What did you do with your Range Rover today

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yea l322 stu.

well iv filled up the PAS with the fluid that you have to buy direct from LR apparently at £20 per L!

Which will hopefully do me to be able to get to the garage.

I was going to attempt it myself but its a full on engine supported by hoist so you can take the sub frame out to get the rack out job. and i dont unfortunately have time space or equipment to do it, so was just easier to book it in somewhere, its at an indie that have done a few before so they should know what they are doing. and they have a good reputation aswell.

But i still need to do my valve gaskets aswell soon, and iv also found out that the gaskets on my vanos solenoids are leaking too, this is apparently quite a common problem according to the bimmer forums, and its these gaskets that people dont realise that cause the vanos rattle on start up, if ther leaking then they dont hold the vacuum in the engine and the oil drops back into the sump........ or something along those lines!
 
Started her , after abandoning here for a week, and she was a happy little RR. Then just to pamper her I took her for a run, then down to the local hand wash. Got her washed and dried, brought her home and waxed her.
Now all I have to do is tax her :rolleyes:
 
Filled 'er up with derv. £134.9 a litre from Total. I am loving this little price war. :D

sas1810 said:
Give it the once over for the MOT. And found that the company will pay me 45p a mile when I have to use it to go to the other offices. Nice!
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That is how much we get. I think it is the max you can be paid before you have to pay the tax man for the extra income.
 
Bix said:
Filled 'er up with derv. £134.9 a litre from Total. I am loving this little price war. :D



That is how much we get. I think it is the max you can be paid before you have to pay the tax man for the extra income.
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I think but I'm not sure, that it also has bearing on whether you need business insurance for journey to and from work. I know the paltry 25ppm we get is disregarded as needing business insurance.
Today what I did with my Range Rover is : tax her :Cry::Cry::Cry:
 
As I get a Car Allowance (cos our current crop of Company Car choice is total ****e - so I take the cash allowance in leiu of a car) I only can claim back 15p/m and I also need to prove Insurance cover, MOT, TAX and Service Information!

Those not in the Company Car Scheme get 40p/m I think!
 
gold rover said:
I think but I'm not sure, that it also has bearing on whether you need business insurance for journey to and from work. I know the paltry 25ppm we get is disregarded as needing business insurance.
Today what I did with my Range Rover is : tax her :Cry::Cry::Cry:
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Yeah, my first year the boss agreed to pay the insurance difference. Second year he wasn't will to pay the £400 extra (I'm a yooff remember) required to cover business use so I refuse to use my car for biz needs.

For me old van t'was only £45 extra a year so he was happy with that.

Saint.V8 said:
As I get a Car Allowance (cos our current crop of Company Car choice is total ****e - so I take the cash allowance in leiu of a car) I only can claim back 15p/m and I also need to prove Insurance cover, MOT, TAX and Service Information!

Those not in the Company Car Scheme get 40p/m I think!
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Tbh, I'd happily take a company vehicle, even one of the pap vans. That way I get 0 costs to travel the 60 miles a day. Although we're currently replacing the pap vehicles with new uns, so I might get lucky.

Although if I got a van I'd have to drive like a growed up 'cause of the company branding. :(
 
Bix said:
Yeah, my first year the boss agreed to pay the insurance difference. Second year he wasn't will to pay the £400 extra (I'm a yooff remember) required to cover business use so I refuse to use my car for biz needs.

For me old van t'was only £45 extra a year so he was happy with that.



Tbh, I'd happily take a company vehicle, even one of the pap vans. That way I get 0 costs to travel the 60 miles a day. Although we're currently replacing the pap vehicles with new uns, so I might get lucky.

Although if I got a van I'd have to drive like a growed up 'cause of the company branding. :(
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Not quite zero costs...HMRC will gladly erode your pocket for additional Tax contributions on the use of a company vehicle...

I am actually now better off without a Company Car (except for the repair/maintenance costs which are now my responsibility) than I was with it, even though I have to pay Tax on my Car Allowance...it is less Tax than I was paying for the benefit of having a company car!

Only by about £50-60 a month put that is a weeks fuel on LPG!
 
Datatek said:
Boody ell that's expensive, it's €1,249 here and with the exchange rate at better than €1.16 to the £, that equates to £1.077 a litre:D:D:D
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Yes, but you live in France. So you lose out there. :p

Saint.V8 said:
Not quite zero costs...HMRC will gladly erode your pocket for additional Tax contributions on the use of a company vehicle...

I am actually now better off without a Company Car (except for the repair/maintenance costs which are now my responsibility) than I was with it, even though I have to pay Tax on my Car Allowance...it is less Tax than I was paying for the benefit of having a company car!

Only by about £50-60 a month put that is a weeks fuel on LPG!
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Ah, that is if I have a company car, the vans don't have the same costs. If we didn't rent out half the building, we could just park the vans in the garages overnight, instead they are taken to various houses for safe storage.

The lads who got cars did see a slight kick in the crotch from the tax man.

That ain't bad fuel bill, I'm spending about that with derv. Shoulda got the Vee. :(
 
Bix said:
Yes, but you live in France. So you lose out there. :p



Ah, that is if I have a company car, the vans don't have the same costs. If we didn't rent out half the building, we could just park the vans in the garages overnight, instead they are taken to various houses for safe storage.

The lads who got cars did see a slight kick in the crotch from the tax man.

That ain't bad fuel bill, I'm spending about that with derv. Shoulda got the Vee. :(
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Most of our vans head to homes in the evening too...aslong as over the year, no more than 500 miles is done in a company van on 'private' mileage, the Tax man doesn't come sniffing about...anymore than that and if the Tally man comes auditing, on a sticky wicket we could be!

I do about 260-290 miles a week and that is around the £60 mark on LPG my monthly fuel bill is around the £300 mark! and works out to be 22p per mile whereas my Derv P38 was 25/26p per mile at last year prices!
 
Saint.V8 said:
Most of our vans head to homes in the evening too...aslong as over the year, no more than 500 miles is done in a company van on 'private' mileage, the Tax man doesn't come sniffing about...anymore than that and if the Tally man comes auditing, on a sticky wicket we could be!

I do about 260-290 miles a week and that is around the £60 mark on LPG my monthly fuel bill is around the £300 mark! and works out to be 22p per mile whereas my Derv P38 was 25/26p per mile at last year prices!
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T'is all hills up here. I spend anywhere from £45 to £65 for the same trip each week, depending how hard I nail the throttle into the carpet. Since it is tourist season (and summer derv) I'm getting more to the tank, but trip kapooter still says 22MPG. Which makes it very expensive business. More than your Vee in fact.

In old van I was filling up at around 300 miles mark (used the trip computer to know when to fill up as fuel gauge was faulty) and it used to need around £43 a week. :(

gold rover said:
Snigger. I was about to say words to the same effect :lol:
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The Englandishests and Scotlandicans may differ on a lot of things, but we're all united by a hatred of the French. :lol:
 
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