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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by Gordonjcp on Thursday August 25, 2022 @08:33AM (#32592846)
1997 Range Rover P38 owner here. Entirely gizmo-free and less rot-prone than old Toyotas.
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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by marssaxman on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:25AM (#32593393)
God did I ever love my '92 Rover.

Maybe I should get another one.

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by Gordonjcp on Thursday August 25, 2022 @10:56AM (#32594488)
'92 would be an RRC. Get a P38, they're a lot more "liveable" as a daily and they don't rot anything like as badly. Also an RRC is insanely expensive, and P38s have only just started the upward curve.
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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by marssaxman on Thursday August 25, 2022 @04:13PM (#32599392)
Are they now? That's a shame; I sold my last one to a scrapyard after someone stole both cats out of it, a week before I was going to move - I just didn't have time to deal with it.

I was always skeptical of the P38s because of the airbags. How do you deal with that over the long term?

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Re:The end of the manual transmission is near? by Gordonjcp on Saturday August 27, 2022 @02:05PM (#32621515)
Change the bags every ten years or so. You can get aftermarket ones by Arnotts, but Dunlop still do them too. Apparently they're used in ambulances, too.

I won't say I've never had EAS problems but it's never left me stuck, unlike coil springs.

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