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The Range Rover Thread
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moonstone
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Lol. A scenario that will never occur.
moonstone
Tyre Kicker
I don’t actually like them on that front bumper. It’s one thing about the kit I don’t like so if we can ditch them altogether I’ll be fine with that. Having done some digging tonight it looks like some folks shorten the pipe before the bend and also remove a bit of trim. Which I’m not that keen on. Bodyshop have said they’ve painted the brackets for them and added some mesh effect to create a pseudo-duct to the match the mesh above. I’ll see what that looks like.
That’s a shame first thing I did the night I got mine was plan a green lane. It performed brilliantly!
moonstone
Tyre Kicker
You driving around the bushes at night? There was obviously some dogging involved.
Phwoarrrrrr now we are talking!
I went Green laneing yesterday afternoon with a few Pals, it was good fun and quite scary once the light faded, but not again, I spent the whole morning cleaning and getting all the caked on dirt off, it was everywhere, then I had to jet wash the whole drive, as it looked like someone had delivered half a tonne of wet dirt and dumped it in the middle.
It came up nice though after a morning of cleaning !!
It came up nice though after a morning of cleaning !!
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Hi thanks, yeah not many full Factory Overfinch's made like this!! Where I live, there is a club / meet, that tend to meet up most weekends its been going for years, I used to go quite regular some time ago armed with a piece of Poo (Wranglers, Jeeps even a Vitara etc.. most have been jacked up Biffers and if the going got tuff you left it and collected another day!!) however with something nice you have to be a bit more careful where you go, and make sure at least one motor has a working Winch !! I know most of the courses around my way, and I know what the Finch can do, on the high setting and on Road tyres. You have to know what you are doing though, on a nice Range you can do a LOT of damage, underneath, sills, skirts, wheels, plastics and trim.
Yea I can imagine. I can confidently say I am handy behind the wheel of a rwd car. However off roading I have zero experience.
I am thinking to do the land rover experience day as a starting point and see where that goes.
Given it probably will not be anywhere near as hard-core as what you get up to. It would be a safe controlled environment.
What do you think?
We have done that twice now, Land Rover used to give you an overnight stay as well, but its just a morning or afternoon these days. Even so, Its still a great experience, and you will be surprised at what these cars can do and still make you think WTF this is my new car! (you can chose to go in there demo car as well, which we did on the first occasion) however, its all done with a safety net that protects you and the car (mainly the car)
Looking forward to you getting one, they are seriously lovely cars and the nicest place to be !
moonstone
Tyre Kicker
Cant answer the value question but if you compare cars 14 and 15 plate cars on autotrader you’ll get a close approximation of the difference. Full fat RR seems massive but I guess it isn’t that much bigger than the RRS. I could see me being more comfortable with a RR having lived with the RRS for a while
They are the same chassis, and just a little bit more overhang on the FF, so you will barely notice the difference. They feel different though, the FF feels bigger and more arm chair !
As for values, I don't think that should matter, but more get the car you want, as they are surprisingly different.
I was weighing up option, if for example a RR loses 25k in 3 years,. then it might make more financial sense to lease it. Something I have never done before, but stones thread as given me inspiration.
One of my pet hates is depreciation, that's why I bought an older Sport, as prices seem to have leveled off. You will always lose more money on the newer car.