Range Rover Q&A!!!!

Sep 02, 2004 4 Replies
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Does anyone see anything wrong with this car, apart from the bullbars, the running boards & light covers? Also, the stripes look s**te, but the interior looks good & he's at least honest about the faults. The main thing is no MOT, but he will put one on I am hoping or I wont bid any further. The 'missing a beat' now & again could be a few things, but has anyone got any idea what it would be? My guess would be a shagged ECU. Did the early Efi have distributors, or did they have electronic ignition?



Cheers



Nige


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Shagged ECU or a problem with the ignition. Ones that age had the flapper injection system (Lucas 4CU) and did indeed have a distributor - I've seen them with both contact breaker points and breakerless "electronic" points.

The ECUs on these (from the research I was doing a while ago) have a tendency to die due to dry joints - there is a place I found at

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who claim to be able to analyse them andfix them. Landrover price for just the air mass meter for one of thesesystems is £575+VAT, they *thought* the ECU was about 50% on that. I'm wondering what the heavy blue cable running across the bulkhead from the offside wing is, but if the photos are anything to go by it looks like a very tidy 15 year old Range Rover, although I'm not sure but the photos look like it may sit a little left-side-low, but springs are cheap.

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Well if you have put a bid on the car, then you have to honour that bid, that's the way an auction works.

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Yeah, but it does have to be as described is what I meant!

Nige

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Missing a beat could be lots of things, but I'd start with a full service (if only to get a much of the Slick 50 out as possible) and new plugs, cap, rotor arm and ignition amplifier. Have a good look at the leads as well.

ECU is possible, but IME that seems to be everyone's immediate thought but rarely the actual cause. It's also the most expensive thing to swap!

While you've got the plugs out do a compression test and see that you get fairly even numbers across all the cylinders. I'd also want to see nice clean coolant (it seems to come in all different colours these days, but not rusty brown). And clean or black oil, not milky!

Yer man has 100% feedback on a mix of 65 selling and buying transactions. A good sign I would say...

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