The Land Rover Dealer wants $6,200 to Fix my Range Rover... So I TRIED to Repair It Myself... 

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Dude, don’t listen to anybody. I am a fan of them also. I bought my LR three probably eight years ago and I love it. Like you, I fix my own vehicle and save myself probably tens of thousands of dollars doing so. Considering that most garages want $500 to replace $50 spark plugs. That take 10 minutes and while I’m at it I always replace my ignition coils at the same time. The point being that, as I said in another post… If you love these vehicles, they are a labor of love. But when they are running good, there is nothing else on the road like them. The air shocks in mine are heavenly. You don’t feel any bump on the road. It is the smoothest running vehicle I’ve ever felt Not to mention the 15 speaker surround sound system in it. If you love these vehicles, then you’re going to be willing to work on them to keep them running well. If you can’t bring yourself to go under the hood, then you’re going to spend tens of thousands of dollars fixing $1000 worth of parts that you could replace yourself in minutes, if not an hour or so. So keep enjoying it, like I enjoy mine. The naysayers, maybe they had some horrible experiences with theirs… And maybe, they took them to a garage and probably almost passed out at what they wanted to charge them to fix the stupidest and easiest of things. Hope you had a merry Christmas and have a wonderful new year.

My friend and I changed the fuel injectors on my neighbors supercharged Jaguar. It took almost 2 days of driving for the cats to finally clear up and quit smoking.

I was 22 when I was tboned by a guy that ran a stop sign. Impact was so hard the whiplash messed my back up so bad it’s changed my life. The guy drove away, I didn’t think he would cause his car was so messed up. Well long story short, cops could t find him even tho I had the first three of his plate and many parts to his car. So I hired Morgan and Morgan they reassured me they would find him and make it right with all my bills that accrued from the hospital and physical therapy….poor communication and 6 months later I found out they didn’t do anything except go after my uninsured motorist insurance from my ins company…took 7k for them and left me with 3k and my rates went up and I was left with a totaled car and 15k in hospital bills. F$&@ m&m they only want the big money stuff they don’t care about the little guy.

Happy Christmas Sam and team. Big thank you from UK 🇬🇧 for your high quality audio on your videos. Being deaf clear sound is so important.

Pretty sure the heavy smoking is because the ECM had cranked down the long term fuel delivery because of the rich reading form the senor on the exhaust and now when the injectors actualy works the short term compensation have to adjust the delivery untill long term gets to a normal level again.

Love your tenacity in land rovers range rovers. Having 3 myself including series 3 they are a amazing to drive until they break!

Merry Christmas to you, family, and Stepmom. I'm sure she has created the happiest home in Florida.

Hey Sam, happy holidays to you. I love the honesty and you being forthcoming on what it cost to do these type projects. Also, how you can work around the dealerships and a third-party pricey. Keep it up. Stay safe all the best.

Always Am impressed how straight Sam's cars look parked around the cattle. Been raised in a Farm, saw plenty of times water tanks getting bent or even destroyed, due to the cattle scratching on it. And even bending panels on trucks, from rubbing on them.

Your money, you buy what you want. Just enjoy the content. Good to learn with you on your challenges and how you always come out on top.

Now that you got the fuel system cleaned up I would highly recommend replacing the upstream O2 sensors. They are probably super fouled, and on supercharged or turbo vehicles I would say the service life on them is about 80k miles before needing new ones.

Hi Samcrac! Thank you for a wonderfull show. I'm please to see you've gone the mile with this one and as always when you do your videos show how skillfull you truly are. You finalized this one! Wish you and your family all the best! Best regards from a big fan from Tromsø, Norway!

A great resolution to a perplexing problem. Thanks Sam for another year of great content. A great year end video would be a flashback look at ALL the cars that have come and gone in 22. Anyway wishing you a very Merry Christmas and all the best in 2023!

I don't work on cars and don't know much about them, but your videos have given me the confidence to start learning and working on them. Working on my first fixer car now. Thank you!

After owning 5 Range Rovers of 3 different generations I understand your love for the Range. You really gotta drive them to understand them. Nothing drives like a Range Rover

The way you explain things makes so much sense. I’ve just discovered your channel through Facebook and you definitely don’t have to justify your Range Rover as I totally get the appeal! Keep making this amazing content! From Australia 🇦🇺

Good job on the fuel injectors, I was rooting for ya. I wonder if you turned the fuel rail bolts out of the head just enough to place a washer or a thin piece of steel over the bolt holes on the head. Keep the fuel rail attached to the injectors and turn the bolts evenly to back out all injectors on that rail at once? So, back out the first bolt on the fuel rail just enough to slide a washer in, the washer hole is too small for the bolt to pass through and it's a durable washer. Then turn the fuel rail bolt clockwise like you're going to tighten the fuel rail back to the head. Repeat this for all bolts, get them snug. Then start torquing them like you would a cam shaft to evenly pull out all injectors on that rail. The fuel rail looked like aluminum so it might take the force. IDK I use this technique to widen the clasp on a steering knuckle to fit a new strut base in sometimes. Merry Christmas!

