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Well said Warwick.
My thoughts exactly
Mine is an FFR which was incomplete and un serviceable when I bought it as a project because of its newly refurbished gearbox, brakes, radiator, water pump and several other things
A great project has produced a great vehicle
I am extremely happy with it
Phil
Just to settle the argument;
The perfect defender is the one you own, regardless of whether you have finished the project or not.
Sorted.
No argument to settle, just a point of view expressed from driving Landrovers for the last 25 years. Happy to hear that you love your Landrover too.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeFriend
Regards Warrick.
Pat Pat Pat..... tut tut tut....Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
And risk being burnt at the stake "kill the witch" .... umm no thank you.
You know its all fine for owners to get uppity with comments I make about their much loved Land Rover because they have owned Land Rovers for all their driving life etc etc, and what the hell would I know, because I've only been working on them for most of my driving life.
When owners get all uppity with me they might want to keep in mind, I prolly do more work on Land Rovers in a year than most owners will do in their lifetime and I'm not being all bloody high and mighty here as I'm generally my own biggest critic and worst enemy.
When I say an ex-army Land Rover 110 is a 1950 tractor with a fancy body, I'm not saying that as a negative, I like old tractors, they are simple in design, tough and reliable. Over priced? generally yes, the last one was a long range patrol vehicle, that after grays fees and shipping cost the owner $27,000 .... huh??? I just dont see that... one came through last year and the owner paid $6000!!! I offered him $9000 (which is my cut off point, after expenses). Also on average when they come to me to be prepped for roadworthy it costs upto $1000 depending on what needs doing, but thats a pretty fair average cost. So to me thats also part of the cost of buying a ex-army 110.
At the end of it all, the ex-army Land Rover 110 IMHO...
*I used to work on the same Isuzu engine in 20 - 30KVA generators and had seen the engines do 1 MILLION HOURS RUNNING!!
*as already mentioned, like a vintage tractor, simple tough reliable.
*It is one of a small handful of vehicles I would go remote travel with nothing more than a basic tool roll.
I dont own a TD5, its actually just one of my fav engines, it was a good fit for purpose engine designed by Land Rover. I service and maintain from new a huge amount of the TD5 engines, doubtful most of the vehicles they are in will see vintage age.
My pa's (dad) Defender TD5 will see vintage if I have any say about it, he will never sell it, I will never sell it after him, and well hrmm will have to find another family member after me to pass it on.
On the other end of the long stick is about three new Range Rover Sport models Ive been servicing (or first service so far) at an average cost of $160,000 (and only one has the "optional" transfer case) ....there is an awful lot of insanity in these vehicles, you could buy a fleet of ex-army Land Rover 110's and still have less repairs ten fold!
well coffee break over, back to another Discovery 3, Discovery 4 repair :p
Regards
Daz
There is a "perfect defender" on the aulro Facebook page at the moment. Has had "all" the things done. Plus 2.8tgv. Wants $21k.
I can't link it for some reason from my phone.
Sorry if this has already been mentioned
Daz,I know your busy with hairdressers cars but I need my TDCi serviced,I'm doing some miles over Xmas,any chance this month?. Pat
:p indeed...Quote:
Originally Posted by PAT303
Service work, its normally that 1 week in advance but country customers I tend to work in with their timetable more, so the 7th onwards is available, just txt is the easiest and I will put it on the board, cheers. 0418 570 305
Regards
Daz