Land Rover defender would you buy one.?

[born2trot]

Got a chap on the door last winter by a well dressed woman who put her 110 down a big ditch right outside my house. when i went out to view it was almost lying on its side and that is no exaggeration. I asked her if she had tried reversing it out the way she went in, i felt it a bit of a stupid question as it was in a horrendous position.

The answer was no, so i got in put in low and astonishingly out it came.

I've been driving 4x4's for over 2 decades and i'm telling you no other vehicle could have done that.

That incident decided it for me.

[tommer9]

never in a million years would i buy a landrover to me there the most over rated 4x4 and not worth the extra cash, there are plenty of other 4x4 on the market that cost far less but will go everywhere a land rover will and last the same amount of time.

 

Such as.......?

 

They use defenders in the china clay pits in StAustell, possibly one of the harshest environments possible for a vehicle. Daimler-benz own all the vehicles, as a leasing company, and the garage I use have the servicing contract. About 3 years back daimler benz got fed up with the servicing costs and the fact that vehicles were just getting killed, eg a £20k 110 was fetching about £300 in auction aged 3 years in the worst case. So they bought a fleet of rangers and some hiluxes. After 6 months they got rid of that lot, as 80% were either completely knackered or beyond ecenomical repair. The only ones that survived were the managers ones which never went in the pits.

They wewnt back to defender.

To me that says it all.

[tommer9]

If you need a land rover there is nothing better:thumbup:

 

If you don't need one you certainly don't want one!

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Best advice yet.

I cant wait to get shot of mine....when i retire.

[Mark James]

Great as a tipper for the use of a chip box, I would have one for that reason. If I was just wanting to buy a 4x4 I would buy any of the so called jap crap, as it's warm comfy reliable normally better on fuel and they can't be stolen by 15 year with a screwdriver.

[pie eater pete]

Theres a guy on Ebay called ( YAN THE LANDY MAN ) he's usually got a fair few in . Only heard good things about his sales . I'm sure someone off here will know more about him than me . As said before take landy owner with you on test drives and vehicle inspections . All the best

 

WHOA THERE!!! Only heard good things about Yan the Scam?! Bought mine from there and its taken me 2 years get her running right! Hes are overpriced dogs! All i can say is told ya so if you get one-get on Landyzone and see how many on there would buy off him!:sneaky2:

[treebloke]

Well cool mate. Many land cruisers enter?

 

No not many, I have seen two in the last five or six years. I know they use them in Oz but not many here or the rest of Europe. Seen one Hilux, a few Jeeps, quite a few Suzukis but of course its mainly Land Rovers and in particular Defender 90's.

[pie eater pete]

Defenders are brilliant! So what if they drive like dogs, and have the turning circle of a ship! They are great work horses. I couldn't do my job without mine. You can keep yer jap crap, buy British!!

 

:thumbup::thumbup:Good Man Hodge!!

[treebloke]

HI tree bloke nice off roader there:thumbup1: what tyres are they and psi do they run at thanks jon

 

They are Fedima 35"x16" which actually stand at 36", with bead lockers I run 8psi on the rear and 10 psi on the front.

[pie eater pete]

never in a million years would i buy a landrover to me there the most over rated 4x4 and not worth the extra cash, there are plenty of other 4x4 on the market that cost far less but will go everywhere a land rover will and last the same amount of time.

 

You show me any jap truck thats as capable as a boggo 90-check out Stile End on Youtube went up last weekend in mine.

[treebloke]

Hey treebloke, you know my brother Jim- giant of a bloke, has a toyota lardcruiser. He has just joined Arbtalk as Pugwash.

 

Yes I know Pugwash he is a sound bloke, used to have a Range Rover but defected to the dark side and bought a Landbruiser:sneaky2:.

 

I spoke with him the other day, he will be up at my place next week collecting some wood for his wood burner, guess once he has cut and split it all he will be down to 17 stone:001_smile:

 

I remember him saying his bro was a wood butcher:thumbup: