My Soft Dash LSE VIN # MA650909

    LSE owners?  Once you've had one your bitten,  I'm on my third one now in ten years and having went 6 months without one it was then I realised how much I missed it.

A couple of rules I've learnt along the way,

To deal in Range Rovers, cars or parts,  you've got to know what you're talking about at all levels and at the same time listen to others, there's always someone who knows something you don't.

To deal in Range Rovers, cars or parts,  you've got to own one and drive one. When I say drive I mean drive, sensible enough not to kill yourself or anyone else but daft enough to take a short cut off road through a muddy cabbage field after taking it through the car wash. Not until you've done some fun daft stuff can you appreciate what a Range Rover is all about .

Not always this clean..............................

 Ebay member since 15th Sep 2003

First Range Rover part I ever sold - Upper Tailgate - collected from my workshop 19th Oct 2005

Most common exterior LSE colour - Ardennes Green

LSE problems found to date in order of most common -  Electrical                    

Failed Heated Seats - 99%

Failed Cruise Control - 80%

Failed Seat Positioning - 40%

Failed Mirror positioning, either ecu or manual switch - 35%

Rear Tailgate Central Locking - 30%

Air Suspension - 25%

Heated Front Screen - 15%

Coolant level sensor bridged out or just left with red light on - 10%

LSE problems found to date in order of most common -  Mechanical

Air Suspension - 30%

Diffs and Props - 17%

Transfer Box Viscous Coupling - 15%

Power Steering - 10%

Most Dangerous LSE Nasties I've ever seen

LH rear seat belt wheel arch anchor plate fell apart when touched with a spanner

Investigating petrol smell in cockpit, rotted metal fuel pump unions had been wrapped in gaffer tape

Safety air suspension position lock switch under seat disabled

All front disc pads metal to metal

Faulty rear brake caliper,  brake pipes crimped

Alternator tensioned with string

Cats can opened, cats removed and welded shut

Hedgehog oil cooler, leak sealed with a whole tin of liquid metal.

Clogged Radiator that weighed 4 Kg more than the new one

Personal Funnies

All heater and air-con ducts and hoses missing from behind dash, hot or cold air everywhere - brilliant idea

Use the driver seat positioning switches and the mirrors are the only things that move, quite common so I hear.

Starting up a V8 with no exhaust manifolds - awesome

Revving up a V8 with an extremely loose spark plug, had to bin the bonnet

Not really funny and don't try this at home but undo the banjo on a pressurised abs accumalator

Open an Aluminium tailgate for the first time after fitting new heavy duty gas struts, I'm sure the back of the car lifted off the ground

Getting the proportions wrong while mixing Red X with petrol and adding to an empty tank

Driving a Range Rover with no doors, roof, A,B,C,D pillars, interior or brakes 

Most fun of all, 4000 rpm doughnut or figure of 8 attempts in a muddy field

Have Fun!