Thread: 2016 'Defender'

Not sure why your Tdci is drinking more.. Except that it's possibly still very new.

The Tdci here was 12-13l /100 driving home from the dealer (1400km trip)

By the 5th tank it was down to 11-12/100

It's now at around 8,000km and is down to 10s

A lazy old, loose tolerance indirect diesel vs a tight tolerance unit - the Tdci needs time to bed in and loosen up..

latest juicy word out on the internut is...

2018 for a "new' Defender..
based on a full size Range Rover underpinning.
Separate chassis (like a Disco 3, 4) but constructed of aluminium.
"key market components" such as wheel stud pattern, rims the same as a Land Cruiser.

So my thought is....
Buy a new Defender before the end of the year.
Buy a used Defender before the end of year, pay current high price.
Buy a used Defender after production ceases and pay MORE.
Wait for 2018, if new Defender is rubbish, the used ones will continue to be high priced.
If new Defender is awesome, used ones, you would assume will be cheaper.

Regards
Daz

Originally Posted by Tombie

Not sure why your Tdci is drinking more.. Except that it's possibly still very new.

The Tdci here was 12-13l /100 driving home from the dealer (1400km trip)

By the 5th tank it was down to 11-12/100

It's now at around 8,000km and is down to 10s

Thanks Tombie... maybe more time ... although mine's done 25,000km now. Maybe it has an issue? But then even if it comes down to 10L/100km it's still no better in terms of fuel consumption than the tdi .

Originally Posted by Tombie

A narrow statement. Try Toyota. Absolutely Shocking.

Yup well two wrongs don't make it right. Toyota might be irrelevant if LR lifted their bush service game.

Gong back to the fob and immobiliser topic, today I struck by the thought that not having a fob doesn't seem to make a lot of difference in the UK where the Defender is the most stolen car on the road.

What are the car thieves doing that is so effective?

Have any of you actually been stuck because of the immobiliser?,did you try the push lock button four times then push the unlock button four times to reset it?.Like all ready posted you can buy a Hawk eye or Nanocom that does everything you need this side of a fully fledged workshop,stop complaining and simply buy one if thats what you need. Pat

Originally Posted by EastFreo

Gong back to the fob and immobiliser topic, today I struck by the thought that not having a fob doesn't seem to make a lot of difference in the UK where the Defender is the most stolen car on the road.

What are the car thieves doing that is so effective?

It gets worse...now we need to learn to steal our own vehicles if we want bush reliability?