Help needed

Just sold my D3 TDV6 today (awesome car but just too damn expensive to run),
I need another LR to help me get over it!

The dilemma is, do I buy a fairly decent RR P38 for around £6.5k and stick
an LPG kit in (another £2.5k) and use it everyday for work and family trips
or buy a Defender 90 V8 (been offered a cracking one from an enthusiast) to
play around in plus a newish diesel MPV for work/family.

The issue for me is reliability for the family/work trips, can I trust a P38
not to let me down and is it worth spending the money adding LPG? I do a
fair bit of mileage so can't afford to run a non LPG P38.

Any help appreciated.

Andy

"Andrew Cooke" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Just sold my D3 TDV6 today (awesome car but just too damn expensive to
> run), I need another LR to help me get over it!
>
> The dilemma is, do I buy a fairly decent RR P38 for around £6.5k and stick
> an LPG kit in (another £2.5k) and use it everyday for work and family
> trips or buy a Defender 90 V8 (been offered a cracking one from an
> enthusiast) to play around in plus a newish diesel MPV for work/family.
>
> The issue for me is reliability for the family/work trips, can I trust a
> P38 not to let me down and is it worth spending the money adding LPG? I do
> a fair bit of mileage so can't afford to run a non LPG P38.
>
> Any help appreciated.
>
> Andy

Personally, I dislike the P38, however given your choices I'd plump for a
p38 and gas it but then I'm biased - I'm an LPG installer! What about a
disco series II? Non-converted V8 models seem to go for ok money just now
and are worth considering for conversion. Again I'm biased, that's what I
run as my daily car.
Badger.
B.H.Engineering
Rover V8 engine specialists
www.bhengineering.co.uk
www.roverv8engines.com

On 2006-04-05, Andrew Cooke <[email protected]> wrote:

> The dilemma is, do I buy a fairly decent RR P38 for around £6.5k and
> stick an LPG kit in (another £2.5k) and use it everyday for work and
> family trips or buy a Defender 90 V8 (been offered a cracking one
> from an enthusiast) to play around in plus a newish diesel MPV for
> work/family.

I'd always recommend the latter option, however I'd probably go for a
110 over a 90 (in fact I did) as it's very useful for lugging stuff
around in.

With two cars, you can have a nice economical and cheap to repair
runabout for the family, then for the fun stuff and also lugging
things around you've got a 4x4 that you don't need to depend on if you
bounce it off rocks too hard.

Range Rovers are dodgy from what I've seen, too many electronics, all
connected together with the cheapest connectors available at the time
they were made. Last authorised landy dealer I went to said that they
normally see second-hand Range Rovers back within a few months of
selling them as the owners want shot of them as they don't realise how
long they'll spend in the dealer's workshops getting fixed.

Also you won't want to off-road in your only car, it's extremely easy
to scratch paint and bend metal when off-roading, you can cake the
inside in mud in no time at all, and of course if you run road tyres
(and that includes the pathetic "all terrain" tyres) on it you'll get
stuck very quickly, but if you put muds on it then you'll reduce brake
performance on the road.

So if you have the parking space, get the off-road toy that you can
use for messy stuff, and get the safer family car to do the daily
trips in.

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Ian Rawlings wrote:
> On 2006-04-05, Andrew Cooke <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The dilemma is, do I buy a fairly decent RR P38 for around £6.5k and
>> stick an LPG kit in (another £2.5k) and use it everyday for work and
>> family trips or buy a Defender 90 V8 (been offered a cracking one
>> from an enthusiast) to play around in plus a newish diesel MPV for
>> work/family.
>
> I'd always recommend the latter option, however I'd probably go for a
> 110 over a 90 (in fact I did) as it's very useful for lugging stuff
> around in.
>
> With two cars, you can have a nice economical and cheap to repair
> runabout for the family, then for the fun stuff and also lugging
> things around you've got a 4x4 that you don't need to depend on if you
> bounce it off rocks too hard.

if?

>
> Range Rovers are dodgy from what I've seen, too many electronics, all
> connected together with the cheapest connectors available at the time
> they were made. Last authorised landy dealer I went to said that they
> normally see second-hand Range Rovers back within a few months of
> selling them as the owners want shot of them as they don't realise how
> long they'll spend in the dealer's workshops getting fixed.
>
> Also you won't want to off-road in your only car, it's extremely easy
> to scratch paint and bend metal when off-roading, you can cake the
> inside in mud in no time at all, and of course if you run road tyres
> (and that includes the pathetic "all terrain" tyres) on it you'll get
> stuck very quickly, but if you put muds on it then you'll reduce brake
> performance on the road.
>
> So if you have the parking space, get the off-road toy that you can
> use for messy stuff, and get the safer family car to do the daily
> trips in.



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