Thread: late td5 or early puma?

Originally Posted by goingbush

JohnR just bought up another point about the Td5

I am also sometimes wanting for a lower 1st gear,
1st Gear high range is just not low enough to pull away from a stop on a hill when towing the caravan, even traffic lights on an incline. Often find myself selecting low range to take off & then drop back into high once moving. Quite annoying really. From all accounts Puma does not suffer from this.

Apart from the crappy A/C that is the only other thing I dont like about the Td5.

That's always been the biggest problem with the R380 regardless of the engine in front of it, second/low starts when towing are the norm. [edit] except the 4BD1Ti'm guessing

the budgets $35K?

For $30K its not impossible to find a td5 that will lunch a $35K puma.

do you know how much AC you can get your hands on for $5k?

And you still get front vents and an interior that it doesnt matter if the kids throw up in it.

and I suspect that JohnR may be stretching the truth about his puma, I remember it loosing a sway bar and doing the vac pump seal on the same trip... Same trip I killed an injector on.

You should be able to find a well sorted Td5 with lots of life left for $25-$30K.

I'd guess you'd be paying $10 to $15K more for a similarly equipped Puma.

I like the Puma's but haven't been able to justify the money required to update my quite capable Td5.

I'm saving my $$$ for the next gen Defender.
V6 Diesel, Automatic, Adjustable seats, wider cabin, good wipers, HDC, ETC,
ABS and LOOS. (As Darryl Kerrigan would say, "Tell him he's dreaming!")

Originally Posted by Sleepy

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I'm saving my $$$ for the next gen Defender.
V6 Diesel, Automatic, Adjustable seats, wider cabin, good wipers, HDC, ETC,
ABS and LOOS. (As Darryl Kerrigan would say, "Tell him he's dreaming!")

AND Opening front vents (but I'll have the Manual thanks)


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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

do you know how much AC you can get your hands on for $5k?

Nope. Would love to hear!

Despite all the can-of-worms reading ive done I still do not know what the a/c 'solution' is in the td5, regardless of cost. Can the factory setup be ripped out and replaced by something decent?

I dont feel capable of doing what goingbush did to his td5 a/c myself.

whilst i'm at it... are there good/bad years from the td5 era?

Originally Posted by Samblers

Nope. Would love to hear!

Despite all the can-of-worms reading ive done I still do not know what the a/c 'solution' is in the td5, regardless of cost. Can the factory setup be ripped out and replaced by something decent?

I dont feel capable of doing what goingbush did to his td5 a/c myself.

its relatively easy to simply shift the existing evaporator into the roof replumb down the bpillar and then run new lines.

but in all seriousness, a simple dividing sheet down behind the second row seats and removing the left of center dash vent cools them well enough...

http://www.aulro.com/afvb/technical-...10-aircon.html

thats how I did it

Originally Posted by Samblers

whilst i'm at it... are there good/bad years from the td5 era?

yep...

99/00 can be a bit questionable but by now if they havent gone foom they are unlikely to if you stay on top of maintenance this does guarantee getting the sals in the deefer tho so its a pretty close call. there were some minor teething problems in the eu2/eu3 (02-03) swap over with some very minor revsions in the cooling system that some hack mechanics just bodge their way around if they get the wrong parts and usually the vehicle lasts for normal work but throws a hissy if you work it hard.

other than that mid-late 03-07 is going to be the pick of the bunch unless you want a sals. (then you just go get one and fit it up)

to be fair on the p38 diff that replaced the sals, I was less than mechanically sympathetic to mine and it held up well.

Originally Posted by Scallops

I already know that answer - I'd hate it! So you aint gettin' the keys to my hood fella... But real world scenario...next time I drive the Gunbarrel, I'll be driving a current RR vogue, combined with that lesser known genuine LR spare part called "clinical delusion". So if my AC dies, I'll order a cab.

betcha you'd drive the canning in matilda though.