Range Rover purchase. Is this a good buy or good bye to my ££s??

Had various landrover products before so going into this with my eyes open! Been looking at cheap high mileage l322 rangies recently but been put off by the potential gearbox issues. Been offered an immaculate 2004 04 plate 4.4 petrol vogue with genuine 40k miles and full lrsh for £14k. Would consider as a longterm keeper and getting LPG converted properly if it proved to be all its cracked up to be. Is the low mileage a good thing or a mixed blessing? Would the forum consider this a good buy or not?

moatmeister said:

Had various landrover products before so going into this with my eyes open! Been looking at cheap high mileage l322 rangies recently but been put off by the potential gearbox issues. Been offered an immaculate 4.4 petrol vogue with genuine 40k miles and full lrsh for £14k. Would consider as a longterm keeper and getting LPG converted properly if it proved to be all its cracked up to be. Is the low mileage a good thing or a mixed blessing? Would the forum consider this a good buy or not?

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It's impossible to say without seeing the car to be honest. What year is it?

Oops Its an 04 plate 2004. Have ammended my post!0

The L322 is awesome as a vehcle...and on LPG makes sense.

Yes the Gearboxes are the biggest weakness of the L322, diesel's imparticular with the GM box.

I would suggest a post 2005/6 with the facelift as these had the much stronger and much more reliable ZF6HP26 box.

The ZF5HP24 is better than the GM box, but as I posted in a recent thread, the ZF5 is prone to a couple of failures, but aslong as it is caught early, can be resolved and at a cheaper price than the GM box.

If you are up to the task, it is possible to DIY repir the ZF box and in very broad terms the process is to drop the box, reomve torque convertor, remove oil pump, remove the Tower with A & B clutch packs, replace the roller bearing and O ring, put it all back together and with luck all is good.

Whilst the box is off, you can get an overhaul kit with all the O rings etc and the process is to strip the box, replace all the seals etc and put it back together again....not for the faint hearted, but no special tools are needed apart from 3 rings used to compress the clutch plates so the snap rings can be refitted if you are going to replace the friction plates.

Could be done in a week or 10 days or so, but you will need to be handy with the tools to do it, and you'll need a clean and dry workspace.

They are great cars to drive, exspensive to repair and daunting when they go wrong....

I think its too much - petrols go for much less than diesels - sold my 53 plate diesel with 95,000 miles 18 months ago for £11,000. Think about £12,000 max.

Seems well expensive !!

You could get a facelift for 16k

Iv seen a few 55 reg / 06 reg going for £13000 show 70k with fsh

darrenm said:

Iv seen a few 55 reg / 06 reg going for £13000 show 70k with fsh

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No Brainer then

Buy the best u can afford

In my time I have owned a Jeep Cherokee 2 x Isuzu Troopers 2 x Classics and 1 Classic soft dash and now a TD6 L322

Best drive of any car I've owned

Yes they eat money but no feeling like being behind the wheel of an L322

Way OTT price wise, you're heading towards TDV8 money there!

moatmeister said:

Had various landrover products before so going into this with my eyes open! Been looking at cheap high mileage l322 rangies recently but been put off by the potential gearbox issues. Been offered an immaculate 2004 04 plate 4.4 petrol vogue with genuine 40k miles and full lrsh for £14k. Would consider as a longterm keeper and getting LPG converted properly if it proved to be all its cracked up to be. Is the low mileage a good thing or a mixed blessing? Would the forum consider this a good buy or not?

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No Range Rover is a "good buy", they are all money pits and are a purchase of last resort. The likes of me buy them because being crap they are very cheap and the info is around to DIY

Cheers everyone

So is it a fair comment that I should not be put off with a high miler (eg (ie in excess of 100k miles) and that low mileage is not of great importance but to bear in mind I might have to cough up for a gear box at some point?

To be fair, not bought a car with less than 100k for years!

Datatek said:

No Range Rover is a "good buy", they are all money pits and are a purchase of last resort. The likes of me buy them because being crap they are very cheap and the info is around to DIY

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Perfectly put:5biagree:

The price to me looks like you're a victim of winter surcharge. Do NOT pay that much for a Chuckie L322. They are not worth it. If you want a good buy, wait until spring or look else where. I'd never pay that much for a Chuckie when a TDV8 can be had for the same coin.

StuckAgainSteve said:

Way OTT price wise, you're heading towards TDV8 money there!

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Yep too expensive

There was an '06 TDV8 for sale on't bay for £9500 a couple of weeks ago. Was mildly tempted myself.

martynv8 said:

There was an '06 TDV8 for sale on't bay for £9500 a couple of weeks ago. Was mildly tempted myself.

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There was one for £6,500 on Monday, but the seller had "misplaced" the V5 while moving homes but they had to sell it quickly to pay for some medical treatment their child needed. The seller would deliver the vehicle to your front door for free too. Which I felt was very reasonable service.

The ad was only up for a few hours so it must've sold quickly, I mean at that price it wouldn't hang around, would it?

[edit: End of sarcasm voice. I know it would've been hotter than the surface of the sun and the home delivery was just a way to find a new target. I'm not as stupid as I am.]

Bix said:

There was one for £6,500 on Monday, but the seller had "misplaced" the V5 while moving homes but they had to sell it quickly to pay for some medical treatment their child needed. The seller would deliver the vehicle to your front door for free too. Which I felt was very reasonable service.

The ad was only up for a few hours so it must've sold quickly, I mean at that price it wouldn't hang around, would it?

[edit: End of sarcasm voice. I know it would've been hotter than the surface of the sun and the home delivery was just a way to find a new target. I'm not as stupid as I am.]

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free delivery I would of contributed to the sick kid only if they brought the kid along

Bix said:

There was one for £6,500 on Monday, but the seller had "misplaced" the V5 while moving homes but they had to sell it quickly to pay for some medical treatment their child needed. The seller would deliver the vehicle to your front door for free too. Which I felt was very reasonable service.

The ad was only up for a few hours so it must've sold quickly, I mean at that price it wouldn't hang around, would it?

[edit: End of sarcasm voice. I know it would've been hotter than the surface of the sun and the home delivery was just a way to find a new target. I'm not as stupid as I am.]

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It will have been taken down because it was a scam, the same scam keeps cropping up, if you try to report the ad you will find the Ebay item number doesn't exist according to Ebay.

Datatek said:

It will have been taken down because it was a scam, the same scam keeps cropping up, if you try to report the ad you will find the Ebay item number doesn't exist according to Ebay.

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Yep, seen that scam...there's a similar one comes up on Autotrader quite regularly, except the scam is to get you to buy the motor through 'finance', which ends up costing an even bigger fortune!

I got my 54 reg (2005) Vogue back in October for £8500, it has high mileage, but has been mint so far. You deffo pay a winter surcharge on 4x4's at this time of the year, so wait until early summer before taking the plunge. The prices will plummet and there'll be lots of models available to choose from.