Thread: What to look out for

Manuals - have a look in Markets, I think it is, for Rave-CDs.

As far as looking for a Defender goes, there are some general things to look out for - mainly rust in the bulkhead and chassis. After this, it depends on which model engine and gearbox mainly - R380 gearboxes for example can have wear on the output gear splines, then there is the TD5 oil pump bolt and grease lubricated wheel bearings and drive flanges.

A search on this site on the terms I mention will start your learning curve, but I suggest that if you are interested in Defenders, reading a good bit of what is on the 90/110/130 Defender County forum would be a worthwhile exercise.

John

I totally agree Reeksy.

I am new to the 110 ./ Defender thing also.

I have asked some particular questions and the boys have been great.

If you want to take the tiime and gain some useful insights scroll through all the 110 / County /Defender posts.

There is a huge wealth of information in this forum in particular but across all these forums on this site that jsut can't be gotten anywhere else. IMHO

Pete

Thanks John and Pete...

I can see I'll be spending some time searching around on here alright!

Drove my first 110 Defender today. Good to discover that the 'controversial' driving position happens to suit me - gorilla style I think an old mate used to call it!

Bump.

There's not that much around at the moment that I'm inspired by. Mostly bog standard stuff with 'many extras' (dealerspeak for CD player and winch).

So, if I said i'd looked at a 10 year old 200k km 110 that seemed to have a full service history and a list of goodies including apparently professionally fitted: chipped, maxidrive axles and flanges, polybag rear, county front end, wet wheel bearings, long range tank, gas tank, 'corrected' wiring under the rocker, intercooler mods, disco wheels, coolant alarm ... would you think that a bit over $20k was reasonable?

(and if you're the current owner you're not allowed to answer )

Would it perhaps be this one? : Used LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110 1999 - Victoria - CarPoint Australia

Huge list of extras!!

The early TD5s had a couple of issues which you might want to read up on (Oil pump bolt + oil in loom). Cheap to fix though, if you know about them. If they have done all that work on the car, then these items should already have been attended to.

Originally Posted by spudboy

Would it perhaps be this one? : Used LAND ROVER DEFENDER 110 1999 - Victoria - CarPoint Australia

Erm ... how did you guess?

As far as I can tell the oily issues have been dealt with.

Well, a deal was done, a deposit paid. Seems I've got my first Defender

Congratulations