheers, Ard

17th Sep 2023 5:39am

mjdronfield

Member Since: 04 Nov 2011
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 7793

2011 Range Rover Vogue SE TDV8 Buckingham Blue

Welcome Ard,

Cracking forum here. Have you got pictures? Might as well get one while you can.

2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

17th Sep 2023 10:09am

Pawl

Member Since: 07 Nov 2017
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 689

Welcome to the forum.
You sound as "nuts" as many of us on here.
We know the potential issues & costs and can't stop ourselves

I'm sure you will be learning more about your new purchase soon & using your mechanical experience ! Paul,
2001 Discovery 2 TD5, 211,000 miles & climbing
2006 FFRR TDV8 Vogue 145,000 miles & climbing
Member of Midland (Land) Rover Owners Club, www.mroc.co.uk

17th Sep 2023 10:54am

AJGalaxy2012

Member Since: 11 Jun 2018
Location: Gainsborough
Posts: 1464

2012 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 V8 Bonatti Grey

mjdronfield wrote:
Welcome Ard,

Cracking forum here. Have you got pictures? Might as well get one while you can.

Especially on certain 405's? BMW i3 Electric Car
2012 Full Fat RR 4.4 TDV8 (now gone)
2006 VW Touareg 3.0 TDi V6

17th Sep 2023 11:07am

mjdronfield

Member Since: 04 Nov 2011
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 7793

2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

17th Sep 2023 11:40am

Bill

Member Since: 18 Nov 2017
Location: Essex / Normandy
Posts: 1230

AJGalaxy2012 wrote:
mjdronfield wrote:
Welcome Ard,

Cracking forum here.

Especially on certain 405's?

Dutch git may not understand that , that’s tough English . As he is the OP I’ll observe the post.

It’s a pun. Cracking has two meanings. A. Fantastic B breaking …. Thus certain 405’s on here are breaking.

Welcome… 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

He who dies with the most toys wins...

17th Sep 2023 2:52pm

Dutchgit

Member Since: 17 Sep 2023
Location: Emmerich am Rhein
Posts: 178

Thanks for the replies people !
I'm sure I'll get to the bottom of the 405 pun in good time

Not have taken many pictures yet but we'll get there.
It's been a mad few days with us driving back up from Spain, picking up McFat and doing some upkeep around the house after having been busy for the last few weeks with work and holiday.

On a first "fault" finding mission I took off the cover on the engine, there was soot on the RH side of the cover (EU passenger side) but I also noticed it has been worked on before, quite possibly near down by the oil filter. Haven't had much time in there yet but I'm sure I will be spending ALL the time in that area !

17th Sep 2023 3:23pm

mjdronfield

Member Since: 04 Nov 2011
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 7793

The L405 pun was about me saying it’s a cracking site, a good site…. And the L405 has just had a recall on some models for a part on the front suspension cracking and then breaking….

https://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic55957.html

2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

17th Sep 2023 3:48pm

Sandyt

Member Since: 07 Nov 2013
Location: Wraysbury Windsor
Posts: 2257

2007 Range Rover Supercharged 4.2 SC V8 Buckingham Blue

Well done you and welcome hope you both really enjoy it

17th Sep 2023 5:02pm

fisha

Member Since: 25 Sep 2009
Location: Scotland
Posts: 1350

2015 Range Rover Autobiography SDV8 Aruba

Ard, do I remember you from orrp ? V8 or else ...

17th Sep 2023 7:54pm

Dutchgit

Member Since: 17 Sep 2023
Location: Emmerich am Rhein
Posts: 178

You might very well do matey !

17th Sep 2023 8:01pm

fisha

Member Since: 25 Sep 2009
Location: Scotland
Posts: 1350

Definitely you. IIRC you were doing some sort of soft dash conversion to a maroon RRC or disco - that was a long time ago.

Oddly enough, I went looking to see if orrp was still around the other day. ( I gave up on paying the domain fees for it many years ago ). V8 or else ...

17th Sep 2023 8:34pm

Dutchgit

Member Since: 17 Sep 2023
Location: Emmerich am Rhein
Posts: 178

That was this one. I've put in a Disco 1 facelift Dash !

22nd Sep 2023 3:30pm

Dutchgit

Member Since: 17 Sep 2023
Location: Emmerich am Rhein
Posts: 178

Had Fatty Fat on the Autobahn today as we went somewhere. It does 200kph pretty darn quickly for such a beast of a car !

Had a leisurely drive down and back clocking up around 300 km and the average fuel consumption is 9.5 km per Litre so that was pretty good in my view considering we did around 110 km/h more or less constant.

23rd Sep 2023 5:52pm

Cam-Tech-Craig

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

2015 Range Rover SVAutobiography SDV8 Loire Blue

Velcome, Velcome, Velcome sir

24th Sep 2023 11:54am

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