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That is the issue and why this is an uphill battle. She has driven it once about 10 years ago on a green lane and has refused to drive it since. She is only a begrudging passenger when her car is too small which is far more often now there is a child and related parafenalia along with a Large...

Completely correct. I am not trying to predict the market and not interested in future prices. I am not looking at this as a financial investment, this is an investment in future teaching, bonding, common interest time spent and experiences with my children.

I am interested in the top of the market because other than the lack of originality that is where I believe my daily 110 should sit with galv everything and regularly and repeatedly rebuilt mechanicals due to the mileage I do. I am not looking to buy or sell just wanting a general realistic...

I care because I am trying to gauge the current position of the market to work out if it’s realistic to get a project vehicle for a couple grand like I did two years ago or if the market has moved up and I need a larger budget. I am not interested in the specific vehicles linked. More the market...

Back to the topic of the thread this is another one that seems hugely over priced: LINK I am not denying it has had a lot of work done but as it is a series vehicle the higher prices are for originality which this is a long way from. So again is this just someone chancing it or believing because...

The tractor runs I do tend to be about 10mph. Which on my super is low third so works ok. But is a little fast for the friends fordson standard. A B275 is acceptable because it is not grey!

I saw this one currnertly on eBay which is more my price point: LINK. But need to persuade the wife that unborn child number two needs a Land Rover like I did for unborn child number one. She is currently very unhappy about the idea and thinks they can just share.

I may be interested but as above it is very much price dependant as I currently do not have covered storage so anything I buy is going to deteriorate between now and when I actually want it to start rebuilding with children. I would certainly recommend an old tractor they are great fun. Do not...

Although it has now reduced to about 25k i spent several years doing 30+k miles a year, when you are doing that sort of mileage lots of things become regular “service” items far more so than a weekend toy that never does any work. Latest example is my complaint on another thread that the lift...

I have it as a single piece in the second row footwell of the station wagon.

Or the cheap version, skip the sound proofing, and use THIS and a stanley knife!

Bit steep for me, ultimately whatever I get is going to sit in the side of the field for 10 years before being touched and then rebuilt over the next 6-8 years to hand the keys to the child at 18. After sitting that long any vehicle will need a chassis and bulkhead anyway so may as well get one...

I got the 12k for mine after the fire from the insurance with no arguments, but that was 3 years ago now. I completely agree with your comment about we spend too much on them without increasing the value. I have no intention of ever selling mine and six years ago at the point I had owned it for...

This is important and very sage advice. One of the big advantages of the defender is that you do not buy the perfect one you build the perfect one, whether you are doing that yourself or paying someone else. All you buy in the first instance is the starting platform, just get the one nearest to...

Another vote here for leaving it out. If you want to protect the floor of the back and double up as good sound proofing a sheet of stable matting does the trick and just leave the wheel boxes bare I am the same as marjon, bare front to back with rubber floor mats. sound proofing (alu-butyl) has...

I am beginning to look at another 110 as have a second child on the way, in the sprit of fairness after getting one for my son on the day he was born with a plan to rebuild in about 10 years time with him, I will need to do the same with this one. I am looking at the bottom of the market at a...

That is a neat sounding idea, but unless you have a horse of a dog I would have thought the solution does not need to be hugely over engineered if all the board is doing is taking the weight of the dog and their bed. What sort of seats do you have in the back, the individual or the two man...

I'm a little more considerate and use the spare tyre on the rear door as it is a little softer than the hitch :p

Yellow and red is for the fog light. There will be one on each side (same as the brown and green for reverse) but only one side will be used for each if you are still original. The loom is the same for RHD and LHD, so depending on which side of the road you are depends on which way around the...

The lift pump on my disco 200tdi failed yesterday, but it failed in a way I have not seen before, see the video below. Usually when they fail the internal diaphragm fails and it stops pumping, not the casing failing and it just pumping fuel out of the side. I will remove it later this afternoon...