What Would You Do?

We did 5000 miles in our p38 at Easter and had no problems, so take the P38 and enjoy

Datatek said:

Coils can often mean it's been poorly maintained.
I'm about to do about 1000 miles in 2 weeks on my annual trip to the UK, no hesitation in taking the P38 and no AA/RAC cover from France.

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+1

My 1000 mile trip to Cornwall 2 years ago eek: tempus fugit!) was completely trouble free, and that was with the puny battery fitted

I do weekly trip to London from Sheffield (330 miles) round trip. Done this for 2 1/2 years in the P38 & never had a problem.

I think it's going to be the p38 just did the diff oils so why not lol

kevwill said:

Coils
I think you should walk.

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+1, pulling the R/R behind him. I would never have spoken to him if I had know

Update: just got back from Scotland (ish) and the Rangie has done me very proud kept the family safe and very comfy we cruised up the A1 at 70/80mph didn't miss a beat. Small amount of traffics around scotch corner but temp gauge stayed exactly where it needed to. And! The biggest accomplishment of all my uncle who now has a 14 plate RangeRover got in it for a lift and when he got out he said "I'd honestly forgotten how nice they were to be in!" Glad I took it!

Will

Littelwill said:

Update: just got back from Scotland (ish) and the Rangie has done me very proud kept the family safe and very comfy we cruised up the A1 at 70/80mph didn't miss a beat. Small amount of traffics around scotch corner but temp gauge stayed exactly where it needed to. And! The biggest accomplishment of all my uncle who now has a 14 plate RangeRover got in it for a lift and when he got out he said "I'd honestly forgotten how nice they were to be in!" Glad I took it!

Will

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Off to the UK in mine in 2 weeks, will rack up about a thousand miles.

Hi all,
Just got back last week from my hols down in Cornwall, covered just over 1,000 miles and my old girl never missed a beat. She towed our caravan up and down some big hills and coped very well, EAS behaved perfectly, locked it in motorway mode and she was spot on. Never used a drop of of coolant or oil. My neighbour on our camp site restores cars and said how good my old girl looked, in fact he had to borrow some of my tools that I took to fix his fairly new discovery TDV6, that put a smile on my face. Only down side was that petrol was 5 pence a litre dearer than my local area.

Will you be doing any special maintence to it before the journey? There's another thread about long journeys running at the minute.

I did a 1000 miles in mine last week as my weekly commute. The local petrol station loved me.

Not a single problem, nae a beep pop bang or fizzle.

Dont see why people are worried about the reliability of these vehicles to be fair. :der:

vilguy said:

I did a 1000 miles in mine last week as my weekly commute. The local petrol station loved me.

Not a single problem, nae a beep pop bang or fizzle.

Dont see why people are worried about the reliability of these vehicles to be fair. :der:

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WOW Terry, that's some commute, but yes totally agree about the reliability of these beasts. Only real issue I had was the EAS ECU playing up when I first got it but that's it really, only let me down at the roadside once when coolant hose split due to it being the original and had perished, I had changed all others but overlooked that one so really it was my own fault, but since then she has been as good as gold.

Datatek said:

Coils can often mean it's been poorly maintained.
I'm about to do about 1000 miles in 2 weeks on my annual trip to the UK, no hesitation in taking the P38 and no AA/RAC cover from France.

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data theres loads of scrapyards in france and southern England on your way so you can always drop yours off at one of them then fly back home ave a great time here cheers mozz :drum: