Chassis Replacement Advice pls - UK based, Defender 90

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timmotchell

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• Dec 4, 2023

• #1

Evening all,

I'm trying to find someone/somewhere good and reliable to replace a chassis on a Defender 90. It's too big a job for me to do on my own - I don't have the space (or time - I don't think...) and don't have a large budget. No doubt like 100s of others here!

I'm based down near East Sussex / Kent, but could easily transport the Landy further a-field on a trailer for the right person...

Any names or ideas would be really appreciated.

Thanks

 

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Anaconda

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Thames Valley

• Dec 4, 2023

• #2

My advice would be find someone not too far away for any snagging problems your bound to get after you get it back.
You will need quite a large budget if paying someone else.

 

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jimleshed

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• Dec 4, 2023

• #3

Yep, I did mine on my drive last year. A complete strip down and rebuild, all by myself.
Looking around at the time, you could get it done for £1500 - £2000 by cheapies (plus the actual chassis cost), a good workshop bumped that up a huge amount. £10k is no problem - and even then its an "estimate" - once they take the lid off they will find more to do, rusty bits, broken bits, crap wiring etc etc etc.
Mine took me about 400 hours (spread over 3 months), and about £6k in bits

 

tottot

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• Dec 5, 2023

• #4

How bad is your truck's chassis. Put up some pics.

 

suew

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• Dec 5, 2023

• #5

I’ll let you know if a few days. I’ve just bought a chassis and it will be ready this week . Can’t wait

My mates are swapping it for me but the place I bought the chassis from will also fit it. I think they said 2K but I wasn’t really listening. Chassis itself was just under 2k with another couple of hundred for extra bits. Delivery was a week but they said it would be 2 to 3 if they fit it.

 

suew

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• Dec 5, 2023

• #6

Lol forgot the company and to mention they were recommended by people on here.

Graham Marshall is on Facebook he answers questions and gave me a discount.

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