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I am offering my Range Rover for sale as I am looking to purchase a classic commercial light van to use as a promotional vehicle for a recently started business.
If it doesn't attract a buyer, then I shall bin this as an idea, keep the car and enjoy it having got it to the simply super condition that the photos portray. Although not always the case with these classic Range Rovers, this one is as good underneath as it is pretty on top, a very solid car and mechanically good too.
The car has very low ownership for its 34 years age, just 4 previous owners to me. I have just had the car MOT tested, which it passed with no advisory items noted, and also it had a full service and thorough mechanical inspection at a well know marque specialist. A new brake master cylinder and servo were fitted, but nothing else was required.
The VM diesel is a sound power unit, this one having had the head gaskets replaced by a better single piece item and the engine runs at a temperature just below half way on the gauge, even on the hottest of days. Being a diesel it doesn't suffer from the running problems and gremlins that commonly afflict the fuel injected V8 petrol models, nor their biblical thirst or need for E5 petrol. This is a most useable classic, surprisingly economical, and will happily cruise at 70mph - although anything faster is probably outside of its normal capabilities.
The car is a manual, again avoiding the auto gearbox problems often found on petrol models, and what I call a poverty spec - which means less to go wrong. No electric seat issues for example. The interior is nevertheless a nice place to be and on the whole is well preserved and presented. The roof lining has been replaced - I've seen better, I've seen worse.
I have fitted CSK/ LSE alloys with good tyres all round (generally thought to be a £1, 000 job if you can get them) and also replaced the awful later steering wheel with the more desirable earlier 4 spoke version newly retrimmed in leather (£600 if again you can find one)
So looking at the value of these modifications and the rather nice registration number (included) you're paying about £14k for a very straight, honest, immediately useable Range Rover. You could buy a lot worse at that money or pay a lot more for one as good as this.
Always garaged, but a little tight in my garage as the pictures show - another reason something like a Ford Escort Van would be better for me.
