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Land Rover Series I, II & III. Much like a Jeep, original Willys and CJ, the roof comes off, the panels come off, the body is aluminium, the engine and electr
by kagamine 10y ago
Land Rover Series I, II & III.
Much like a Jeep, original Willys and CJ, the roof comes off, the panels come off, the body is aluminium, the engine and electrics are simple enough for most people to fix. Most of what can be mechanical like the fuel pump is mechanical, not electric. They are high enough up off the ground that they can be serviced without a jack, for oil and anti-freeze etc. Truly a utility vehicle.
- dsfyu404ed 10y ago>Most of what can be mechanical like the fuel pump is mechanical, not electric. At least the British engineers aren't in denial about British automotive electronics. >They are high enough up off the ground that they can be serviced without a jack Which is a good thing based on the reputation LR has gone out of it's way to build for itself over the last half century.
- kagamine 10y agoLand Rover owners like to joke about how awful they are, I think it's also a British sense of humour thing. LRs haven't been any worse than any other car I have owned. The series 3 ended production in 1985, the reputation of LR being of poor quality or hard to fix came after modernization of the vehicles into consumer and mainstream markets. Series vehicles are bulletproof, sometimes quite literally (https://www.google.no/search?q=armoured+land+rover&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxjpuipp7SAhWMWSwKHf2RAWYQsAQIGw&biw=1292&bih=887 https://www.google.no/search?q=armoured+land+rover&tbm=isch&...) They were good enough for many of the world's armed forces for over 50 years!
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoI think your seeing it through rose coloured glasses, the early stuff was appalling just like everything else coming out of BL.
- kagamine 10y agoI think you might be in an alternate reality if you think series land rovers were manufactured by BL. Even if Rover and BL were merged, Rovers were built by Rover. I've owned a few, currently have 2 of them so not sure who you are trying to convince.
- tonyedgecombe 10y agoLand Rover were part of British Leyland from 1968 to 1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Rover
- kagamine 10y agoyes, but the Rover plant was always the Rover plant and Rover engineering was always Rover engineering. Shared resources doesn't make a Montego a Rover any more than silicon valley makes Yahoo a part of Apple. It just helped ruin Rover for good.
- tech2 10y agoRover has had its own failures though. Poor electrical build quality in a lot of older stuff (much like many British cars of the past, sadly. Never look behind the dash of a mini). The Rover 214Si for example had a _very_ common failure resulting in a warped head if you were only slightly unlucky because they decided to get cheap with the head gasket. Shortcuts and money worries may lead to creative solutions, but they just as readily lead to heartbreak and failure.
- radiowave 10y agoYou're saying every other car you've owned has also rained on the inside? I think you've been extraordinarily unlucky there. (Land Rovers may be dead and gone, but from what I hear the Discoveries are keeping the traditions alive. By leaking.)
- kagamine 10y agoYep, every car with a sunroof has leaked, Peugeot leaked, Volvo leaked too. Just move to a country where snow covers your car for 5 months of the year.
- germinalphrase 10y agoI was once extremely tempted to buy a half cab LR I saw on a side street in New Orleans but couldn't get over the thought of maintaining a vintage truck. Are there any more modern vehicle that fit a similar niche (repairable, rugged, spare in design)?