Its Been a Year Now - So whats the Damage??

St.

spot on overview of RR ownership.
thanks for posting.

Thanks for the write up Ant. I don't think mine looks so bad now. Had mine almost a year and have changed discs and pads all round, full service, track rod, drag link, damper, brake fluid and shocks. Track rod was an advisory last year. So all preventive not waiting for failure. Sold my 20's and fitted 16's. All in all has cost me a total of £400 + fuel. Only covered 2400 miles since bought it. Ok I was in and out of the country for a while, but still used every day I've been here. Got bags to do soon and possible cam.

Ant's write up prompted me to assess my first year costs for my P38. Bought in March last year with 104,000 miles on the clock (new engine fitted @ 60k miles). Now has 128,500 so my mileage has been heavy for the first 14 months.

Maintenance :

First Service (106,052 miles)- indie £165.00
New rad, coolant flush & replace, brake pipes & front prop UJ - £325.00
Second service (113,520 miles) - including new disks / pads front & rear £289.72
Head gasket replacement (116,512 miles) - head skim, new leads & plugs - £620.00
Head gasket replacement 2 & LPG service (119,134 miles) - £514.18
Oil, filter change (120,759) - approx £40.00
Transmission fluid change (121,846) - £123.39
New serp belt fitted (approx 122,000) - £30 (plus spare belt - Dayco)
Alternator bearings replaced - £30
Oil, filter change & change water pump (126,862) - approx £80.00
New O/S rear hub - £280.00
New rear diff (approx 128,000 miles) - £222.50

Total £2720

I had budgeted around £2k for first year maintenance but HG's took it over somewhat.

Bits :

Dog guard - £40
New side steps - £195
Janspeed SS exhaust system - £475
New front tyres - £165
New set of bass speakers for doors & rear sub £52.00


I haven't had a chance to go through my exact fuel usage but a quick scan of my accounts show approx £4500 since March last year.

So tot-up for first year £8147 without road tax & insurance.

It seems high for just over a years running but to be fair alot of the work has been done by my mechanic & much of it has been preventative maintenance rather than waiting for something to completely fail. As i get to know the Rangie better & build up my confidence i plan to tackle more jobs myself & hope the next year will be less expensive. Jobs planned for the year ahead will be :

New airbags
New shocks
..........& hopefully not a new engine.

Makes looking after a 27 year old 110 a total dream on the wallet front!

Great post, this will be valuable to anyone looking into buying and living with this model.
I am keeping a log on my 110, will post this at sometime, I think the more info we get up on these forums the better, really good stuff

For another P38 V8 for comparison... Over 3 and a half years, ignoring the small bit and pieces:

Battery
Discs & pads
Radius arm bushes
Full Exhaust & manifolds
Radiator
General Grabber AT2 x 4
Ignition key
Towbar
Wash wipe stalk
Arnott air springs
Terrafirma dampers
ABS accumulator
Drag link

Engine, oil cooler, water pump and coil packs replaced under warranty at week 1, so not included.

Here's the costs inc. fuel...





Not bad really, but then only done 16k since purchase.

Stu

This is an L322 thread
Not p38 ! Lol

Stufer, what's that app you're using to track all that stuff?

Hippo I put for 'comparison'?

Speedy, apps called Road Trip on IOS, it's very good.

I use MPGCalc - just tracks MPG...also on iOS

How do you track it with petrol & LPG? Ignore the petrol and assume that all miles are done on LPG?

Do either of the apps use proper gallons or do they use American gallons?

Road Trip seems to. Just messing with the "lite" version now.

Looking at the others who have put up their costs, even although they are P38s, I have 2 thoughts : One I'm definitely being treated well by my L322 and Two I'm glad I'm a weirdo not a nerd, I couldn't be arsed having to put in mpg/ cost pg into an app

MPGCalc can be set to either unit values and also that weird one which uses litres and Km...

I just track it all as LPG as the half a mile to warm up on Petrol is negligable in my eyes....

Stufer said:

Hippo I put for 'comparison'?

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You can't compare the L322 to the P38 !!!

Here we go again

martynv8 said:

Here we go again

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Lol

2.0_hippo said:

You can't compare the L322 to the P38 !!!

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Never have you said a truer word, the P38 is much cheaper to run and the reliability is no different

Datatek said:

Never have you said a truer word, the P38 is much cheaper to run and the reliability is no different

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Don't you start !!!