HI I'm Mickey
Sorry not to introduce myself, didn't see this bit of the Forum when asking questions.
Briefly, son and I bought a Defender 200tdi 110 about 18 months ago. Sorry you landylovers, what a pile of ***. Love driving it, but in 18 months it's been roadworthy for about 12 weeks !
Moral don't buy if you don't know what you're doing. The Landy has a knack of waiting for you to struggle manfully to solve one problem before slinging another even weirder problem at you.
In even succession: the cyl head gasket went ( £400 !) the bulkhead started crumbling in our hands ( £400 - still not fitted, that will cost another £1000 ) the glowplugs, washers, various lights failed, 2 new batteries were bought, the gearbox committed suicide on the M25 ( £85 for an ebay replacement + £250 fitting ), and now there's a short somewhere in the handbrake, for which I fitted a new alternator ( unnecessarily ), so I still can't use the car. As I work on it in the drive in daylight and do have another life, each one of these items takes weeks to resolve ! Oh, and the roof leaks, not just drops, but LITRES !
My son's given up. He's in a Shogun, which starts and drives and gets him places. How boring !
I'm made of sterner stuff, but by golly have I been sorely tested ! I'm determined not to let the old thing die, but I seriously wonder if I'll ever get more than a consecutive 7 days of untroubled motoring out of it ?
Thanks for reading this. It makes me feel better just to write it all down !
Sorry not to introduce myself, didn't see this bit of the Forum when asking questions.
Briefly, son and I bought a Defender 200tdi 110 about 18 months ago. Sorry you landylovers, what a pile of ***. Love driving it, but in 18 months it's been roadworthy for about 12 weeks !
Moral don't buy if you don't know what you're doing. The Landy has a knack of waiting for you to struggle manfully to solve one problem before slinging another even weirder problem at you.
In even succession: the cyl head gasket went ( £400 !) the bulkhead started crumbling in our hands ( £400 - still not fitted, that will cost another £1000 ) the glowplugs, washers, various lights failed, 2 new batteries were bought, the gearbox committed suicide on the M25 ( £85 for an ebay replacement + £250 fitting ), and now there's a short somewhere in the handbrake, for which I fitted a new alternator ( unnecessarily ), so I still can't use the car. As I work on it in the drive in daylight and do have another life, each one of these items takes weeks to resolve ! Oh, and the roof leaks, not just drops, but LITRES !
My son's given up. He's in a Shogun, which starts and drives and gets him places. How boring !
I'm made of sterner stuff, but by golly have I been sorely tested ! I'm determined not to let the old thing die, but I seriously wonder if I'll ever get more than a consecutive 7 days of untroubled motoring out of it ?
Thanks for reading this. It makes me feel better just to write it all down !
