Supercharged Range Rover

[gravitylover]

Some of you probably saw posts about the motor in my 13 retiring due to shoddy recall work, I struggled trying to find a replacement I felt I could trust but for what they cost you can get something different that's really nice. I have also reached the point of fed up with Subaru enough to just bail on it so it's for sale. If you need a track car build platform that needs nothing other than a motor and some rear brakes here it is. Anyway...

A friend came up with a smokin' deal on an 06 Range Rover Supercharged and he has it at his shop now getting it fully dialed in. Just a wee hint of pressure on that go pedal and this mutha stands up and boogies For a 5500 pound truck it's amazing. It has less miles on it than my car does, ought to be a killer traveling rig for a sales rep that would rather not stay in motels during Covid times and it sounds fukn MEAN. It's got acres of off white leather and wood trim that's really sharp looking but it needs a little TLC to get the family abused interior up to snuff.

Talk about a polar opposite to a BRZ

[DarkPira7e]

How much are you selling for?

[jflogerzi]

Would not touch that range rover with a 10ft pole

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[bcj]

It's at a shop?

Owner is desperately hoping to sell?

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by DarkPira7e

How much are you selling for?

I would love to get $5k but won't be hugely disappointed or surprised if I don't get all of that.

Originally Posted by jflogerzi

Would not touch that range rover with a 10ft pole

Worried about that Lucas - Prince of darkness dude? After 15 years chances are all of those gremlins have been chased away, if they haven't been they're probably nothing devastating so I'm not too worried about it. The motor is the supercharged BMW V8 which is a proven unit, the tranny is a pretty stout unit used in some much bigger trucks and overall other than a questionable air suspension it's pretty robust mechanically.

Originally Posted by bcj

It's at a shop?

Owner is desperately hoping to sell?

It's a friend of my old friend who doesn't need it and just wants it out of the way. They're the kind of people that truly don't care about the money, they have 5 cars and this wasn't getting used anymore so it needs to be gone. The service history is pretty solid and he runs a shop that specializes in high end European repairs so he's going to totally dial it in like it was his own because she's covering all the expenses to make the sale happen. It will have new tires, the rotors and pads have about 2k miles on them, it will have fresh fluids top to bottom and a fresh transmission filter too and it's headed to a LR specialist on Tuesday to be scanned, reprogrammed, updated and tuned. For about the same price as a Camry with 200k from the same year would go for I'm getting a heckuva nice rig with 120k and a full refresh.

[jflogerzi]

More power to you. Get what makes you happy

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[MuseChaser]

Speaking from extensive personal experience, used Range Rovers are just about the most expensive "great deal" out there. That's why they start out as such great deals. Don't get me wrong... I loved ours. I would even buy another as a hobby. As daily transportation for non-mechanics without other vehicles always available, they are nightmares.

[e30cabrio]

I went the oposite direction. Crew Max Tundra to 86.

I had a 2006 X5 4.8 with that motor minus the SC, great but there are several very intricate systems that cost a fortune to fix not the least of which is VANOS. I am mechanically inclined and could have fixed it (it had not broken yet) but the job is over 4k and the tools are 1800! I sold mine at 120k because I did not want to deal with a broken e53.

Good luck.

[Atropine]

Not only is it a 13 year old Range Rover...

It is a 13 year old Supercharged Range Rover.

I have many coworkers (I work in the medical field so a lot of us want to have the "appearance" of being well to do) who buy used Range Rovers...

This may help you.

[soundman98]

I don't always hemmorage money, but when I do, it's in a land rover service center

[Sasquachulator]

Primary requirement for owning a used Range Rover:

-A metric fuckton of disposable income.

[gravitylover]

Yeah you hear a lot of negatives but as you start to dig into the community you hear a lot of positives too, pretty much like any enthusiast vehicle. If someone who knew nothing about the BRZ/86 was cruising around the internet and the tech section here was the first place they stumbled on they would think the car is a hoopty out of the factory. MuseChaser's experience is definitely valid and seemingly not uncommon but again, like I said upthread, there's a pretty good chance that after 15 years of regular service an awful lot of the gremlins should have been worked out by now and the level and type of chatter about problems on LR forums and Fb groups kind of shows that. I keep talking to people with 200k+ on theirs and a lot of them say the same thing, it was an adventure for a while there but it got easier after a while because I replaced everything and now it just goes and goes. This one is fairly low mileage so it may still have another round of issues ahead of it but it's spending an awful lot of time in the shop before I bring it home, hopefully they take care of the basics and give me a good baseline to go with.

Reality is I know that at this price it's a throwaway, if I get a year out of it and have to get rid of it I'll be disappointed but not surprised. If I get two years I'll be happy and will reassess whether to keep it and make another round of investments in it's future. It's really surprising how inexpensive some of the parts for it are, things that people have paid thousands for are down to old Dodge truck prices. Even replacement motors that were $15k are a couple grand at most, cheaper than I'm finding for my BRZ. Air susp rebuild parts like shock seal kits are $30 and the airbags are like $100 and with the coastal northeast being one of the N American hotspots for LR's there are a couple of pretty good specialty salvage yards, you never see that for most other brands of vehicles other than a handful. The thing isn't rusty and I'll get under it and clean it up and use that Por15 stuff so maybe it'll stay that way and I can work on it without the rustbucket issues that usually turn me off.

Yeah I'm going into it with rose colored glasses but you kinda have to because that Prince of Darkness dude can't handle positivity For the same money I could get a 4Runner with 250k miles that "needs some light work" and new tires or an Accord with 200k that has a thoroughly worn out drivers seat and still has the original spark plugs or I could get something super nice, with a good service history being prepped by a pro that I've known for 30 years that should be a great road trip rig for me to work out of. It's also fast as shit and sounds fkn mean both things the BRZ doesn't have going for it.

[gravitylover]

Originally Posted by e30cabrio

I went the oposite direction. Crew Max Tundra to 86.

I had a 2006 X5 4.8 with that motor minus the SC, great but there are several very intricate systems that cost a fortune to fix not the least of which is VANOS. I am mechanically inclined and could have fixed it (it had not broken yet) but the job is over 4k and the tools are 1800! I sold mine at 120k because I did not want to deal with a broken e53.

Good luck.

I was wrong, it's a 4.2 Jag motor. Yeah, that doesn't make it any better

[Atropine]

If your friend can/will help ya, I think it can be a really cool ride man.

I just don't have an Ace in the Hole...so they scare me lol.