My partner and I bought a defender 90, with an Isuzu Conversion kit in her for just over six thousand pounds and my partner was talking about her to a random stranger on-line yesterday. Who thinks he may have paid too much and been done over on her, subsequently my other half has not lost his passion with her and is talking about selling her much to my distress. Can anyone clarify whether he has over paid or whether the random is talking crap?
many thanks
Lenni
In these situations, you are better not to know. It will only frustrate you and there probably isn't a lot you can do. Did you buy via a dealer?
Maybe you have overpaid, or maybe it's in really good nick with a lot of good parts - the thing with LR's is that they are often worth a lot more to the person who did the work. If I put a price tag on mine I would probably be laughed at by many people, but if I then listed on a forum like this what it had and what it cost in parts they would all soon agree that actually what I was asking was fair.
So maybe your LR has been built up of over 6000 pounds worth of parts, the annoying bit is where labour has been paid for, yes that is a cost, and yes the previous owner may want to recoup some of the cost, however someone could end up paying a LOT of money for something like a chassis replacement which although that then has a price tag of chassis + labour, it would be the situation that without the chassis their vehicle was probably worthless or worth much much less. They then want to sell on a LR with a new chassis, but it might have a rotten engine and gearbox and shot axles, is that land rover really worth the value it was to the previous owner + the chassis cost + labour?
I bought my Defender over a decade ago, and as many members on this forum know I have done a rebuild (see my Defender Bodywork Rebuild post - which just became a full rebuild). I once sat and tried to work out what my 90 was worth. Within 40 seconds I was at over 5k, that was just for the price I paid for it, plus a chassis, engine, gearboxes, axle... see where I am going.
A better question might be, is this a good LR and list the faults and issues, we can then say if you've got a good machine - if someone approached me with a LR like mine (stock vehicle but in very good condition, professional level or arguably better work done on it) I would give them 6k.
