Defender inspection

I live in Oregon, and am thinking about shipping a Defender cross country from the east coast. Unfortunately if I do this I would have to fly out to inspect the vehicle before purchase, and that would waste alot of money if I decided it wasnt the right vehicle. Ive heard that you can hire vehicle inspectors to do pre purchase vehicle inspections for you. Are these inspections less expensive than a cross country flight? And ontop of that do you have any inspector recommendations on the east coast?

East coast as in Norfolk? As they've got six fingers they should be good at inspecting stuff

thanks for the recommendation!

RAC or AA will do an inspection of a vehicle, it's a couple of hundred quid iirc.

Whether they know land rovers well enough to check properly for rust etc I don't know.

You may be better tasking an independent to find you a good importable one. They can find and inspect etc I would have thought.

Someone reputable like gumtree 4x4, gigglepin, blanchards - there are others these are just ones off the top of my head as an example - I don't know if they will offer the sort of service your looking for but an email to ask won't hurt

You'd be much better off asking this on an American site.

Yeah i know, but most of the american site's have poor setup and you get minimal feedback on your threads, thanks for the help though

Where are you looking? I've got a mechanic cousin in
Connecticut, he'd be happy to help [I think!]

Thanks waldamar, if I find one up there I might send you a message

Ask someone on here to have a look and pay them to go and have a look as you would get an honest answer to whether it was any good.

danny6801 said:

Ask someone on here to have a look and pay them to go and have a look as you would get an honest answer to whether it was any good.

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When he says East coast I'm guessing that it's more New York than Norfolk

Are you a member of a motoring organisation ? some offer vehicle inspection for a price ...

https://www.oregon.aaa.com/auto-services/auto-sales/

Marmaduke said:

When he says East coast I'm guessing that it's more New York than Norfolk

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Just read it again dooh think your correct mate.

m_thompson said:

Thanks waldamar, if I find one up there I might send you a message

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No problem, I need to talk to him soon - I'll ask him to keep an eye out for a 110