Rangie 4.4L Vogue mpg

A mate had a lpg converted one and said on a long run he'd manage about 20mpg, round town it was very low teens. Running on petrol it'd do slightly better but not much.
 
OK, so, I spoke to the owner of the company I work for. He's got a 4.4 Vogue and he's getting about 22mpg on a long run with about 15 mpg as an average. 8 mpg in town though.

I'm now looking at this as a serious proposition. They seem pretty easy to work on too so when stuff goes wrong, it shouldn't be too much of a problem to fix.
 
thats not bad, I remember them being much higher, I replaced on average one a year/10,000km, I could have been unlucky. But I bought mine 3 years old with 40k km on the clock and by the time I sold it it was on 75k and I had changed 3 of them, a radiator, 1 head light ballast, and a lot of bushes and boots etc.. but nothing more than that.

oh and a steering column motor, which I believe is a common point of failure.
 
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All the parts are cheap these days on the L322, as Rilot says the shocks are around £300 each. There is nothing scary about them. The box and transfers can be rebuilt for not too much money either.
 
As usual people over egg the running costs, the same is true of almost all cars IME once they get a few years old, nothing costs anything to run

Edit: NFI about running things in Dubai mind, i'd imagine we have a bigger rebuild culture than you guys do :)
 
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Sure, this was not anecdotal though.. I had been quoted almost 2 grand to do one corner a few years ago, and almost the same for a new head light assembly! It was at the dealer though. Obviously I got creative and bought the parts myself and took it to an indie. But its good to hear they are now reasonable. Has ABC gone the same way on Mercs? ;)

edit : RE Dubai. The dealer will just try to get you to replace everything at your cost(of course), rather than fixing it ("headlight ballast gone, Sir? Buy a complete new assembly!"), and unless you are lucky with an indie you will have to tell them what to do and they will provide the cheap labour to do it.In fact I have been having to explain to the Mazda Agency how to work on my MX5 NB.. because they have never seen one before :)
 
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Oh I didn't mean your example, its just that as the cars get a few years old you can avoid the dealers in this country and we have a huge rebuild market for higher end car components so you need never really pay anything much for most things.

ABC has gone the same way on mercs yeah, a strut rebuild isn't bad at all now. The worst thing would be the pump but those can be rebuilt too. Like your Range Rover my SL500 has generated monster ABC bills at the main dealers in the past.

It does sound harder to do things in Dubai, I kind of figured that it probably would be from the feel of the place.
 
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