Great entertainment! Sam, I don't care what you buy. I love and always learn alot watching your vids.

Another amazing video. I love the fact that you have all the haters and you be yourself anyway. We need more of you out there in the world brother, cheers to a fantastic 2022 and an even better 2023 🙏🏽❤️

Merry Christmas Sam hope you have a great day with your family. Thanks for the great content over the years!

Compressed air blow out the well around injector or spark plug Before removal that way nothing falls in

With all the blood sweat and tears you put into that car you deserve it. Awesome job love your videos keep up the good work can’t wait to see what your next project is.

Merry Christmas Sam, thank you for all your videos. Congratulations on getting the range sorted.

I love that you buy these broken, used and abused vehicles and show us how you fix them. ❤️

Kongratulations on getting this fixed Been following your repairs on it

Have a merry Christmas and happy new year sam 🎉🎄

Again a wonderful video, Sam and thank you for sharing! Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones and a prosperous 2023 👍👏🏻👏🏻

Hope you and you family have a happy and wonderful holiday, wish you and your a great new year also. Thank you for the videos and information you have given all of us this year.

Love your tenacity of you fixing Range Rovers. As they are amazing to drive until it Breaks.

Sam, you cracked the code again. You are amazing. Sorry I gave up on the last video.

Thanks for the entertainment and excellent content this year Sam, it’s Christmas Day in Australia so merry Christmas Sam.

Glad the repair worked for you. I get what you say as I have owned 3 Rangerovers (87,2000,2006) The ride is awesome and the 1987 version is awesome off-road. Hope all goes well.

I bought a mark 1 Range Rover in 1977 and that taught me a valuable lesson to not buy another one ever

My early Christmas present... a Samcrac video . Merry Christmas everyone

Man alive. Now I realize why you are deservedly so popular buddy. This is incredible. Your patience is legendary. Continued success to you Sam. From Dublin Ireland ☘️.

One of my favourite channels. Learn a lot and you’re entertaining. So good. Happy new year.

Followed you since you bought the autobiography, really informative, many thanks

Same thing happened to my 335i, it was pouring fuel into the engine almost 1/4tank in a 10 mins of idling. Fixed the problem and she smoked bad like that for 15 mins then cleared up and runs perfect.

Merry Christmas Sam and everyone watching. Thanks for giving me something to watch xmas morning. Love the content.

Happy for you Sam! Great success and Merry Christmas!!

Glad you fixed it man. I work for JLR in the uk building the evouqe and discovery sport. We've actually climbed up the rankings in JD powers, gone from bottom to middle so we are getting better.

Well worth the buy and the repairs you put in. 👍👍

Happy for you Sam, finally a dream Range come true. Enjoy and Merry Christmas 👍

You rock Sam,,,, so smart, so smooth! Merry Christmas brother!!!

Sometimes the cheaper option it's to pay for a proper diagnose on the Dealership, and then cross reference the parts required, and do the repair by yourself. The time loss taken diagnosing an issue can be substantial.

Yeah, I'm sure the back seat was planned for owners like Sam to wait in comfort for the tow truck or enjoy the company of his step-mother! I still enjoy your Rover stories though, very fascinating.

Love the videos man! randomly stumbled upon this channel a week ago and it has taught me so much about cars! I own a tacoma so hopefully it wont be seeing the shop anytime soon, but It has been a great learning experience!

Merry Christmas Sam. Great video and love that Range Rover!

It's a good day when Samcrac releases video on the eve of Christmas

Congrats Sam on a stunner of a vehicle. I applaud you for explaining why you buy Rovers. It's refreshing when YTube is full of creators grabbing cheap, damaged, auctioned Rovers for content and hits. I have friends with Rovers and they maintain and look after them like spoiled children and almost never have major issues. Gremlins yes but nothing major. They have to be looked after well.

Sam is hands-down one of the best car-enthusiast channels on RU-vid. I think this Range Rover was a home-run.

Awesome job Sam, Merry Christmas. Keep up the great work mate from New Zealand.

Sam. Your tenacity with Land Rover is amazing. I'm a Discovery owner some years back. Couldnt wait to trade it. Now reading how poorly its reliability is overall, your enjoyment of your trials is what keeps me watching. Your abilities should make you huge $$$$$ for your knowledge and abilities. Keep me interested.

Great Job Sam:). Its always a good practices to put oil catch cans on all foreign vehicles. Looking at those GDI injectors tell me they had carbon buildup from the oil depositing on them.

That is one sweet truck Sam. Glad it worked out and Merry Christmas!

one of the best YT channels.. totally glued...love from India

I was hoping that this would end with Sam loading up Uncle Rich, Stepmom, and the Caribbean mechanic and going Christmas caroling, but I guess the fact that the car runs now is enough of a Christmas miracle.

I totally join you: I you haven't tried a RR, you can't understand the experience. I guess it's why so many people still dream of these cars and why RR is such a success. 3 years ago, I would have never imagined owning one, especially due to its bad reputation. The previous owner lent it to me for a month prior deciding whether buying or not. And boy, there was no more turning back !!! Definitely more expensive than driving a toyota, but don't forget the pleasure it awakens. It has become a passion and I follow you 1000% Samcrac, whatever you hapiness costs ;).

