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One of those days - wishing I could talk to an old friend but instead I'm reading a book about pinniped intelligence and soft-coded dna. Highlight of the day was hearing that one of my two vehicles is almost fixed. Don't know what to do with the Rover. I really need to get a grip. Paying insurance on a vehicle that hasn't been driven in a year is probably not the most economical decision in the world. My colleagues have asked if I've left it at work to die.

If anyone is out there listening.... the struggle is real....

...and embarrassing.

 

Hi KD

I feel for your dilemma but if things are bad and life is rubbish just think there are others in far worse positions.

Read these words very carefully!

 

The Pat Travers Band...

 

Hey Offroad! Great to hear from you - how's life treating you lately? Miss seeing you on the forum Didn't mean to sound like 'Debbie Downer' - just trying to figure out a game plan for the Rover seeing as it's summer and hoping that maybe I can get it going in the next century My issues are all relative (thank goodness) and I have nothing to complain about. I just don't want to relive last summer and stress over what someone is doing to my Beloved Bertha. I'll probably end up having her towed home and try to hide her in the garage when my neighbor isn't looking. One thing is for certain - I need to get her moved from my office parking lot and I don't want to take her back to the shop that 'fixed' her in the fall. The plan had been to take her to get the transfer case resealed and then the front driver side ball joint. I'm going to give it one last attempt tomorrow to see if I can clean the throttle body and the IACV and see what I see. After that I guess I'll look at the TPS or something, crawl underneath it and see if a hose is hanging? I have NO clue haha. I posted a video on the forum a couple of months ago but deleted it because the comments were less than kind and I don't have thick enough skin to deal with that. Hence my snail like pace on getting her going. Maybe someday she'll drive again

Thanks for Frank!

Christina

 

Hi Christina

I haven't been on the forum since January but I decided to give it a whirl, coincidence eh, as I have many issues at present, prostate cancer etc! However, I have the first op on Tuesday 4 June and latterly a couple more I hope, to complicate matters I have some other issues, sclero-emphysema, to make things worse, I didn't realise it until they did a soft tissue scan so a GA is out of the question. Anyway, enough of my problems. IMHO take Bertha home and park it up and then get some sensible quotes to sort out your problems with the LR, it's more than likely anyone worth their salt will visit your home to assess the situation. Don't forget they need the work and you are paying them. Get references and check them out thoroughly before committing to anyone. Good luck with the LR. Don't be phased by others, most/many are simpletons who don't have a clue about LR's let alone fixing them.

CJ

 

Hey Offroad I am SO sorry to hear of your present troubles and I will be thinking of you this coming Tuesday as well as during your recovery. No GA, eh? Probably means you'll be spending time in the hospital with a bunch of pretty doctors and nurses? Just remember that men say funny things while coming off the influence of strange drugs haha - combine that with your sharp wit and you'll have them cracking up and fawning all over you in no time. I know that you've got this

As for the Rover...I had an epiphany this morning after having weird dreams all night. The entire night was a film strip of me asking other Rover owners 'who works on your vehicle?' (believe it or not I've actually embarrassed my husband in real life by following a Discovery II into the library parking lot to ask the driver who works on his vehicle) and getting random answers right and left. There was one distinct scene where I was sitting in a loaner car next to a sidewalk, on a very icy road. There was a woman on the sidewalk that was trying to get to a vehicle that pulled up alongside me, but the path was too icy. The two men in the car waiting for her asked me to pop my hood in order to make a dry path for her to cross. Apparently my sporty loaner didn't need an engine as there was a gaping hole showing dry pavement for her to step into and walk over to their car. Once she was safely in their vehicle, one of the guys grabbed my hand to shake it and told me that I was cold. He then said 'you typically drive a Rover, right?' and I replied that it had been a long, long time since I've driven my Rover. He could tell that I was sad and said 'hey, we have an auto place downtown, bring it by and we'll check it out for you'. I asked him what the name of the place was and he smiled a strange smile and said 'you'll know it when you see it...we're right next to the Old Butternut Bread.'

(I hope this is making you laugh...and 'no', I'm not making this up - it is really what I dreamt)

I couldn't think of anything next to the 'Old Butternut Bread' place but drove down there (apparently my Rover was driveable in my dream) and spotted a sign in a shady alley that said 'Adults Only'.

THAT, cannot be the place, I thought. What the hell kind of place is this?

I peeked my head in and sure enough there were a bunch of guys sitting around shooting the ****e, drinking coffee with 3 or 4 vehicles raised up on hoists. The place was kind of dirty - grease on the floor and the noise of an impact driver filled the air. The two guys that had spoken to me on that icy road were sitting there and jumped up when they saw me. 'Hey, you made it' one of them said. 'Let's see what you've got' the other said as he was moving over to look under the hood. The more they talked, the more I realized that they didn't have a clue about Rovers or what made them tick. I was convinced that they had never worked on one before, let along peeked under the hood. So I made up a lame excuse - 'had an appointment to get to - thanks', backed her out and left.

All I remember after that was going home, looking up a number, dialing and hearing a long lost voice answer, 'Hello?'

'Thank you for picking up' I replied.

So what is the epiphany I had this morning after dreaming all of that?... Well, I'll tell you. I laid there in bed this morning, thinking about all that I had dreamt last night, and what it really meant. As for the cold, I was probably freezing last night due to the window being left open Who knows. I think your comment about obtaining references had an impact on me but, most importantly, it made me wonder why I have such an issue with trying to work on my Rover myself and why I deleted my video on the forum after feeling like someone scolded me. I then recalled a moment when I was an intern in college, working at an engineering company in the summer. I was out in the backroads of BFE with a tech and the truck, 'Old Blue', had broken down on us. The tech suggested that we jump the vehicle and I grabbed the jumper cables. He put the positive and negative leads on the battery and I was still holding the other end. That's when the screaming started. He berated me right and left for holding onto the jumper cable ends and that I could have given myself a jolt of energy straight thru my heart and I'd be dead. I'll never forget that scream session and how it affected me. I don't deal well with yelling and every time I jump the Rover, or attempt to work on it, I wonder if I'm going to screw something up or lose a finger accidentally blah, blah, blah.

So thanks Offroad for your insightful, soul searching, epiphany making post You probably think that I need a doctor more than you do now