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Same as " Break down"Its spelled Land Rover
Same as " Break down"Its spelled Land Rover
Sort of been there done that, only it was a Lexus v8 in to a series 3Toyota V8 waiting to go into the Defender
Same thing. Not the Koya build on LR4x4? If so you're to blame for the idea popping in my head as it was originally destined for the Sandringham / Stage 1Sort of been there done that, only it was a Lexus v8 in to a series 3
Very good in a straight line
If you can find the Amazon in your price range then pre 2007 with the 4.2 straight 6 diesel is the gem, before they went common rail electronic. One hell of a motor car.
March 2006I think the tax break where the cost goes up a lot is March 2001 so worth checking the reg before you buy.
+1. Had one of the last ones as a weekend demo from Toyota dealer.If you can find the Amazon in your price range then pre 2007 with the 4.2 straight 6 diesel is the gem, before they went common rail electronic. One hell of a motor car.
If that's on a Discovery, that seems pretty impressive on both time and money. I'd always understood they were scrap when that happens?Okay I've snapped a couple of cranks but neither cost me more than £400 to fix and the last one engine was out and new built one installed inside 6h with tea breaks on my own.
Defender. It was a bit of an odd situation, just lost all drive on the M4 Severn Bridge heading west (snapped behind #4), got recovered to a friends house nearby and then another friend trailered it back home to Surrey. Bought a complete engine off @8ob for £350 and over the course of a weekend in his yard got it swapped over, put a new clutch on, did the timing belt etc., since it was out. We'd had to swap a couple of ancillaries such as alternator and starter motor over. 2.5k later picking up a Bridgeport from a member on here and heading back to Wales it sounded like it was hosing an injector, got it to my parents towing 2.5t down through Wales. Some diagnosis later and had snapped another crank (this one in-front of #1) hence why she was still running, the knocking was the crank knocking back and forth at idle as it only had to drive the ancilliaries.If that's on a Discovery, that seems pretty impressive on both time and money. I'd always understood they were scrap when that happens?
Wow - that's quite a story.Defender. It was a bit of an odd situation, just lost all drive on the M4 Severn Bridge heading west (snapped behind #4), got recovered to a friends house nearby and then another friend trailered it back home to Surrey. Bought a complete engine off @8ob for £350 and over the course of a weekend in his yard got it swapped over, put a new clutch on, did the timing belt etc., since it was out. We'd had to swap a couple of ancillaries such as alternator and starter motor over. 2.5k later picking up a Bridgeport from a member on here and heading back to Wales it sounded like it was hosing an injector, got it to my parents towing 2.5t down through Wales. Some diagnosis later and had snapped another crank (this one in-front of #1) hence why she was still running, the knocking was the crank knocking back and forth at idle as it only had to drive the ancilliaries.
Was in the process of moving house down to Wales so bought a 4.6 P38 cheap as a runabout and then a short block came up for sale in Devon for £50. A mate who was passing picked it up and dropped it off at home, I built it up using the original engine's head and with a rope and a ladder got it into the boot of the P38. Easter weekend headed back to my parents in Wales, pushed the Defender into the barn with the excavator and then using a chain hoist off one of the purlins got the old engine out, new engine in and test driven around the field in under 6h.
I should clarify the first one took a little longer because I'd started stripping it on the side of the road outside home whilst Bob cleared some space in a workshop. Borrowed a mate's P38 and towed it to Bob's yard, Saturday evening the old engine was ready to come out. Sunday morning we found the new engine (that took a while in Bob's yard), got it into the workshop, did timing belt, clutch and swapped accessories where necessary, lifted out the old engine and dropped in the new one. In a moment of stupidity it took Bob and I about 90 minutes to get the damn thing started, we'd both checked everything over, chucked his not insubstantial compressor into the fuel tank to pressurise it and help bleed the fuel system and the thing still wouldn't fire up. In a moment of frustration I thought sod it lets swap the fuel lines to the filter over - fired straight up , if it wasn't for the fact that we'd both checked those hoses multiple times it wouldn't be so funny.
The cause of the snapped cranks (which are unheard of in a 300Tdi, note snapped not worn out due to lack of oil) was a failing crank pully which we'd inadvertently swapped over between the three engines. Basically the rubber bonding had failed causing it to shift out of balance and then harmonically destroy two cranks. £30 later and a new one arrived and all sorted. Basically the original replacement engine from Bob had been under a tarp outside so whilst not in bad condition some of the pulleys had a bit of surface corrosion so rather than chew up belts we'd swapped over the ones from the original engine which were in good shape (or so we'd thought).
I went for replacement engine option because quite frankly it was cheaper. Whilst waiting for the RAC after the first one a new crank was ~£270, then bearings and so on. At this point all I knew was it was bottom end. Knew Bob had a good spare engine so phoned him up on the side of the motorway and asked how much he wanted for it - at £350 it wasn't worth the hassle of building up the original engine that point. The idea being swap it out and potentially rebuild the original in slow time as a spare.
Only for people whose eyes don't actually work. Have you seen a bigger dogs dinner than a Rexton?Rexton models used older (better?) generation Mercedes engines & boxes etc - while reviews suggest they are rugged.
Don't think alloy / steel corrosion is a problem on anything more modern that Discovery 1 or (proper) Defender.And the disco (seems) to be viewed less favourably in the reliability scale.
Coupled with the aluminium/steel construction of the disco that (again-seems!) makes it more susceptible to terminal rust seals its fate.
Just screenshot this off the .Gov website
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I'd think a post 1 March 2001 4.2 litre Landcruiser would be in one of the top two brackets 226 g/km + so nearly £700 tax a year!
If it's pre 1 March 2001 it's (only ) £325!
I'll take a lower-priced, rugged and reliable, but fugly vehicle over a pretty but pricey and fragile, costly vehicle any day of the week.Only for people whose eyes don't actually work. Have you seen a bigger dogs dinner than a Rexton?
The amount of times you see the Tax Check vehicle roadside (St Clears to Carmarthen bypass regularly for one) , plus most don't realise that Police Traffic cars have the No Plate recognition & the system automatically runs your plate without the Officer needing to do anything)..... means running without RFL is far from easy to get away with (without I suppose bent/cloned plates).Now pootling about in Carmarthenshire / Pembrokeshire I can believe you'd get away with it but I'd been to Scotland, Liverpool twice, Northumberland and all over the south of Wales and I think Surrey via Devon once. I think the one saving grace was that I hadn't been on the M25 or into London.