Range Rover 4.6 HSE Review

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Range Rover 4.6 HSE
4.3 stars
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snowleopard's Review of Range Rover 4.6 HSE

2nd Sep 2008

Overall Rating

4 stars
  • Value for money
    4 stars
  • Length of ownership
    6 months
  • Performance
    4.5 stars
  • Reliability
    3.5 stars
  • Year Manufactured
    1995
  • Doors
    5
  • Practicality
    4 stars
Good Points

Luxury motoring, great looking, terrific performance both on and off road. Great value for money.


Bad Points

Fuel consumption! Engines prone to water leak poblems. Alarm/immobiliser prone to locking you out due to radio interference. Expensive to maintain.


General Comments

Firstly this is a wonderful vehicle to own and drive. If it remains reliable then you have to recommend it. However if purchasing one, look carefully at the service history. Also look carefully for any sign of the dreaded lockout problems and water problems.
So, great looking motor which today can be bought for fairly low money ( £3000 upwards will get you a terrific example, so, excellent value). Electric everything (great while it all works, expensive when it doesn't!). RF module needs to be the latest one, as the old one responds to just about any signal from camera's, wifi setups etc etc and will drain your battery or even mess with the vehicle ECU's to lock you out and immobilise the vehicle, (happened to me several times before we realised what was happening and bought a new module. The module is expensive ( £170) and make sure the garage you take the vehicle too, know what they are talking about as we were told the main ECU was faulty and quoted £1000 for a new one including fitting, (appears they were unaware of the RF module problem so had guessed on the most expensive and profitable option!).
With the price of petrol it is and rising I would recommend that you get one that has been converted to run on LPG which is around half the price of petrol, (thus coming close to theoretically doubling your mpg). Speaking of mpg, if you run on petrol and only do short runs then do not expect to get more than about 12mpg. On a run, averaging moderate speed you will get nearer to 20mpg.

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