My first car was a Brumby. It got hammered as only a first car can. Bought with about 30 000km on board, sold with well over 200 000km. Never had to tow it or trailer it in all that time.
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My first car was a Brumby. It got hammered as only a first car can. Bought with about 30 000km on board, sold with well over 200 000km. Never had to tow it or trailer it in all that time.
it obviously never rained where you were would be my first comment...
the suby i had wouldnt drive past a puddle of pee on the side of the road....
didnt matter what was done to it, most frustrating vehicle i think i ever owned...
was never so glad to see the back of a vehicle in all my life...
I had water halfway up the bonnet to the windscreen more times than I care to remember. Never even missfired. 88 model with electronic ignition.
Word for word, my own comment.Quote:
Originally Posted by BigJon
Best regards
DarrenR
EDIT: But I also did the same thing many times in my SWB Series 3 plus at night with the head lights shinning under water
why would one pay the stealers to rectify electric fuel pump on a disco karcraft sell them after market i'm sure job takes about 45mins the longest part is lifting the carpet up and relaying it.
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Originally Posted by incisor
Had one of both. L wagon wouldn't die, only thing was CVs and fuel pump need a whack with a hammer once a year. Only thing that killed it was people kept running into it. Or it drove them so mad with it's reliability that they attacked it - happened twice.:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by BigJon
Second Subaru, more trouble than worth. Air bag suspension, Radiator, head, lucky it got stolen before we fixed the head. Decided not to buy that one back from the insurance company.
Looking at a Forester in ACT, anyone know what goes wrong with them? Aside from CVs.
Cheers
Simon
My TD5 is a 99 model and had done 147,000 when the fuel pump tossed it in. It was a $600 repair.
2001 Defender.
Pump noisy since LR tank fitted @ 5000kms...
Still strong (& noisy) at 130k. Never ran dry.
And that's expensive enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cameron_Def
Ron
This seems to me to be the crux of the problem - not so much that bits that are not traditionally consumable items (fuel pump, wiring harness) are treated as such, but that they are so expensive, making owners very reluctant to replace them before they fail. The biggest problem with the TD5 is not reliability, or even the possibility of failure in remote areas with no possibility of local repair, but the cost of maintenance needed to minimise this.Quote:
Originally Posted by p38arover
John