Miss fire could be Head gaskets, or coil pack. Either are not that bad Gaskets less than $1500, coil pack a couple hundred. Horn buttons I sell and they are cheap enough.
Welcome to the forum. I had a 2008 RRS and I will say the audio quality of the Bluetooth was horrible, I just purchased a radio interface (used radio channel) that bluetoothed to phone.
You might find an LR3 in your price range in today's market, but it may be tough. Vehicles are selling at dumb money. I will say I think prices are on the downturn as the economy and fuel prices are hurting people. So deals may be had. I would start looking and test driving off of facebook...
If overheated, probably blown head gasket - Possible warped head or block. Sounds like you may need to visit a Rover Mechanic with the proper Computer to look at systems.
If I were to guess (keep in mind hard to diagnose some issue without seeing a vehicle) I would say you have a bad coil pack. One pack does odds, one does evens.
If original air bags, they may have finally let the air out. If you hear the compressor and nothing seems to work, that would be my guess. Also the compressor will run till it dies in this case.
I sadly do not no much around engine swaps. I try to keep things as stock as possible. After going down this rabbit hole before, I find that swaps tend to cause all kinds of other fun, mostly around computers and how they interact.
Any modern Diesel vehicle must be driven at least monthly at a speed in excess of 60mph for at least an hour to maintain the cleaning system which sadly is a very expensive item to repair/replace when it goes bad. So it really depends on your use case.
If you have the tools, and can dispose of the old fluids, it isn't a hard job. Just remember to loosen the fill hole before draining. If you can't fill it don't drain it :) As far as fluids go I have used RP in several vehicles over the years it is expensive, but seems to be good. I have also...
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