Hi all,
As my newbie post, here's my 1st problem I could do with some advice on...
Last Thursday I was on the verge of parting with my hard earned dosh on a 1989 'G' Landrover 90 which has had a 200 tdi defender engine fitted within the last 2 years. The landy looks the part, the body is very neat with no dings and the chassis is solid with the exception of a couple of minor rust spots on the rear member. The odo reads 135000 miles and i believe that the engine has done approx 80000 miles.
It is fitted with TD5 alloys and has 12months MOT and 6months tax... The interior is neat and clean with 3 seats up front. It hasn't been used offroad and is fitted with a couple of spots and a couple of reversing lamps... All sounds good so far....
Now, I know the guy that is selling this personally and he very kindly loaned it to me for 24hrs to have a good look around before I commited to buying. During the road test I attempted to try the hi/low/diff lock but I discovered that the lever wasn't connected and was just actually sitting in its hole!!!
I asked the guy why this was and he replied with 'My 5yr old daughter used to put it in diff lock with out me knowing and I'd end up driving around the roads in it' and 'once I was towing a trailer up a steep hill and I tried to select low but with no luck and ended up snapping a pin' His brother in law has since disconnected the lever, leaving it in high. He said that it would be a 30min job to fix the linkage but for the price he wasn't prepared to get the work done prior to me buying it.
I promptly replied that I would not buy it unless this was reconnected and was working and decided to walk away. Later he rang me and offered to get it fixed by his brother in law but it would cost me about £20...
Now if this does get fixed is there anything I should look out for before I buy? Is there a cheap bodge he could do that I wouldn't be aware of? Could the transfer box be damaged? Is there anyway to fully test it?
I'm about to part with £2200 for all this so I'm sure you can all understand my concerns...
Many thanks for reading my problem, I hope that some of you can offer some good advice...
atb Tom
As my newbie post, here's my 1st problem I could do with some advice on...
Last Thursday I was on the verge of parting with my hard earned dosh on a 1989 'G' Landrover 90 which has had a 200 tdi defender engine fitted within the last 2 years. The landy looks the part, the body is very neat with no dings and the chassis is solid with the exception of a couple of minor rust spots on the rear member. The odo reads 135000 miles and i believe that the engine has done approx 80000 miles.
It is fitted with TD5 alloys and has 12months MOT and 6months tax... The interior is neat and clean with 3 seats up front. It hasn't been used offroad and is fitted with a couple of spots and a couple of reversing lamps... All sounds good so far....
Now, I know the guy that is selling this personally and he very kindly loaned it to me for 24hrs to have a good look around before I commited to buying. During the road test I attempted to try the hi/low/diff lock but I discovered that the lever wasn't connected and was just actually sitting in its hole!!!
I asked the guy why this was and he replied with 'My 5yr old daughter used to put it in diff lock with out me knowing and I'd end up driving around the roads in it' and 'once I was towing a trailer up a steep hill and I tried to select low but with no luck and ended up snapping a pin' His brother in law has since disconnected the lever, leaving it in high. He said that it would be a 30min job to fix the linkage but for the price he wasn't prepared to get the work done prior to me buying it.
I promptly replied that I would not buy it unless this was reconnected and was working and decided to walk away. Later he rang me and offered to get it fixed by his brother in law but it would cost me about £20...
Now if this does get fixed is there anything I should look out for before I buy? Is there a cheap bodge he could do that I wouldn't be aware of? Could the transfer box be damaged? Is there anyway to fully test it?
I'm about to part with £2200 for all this so I'm sure you can all understand my concerns...
Many thanks for reading my problem, I hope that some of you can offer some good advice...
atb Tom