Thread: is it a dud defender

sorry to hear about your woes fatcat, some people are real lowlifes to sell some one a car which has been treated like that.

Firstly dont let it put you off land rovers, a vehicle cant help having an owner that is lacking in the brain cells and honesty deparment.

I think your only options are to spend a fortune getting it sorted or strip it for parts, sell the good ones to make up some cash and then get another one. Matt

Originally Posted by Maggot4x4

When they had the floods up in Katherine a few years back, a lot of 4x4's that had been sitting under water for a few days go sold at auction in Sydney as repairable write off's.

A lot of dealers who bought them just changed the oils, dried the carpets and re-sold them

After the 1974 flood in Brisbane, at Leyland, where the the whole place was completely submerged, the stock, trucks, LR's, tractors, was openly sold as flood damaged vehicles, as is ,where is, no warranty given or implied, what you see is what you get, your risk, don't come back and complain.

One NQ dealer bought the entire stock of tractors, a car hire company in Brisbane bought most of the LR's. Two brothers from Mackay bought an eight tonner for their farm, took it home, sold it to a neighbour, came back and bought two more.

The LR's, Series III, are probably still bouncing around.