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F-Stop

New Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #1

Hi, just joined the site and have a question.
I have £8,000 to spend but can't make up my mind whether to buy a Freelander or a Discovery.
Your advice and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Dave

 

robint

Well-Known Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #2

welcome mate the only advice i would give is do a search and find out which one gives the most trouble and what cost is involved in repair bills !!!!!!!!!

 

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Sean

Banned

• Apr 20, 2008

• #3

gerra real one gerra defender

 

Sirus

Your all Banned except me

• Apr 20, 2008

• #4

erm Sean....that wernt one of the options....out of the box thinking like that will only get you in trouble

 

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Sean

Banned

• Apr 20, 2008

• #5

see now if i'd have been a mod i'd have edited his post cos he's clearly made a mistake and typed Freelander instead of Defender

 

Trewey

Cockernee, Pasty munchin bastid.

• Apr 20, 2008

• #6

FFs gerra Disco at least (Deepender would be better).
Don't touch a Gaylander!

 

pitbull paul

Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #7

get a disco for £1000 and abuse it,spend the other £7000 on a nice 90

 

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Sean

Banned

• Apr 20, 2008

• #8

think the OP has noticed there's a bit of a theme running through all these replies yet ....

gerra defender !

 

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PASTMASTER

Well-Known Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #9

Sean said:

think the OP has noticed there's a bit of a theme running through all these replies yet ....

gerra defender !

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Just to try and be helpful I've had three discos and a freeloader, all diesels. The Freelander (S reg bought new) was the most reliable and drove more like a car. Took it off road in Turkey, and Romania (actually Romania didn't have roads in those days). But it wasn't big enough for me and I missed the bottom box and the ground clearance was rubbish (bent the sills and snapped the stay on the under-engine "protector" doing a rescue on Dartmoor). The three discos have all cost me far more to maintain, but fit my needs better and are lovely to drive when they are working. Best of the three is the TD5. I don't think I'd go back to a TDi, especially the 200 - a bit agriculturrral ooo arrrr...

Whatever you get, keep some of that cash for repairs.

 

nickh75

Well-Known Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #10

PASTMASTER said:

Just to try and be helpful I've had three discos and a freeloader, all diesels. The Freelander (S reg bought new) was the most reliable and drove more like a car. Took it off road in Turkey, and Romania (actually Romania didn't have roads in those days). But it wasn't big enough for me and I missed the bottom box and the ground clearance was rubbish (bent the sills and snapped the stay on the under-engine "protector" doing a rescue on Dartmoor). The three discos have all cost me far more to maintain, but fit my needs better and are lovely to drive when they are working. Best of the three is the TD5. I don't think I'd go back to a TDi, especially the 200 - a bit agriculturrral ooo arrrr...

Whatever you get, keep some of that cash for repairs.

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an dont forget the off road mods

 

JAC

New Member

• Apr 20, 2008

• #11

Definitely a disco, but your bound to get a more biased opinion in this section. depends on what you want to do with the vehicle, if your thinking bout green lanin then i'd look more at the disco.