Picked my RRS up from Armson's independant near Leicester on Tuesday, after having all 4 lower suspension arms replaced, along with the front & rear anti roll bar bushes and the rear roll bar drop links after the old ones had to be 'persuaded' off the car with a grinder.

Armson's have done an awesome job. The lack of knocking & rattling from the front & rear is just fantastic, along with it now tracking properly again . Having driven for a few months with it sounding like a rattly old bucket of bolts, I'd forgotten how quiet it really should be and hopefully, that's the suspension sorted for another few thousand miles.

The rear a/r bar bushes were oval inside, over 1/8" of play in them. Both front balljoints were knackered and literally fell out of the hub carrier, shame the n/s cv joint didn't and needed replacing. Bushes in the front arms were shot and all the bolts were seized solid, same for the bolts at the rear. One rear arm had a knackered bush, the other was fine but given it would need re-aligning afterwards I'd elected to replace the other side anyway.

Parts came from Yeovil Land Rover, so thanks to the forum for that one. Nick Lee sorted me out with OEM arms for a *very* reasonable price, much less than I've seen non genuine parts for on Ebay, along with all new camber bolts. The bolts came with a return offer if we didn't need them, Nick said we had no chance of that and yep, he was right. The originals were trashed when they finally came out, it's pretty that LR don't assemble these things with some anti seize compounds on them, particularly as the suspension's likely to need adjusting over time. The alignment place reckoned they can spend 7-8 *hours* freeing off the camber bolts of D3's & RRS's to allow them to be reset. That's bloody ridiculous, sort it out Land Rover.

So, that's the first job done before I ship the car to Oz. Next is to get hold of the gearbox service kit from Oz and flush the box out, as well as swap the diff oils. Then get the LPG system removed. Then get the rooflights rewired. Then sort the warped rear disc. Then swap the knackered front wheel bearings.

Range Rover Sports. Quality build.  Ex-G4 Challenge RRS HSE, BV55 YZE. Subtle shade of orange ! Now registered YZE481 G4RRS in Melbourne.