Thread: Used Deefer pricing

There are cheap defenders around but be prepared to spend big to get them right. I always have a little chuckle when I read about folks buying a cheapy knowing as I do (learnt the hard way) what will be wrong with them and what it will cost to fix. I think some new owners are caught up in the romance of the defender and dont see the worn out pile of poo they bought for what it is.

Worn out ones clunk and bang and leak and whine and are pigs to drive. Get them right and most of those issues disappear, so they just clunk and leak a little...

I'd either spend good dollars and buy what is obviously a good, well maintained example, or I'd get the straightest cheapy I could find and build it up. Lots of fun...but expensive. You do end up with a very capable and unique vehicle though.

Around NSW I would expect that you wouldn't expect any change out of $15K for anything that was passable.And I would think that there wouldn't be too many Tdis' running around with under 200K on the clock that are up for sale.As a general rule of thumb,I expect to have to outlay at least 33% of purchase price on any second hand vehicle that I purchase,to get it to a condition that I am happy with.This rule has worked well for me over many years,unless I get carried away with the mods,and then the sky is the limit.

It's not just in Australia Defenders are expensive, the general rule of thumb in UK before I left was a Defender was double the price of a similar age Disco, the crazy thing is there's no shortage of Defenders there.

Originally Posted by nedflanders

It's not just in Australia Defenders are expensive, the general rule of thumb in UK before I left was a Defender was double the price of a similar age Disco, the crazy thing is there's no shortage of Defenders there.

Yep,I had a conversation with Gwyn Lewis a month or so ago,and he was telling me that the price of Defenders had gone through the roof for anything that wasn't rusted out,and that Discos were a dime a dozen over there.Looks like people the world over are starting to see the lightAnd realising that Jap trucks aren't necessarily all they are made out to be and that Defenders represent the true utilitarian 4wd

I took a new 110 for a whirl this morning at my local dealer and was impressed. Assuming a new 130 has similar road manners I might just go new. Of course that blows the budget utterly out of the water :/

I'll have to find a 300tdi to compare against first.

The difference is like chalk and cheese tbh, the Puma is leagues ahead but you pay for it, think the TD5 sits nicely between the two

Bite the bullet and buy a puma. At least you have something to sell in a couple of years

No matter which model you buy you'll have something to sell in future, just one will be worth less than you paid for it, the other you may lose what you spent on it.