My Range Rover Sport P400e Autobiography: 1.5-year ownership update

However great a Range Rover is off-road, it would not come back from a trail unscathed when it has large wheels and low-profile tires.

BHPian 14000rpm recently shared this with other enthusiasts:

It’s been a year and a half since bringing the Brit Bloke home. Time for an update, I guess.

Well, it’s been time well spent.

Every drive in it is still very enjoyable and we still feel a sense of pride in owning the Brit Bloke. The ride quality, plush seats, and extraordinary audio setup all make even a 2 km drive a pleasure. Suffice to say, we haven’t yet been hit by any of the issues Range Rovers are notoriously known to throw up occasionally, and I hope luck stays on our side.

The last time was when one of the batteries, that aids braking systems, died on me but thankfully it was an easy fix but the Brit Bloke got flat-bedded.

Somewhere in Spring, we got a stone chip on the Windscreen which grew rather rapidly. My insurance covered the same and I quickly got it replaced.

Given that it has been mostly on the pavement all the time I’ve had it, thought it was time to take it off the road a bit and went to a little trail nearby.

Drove as carefully as possible but the low-profile tires on 21’’ wheels were just not going to help despite all the off-road trickery it has. Got some new ugly wheel rash when the wheels chose to slip and hit the rocks at an odd angle.

Good reason to change the Rims then. The Search is on.

Lessons learnt

However, great a Range Rover is off the road, it would not come back from a trail unscathed when it has large wheels and low profile tires like I have. Something to fix in the future. Or, Perhaps, get myself a SWB old school off-roader and keep the Brit Bloke to Continue Bloking on the streets and not off of it.

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