“These have steel liners in the aluminum block and those can crack under heat load or can slide in their bores as they’re only friction fit.”
“These have steel liners in the aluminum block and those can crack under heat load or can slide in their bores as they’re only friction fit.”
I love this in theory, I’m sure it’s an absolute blast to camp in, and if the sale of this vehicle supports a group that helps trauma victims, or a victim of trauma his- or herself, then I honestly hope they get the asking price and then some.
I agree. If you’re gonna go through all the effort to make something this awesome, why in gods name would you strap this to a land rover when the toyota landcruiser exists? I didn’t build my house on top of a minefield. Same rule applies for campers.
Ah... the good old “splice two pictures together to make the space look bigger” technique.
Out of warranty AND questionably modified? AND half the price it was new, now 16 years later? We gotta get out the mondo pipe to fit in all this crack.
a trauma-informed approach
LOL, Instagram van life got old? No more likes in those mountains Johnny?
I’m trying to figure out this white line. It’s about where a stress crack might form, but it seems unlikely one would form. They’ve braced it up front, but I don’t know.
Very cool set up but for this money I could get an actual purpose built motorhome with more space, a real bathroom, slideouts, and a more reliable powertrain.
That was really quite uninspired and very awful.
5-gallon grey water (the aforementioned deuce-dropping) container
We’ve been through this, and it hasn’t changed.
If by few thousand you mean $6-7k, you’re right.
A bit of service. LOL!
iDrive system should be replaced by an easily sourced system running current Android. That’s the least of this car’s problems.
As long as you know the car will need all of the following soon, you’re good:
The majority of you guys are sadists and it shows. These things are trading at auction for roughly half of what this guy wants. In concourse condition. Bring the condition rating down to slightly above average and this thing is worth a whopping $2,500. That means when you decide to sell it a year from now because of…
Bangle Butt.
I’d want an extremely competent mechanic to do an extensive PPI if I were actually considering buying this.
CP Aging Bimmers start going to sh!t in all sorts of expe$ive ways; this one’s on the cusp.