mark 4x4
Active Member
not getting rid of mine so will ring around next week to get the block sorted, may even get the liners my self from turners at about £50 each inc vat then get someone to machine my block and fit them for me as a man i know and trust as recommended that i use the liners from them, cannot remember the name of them lol
so looking like thats the way iam look to go down
so looking like thats the way iam look to go down
fortgrange
Active Member
Any advance on one!!!
kooky_guy
Well-Known Member
Prior to my breakdown yesterday, I would have said that mine was good.
141k, with 80k being on lpg.
I'm hoping that it was just a bodged radiator repair that caused it. Not sure what I'm going to do if a new rad etc doesn't solve it. I've got too much invested in it to just junk it, but where do you draw the line?
From what I've read, the quality control on the V8 production line was truly awful with no two blocks coming out the same. Some experts blame worn tooling, but the end result was that some blocks were almost built to fail.
Personally, it seems to me to be luck of the draw whether your block fails or not.
141k, with 80k being on lpg.
I'm hoping that it was just a bodged radiator repair that caused it. Not sure what I'm going to do if a new rad etc doesn't solve it. I've got too much invested in it to just junk it, but where do you draw the line?
From what I've read, the quality control on the V8 production line was truly awful with no two blocks coming out the same. Some experts blame worn tooling, but the end result was that some blocks were almost built to fail.
Personally, it seems to me to be luck of the draw whether your block fails or not.
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Alan C
Active Member
Thing is on a forum, you're not going to get 20 owners who say their engine exploded but another 100 owners say they have had no issues at all, so you will always read about the worst that can happen, so it will always appear to be doom and gloom. Who posts on here saying "Hi, new to the forum, I've owned my Rangie for 7 years now and nothing has ever gone wrong"? No one! But I bet there are cars out there that behave themselves.
Alan C
Active Member
Damn - apart from him!! --> http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/dse-running-brilliant-173402.html
Pikey
Dummy Ejection Facilitator..
Don't talk like an idiot. Yes most of the peeps that come on a forum do it to get help. But that's because they've bought a British engineered vehicle. And as everybody with half a brain cell knows. British engineering and manufacture has been a joke for the last 40 years. and the word Quality Control was something to be reminisced about, not practiced. :doh:
fortgrange
Active Member
Hope the rad sorts it mate, but as you say where do you draw the line. A mate of mine has just dropped a new lump in at a cost of £5500 (Turners) That was a slipped liner issue at 165K over 100K on LPG. He took the view it was worth nothing as it was, so he's paid £5500 for a motor he loves and should be good for another 100K.
Just hope I could be as positive if it happened to me.
fortgrange
Active Member
Alan C
Active Member
I've owned many other makes of cars, and had issues with all of them. My friends have issues with theirs, an Audi that cuts out on the motorway due to failed injectors and harneses that the manufacturer says is just bad luck but forums say otherwise, a series of Peugeots that were always in for service, new one is back in for replacement cam chain as it's stretched at 10k miles! A BMW that eats doozle pumps etc etc. It's not just LR products that were/are unreliable. We're typically talking about our cars over 10 years old and moan that LR was unreliable, the Audi is 5 years old, the Peugeots were constantly in for service from new, the BMW 2 years old. Cars are complex mechanical beats, and will suffer faults, almost inevitable. That's why forums took off, so we, the mechanically competant (or otherwise!) can share fixes and save on repair costs. And hurrah to forums, helped me out loads of times, and I hope I've helped out others 
