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Thread: Defender - what should I look for when buying one (1994 - 1999 models)

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Thanks all of you...

    Um, please don't hit me but I have decided not to go for a Defender... want something that doesn't require more love, affection, time and money than my girlfriend - looks like it'll be a Toyota something with a Turbo Diesel and solid-live suspension.

    Then again I might just keep doing up the Disco till it is perfect - NAH!!!

    Cheers,
    Chosen.

    Thats Just Dirty Talk ...serious

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Thanks all of you...

    Um, please don't hit me but I have decided not to go for a Defender... want something that doesn't require more love, affection, time and money than my girlfriend - looks like it'll be a Toyota something with a Turbo Diesel and solid-live suspension.

    Then again I might just keep doing up the Disco till it is perfect - NAH!!!

    Cheers,
    Chosen.

    Good choice. Some people are just not ment to aspire to Defender ownership. Best to find your place now, down with the Disco owners, or even lower with the toyota owners. A Defender is not a mere car, but a way of life. You have chosen not to join the brotherhood, and as such no one will wave at you ever again...............................









































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    Smile

    Quote Originally Posted by tombraider View Post
    You mean it made it another 80,000kms?

    And your blaming something before 20,000kms?
    Well yep, it was overheating on the drive home the day I bought it(250k's drive), I kept it to 90k's which kept temp to an OK level, any faster and up went the temp needle.Back to the dealer twice, they said nothing wrong.Took it to an independant dealer who took one look at the radiator, chock a block full of mud...they billed the dealer who sold me the defender $900- to clean it up and sort it out, and the selling dealer paid up.
    I'm guessing the car had been caught in a Kimberley type muddy flood or something like that....I reckon it had been overheated then sold...and the head just hung in there for a while...my fault, should have checked it out more thoroughly but with 20k on the clock... well I made a bad assumption...

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Does anyone have any advise on what to look for when I inspect one?
    Your bank account............. and a money tree.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Thanks all of you...

    Um, please don't hit me but I have decided not to go for a Defender... want something that doesn't require more love, affection, time and money than my girlfriend - looks like it'll be a Toyota something with a Turbo Diesel and solid-live suspension.

    Then again I might just keep doing up the Disco till it is perfect - NAH!!!

    Cheers,
    Chosen.
    Wise man. You'd also get a good 4.2 Diesel GQ Patrol for the same budget - coil springs all round and a motor and drivetrain that will do 500,000 km plus with the same reliability as a Toyota but less $$$$.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Thanks all of you...

    Um, please don't hit me but I have decided not to go for a Defender... want something that doesn't require more love, affection, time and money than my girlfriend - looks like it'll be a Toyota something with a Turbo Diesel and solid-live suspension.

    Then again I might just keep doing up the Disco till it is perfect - NAH!!!

    Cheers,
    Chosen.
    PUSSY....that decsion was quick.....
    To buy a good Defender Takes time and patience, they come on the market in dribs and drabs and you have to be quick, 97-early 99 ones was my choice..
    The only money I have spent on it really was of my own choosing apart from a busted axle of which I was to blame.
    Once you have one there is no going back unlike the "sheep" drivers of Japense copies, buy a Toyota, then a Patrol then back again..
    It takes a certain kind of person to own/love a Defender...I'm glad you filtered yourself out....

















    Only Kidding...buy a bloody Defender you Pussy and stop mucking about

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    Wave at me!!!

    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo110 View Post
    Good choice. Some people are just not ment to aspire to Defender ownership. Best to find your place now, down with the Disco owners, or even lower with the toyota owners. A Defender is not a mere car, but a way of life. You have chosen not to join the brotherhood, and as such no one will wave at you ever again...............................
    Um, I tested that theory yesterday - the Defender owner waved back at me, and smiled!!! Looks like it made his day, probably took his mind off the Defenders 'B' pillar digging in his shoulder I still think they are the most attractive 4x4 ever invented!














    He, he, he...

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    Pussy hey - easy there mate, grrrrrr, hissss

    Quote Originally Posted by DirtyDawg View Post
    PUSSY....that decsion was quick.....
    To buy a good Defender Takes time and patience, they come on the market in dribs and drabs and you have to be quick, 97-early 99 ones was my choice..
    The only money I have spent on it really was of my own choosing apart from a busted axle of which I was to blame.
    Once you have one there is no going back unlike the "sheep" drivers of Japense copies, buy a Toyota, then a Patrol then back again..
    It takes a certain kind of person to own/love a Defender...I'm glad you filtered yourself out....


    Only Kidding...buy a bloody Defender you Pussy and stop mucking about
    Pussy hey, I'm not the one who is scared of my wife and needs the excuse of a vehicle that requires constant tinkering to get out of the house and into the garage (away from the wife) I think I just defined "pussy" for you... Only Joking

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen View Post
    Pussy hey, I'm not the one who is scared of my wife and needs the excuse of a vehicle that requires constant tinkering to get out of the house and into the garage (away from the wife) I think I just defined "pussy" for you... Only Joking
    Close, its just that she is insatiable and I dont want anymore younguns

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    Quote Originally Posted by DirtyDawg View Post
    Close, its just that she is insatiable and I dont want anymore younguns
    Very cool!

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