Thread: Ideal Isuzu defender setup. Opinions?

Oh that reminds me, when we get hit by a massive solar flare big enough to take out the grid the TD5's will get you nowhere .

Just saying - you miiiiiight wanna factor that in there.

As someone has said on AULRO previously.

Isuzu and Browning.

Post apocalypse weapons of choice

( I added the Browning gun bit )

Good to see someone who lives in Melbourne giving us advice on what vehicle to use in the bush.

I have lived the last 35 years in the bush (most of the NT and NW WA) using many and varied types of machinery.
At the moment I use a TD5 I find it a simple engine with a few easily resolved faults.
Anyone with a few brains and some spares can get them selves out of trouble with a TD5.

There is always a scenario in any vehicle that you cant get yourself out of though

Originally Posted by manic

Depends on what you want to use the rover for. All this praise for the TD5 but do we know if this rover is getting built for play days and shopping runs or will it be going to remote areas where there's little hope for recovery?

For almost everyone the TD5 is the better engine to have but what if you're proper roughneck and don't want an ECU deciding when enough is enough, or like the idea of needing a charged battery to run the engine... you might not want to worry about wet electronics when wading....

If you were to tell us you're a hairdresser doing house calls - obviously TD5 time. But if you were to describe yourself as a roughneck remote area pioneering solo prospector - easy choice get a rebuilt ISUZU/TDI

Originally Posted by manic

If you were to tell us you're a hairdresser doing house calls - obviously TD5 time. But if you were to describe yourself as a roughneck remote area pioneering solo prospector - easy choice get a rebuilt ISUZU/TDI

Cant go along with this theory I'm afraid,
... Mate have you seen my hairdo

Hairdressers doing house calls, Td5 no good at all, you need the Freelander or Evoque.

In 30 ish years of driving Landrovers, the only time I've never been able to fix a roadside problem and drive home was when I had a catastrophic timing belt fail , which destroyed the engine. (ok I'll come clean it was a 1HDT , but Tdi's also have timing belts)

funny you should say so, Im about to head off into the roughneck remote for an indefinate period of time (hopefully years not months), in my Td5 , and I more than confident theres not a thing on it that that I wont be able to fix trackside . ( short of Solar Storm or Nuclear EMP blast)

Fair call, batterys have to be tip top shape, but that all to do with trip prep.

Im not knocking Isuzu at all, Legendary stuff, hats off to anyone with one, actually I'll tip my hat to anyone with any sort of Defender.

yeah but solar flares! hahaa.. True I'm a computer programmer born in London, living in Melbourne... Based on that I should have got a TD5 BUT I bought a TDI and now I'm tougher than Crocodile Dundee!