I always like what Land Rover dealerships would do. Back in the late '80s and early '90s each dealership had challenges right on their property so you could feel and learn how to take it off road. They had a fake hill they had some rocks then they had one where you put the front tire on and move up slowly and you could see how much flex was built in to the vehicle. I know there's something else they had cannot think of it off the top of my head. I absolutely love the one that you are working on now. They really up their game on interior. Look forward to watching your next video. I hope you have a great holiday.

You are spot on about the ride of these trucks. Nothing is more comfortable than one of these and it feels like you are riding on air. My wife loved hers.

@0:37 No, it is just realistic. Only a few people are able to turn a not so cracing deal into a cracing deal when it comes to Range Rovers. You need the skills, the knowledge and a RU-vid channel. ☺ @4:30 That may be the case but the dealer will make sure he has a more than healthy profit margin in those parts. 🙂

Great Job Sam! Merry Christmas!

Love your stuff Sam, as always. Merry Christmas to you and yours. I hope you sell it with a bit of margin. You deserve it! :)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Sam.

My take is this: If you like it, have the ability to repair it and is within your budget more power to you! Always remember the tube is full of individuals that want to watch the world burn and well, ignore them. Have a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

This was a really well put together video Sam. Really glad to see the range rover came up trumps for you

Merry Christmas Sam and happy new year.

Loved this one. Great work. You didn't give up!

DO NOT TAKE THE CAP OFF THE INJECTORS BEFORE INSTALLATION, The teflon seal starts to expand once the cap is removed, which is how it seals itself to the cylinder head, you have about a 5-15 minute window to install the injector once the cap is removed

The thing with these "fake" injectors is that they are probably from the same factory the real ones came from, but simply failed testing or were binned in a worse performing selection. The factory then makes some shady deal and the cheap injectors still reach the market and look identical while performing far worse.

I haven't seen one of your videos in a while, still so very entertaining, thanks for the content.

I love seeing you making videos on land rovers inspite of their unreliability. Please keep the good work going. Also consider buying the new defender and make videos on it.

Great video Sam but was that not an HDMI socket next to the AV connectors? Can connect just about anything with that

Well done Sam. A white with light leather, LWB, petrol Range Rover is virtually unsaleable here in the UK at the moment.

Excellent - perseverance paid off - well sorted !!

Well done on getting running and merry christmas

I don’t dislike Range Rovers as I can appreciate how good they are ‘when’ they work. However as an engineer I’m appalled by the quality which still hasn’t been addressed after many years. I think I’ll just stick with my Landcruiser

Sam, the heck with haters n naysayers! Ur awesom n the content will continue to keep me a faithful subscriber. L'chaim !

Sam! Hope you are well. We need more content! Please upload ASAP.

Sam it's your channel I enjoy every video you post. Swapping from cars, suv' s, trucks and exotics is awesome. I even wanted come down and turn a wrench because not every day a person can touch something like that. Keep it up and enjoy what you do that's my philosophy.

I thought you bought it to keep? Wife would love it.... classy car.

Could be a lot of fuel in the cats.

Again, you put time, energy and $ into letting us know how we can save $ Thanks Sam! God Bless 😎

Enjoying your content as usual Sam, Merry Christmas 😊🎅🙏

Over here in Europe an indigenous wisdom is that everybody needs at least two Range/Landrovers; one to drive while you repair the other one. Happy holidays Sam...!!

So did @Samcrac fix the smoking issue or not?

I've used the injector trick with cranking over the enige. I've used it on diesel engines that had leaking seals for a while with loads of build up. Works like a charm.

Dear Mr Samcrac !! .........Great Vlog .............. And Merry Christmas ........... Bless You & You're Family & Your Team .......... Peace

even a blind chicken finds a grain. congrats on your ONE successful land rover rebuild.

Most expensive fog machine ever made

This was a great story. Lots of suspense. Glad it worked out, that smoke cloud was worrying!

Sadly the knock offs are so good “looking” I won’t buy any car parts off eBay unless I know it’s a dealer. This is a lesson hard learned by most people that buy parts off eBay. I bought a maf once to save $20. It almost left me stranded, but I learned my lesson well. In almost all cases go Oem on anything electrical, unless there is no other choice. Otherwise, name brand from reputable dealer- reputable dealer is the key. Not someone with just a bunch of sales. Plenty of people get taken, including me. Thanks Sam for encouraging me again to never consider buying one of these money pits. I always love your videos regardless.

I 've heard that Rover outsourced their R&D to a competitor.

Great video, Worth changing the oil again after it ran so rich, a lot of that extra fuel would have gone into the sump.

thats awesome man, stoked for you.

So glad to see you found the root cause and fixed it - give it a new life. Feels so happy.

Thank you, samcrac. I dont care much for range rovers but I thoroughly enjoy your videos nonetheless

Happy Holidays Sam

Sam its a beauty and i m so happy tht it worked.its beauty and the beast. So happy 4 u mate