New D3 or D4 or RR sport

**Lemo** · 20th December 2019, 05:53 AM

Hi all,
Looking to buy a new second hand car, I was looking at 2011-12 Pajero's

and have taken a few for a test drive and very uninspiring! and bloody uncomfortable compared to my D2!!

I use my current D2 to lug stuff around both in back and on the roof tow a small trailer and mountain bikes on the back, not much 4x4, occasional beach and light track stuff, family holidays with two teens (18 and 15) so not so much now with the 18 year old.... so don't really need 7 seats? Lots of short city driving as I now live close to Newcastle and don't tend to drive the 1/2hour commute any more....

So I've now been looking at D3-4 or RR, budget is up to about $20K I'd go a little more for the right car? but there's a few really good looking and priced D3 4.0l and TD2.7 on the marked at the moment and I really can't choose! some of the RR sports look really appealing!! I'll list a few of what I've short listed so far and any advice would be greatly appreciated, I read a few of the buy threads etc so don't need links to those?

All following state full service history? Bare a few dealer listing so I'll need to check these.....

2008 D3 HSE TD2.7 192K for $15000 - lots of extras and work done- private sale
2007 RR sport TDV8 187K for 18K not sure on service - Dealer
several 2007 to 2009 TD2.7 RR sport between 15K - 18K - some private and dealer and some state full service others not sure (Are these same engine drive train as D3/4?)
2006 RR vogue TD2.9 216K 15K full service history - dealer
2007 and 2008 D3 SE 4.0l same service etc near identical cars 15K and 17k similar 140+km and same for a TD2.7 at 18K with similar Km
And a few other similar to listed just vary in price a Km etc....

So you can see I've a few to choose and I know it's a personnel preference! but any pros - cons what you like about what car?

Cheers Lemo

**Pedro_The_Swift** · 20th December 2019, 07:38 AM

Purely on the driving, the 4L petrol will survive the city,, all the Diesels will suffer..

hard to pass up that Vogue or the TDV8 though...

**Lemo** · 20th December 2019, 09:58 AM

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Purely on the driving, the 4L petrol will survive the city,, all the Diesels will suffer..

hard to pass up that Vogue or the TDV8 though...

Yeah the TDV8

is a little tempting....... oh so nice!

**rar110** · 20th December 2019, 11:33 AM

My suggestion would be a MY10 sport with the revised interior/exterior styling, with as low km as you can find in your price range, with any of the motors.

The my10 vogue is a nicer car as loaded with features making it great value, but it’s outside your price range. Again, any motor but lowest km you can.

**INter674** · 20th December 2019, 02:41 PM

Problem is..as we found..that budget may get you a 2009/ 2010 TDV8 ..yum yum..but it will need 10k spending on repairs and maintenance. Same for a D4 which in many cases will neec LCAs and belts doing.

We upped the budget in the end to get a 2014 D4 8 speed SC V6 with much lower ks and dealer service history rather than pay to patch up cheaper RRs or D3/4. Not the TDV8 we really wanted but very good ones at cheap prices are very hard to find. Most we looked at were flogged out😐

**scarry** · 20th December 2019, 08:18 PM

What he said^^^^^^^^^^^

If you need room,cross off the RRS.
The D3/4 is so much bigger.
You won't get a good D4 for that sort of money.

And yes,you need to up the budget,or you will have continual ongoing expensive repairs.

**Lemo** · 20th December 2019, 10:09 PM

Thanks for the reply’s
Yeah it’s what I was thinking and why they’re cheap!!

Cheers Lemo

**hpal** · 21st December 2019, 04:47 AM

2008 D3 sounds good, similar age and km to what I bought, if it's had the transmission serviced and timing belt and a few other things done then it would be a good car.

**RANDLOVER** · 24th December 2019, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by hpal

2008 D3 sounds good, similar age and km to what I bought, if it's had the transmission serviced ......…..

Even better if trans rebuilt.

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