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Dreeder

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Hi there folks,

Greetings from sunny Lancashire, im currently looking to buy a Defender 90 in the next month or two, I've test driven a few and slowly narrowing down exactly what I want. :)

So far I've ruled out 110, Soft/Canvas roof and "Maxxis Creepy Crawler" tyres.

My current favourite is a £5500 1996 Defender90 300TDI Country Station Wagon in great condition, but 270k+ miles on the clock, which puts me off.

I am wanting to use this as a daily driver but want to use it for the occasional off road experience. Ill only be doing 6-10k miles per year and have a couple of other cars for if I do manage to break the Defender.

Anyway, thats me looking forwards to making a purchase and getting involved. Darryn.
 
Dreeder said:
Hi there folks,

Greetings from sunny Lancashire, im currently looking to buy a Defender 90 in the next month or two, I've test driven a few and slowly narrowing down exactly what I want. :)

So far I've ruled out 110, Soft/Canvas roof and "Maxxis Creepy Crawler" tyres.

My current favourite is a £5500 1996 Defender90 300TDI Country Station Wagon in great condition, but 270k+ miles on the clock, which puts me off.

I am wanting to use this as a daily driver but want to use it for the occasional off road experience. Ill only be doing 6-10k miles per year and have a couple of other cars for if I do manage to break the Defender.

Anyway, thats me looking forwards to making a purchase and getting involved. Darryn.
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Welcome mate.

Good to see another possible 90 driver.
 
Cheers for the welcome folks. :)

Been test driving a few more and now my favourite is a £9500 2003 Defender90 XS TD5 station wagon with 140k on the clock but in very good condition, only thing stopping me is the low-ball valuation of my trade-in. I might sleep on it and make a counter-offer in the morning. :)
 
Dreeder said:
Cheers for the welcome folks. :)

Been test driving a few more and now my favourite is a £9500 2003 Defender90 XS TD5 station wagon with 140k on the clock but in very good condition, only thing stopping me is the low-ball valuation of my trade-in. I might sleep on it and make a counter-offer in the morning. :)
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Mines done 170k mate and still going ok. Well apart from its about to have its third engine :D
 
Finally found a Defender90 for the right price, condition and with the right trade-in value against my old car...

So here it is, 1994 300TDI, its quite standard at the moment, a bit of rot on the door bottoms, but otherwise seems farily decent for a 19year old car. Pulls well, handles the roads and dirt lanes around here fine as well.

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hi mate 200 or a 300 tdi all day long you can work on them your self easy.but if you do a lot of motorway miles then td5 for crusing speed.my 300tdi county has 250.000
 
Very nice.

Needs real tyre though, at least 7.50x16s from a 110. I always feel the small tyres make the swb land rovers wrong. be they 88"s or 90s.
 
Welcome to LZ. Very nice looking Defender, (agree it would look even better with bigger tyres though). :)
 
Welcome. Looks like you found a nice fender there, I would get a second set of wheels and tyres for playing in and keep them for road use. Look like Michelin tyres to me, got a set for my rrc for on tge road.
 
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