[jyl]

We had a 95 RR County LWB from about '02 to recently. We bought it with appx 40K miles, and I sold it a while ago with about 140K miles in pretty mediocre shape for - well, so little that I can't even remember - I think $500?

We had it maintained religiously, but it still ate about $3K/year in repairs and maintenance, including eating up the front diff for no apparent reason. For the first 80K miles of our ownership, it was a really comfortable vehicle and the best snow ride I've ever had - if you didn't mind the $3K/yr. After about 120K miles it started deteriorating faster than we could keep fixing it. Electrical broke, the EAS broke, trim broke, head gaskets went, leather cracked, paint started failing, the body rubber looked like crap, on and on.

Nice-looking ones w/ 100-120K go for about $2K last I checked. So, plan to DIY everything, or consider it disposable, because it isn't worth paying a mechanic to fix it, and it is barely worth buying new parts to fix it yourself. Sorry, but that's the truth.

I had a series IIA for years, did all my own work, and thought the RR would be the same way. But I didn't find it interesting to work on, not like the old Landie, and the parts aren't cheap if bought from catalogs. The basic mechanicals held up pretty well for the most part, except the diff-munching episode and some fuel-injection problems, but all the accessories and body electricals and air suspension are crap, and they hung a lot of that crap on that vehicle. There are a lot of them in salvage yards though, that's where we got the diff, so if there is a RR salvage place near you and you like working on the vehicle, you are probably good to go.