Great day. Short trip to Bluewater from home. A227 blocked. No problem, go via country lanes. Rangey copes no problem with mud, lakes, fallen trees etc. Get as far as Hartley and realise rear tyre flat due to sharp flints on the road. Call Green Flag as no spare tyre due to LPG taking up the space. 1 Hour 20mins later, flat bed track arrives. Flat bed truck then breaks down (hydraulic leak on loading ramp). Front driver door handle on the Rangey then decides to stop working and it starts down with rain. 2 hours later replacement Flat Bed truck arrives. Car loaded....breakdown truck then breaks down on the M20 on the way to the tyre shop. They got it re-started and new Pirelli Scorpion was fitted in about an hour (cheers ATS Aylesford, good service unlike Kavanagh Motor Group via Green Flag Rescue who were crap). But a big thanks to the little old lady in Hartley who brought out tea/coffee and biscuits while we waited. You are are are star. SDV8 AB MY 2019
SDV8 VSE MY 2015 - Gone
5.0 S/C AB MY 2010 - Gone
4.2 S/C VSE MY 2006 - Gone

Put new bulbs in the puddle lights I didn't know I had, both now working  2005 Range Rover Vogue with Supercharged Accessories
GONE 2001 Discovery TD5 ES
GONE 1995 Discovery 300 tdi GS

Numerous trips delivering sand bags to flooded areas in Chertsey and Thorpe, met some very sad people today

Fitted a spare wheel lifting strap - thanks Dan for the bits, 10 min job and makes getting the spare in/out MUCH easier

Of course, I hope I never have to use it (and if I do, you can guarantee it will be late at night, in the pouring rain, when the car is full of kids and their luggage, with has to be unloaded into the pouring rain to get to the spare...... ) 2007 Zermatt Silver TDV8 Vogue SE - now sold but was a great car!

Drove from Bury St Edmunds to Runcorn, the furthest I have driven the ffrr in one go.
It was effortless, so smooth and relaxing

Drove from Cambridge to Fort William and back - almost 1,000 miles round trip and 8 hours each way - to pick up a caravan. Slept in the FF for about 6 hours.

Absolutely no aches and pains when I stepped out, either there or back.

Car drove faultlessly. Weather was lashing rain and high winds - Sunday 09 February 2014.

Stuart, my journey seems very inadequate now

Daren

Started the day at the office (Caerphilly) and traveled to macclesfield then to Manchester. left there and took a leisurely drive down the M6-M5 home in traffic.

I did however manage to get 31MPG on the whole journey
over a hundred miles i averaged 35MPG but i got bored of doing 75MPH

 2020 Porsche Panamera Turbo Hybrid (V FAST)
2017 Range Rover Autobiography 5.0 V8
2018 JCW Mini Cooper
2018 Skoda VRS

Oh not much really....cleaned the FF  If it dont work.......burn it!

If the IId tool cant fix it.......burn the FF.

If the FF cant be fixed......buy a Land Cruiser!

If the LC cant be fixed..............................................BUY a horse !!

dba11 wrote:

Stuart, my journey seems very inadequate now

Daren

Opened the garage door, took the cover off, started it, listened to a few songs, lowered it to access height, re-covered it and locked it.

Drove back to mid Cheshire from Sicily for a spring visit to the UK. Longest stretch was 580 miles (with appropriate breaks)
Air Con on at the beginning of the journey, heated seats on towards the end. It was like sitting in a luxurious arm chair all the way. Fantastic. Travelling around in circles again.

Still waiting for plate change from Swansea via dealers so took a trip to take a look to see if it was worth waiting for and can definitely say I am still smitten with my choice so more waiting but gave the sales manager a hurry up chat.

24 days and counting...............

Time will tell if it has any effect.

Hopefully will be mobile soon

Darren. 2010 Ipanema Sand/ivory

Not strictly 'what I did in my full fat today', but just ordered the bluetooth IID tool  SDV8 AB MY 2019
SDV8 VSE MY 2015 - Gone
5.0 S/C AB MY 2010 - Gone
4.2 S/C VSE MY 2006 - Gone

Installed parkmyauto TV tuner & reverse camera basic kit. Easy to do and works quite well for the price £190 all in.
Now have freeview channels and can see what I'm reversing into. Current:
2003 FFRR 4.4 Vogue
2007 BMW 320d M Sport
1983 VW Golf GTI
1963 Triumph T100SC
2010 Vauxhall Movano Van (Work)