Originally Posted by
cafe latte
I think good tdi's are worth the money and I would spend mine, but what I am saying is a truck that has done 360,000km is going to need a lot of work very soon. Then there is rust attention, gearbox, transfer, diffs etc. A tdi with those km is going to need a lot of money actually a tear down to be a long term reliable car. 2k for the engine if you can do it yourself and you hit no snags, maybe 1 k for the gearbox, 500 for the transfer all again if you are able to rebuild yourself. Glass, seats roof linings carpets, breaks drive line body, paint it is all doable but I have done this sort of resto and it comes to thousands if all goes well. 16k high km Defender will cost at least double actually much more to get it ok possibly much more much if you cant do it all yourself. 10 for a solid car with loish kays you are going to restore while you drive is another issue. Even 20k for all the work done, but sense has to prevail. I want a second Defender, but I still have my marbles and I will buy something else before I buy a heap of crap for a bundle of money.
Chris
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