I recently joined the forum to get help with my husband's Defender 300 tdi (I think that's what it is:o) which is going to be written off by the insurers but which some really kind people here are going to advise with, helping us find parts and then patch him back together.:o:D:D The kind...

why not? Might be a bit dark in the barn though?

The landrover is in Westbury (the police, who were brilliant...and loved the landy, had it removed to their place and the insurers took it from there to westbury). Its not so far away....a stones throw really. Borrowing a trailer won't help....the thing we'd pull it with is what we need to...

Thanks. The online scrap dealers I'm finding I've filled in the forms for call back. I note that a few of them say cars from 2000 or 95 onwards though! Nearest indie LR garage have a near enough comparable (i.e. rougher and higher milage than DH's) at £6k I noted, not online, place we...

I think with the money left over I should get something for being such a patient wife...really :rolleyes: But respray....does that mean I coul petition for it NOT to be red in the future? That would be good...

Very cute. Four stone of beagle is more than fine, if beagle can cope with about 8 -9 stone of Irish wolfhound and a greyhound who lives life as if amphetamines just aren't fast enough. There are good dog walks locally...and our fields to run in. :) Our dogs won't follow you to the loo but...

:) Those pet passports. :) We've done it a few times between the continent and here ...I always think something will go wrong with the microchip readers..:) we are VERY dog friendly :) Thanks Guys (I presume you are all or mostly chaps!) I'll keep updating with news re valuation etc.

Thank you. Thank you. I'm so grateful. (BBQ is definite, I do great bacon rolls and I'll mak sure its your favourite beer if you tell me what to get in. :))

I'm overwhelmed with how generous with time and knowledge people are being. :) I'm amazed that DH got out ok. (whiplash and heartbreak:D). TBH that's really all that matters and this stuff, to me is fluff. That car saved his life though. The police told me people flip often there and...

I'm googling this now....:)

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I understand NONE of it. :o:D If they revalue it up we have to pay more though, for the carcass, they've already said that. Any thing left over will probably go on a small car to last us if DH is going to try and do this, (I know it won't take him a day, if he got it done inside six months...

Might not be bad news if we buy back! we knew we'd paid a lot, but were buying to keep..didn't plan to crash! He bought it undone up, purchase price was after overhaul from the garage. We talked long and hard about it and looked at LOTS...and it was not the most expensive of its type, and...

so, re glass, the drivers side is definitely broken,but everything else intact.

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I'm going to keep you all in the loop everystep of the way. Its all been a lot to deal with when you don't know what you are doing. 3-4 hours might just find dh having found a tool box ;) TBH, if he wants to do it and it takes a year, I don't mind...I'm not that sort of a wife....I just...

Thank you. Yes. I think it will all depend on finances..how much they finanlise value at how much to buy back and how much to repair, or if someone wanted to pay for the ''carcass'' to repair themselves. It seems so wasteful to crush him.

Please excuse my lack technical land rover or car speak....but as well as panels I think it needs door, windscreen and the stick things that hold the roof up? :o:o (i.e. the bits that saved my husband's life)

lol re numberplate :) Yes, insurance is a whole other drama.... when they spoke to me yesterday they were implying they were going to take it straight away and crush it, which was making me panic...I kept saying ''I don't want it crushed'' and they kept saying it didn't matter, I could still...

Yes, its only short wheel base