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Has anyone used Knights House of Rover at Bowen Hills ? Are they any good ? Reason i am asking is... I'm considering of buying A Range Rover and want to get a qualified person to inspect it before i purchase it

Mad Cruiser wrote:Has anyone used Knights House of Rover at Bowen Hills ? Are they any good ? Reason i am asking is... I'm considering of buying A Range Rover and want to get a qualified person to inspect it before i purchase it

Have heard good things about Rovertech at Chermside - Rody Road.

The guy there is a straight down the line talker with no interest in sugar coating things.

If you have thick skin, go and see them. Otherwise, MR Automotive are very good, as are Redlands 4WD Centre.


Micka

Yep...I have known Bob Knight for years as my old man used to have a 1978 PB6 rover sedan so we spent a lot of time there over the years. I myself have spent a lot of dough with Bob, but he has ironed all the bugs out my Rangie V8 which is still running the old analogue computer and injection.

In my opinion he is a great mechanic and knows his Range Rovers very well.

Cheers

Andrew

I have never used them, but heard some good reportsd from people through the LR club(s) that I'm involved in.

MR is also good, but a hike for us on the southside. Ricks 4WD is also good, but at Nerang (which is close than MR, only reason we don't use MR).

Trav

Ask Chuck at Haultech, he is a pretty clued up Rangie guru and he won't go easy on it either as he knows EXACTLY what ya should be looking for and EXACTLY what you should steer waaay clear of

He's got the smarts on rover junk

He's a total god-send to us

I bought my Disco from the son, David Knight who is a Mechanic there too. I had to replace the timing advance, and Battery within 1 week of buying the rig. Other then that the I've had no problems from the Disco.

Andy

Rang up Bob at House of Rover, turns out they already service it regularly so don't really need to get a pre purchase inspection.

Going to check out the Rangie tmw

Thanks everyone

Ok I went to check out the HSE today, Has one small dent on top part of tailgate, paint blemishes-fading on front part of roof and left side.

Other problems were the radio and air cond display doesn't show up, radio and air cond does work. Roof has been re trimmed but door pillar trims never got re trimmed and are pretty worn. Stitchings in front leather seats are starting to come loose.

So overall it drove great, very smooth, owner wants $15 000

What do you guys reckon, will those problems be expensive to fix ?

Just rang up to find out if the Aircond and radio screens can be fixed..... Price to replace them is $1500

agree with micka, rovertech know the stuff and dont beat around. the guys there robbert and david are to very dry pomies and like he said, if ya got a thick skin let them check it over. my 130 is there now getting check out.

had a few mates who werent realy happy with house of rover, infact were very pissed off, but i have never used them so dont know. have also used MR and they are very good also.

Anyone ?

Mad Cruiser wrote:Other problems were the radio and air cond display doesn't show up, radio and air cond does work.

$1500

I'd be asking him to take this off the price. Or get it fixed before you pick it up One less thing for you to worry about then

Mad Cruiser wrote:Will those problems be expensive to fix ?

Are you kidding???

Of course not...it's only money, theres more to life

Mad Cruiser wrote:$1500

(Refer to your above quote and you've got your answer.)

ps....tough love works for the p38..wheel it, flog it, race it, jump it & ALWAYS expect it to fawk up doing this, and it won't

With the HEVAC Display - have you looked really closely to see if it is actually working but just very hard to see? A common fault is backlight bulb failure. Bulb is cheap, just a fiddly job pulling the lower half of the dash off but nothing a patient person couldn't handle.

With the radio - if it truly is stuffed, just get another radio.
I had the dunger spec Eurovox in mine - LCD was black on light/green backround. One of the little PCB illumination green diodes blew - could see display during the day but not at night.
I bought a JVC touch-screen MP3 jobby, pulled it apart 'n' painted the silver fascia black, set the display colour to green - looks OEM hot!

All your other problems just sound like general wear and tear - up to you wheter you fix them.

But how thoroughly did they check everything else?
Has the EAS been put through it paces - selected every function?
Is there a little 'toonk' noise in the back axles when going from forward to reverse?
Does it have the latest or at least new radiator hoses?
Have all/any field campaigns been carried out?
Coolant dripping into front footwells?
If you want to set your mind at ease, check out http://rangerovers.net/newrremedies.htm
Study it, maybe print out a few pages then go back and quiz Bob / further inspect the vehicle.

If the HEVAC display is the biggest problem then she sounds alright.

Come and see me about upgrading the airsprings for a bit of flexibilty off-road...