What did you do with your Range Rover today

tomcat59alan said:

I wouldn't trust anybody who frequents this forum,we're all rogues and vagabonds. Did he say what his handle was? It wasn't Honest Mike was it .

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Where is Mike?
Thought he be on here more with lockdown unless he gone back to doing the b*at?

RangeRoller dt said:

Where is Mike?
Thought he be on here more with lockdown unless he gone back to doing the b*at?

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He wasn't too good last I heard from him.Happy New Year Jack.

Today was the first time on significant amounts of ice, new experience for me in the p38!
First time I've felt the brakes do their thing for a sustained period and have to say it felt quite odd when the pedal locked up solid! I'm used to feedback from the abs and to keep pressure on the pedal

I've had a Torquemax cam on my shelf for quite a while..

A good way to spend new years



This explains it's lack of umph



I'm quite buzzed after 1/2 a bottle of fine Whisky so I do wonder whether it'll go back together in the right order

Henry_b said:

I've had a Torquemax cam on my shelf for quite a while..

A good way to spend new years

This explains it's lack of umph

I'm quite buzzed after 1/2 a bottle of fine Whisky so I do wonder whether it'll go back together in the right order

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Mine still wins

Hit 130,000 yesterday, so that'll be 5k since March

Henry_b said:

I've had a Torquemax cam on my shelf for quite a while..

A good way to spend new years

This explains it's lack of umph

I'm quite buzzed after 1/2 a bottle of fine Whisky so I do wonder whether it'll go back together in the right order

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Damage done before your ownership, presumably? Cams seem to wear fast on the v8. Does enough oil get there?

Grrrrrr said:

Damage done before your ownership, presumably? Cams seem to wear fast on the v8. Does enough oil get there?

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Don't know about'enrys, but mine went from running seemingly normal to totally guided in a 15 mile journey. Didn't seem to have oil problems though

Cheese cams!!

Henry_b said:

Hit 130,000 yesterday, so that'll be 5k since March

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Catching up with me! Lol.
Is good to see you clocking the miles up after all that time it was in bits
We wanna see the new plates on her

Grrrrrr said:

Damage done before your ownership, presumably? Cams seem to wear fast on the v8. Does enough oil get there?

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The issue isn't the Cams LR in their infinite wisdom deciding to recommend a 10w40, nowt wrong with the grade however most 10w's have little to no ZDDP in them which prolongs the life of the cams.

Without it the cams wear, the process accelerates when the servicing interval is extended



Some say lob a 20w50 in it, to be fair unless the oil has a high level of ZDDP it is pointless.

Valvoline VR1 20w50
Penrite HPR 5w40
Castrol Edge 10w60

Are all good.

A Generic 10w40 will do fine with a Zinc additive...

The same can be said for any Pushrod V8s

unless they have roller cams



Mind you The RV8 is a walk in the park compared to other troublesome Range Rover V8s

I thought about going out and having a crack at my timing chains. Ten seconds out there made me decide to wait for a warmer bloody day.

WTF.... 18 hours.... and its still the same, did 2021 start yet?

Dopey said:

WTF.... 18 hours.... and its still the same, did 2021 start yet?

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It's the quiet ones you have to watch, like a volcano that grumbles for years, then without any warning all hell breaks loose

Dopey said:

WTF.... 18 hours.... and its still the same, did 2021 start yet?

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Yep but you wouldn't have noticed

Towed a Kia Sportage out of the mud. Seems they thought they had an off-roader!

Still got an annoying water leak!!!!

Grrrrrr said:

Towed a Kia Sportage out of the mud. Seems they thought they had an off-roader!

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Lucky you didn’t pull the front end off