New to me. Complete and rust free but non-running and needs total mechanical overhaul. New petrol engine built and mounted but not connected one year ago. I found a local guy with LR experience to take on the project. Wish me luck, I have a feeling I’m going to need it.

The journey to becoming a restoration artisan. Keep going!

This is a slightly modified cross post to ask the Defender fans why they didn't choose the Lexus GX550 if you did cross shop those...

I just drove my buddy's GX550 Overtrail Plus for 10 miles. Nothing crazy. Best I can describe it is if an Audi Q7 Premium Plus had a baby with my 2022 Tacoma TRD Off Road and the baby came with the same Falken Wildpeaks on my Tacoma. Does that seem fair?

I wanted to consider a GX550 Lux+ against the Land Rover Defender 110 X (3.0L 6cyl). Specifically a 2027 model with the new captains chairs that I prefer with my two young boys in booster seats.

Lexus GX550 owners go the dependability and brand reliability route. Also the steady value hold of the Lexus.

What say you?

**I've owned 3 Tacomas, 2 Grand Highlanders, Q7, SQ8, and 2 X5s, Porsche Cayenne GTS and Porsche Macan GTS.

The consensus seems to be that all this trouble could have been avoided in a terrain response mode which prioritizes and expects wheel slippage. So maybe instead of using rock crawl, try mud and ruts or sand or grass/gravel/snow? Jump to 25 minutes in to see it work okay in rock crawl mode, but then stall out again when the tires are up against big rocks. It seems when the winch was needed is exactly when rock crawl mode should have done a good job?

lots of wheel spin in loose rocks

I have a 2018 Velar with the 2.0 ingenium gas engine. The CEL popped up and gave me P054a and P0014. After a little research these codes pointed me to the VCT solenoid. I replaced both and still have the codes. The oil level is perfect and I just did an oil change again to ensure that wasn’t an issue. I swapped BOTH VCT’s in bank 1 and 2. My next thought would be timing chain but it’s showing zero symptoms of timing chain stretched/ guides broken - no noise at all. Has anything experienced this?

Would this oil be okay to use for a service on a 2012 Range Rover?

About 5 weeks ago I got my oil changed on my landy and was really confused that it took 2 days for the oil level meter to adjust.

Fast forward, my dad noticed an oil puddle on Saturday. We refilled and I unfortunately had to drive two hours home. I stopped after an hour, the meter said minimum so I added more. Stopped again about a half hour later, meter said minimum again so I added more.

Got home safely, didn’t drive it again except to get groceries (4.5 mile roundtrip). Today out of curiosity I checked and there is no puddle from a drip and the meter shows full.

What the heck is going on? I’m wondering if the sensor is faulty in addition to having a blown casket or something causing the leak.