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I had a 2002 911 …. Great car - sold It and got a Tesla a couple of years ago though …..

Check pick and pull locations in the Bay Area - they sometimes have landrovers. I had someone pull a transmission for my daughters bmw - $125 - and ran well! Engine is also cheap - of course it can be a crap shoot ..look for a car that hit a tree ! Engine was probably running at the time

Discussion Starter • #1 • a moment ago Went to start the rover this morning... it cranked for 10 seconds then finally started ... ran rough, smelt of fuel, check engine light flashed on then off, hdd fault, transmission fault F code in display. I shut it down. Tried a restart and it would only crank. Got out the odb2 reader .. showed 2 pending codes .. p0118 (apparently coolant temp sensor error) and u2023p. Thermostat body had been replaced about 2 years ago.. so hard to believe the coolant sensor had failed. I pulled the engine cover off .. and saw the mouse had been chewing the insulation from the cover ... after I cleaned that up, I saw wiring damage on one of the wires that runs along the top left side of the engine (as you are looking at it from the front) ... pulled he connector and soldered a bit of spare wire in to fix the break... rover started right up and seems to run normal now .... off to the hardware store to get some mouse traps !2006 Range Rover sport hse 4.4 na

The 4 ramp trick worked for oil change - not needed though - off road height is good enough. I found out the same for rear diff - off road height and slide under the car from passenger side rear. Fluid change was pretty easy. Filled to spec with 500ml lab syringe from Amazon. Old fluid with about 45k miles on it still looked pretty good. Some gunk and metal particles on mag drain plug - but also not too bad: will add pic when I’m on my other computer.

I'm going to do diff fluid change on my RR Sport ... access under the vehicle in off road height is OK for oil change, but would like a little more for this job. Have people here driven the vehicle up onto 4 Rhino Ramps to do jobs like this ? Seems like it should be feasible. Also, for you Lr3 owners - I see some people that just fill until fluid comes out of the fill hole .. but LR recommendation is to use the exact fill amount specified - I have a syringe to measure out the correct fill level - how critical is that ? Going to try the FUCHs Titan 75W90 that is listed as alternative to Castrol. Will report back how good/bad my old fluid looked after 50K ....

Thanks for the replies guys - I went with the Castro’s gtx hm 10w40 - amd mann filter - seems to have Reduced the leaks from sump pan and oil cooler lines - and running fine so far .....

Had random alarm going off events - especially parked in the afternoon sun. A quick forum search suggested hood sensor micro switch is common failure - ordered one off amazon, 20 min install, and all looking good. Let’s hope that was where the issue was and it is fixed now.

Had random alarm going off events - especially parked in the afternoon sun. A quick forum search suggested hood sensor micro switch is common failure - ordered one off amazon, 20 min install, and all looking good. Let’s hope that was where the issue was and it is fixed now.

Recently started in bbc America - Chris Harris is main presenter now - the new team work really well together - I think almost as good as clarkson and co. Anyway / they have a Nepal special episode you can stream on Comcast - while not landrovering it is mostly off road and pretty funny / cool .... enjoy

At 6pm - new season - Landrover 2A episode. On mototrend channel (Comcast 754)

2002 4.6 HSE What do you guys run and how many miles between oil changes ? I'm thinking to go with Castrol GTX HM (semi syn) 10W40 .... doesn't get too cold around here ..

Oh no - what happened ? No rangerover sport for you instead of another d2 ?

It was a 2006 - so yes 4.4 jag engine - funny how we are saying that jag reliability is at least 2x bmw (here) !!

Maybe that model year was the jag engine ?

This l322 got to 300k miles - with only a new tranny bu Th e looks of it ... https://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cto/d/danville-range-rover-hse-white-06/7133818308.html (Not affiliated)