90 td5 as my everyday car ? Am I crazy?

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Eddybjnr

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Looking at getting my first defender in the coming weeks. But I will use it as my everyday car! And when I mention it to people they look at me as if I've just said ive just jumped from the moon in shorts.

Am I really that crazy for wanting one as a everyday car ? 🙈🙈🙈🙈
 
Eddybjnr said:
Looking at getting my first defender in the coming weeks. But I will use it as my everyday car! And when I mention it to people they look at me as if I've just said ive just jumped from the moon in shorts.

Am I really that crazy for wanting one as a everyday car ? 🙈🙈🙈🙈
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How many miles do you do a week.
 
Eddybjnr said:
Looking at getting my first defender in the coming weeks. But I will use it as my everyday car! And when I mention it to people they look at me as if I've just said ive just jumped from the moon in shorts.

Am I really that crazy for wanting one as a everyday car ? 🙈🙈🙈🙈
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Yes they truly are ****e, fun to start with, then the quirks stop being funny and just a pita.
Recently bought another motor and my everyday for the last 4 years 90 tdi has sat unused on the drive and I dont miss it one little bit!
 
lynall said:
Yes they truly are ****e, fun to start with, then the quirks stop being funny and just a pita.

Recently bought another motor and my everyday for the last 4 years 90 tdi has sat unused on the drive and I dont miss it one little bit!
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Don't listen to him! He's always trying to antagonise the others! Although as he'll tell you he is only saying the truth!
My 87 110 is my daily ride, I love her to bits, but my daily ride is bumbling along country lanes, 60 miles a day would be madness even in a td5 ( especially if that's mostly motorway).
 
I use my 1993 Defender CSW as my everyday car. I'm probably doing a couple of hundred miles a week. I love it.

Yes it's a bit thirsty, yes it's a tad noise, No I wouldn't change it for the world.

I had been wanting a Defender for years but just put up with crap cheap second hand cars. They got me from A to B bit they are just not as much fun as a Defender.

I recently got snarled up in traffic jam through Hertford. No worries in a Defender. I just dog legged round the jam on Hertfordshire green lanes. You don't often get the chance to have fun on the way to work in a normal daily drive.
 
No. Not crazy at all. My first car was a LWB Series III which I drove every day for six and a half years. i replaced that with a 300tdi 90 which i have had for almost 12 years and don't plan on changing it any time soon. 150 - 200 miles a week and a 1000 mile overland trip a year.
 
I use my 110 every day but then I am a farmer so it's just being used for what it was designed for. I used to chug about in a 109 truck cab and that was hard work.
 
If you can afford it why not?

My daily is a 110 TD5 and I love it, quirks and all. My work commute is 60 miles total but that's not every day as I work shifts.
 
I wondered about this but I decided not to, though my commute is a 110 mile round trip...though I do only go in once every few weeks.

It's doable, but you drive the 90 to work, get there knackered and with a headache and realise it's just so much nicer to do it in a big diesel saloon car.
 
There's no reason why a Defender can't be your everyday car. The major thing that slows you down is other traffic, so it's not as if performance is a limiting factor. Fuel costs aren't that bad when you consider that depreciation is quite low on these things. It's good being up above most other cars so even if you do get held up you can admire the view. if you do a lot of motorway miles there are various modifications one can make like overdrive, Discovery transfer box ratios and so on. Even as standard they're not to bad as motorway cars. Why would you want to drive anything else?
 
Modified Defender 90 300tdi has been my everyday car for the last 8 and a bit years.
Still love getting into it every day rattles ice noise and all :D every journey is an adventure and there's no chance of falling asleep behind the wheel !
 
I have use my 1990, 110, 200tdi as my everyday car but I live in the French countryside. If I lived in the city with 60 miles a day travelling I think I would get something more city friendly. I love my Defender and would not get ride of it. For where I live there is nothing better. You might be better off with something like a Disco or Freelander. It would certainly be more comfortable and warmer in the winter. I think you will find the 90 hard going in town and traffic.
 
Not crazy, but Defender wasn't really designed for long-distance motorway use.

I used to drive my (then) 3-year-old Freelander 1.8 for commuting daily 40 mile round trip.
Warm and comfy, and quite fun, but the fuel costs were not good...and then the repair bills started snowballing.

After service bills of >£900 2 years running, I thought "I can buy a second hand car for less than that", so I did -- a Peugeot 306 1.9 DTurbo.
Freelander was kept for family use, and Pug for commuting...
...until the Freelander suffered its inevitable (third, and this time, terminal) head gasket failure.
Then I bought my Defender :):):)

That was 6-7 years ago, and I am still driving a 'two-car solution':
-- 1997 306 (I'm now on my third!) for commuting and motorway driving;
-- 1993 Defender 110 for family, dog, bicycle rescues, furniture removal, garden waste, camping holidays, snow, floods, and general fun!
 
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