What did you do with your Range Rover today

[neilly]

Stuck £97 worth of dino doozil in it.

Ready for another week.

Cheers

 

[RangeRoller dt]

go for a kent cam with just a little bit more power and torque.

got my first start building industrial units right next to KentCams. Had 3 weeks work but was there for years. Used to go in and buy chilled cans out of the vending machine and you get joking and laughing with the boys. They’d take us in to see what they were doing in the shop. Breathtaking some of it - one was an F1 car they were putting together lining it all up with lasers. In return we used to leave the gates open when everyone had gone so they could use the brand new tarmac for ‘testing’. Good bunch of guys and insane drivers lol.

 

[Grrrrrr]

@Dopey: 1001!

 

[stuu]

1001 pages wow. Im sure this thread was in the 300s when i joined with my red p38 6 years ago. (corrected i was 24 when i got my red p38)

I think its was almost fate i ended up with a l322 and a gearbox job....

Red p38 auto smashed flex plate gearbox out.
Black p38 manual box was always seconds from exploding.
Green p38 manual. Box had no syncros left im sure.
Disco 2. 2 gearboxes went bang.

 

[Grrrrrr]

1001 pages wow. Im sure this thread was in the 300s when i joined with my red p38 7 years ago.

There might even be a useful comment in there somewhere.

 

[stuu]

There might even be a useful comment in there somewhere.

Not likely from me

 

[Dopey]

@Dopey: 1001!

Yea crazy who'd have thought eh?

 

[tomcat59alan]

1001 pages wow. Im sure this thread was in the 300s when i joined with my red p38 6 years ago. (corrected i was 24 when i got my red p38)

I think its was almost fate i ended up with a l322 and a gearbox job....

Red p38 auto smashed flex plate gearbox out.
Black p38 manual box was always seconds from exploding.
Green p38 manual. Box had no syncros left im sure.
Disco 2. 2 gearboxes went bang.

There seems to be a theme here,have you thought of taking the divers boot off your right foot?

 

[kermit_rr]

There seems to be a theme here,have you thought of taking the divers boot off your right foot?

i know someone who managed to kill an autobox, never put foot on the brake when shifting to D or R and would shift between the 2 while still in motion

 

[tomcat59alan]

i know someone who managed to kill an autobox, never put foot on the brake when shifting to D or R and would shift between the 2 while still in motion

I knew a knobhead who used to stop his XJ6 by selecting P

 

[Enthusiastman]

Off to look at 2 P38's tomorow local to me. 1 is a 97 model 4.6 Autobiograpy model and the other is a 2001 4.0 HSE. Both cars are blue. If either one floats my boat then i may buy one of them or just wait for the dealer of the red Vogue SE to get back to me to say he has fixed the oil leak on it and then resume that deal.
Oh the joys of P38 hunting eh!!! LOL

 

[stuu]

There seems to be a theme here,have you thought of taking the divers boot off your right foot?

I did consider it once

 

[gold rover]

i know someone who managed to kill an autobox, never put foot on the brake when shifting to D or R and would shift between the 2 while still in motion

Not quite D to R , but I once did 3rd to R, in a 'special duties' Range Rover.
I was on a Close Protection course and doing the 'get the hell out of here , we've been ambushed' drill. So out of the blue a car blocks the road, shots fired. The accepted action was slow down, into reverse and j-turn. However, in my 'eagerness', I just slammed from 3rd to reverse. Ohhhhhh you should've seen everyone's faces

 

[kermit_rr]

done a J in a manual box, with a clutch, auto sounds 'awkward'

 

[gold rover]

done a J in a manual box, with a clutch, auto sounds 'awkward'

I've never tried it in an auto. I suppose brakes on , reverse selected, then neutral as you throw it round , putting it in to semi-auto to go forward, before going back into auto? Sounds complicated. All of our 'special duties' vehicles were manual. So never had to try it

 

[Dopey]

When I did mine I was told to hit the back (if the road was blocked by the car) and keep driving forward, the trouble with U turns and J turns is you have to almost stop to make them

 

[gold rover]

When I did mine I was told to hit the back (if the road was blocked by the car) and keep driving forward, the trouble with U turns and J turns is you have to almost stop to make them

There are several solutions, I was only relating that one as it tied in with the conversation. Who did you do your Close Protection course with?

 

[Dopey]

There are several solutions, I was only relating that one as it tied in with the conversation. Who did you do your Close Protection course with?

Virgin Atlantic.... (I know but true) they sent me on a weeks course, and I used to drive mainly Arabs about the UK

 

[gold rover]

Virgin Atlantic.... (I know but true) they sent me on a weeks course, and I used to drive mainly Arabs about the UK

How do you do a J turn in an aeroplane
My course was slightly longer than a week. The driving element alone took about that, if I remember correctly. Got to say it was worth it , for all the gucci gear alone

 

[tomcat59alan]

Virgin Atlantic.... (I know but true) they sent me on a weeks course, and I used to drive mainly Arabs about the UK

Hope you didn't stop and let them out.