Hi just bought my first range rover, just found this site by looking on landyzone and It looks great, I'm sure Ill need lots of help, anyway iv bought a 2003 td6 rr hse in Zambezi silver, it's a 2 owner vehicle with fsh and it had a new torque converter and rebuild about 5k miles ago, there are a few little things iv found that need sorting since collecting but ill get them sorted asap, I served my time as a landrover mechanic when I left school although I'm a tree surgeon now lol, this is my 27th car in the last 7 years so I'm hoping this is a keeper ( that sounds bad for a 26 yr old when written down!) anyway I'll list the faults iv found below and If anyone has had similar problems I would really appreciate any advice although I will have a good search through the forum

NSR door dosn't unlock with the key, handle still works etc

I found a couple of bubbles of rust under the paint on the nsr arch, I hate rust so this upset me lol, will be getting sorted asap

Few pixels missing on the dash, think I might replace with one of them dynavin style headunits eventually as they were quite popular over on e46zone.com

Air suspension seems a little low on the rear (about 2cm) so it's booked in for a re-calibration in a couple of weeks, it all works fine so hoping that will sort it

Weather strips at the bottom of the windows have bubbled a bit so will be replacing all of these, quoted £30+vat from the dealer

I don't think the points above are to bad for a 9 yr old car, the bodywork is very clean although being 9 years old it looks slightly dated so I would like to eventually change the wheels to something newer, preferably no bigger than 20" and also facelift the front end so it looks like an 06-09 model, sorry for the long post

Hello and welcome to the asylum
 Mine was a blue one!

yep welcome to the madhouse  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

2024 RR Velar
2021 AM new Vantage

Good to see you on the forum.
nice to see new people posting  2020 Porsche Panamera Turbo Hybrid (V FAST)
2017 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 V8
2018 JCW Mini Cooper
2018 Skoda VRS

27 Cars in 7 years. Blimey.  Graham

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Gone: 10MY L320 RR Sport HSE, Ipanema Sand
Gone: 20MY Jaguar iPace HSE, Silicon Silver
Gone: 17MY RR Evoque SE Tech, Loire Blue
Gone: 08MY Discovery 3 XS, Stornoway Grey
Gone: 07MY FFRR TDV8 Vogue, Stornoway Grey

Getting an IIDTool and finding a level surface can be cheaper than a re-calibration of the suspension and then you get to keep the tool for other stuff. It's amazing how much cash you save by not paying a dealer an hours labour to plug a Faultmate in .... 
07 Supercharged - Still breaking her in!

Boot soundproofing part 1 - http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic15612.html
Custom exhaust - http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic15296.html
18" wheels for Brembo equipped cars - http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic15052.html

Welcome.... 27 cars... I hope you sold them all for a profit!?
It's sounds like you are going the right way about getting your FFRR up to standard. You'll love it. I'm sure you will keep it longer than your average 3 or 4 months.  Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

Welcome to the forum, 27 cars in 7 years so that works out at 3.85714234 cars per year

Welcome from me

JOKER wrote:

so that works out at 3.85714234 cars per year

Almost Pi x R

JOKER wrote:

Welcome to the forum, 27 cars in 7 years so that works out at 3.85714234 cars per year

Haha you sound like the wife it is quite bad, like I say the rust is the one thing that me off, especially the fact I missed it when viewing, one bodyshop quoted me £90 and another guy said he needs the bumper off before he will give me a quote but I want to make sure it's a good job as if there's a colour difference I'll be gutted as I'm very picky! It seems quite a common problem looking through the forum, anyone had it on theirs and how much did you pay?

Just an update on the rust, you can hardly see it but it is going to get worse, I think the guy who quoted £90 will just scrape off the surface rust and spray it which then I'm pretty sure it will return within the year, so I went back down to the guy iv heard al lot of good reports about, I talked to him for a while and he really knew his stuff, he will strip it back, shot blast it, use an infa red light to make sure all moisture has gone then seal it all, then spray it, I'm pretty confident his work will be top notch and be quoted £240 a side but said that's just a rough guess till be sees what it's like. I was going to sell it as this really put me off but I do like it and if I get the rust sorted I'm be happy with it. On another note I had it on eBay and got offered £8750 which I was considering taking but another one ended lastnight, same year, 20k more miles, no gearbox work and it was a cat d and it sold for £9300, who would rather have this over mine? Just because it has 22" overfinch alloys!

had it on ebay less than a month after you bought it?! Sounds like this one might increase you 3.8 per year average at this rate!  Lloyd Barnes

Current
Crendon 427 Sideoiler Cobra in build... 7 litres of madness!

Gone
2008 TDV8 Vogue - Black with Ivory/Grand Black Lacquer
2008 VW Touareg 3.0Tdi
6.3litre Dax Cobra - 12.34 Second 1/4mile at 114mph

Lol I'm keeping it now, I just want to get the rust sorted ASAP and it sounds like he will do a proper job

What would you swap for now? There is no better appointed car in my opinion.
I look at other cars for sale and think, what no remote pre- heat, no heated steering wheel. When we get round to summer no cooled seats? Headlights that don't peek round the corner for you?
I've owned a few cars too, but this is the best specced by a country mile.

When I change mine, it will be for a newer one.

Sounds like a good price on the paintwork, get some before and after pics posted. 
Had it, loved it!
2007 Vogue SE TDV8
Stornoway Grey / Ivory
Climatic Seats, RSE, AFS, Deployable steps, iPod kit.

I haven't got any of them options on my poor hse lol, something to aim for I suppose, there's a few issues to sort then I think I will be happy with it, iv got OCD when it comes to cars, the tiniest thing puts me off but then I need to remind myself it's nearly 10 years old, I do think my range rover looks quite dated though compared to a lot on here, even of the same year, hopefully over the next few months I can get I like new, think I've got a good base, the bodywork is immaculate as is the interior barring the little bubbles on the inner arch, it's had the gearbox done and its only on 97k miles so I think it's worth putting the effort in with it, I also like a good forum when I own a car and there's no denying this is a great forum!