Thread: Defender 130, TD5 or Puma?

Hi Chops,

Over the cup weekend I had the chance to have a good drive of a Puma 110.
It was low range off road only, but I was very impressed, the six speed was great, even if I did get a bit lost in it on occasion. The motor was smooth and had great bottom end, not quite Isuzu bottom end but great just the same. It felt like it would just crawl up a wall in low 2. The only hiccup I had was a low2 hill that I hit in low3 with only 1000rpm on the clock and the centre diff unlocked, the traction control kicked in hard on the front wheels and it stalled, on the up side the anti stall lets you have one foot on the brake one on the clutch, start it up and let out the clutch and off it goes up the hill, oh and you can take your foot of the brake now if you like.

It's owner has done 60,000Km plus and all has been good except twice it has dropped in power after a hard heavy load climb, once the load drops off all is good again, nether time it's logged a fault.
He has owed 300Tdi's Td5's chipped and not and Isuzu's and he thinks it's the bee knees.

Tony

It'll be a 110,, decided I didn't like the length of the 130, and as there is only the two of us, I dont think we really need the extra space/size.

Yes, when we're up there, we'll have to catch up,, the 25 of this month we'll be up, and again at Xmas, at which point we'll be up there for a week or so,,

Chops.