My wife takes my car out to run some errands...a little while later I get the call..FML. Wife is fine but the car is bad.

I go to the scene. After an hour of cops and insurance calls. My inop car gets towed to the shop. It now doesn't steer. Crunchy noises when I had to move it out of traffic lanes. Looks like passenger side wheels is tweaked backwards. Heavy damage to that wheel.

The message center lit up like a Christmas tree. Transfer case failure. Abs and traction control failures. Climate control failures. Cooling system failures(water pump is external on that side) Cruise control failures. Also all the typical light and turn signal warnings.

The air bags did not deploy.

I'm so angry and hurt because I loved this thing but it may very well be totalled. Part of me hopes it is rather than deal with a life of electrical and mechanical Gremlins. I don't see this being fixed correctly. Plus it will basically be worth nothing now.

So far just the body work estimate is at 6k. That's nothing mechanical. Just the cosmetics.

 

Wife's ok that is all that matters.

 

Well now I have to decide what to do. If it's totalled...replace or just build my truck again for Road trip duty. Ugh.

 

Or start a LR3 buying spree that is what I did when we had one get totaled

 

I was seriously considering an lr3 that's funny

 

They are surprisingly good.

 

It is a lead contender. What's the highway milage like?

 

Crap, but no worse than my older rovers

I have 2 so....

Stock one gets about 18 mpg

Coil Sprung 2" lift with 32.7" tires, belly skids, Proud Rhino Bumper, and BAJA Rack gets about 14.5-15 mpg

Both are comfortable rides but admittedly the EAS rides and handles better. I remember back in 05 or 06 I thought these trucks, L322, LR3 and RRS were the death roll of Land Rover. They in my narrow view had lost everything that made a Rover a Rover. In reality they had taken it to a new level and kept the Land Rover soul.

With my RRC I knew I was driving a lifted Rover or a Rover on MT's. As you made them off road ready you lost the Rover magic carpet ride. The comfort was gone, what little road manners it had went down no matter how hard you tried.

My LR3 that is modded feels as good as a stock truck. I drove a LR3 on 35's with full armor and a rack down the road loaded down with 5 guys and it drove just fine aside from the howl of the Nitto Mud Grapplers.

Maintain it like any other Rover and be prepared to eat some crow for your original thoughts.

 

Shift, there is a moral to this one, ................. never let the wife use ya wheels

I remember many years ago, someone in a Jap 4x4 shunted a stationary oncoming car into me, I was driving a hired BMW 320, it got totalled. I was in the wrong place at the wrong time, my own car was in for a broken throttle cable, glad it was a hire car though.