Looking at getting my first land rover

[John Hancock]

By the way, the rule is, your only allowed to say nasty things about landrovers IF YOU ALREADY OWN ONE.

 

Top man Mr Ed I love 'em!

[stoxs]

dont notice the poor turning circle just learn to reverse, its just horses for courses landys are a love hate relationship they do go wrong but when they are working its nice just to be plodding around or especially in the middle of a wood just a way of life that i enjoy i suppose

 

i guess you have never driven a jap 4x4 then LOL, as for reversing i am confident of reversing most trailers from a chipper to a 40ft curtain sider with anything on the front! certain combinations might take awhile but i would get it there:sneaky2:

as for the plodding around thats great you enjoy it because thats all landys can do

 

Cool Edd, have owned 2 so qualified to comment i think

Edited January 2, 2009 by stoxs

[conkers]

Am selling a 300tdi because we needed something bigger. Miss 4x4 capability.

When I first bought it for 15k and it was the most unreliable vehicle and could not understand what all the fuss is about. Utterly fustrating.

Jobs hard enough.

Now I have got it right I have to sell it:sad:

Tempted by a new one on a 130 but the cost:scared1:

For 3K though your best mate better be a mechanic! No such thing as a bargaln

[garth mc garth]

Not sure this is totally true in the long run, with the much lower depreciation on the landy.

 

there is that but when you find yourself spending evenings and weekends repairing the thing you ask yourself if its worth it.

2 years ago i brought a 2001 hilux with 100k miles on the clock and for £3200 since then done 30 odd thousand miles and spent nothing on it.

either towing a 16ft ifor or the chipper round daily and not once has it failed mechanically.

never ever had that reliability with land rovers.

whilst travelling in australia i did 6 months working in a 4x4 centre preparing vehicles for overland trips thru the outback. the fitters always told me if you wanna go see the bush go buy a landie, if you wanna come home again buy a hilux, land cruiser or patrol

[toby]

But theres only one vehicle that'll go any where, spend a day dragging trees about in the woods, then pull a loaded trailer through a boggy field and onto a motorway.

Admittedly slowly with ice on the inside of the windscreen 'cos the heater doesnt work, then break down and have to be recovered.

Parts are cheap, they're easy to work on, aluminium body means they look good even when completly rusted away underneath.

And the Queens got one.

[stoxs]

But theres only one vehicle that'll go any where, spend a day dragging trees about in the woods, then pull a loaded trailer through a boggy field and onto a motorway.

Admittedly slowly with ice on the inside of the windscreen 'cos the heater doesnt work, then break down and have to be recovered.

Parts are cheap, they're easy to work on, aluminium body means they look good even when completly rusted away underneath.

And the Queens got one.

 

 

well i never knew the Queen owned a Unimog!!!!

[skyhuck]

well i never knew the Queen owned a Unimog!!!!

 

A unimog with an alloy body?

[Billy Goat Gruff]

By the way, the rule is, your only allowed to say nasty things about landrovers IF YOU ALREADY OWN ONE.

 

I own two, so can I say twice as many nasty things about them ?

I also have a 17 year old Hilux which I only have put a new starter motor on since I've had it, Hilux for me any day :thumbup:

[stoxs]

A unimog with an alloy body?

 

is your chip box not ally then?

[Canal Navvy]

Landrovers are classless (like the Mini) The more abused, scratched and dented they become, the better they look.

 

Can I quote you on that?

 

Oh, I seem to have already,cheers.