RustyRazor
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Hi everyone,
First time poster and possibly about to become a first time owner. I've dreamed of owning a defender since before I even got my license and I'm now in a position to get one.
I've been in talks with a seller, had a viewing, test drove and I think I was pretty thorough during the viewing. I crawled underneath, banged, scraped, prodded things and the whole works I think. Generally it seemed to be in good condition as far as structural things go. There are a few things cosmetically that need attention like seats, doors, side step, 1 door, cubby box etc, but these are small beans.
It's got a bull bar, winch, steering guard, roof rack thing, a camper conversion with diesel heater, water pump, storage, after market radio and speakers, leisure power battery and USB ports.
It's a 1999 td5 and it's done about 140k miles, steering felt fine, gears felt fine, went to a high speed to test. Diff works. Asking price was 18k but we agreed on 15k.
What I want to know, is if £15,000 is a "reasonable" price for this landy and setup? The intention is to travel Europe and this pretty much has the setup I'd want and need so I'm wondering if a more bone stock defender plus the extras that this one already has would be about the same in terms of costs, labour, time and effort where as just buying this one would save me on sourcing accessories, parts, conversion, time and money in the long run.
First time poster and possibly about to become a first time owner. I've dreamed of owning a defender since before I even got my license and I'm now in a position to get one.
I've been in talks with a seller, had a viewing, test drove and I think I was pretty thorough during the viewing. I crawled underneath, banged, scraped, prodded things and the whole works I think. Generally it seemed to be in good condition as far as structural things go. There are a few things cosmetically that need attention like seats, doors, side step, 1 door, cubby box etc, but these are small beans.
It's got a bull bar, winch, steering guard, roof rack thing, a camper conversion with diesel heater, water pump, storage, after market radio and speakers, leisure power battery and USB ports.
It's a 1999 td5 and it's done about 140k miles, steering felt fine, gears felt fine, went to a high speed to test. Diff works. Asking price was 18k but we agreed on 15k.
What I want to know, is if £15,000 is a "reasonable" price for this landy and setup? The intention is to travel Europe and this pretty much has the setup I'd want and need so I'm wondering if a more bone stock defender plus the extras that this one already has would be about the same in terms of costs, labour, time and effort where as just buying this one would save me on sourcing accessories, parts, conversion, time and money in the long run.
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