is this a good deal for a Defender

I have seen pictures of this, looks like what i am wanting. looks realy good, so i am going to see it saturday. Do you guys think it is a good deal


advert:

pickup, 200 tdi, 2.5 diesel, 1995, 120,000 original milage, black, reciepts over £4000, new wheels and tyres, mud terrain, 3" lift kit, with procomp, ex9000 springs and shockers, front and rear drive shafts, with disc guard, all been rewired with every light new, new steering damper and track rod ends, with heavy duty aluminium steering guard, pas, just been serviced, all new interior, will put 12 month mot on.

he is asking for £5500


what yous think guys

A 1995 should be a 300tdi not a 200 - check the drive belt for the ancilliaries carefully when you look at it. If it's a single serpentine belt that winds through all the ancilliaries it's a 300. If it's had a 200tdi as a replacement I'd want to know 'why' if it was me buying it.

thanks for reply adz;

dont know much about engines, could you expand this statment.

"check the drive belt for the ancilliaries carefully when you look at it. If it's a single serpentine belt that winds through all the ancilliaries it's a 300"

open up the bonnet and look at the fron of that big lump if there are lots of belt like thingeys then its a 200 but if theres only 1 belt then its a 300 (or some 1s stolen the others)

have actualy phoned thy guy selling it. he said he built it in 95 from the chasi up and put a 200tdi engin in it. said it was all new parts (has recipts). I am going to look at it tomorrow but not sure about paying that money for some ones hand built car.


what yous think?

Defenders are more or less hand built anyway - or at least hand assembled. Which would you prefer? A car hand assembled by an enthusiast (provided they know what they're doing of course) or by a wage slave employed by Rover Group plc who probably didn't give a monkeys what the end result is as it's covered by warranty anyway.

If he re-built it in '95 is it a '95 car or a much earlier one? Check for disc brakes on the rear axle (all defenders have discs on the front) - if it's post 1993 it'll have discs on the rear too - if it's an earlier car they'll most likely be drums, unless the bloke who did the rebuild put a later axle on the back.

Building one from scratch using all new parts in '95 would be a very expensive way to get a new Land Rover and a 'new' engine then would have been a 300tdi if you could have got hold of one - which is why I'd suspect 'rebuild' rather than new build - that's only an opinion without seeing the car so trust your own observations on this.

If the car is genuine and as described then £5500 isn't too much to pay. You will find 200tdis for a lot less, but then you would have to take into account condition. Out of interest - what registration prefix does it carry?

Cheers,

slihp said:

have actualy phoned thy guy selling it. he said he built it in 95 from the chasi up and put a 200tdi engin in it. said it was all new parts (has recipts). I am going to look at it tomorrow but not sure about paying that money for some ones hand built car.


what yous think?

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you wouldn't be buying a morgan then or a early roller..
depends who built it really. if it wur hybread you'd have to ensure she gave you a 10 pack of no-more nails incase anything fell orf.

Oy oy... I heard that...! Nowts fell orf MY landy yet....

Well nuffin that I 'no-nailed' on...