I am going to lay my Vrs up for the winter as fed up with it getting filthy on our rural roads. I don't have a garage but have plenty of hard standing and gravel driveway. Going to leave the handbrake off and plug it into my ctex trickle charger. I debated getting a cover but not sure, car has ceramic paint coating so it washes up nicely so I can keep it cleaned. One question is should I run the car up to temperature occasionally? and rotate the wheels? 

I have bought a 4.6 V8 Range Rover as a winter hack running lpg so the fuel cost is a bit better 😬😬

Nice.

How many miles to the litre of LPG does the RR get? 

When i had a 4.6 V8 Auto in a 110 Landy it did 3 miles to a litre but it was only 50 pence a litre then & Petrol / Diesel about 100-110 pence a litre. 

(RPI Engineering's demonstrator)

 

How long does the vRS need laid up for in your area?

ie when does winter start and when is it due to finish?

Do you not have nice days every week or so. 

Edited 14 January, 20224 yr by roottoot

A P38
You're brave!

 

I had one for a few years and loved it, but just in one year it cost me £2k in parts alone - that was with me doing the work. But I reckon I can still refurb an air suspension compressor and valve unit with my eyes shut!!

 

And what company makes a radiator with a metal body coupled to a plastic top that cracks over time! Oh yeah, Landrover do. Great fun to work on and lovely to drive. I still miss it...

Edited 14 January, 20224 yr by NikTheGeek

I live in the Fens and winter started in mid December, no snow but wet, muddy and sharp frosts. If we do get a period of dry weather then I will use it. Need to go up to Gateshead to work on my sons house in Feb so hopefully take the Vrs there to. 

 

Have had a few Discos and diesel P38 so know all the trials and tribulations of ownership and have all the tools. This one is the run out Vogue  SE  model 02 plate, am getting about 15mpg on petrol not worked out the lpg yet its 71p per litre so less than half the cost of E5 Super Unleaded. 

I used to just look at it that 9-10 litres of LPG was costing me the same as a gallon of petrol. 

  (My V8 did not have a petrol tank and did not need to start on petrol so no Tacho needed if towing for pay or reward._

so if i got 3 miles to the litre than that was near enough 30 mpg.     I got that towing a car transport with car on.

 

Not cheaper than running a TDI until you are getting maybe 4 miles to the litre or more of LPG. 

I ran my P38 on biodiesel whilst you still could which made the 19mpg around town a bit more bearable, I think the government removed all the biodiesel incentives as you don't see it any more. I wish I'd got a LPG one in hindsight as I later got a Kia Sportage and converted that to LPG and it ran brilliantly for many years. But boring as anything compared to the Range Rover.

Could you put it up on stands to rotate the wheels more easily and that would have the added benefit of taking the load of the car, off the tyres entirely? You could tarp over the wheels to protect the discs too, (or grease them up to stop them rusting...not  .) 

 

Watch out for rodents nesting too as it gets colder, they'll find their way in and up in any nook and cranny if they can. Exhaust pipe etc and air intakes etc 

 

Just think of the poor chap I heard about on the radio the other day, who picked up his daughter a hamster, which escaped in the car and then days later was still not found...then the car would not start...Porsche 911.....ouch....

 

 

Edited 14 January, 20224 yr by paulski

Left it a bit late for this, no? 

Its not that far off spring time 🥴