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What would it feel like driving a 2007 gas guzzler in 2021?

August 25, 2024

# easy camping #In 2020, because of the epidemic, people began to slowly get used to playing flowers in the great rivers and mountains of our motherland, and the best way to travel close to the natural environment and local features may be camping.
At the end of 2020, I jumped into the camping pit without hesitation, and there were more and more. GLC, who has been slow to pack for a camping trip, makes me think of Tiger hair 3 in 2007, which was once with me.

The first day I just got home

This car was bought in 2007 and has driven 150000 kilometers since it was licensed in 2008. it is true that the mileage of a car that long is not much (after all, the S320, which my family bought in 18 years, drove 100, 000 kilometers in three years). He was put into the company as an official car four years ago because the family car was enough to drive and it was not very useful to go abroad.

An inconspicuous finish

Because of the lack of care of the people in the company, he suffered a lot during the years of separation: the paint became ugly, and the 50 cents of paint done by the people in the company to cover up the roadside was bubbly and fluffy. He has not been maintained once in the past few years, and if the engine oil is missing, it will be added a little bit; it is almost a sign that he has not been scrapped yet.

The first thing that comes into view after getting it is the failure lights full of instruments: parking system failure, suspension failure, low coolant level, parking radar failure, tire pressure monitoring failure. Although it makes people look big, it still enters a series of preparations. The first thing to do is to do a major maintenance of the whole car:

Clean the engine compartment with a rag during maintenance.

The whole vehicle oil has been replaced, including antifreeze, engine oil, gearbox, front axle, rear axle, distributor, brake, coolant, steering oil, spark plug, brake pads, air filter, etc. This major maintenance alone cost almost 20,000, but this is just the beginning.

An indescribable spark plug

Cracked brake pads

After the maintenance began the fault light detection and analysis, the main intuitive problem analyzed is that the motor of the transfer box is stuck, and the other fault codes are relatively unable to find the problem directly. It is a pity that the auto repair boss is going home for the Lunar New year, so he can only say that he will deal with it after the Spring Festival. So I wanted to fix the aged and leaky suspense first.

Rusty and aging old shock absorbers

The smug yellow bucket body b6 (all the places that can be touched by the hands have been scrubbed)

It has been entangled for a long time when choosing suspension, because the original factory for a long time has few sources of shock-proof goods and high prices, and the auxiliary parts are afraid of being unreliable, so they finally decided to replace them with repairs and gritted their teeth and issued an order for a set of B6 suspension. It has to be said that the upgraded shock absorber makes the 2.7-ton car much better, with a qualitative leap on the turning side.

When the time comes for the Spring Festival, because of the resurgence of epidemic diseases in various places, we choose to stay in Shanghai, and the entertainment activities for the Spring Festival become outside of cleaning our own cars.

The appearance can not be painted because of the holiday, and the whole car paint is relatively expensive, so I want to leave the budget on the car repair and polish and wax the whole car. The engine compartment also did a deep cleaning, taking a little bit of buckle details with a small toothbrush to clean up almost all the nooks and crannies. After the end of the year, I rushed to the auto repair, and finally decided to replace the straightest rear bridge machine first, waiting to see how to go. Fortunately, after the replacement of the motor, all the fault codes were eliminated, which may be the reason for the tiger to fix it. A problem leads to all the fault codes. I don’t know how long it will take to check.

A truckload of moving camp

After all the trouble codes were cleared, he finally dared to drive him to go camping further away. Because of the excellent design of the Land Rover engineer at that time, the seven blocks could be freely combined and knocked down, and at the same time, they were also a plane when they were all down, which brought great convenience to the loading.

There is still a long way to go to play with the old car. I will change the fog lights by myself, fix all kinds of glitches, and find something for myself to change slowly so that I have a closer relationship with the car and know him better. There are still many places where he can be improved. He can slowly save money and repair slowly and enjoy the fun of doing it himself. I hope he can accompany me for another 10 years and 20 kilometers. I hope he will have a chance to drive him to wear things in the motherland in the near future.

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What would it feel like driving a 2007 gas guzzler in 2021?