Following on from -PROJECT FATTY OFFROADER- Comes Project Fatty Onroader...

For various medical issues I won't bore you with here our "plan A" of buying a boat and spending the winters cruising the Caribbean only lasted a couple of years before we had to cash in and start thinking of "plan B"

Part of plan A was to get rid of Fatty Offroader as whatever car I had would have to sit on the drive for 6 months and still work at the end of it, this was probably a bit too much to ask a, then, 16 year old heavily modified fatty..!! so it was sold on and a Lexus LS430 was used, this, of course, sat for six month, turned the battery isolater I had fitted, and sprang into life with no faults or issues, passed MOT's with no advisories and just worked as it should.... BUT.... charisma it lacks, in bucketloads...!!!

I did consider replacing it with a Bentley Flying Spur but they don't do a towbar for them and I need to pull a trailer as part of plan A was downsizing and we went for location location and got a rather tired 1950's house which needs a lot of updating, seeing as I know my way around a brick aswell as a car I'm doing it and sticking a 2.4mtr length of CLS in a Bentley just didn't seem right....

So the next choice was a Supercharged fatty... as some of you will have seen I did a poll on here on whether to buy the cheapest available and refresh it or buy the latest best and do a little bit of work... well as usual it ended up somewhere in the middle...

Meet the new (at the moment) drive ornament...







It's a 2012 model year, reg 11/11 Range Rover 5.0 Autobiography Supercharged in Ipanema Sand with a jet/jet/jet interior (that's jet seats, jet inserts and jet headlining) Just what I was after colour wise and a bonus with the uncommon jet headlining.

It's the Autobiography and has been well specced up with locking rear diff, vision assist pack, ugly kid glass, 4 zone climate and the upgraded Logic 7 ICE

It was quite a distance from us, the owner claimed it was mint but it did live on an "Equestrian centre" and we all know that keeping horses is not the cleanest hobby... anyway a price was agreed so we went to have a look at it yesterday..

Not quite as advertised, all four wheels (diamond turned style19) are badly corroded, the aircon isn't blowing cold, the PDC isn't working and one reversing light has lost it's cover...

Further negotiations were made and a price I was happy with was agreed on.

So I now own a 2012 model year fatty, with 75,000 miles, FSH and a receipt for the replacement of the timing chain, uprated guides, new water pump, injectors etc. The bodywork is extremely good, the interior has a few small marks which are fixable.

It cost the same as the cheapest Supercharged currently on Autotrader plus the cost of the timing chain replacement from a non franchised dealer, and it has less than half the miles...

All in all I'm happy, it needs a very good deep clean and a few issues sorting.

The drive home was enjoyable, the fatty grin came back very quickly which turned into a laugh when the right pedal was sunk into the deep pile mats....

I usually drive fairly respectably but I can confirm it will spin all four wheels if you give it the beans....

A couple more pics, sorry they aren't very good, will put some detailed ones up later...

Looks just the business for you.
Wish you health to enjoy it.  John
2008 Stornoway Grey 3.6 Tdv8 Vogue
2005 TD6 Java Black Vogue - Written off!!
GAP iiD BT
2003 Discovery TD5 Auto, Nanocom Evolution - gone to a new home!
MasseyFerguson 152 - No electronics!! - Sold

Haylands wrote:

I usually drive fairly respectably but I can confirm it will spin all four wheels if you give it the beans....

Thanks guys,

Craig I doubt I will ever do it again but you have to do it once, bit like the launch control on Debs old V6 Audi TT, that would spin all 4 but apparently you only get about 10 starts to a gearbox...!!  Pete

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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-

Very nice exemple, if a bit of a project (dont we all love them ? ).

Nothing major as you said.

About :

Haylands wrote:

one reversing light has lost its cover...

I've had my 4.2 for over 7 years now. Gave it an "Italian tune up" to relieve the lockdown boredom the other day and had a weird light appear briefly on the dash. Turned out to be the DSC kicking in which has never happened under my ownership before! Shan't be doing that too often again but brought a massive grin to my face. Previous cars:
S-Max 2007-2013 (only diesel I've had, good car but expensive when diesely bits go wrong, so what's the point?)
Galaxy 2001-2007
Mondeo Estate 1997-2001
Sierra Estate 1993-1997
Uno Turbo 1987 -1993
Fiesta 1984 - 1987
Fiat 127 1982 - 1984

Welcome back...... That looks tidy. Always liked that colour. You always end up with some jobs to do......unless you drop really lucky.

I’m a big fan of the TFT dash.

You tried the adaptive cruise yet?

 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

Love the interior (especially the headlining). Enjoy

J, thanks I'll PM later..

appj62, I was concentrating on the road, not the dash...lol...

Mark, Yes, love it thanks...

Highroller, I was worried it might be dark inside with the ugly kid glass and the all black, but it's not at all...  Pete

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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-

nice pics Pete  ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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I am sure you will be getting it back to “as new “ very soon.

When I bought B.B. I had the choice of 2, identical spec apart from the headlining in the one I bought which is Jet Black.
I can’t say why, but it just looked so good compared to the normal ivory one.

Happy motoring.
Mike. G reg 2.5VM Vogue Portofino red 1991- 1999
V reg 2.5td P38 Rioja red 1999- 2006
53 reg td6 Vogue Oslo blue 2006- 2015
11 reg 4.4 TdV8 Vogue SE. Baltic blue 2015- date.
https://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic56162...tty+affair

Nice
Any mod plans? Gone to a good home: 2011 4.4 TDV8 Vogue SE Buckingham Blue with Ivory and clear glass = "Rory"
2025MY Defender D350 90 in Silicon Silver on coils
1974 Series 3 Lightweight = "Millie"
Many, many other Landies over the years
My preferred specialist: www.glenrands.co.uk
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very nice pete

stan wrote:

nice pics Pete

Your a very funny man.... I kill you last.....

(for others the above is a private joke..!!)


Mike, yep, love it...

Rob, nothing serious, probably some personalisation, maybe tune it up a bit...

Paul, Cheers, I'm loving it... Pete

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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-

My good lady didn't get to drive it yesterday so we went for our daily walk up on top of the Yorkshire Wolds, our little village nestles at the bottom...

There is a B.O.A.T up there you can drive, we found one silver lining to this mess we are in, you can see for much further due to the reduced pollution...

There are quite a few axle twisters which has worked the suspension through it's range of movement which is always a good thing to do now and again...

A couple of arty shots..