Convince me to buy a Landrover

Even though Im a through and through Landie fan Id have to look at a crew cab (Nissian first, Mitsi second)

The 110 crew cab is alittle too rough for my motorway miles, and a Rangie is well out of my price range!!

Tim (Cant believe Im saying it)

Well either you love em or loathe them.

I do not think a disco or a freelander is a real landie anyway.

Some have no problems at all, some are nightmares........same as any vehicle really, though the extremes are perhaps wider with LR than some others. My dialy roll around the local garages lets me see all sorts of motors on ramps, and the Japs have bad ones too - and a hell of a lot more expensive to fix they are - if you can get the parts inside a fortnight. Forget Jeep - they make LR look good!

As someone else has posted - you either love them or hate them, and if it's love then its worth the risk - well, IMO anyway, but then my 110 has been utterly reliable until the gearbox went at 206,000, so I am a tad biased!

Richard

In message , Clive writes

If you need convincing - don't buy one.

Clive posted ...

I reckon if you need convincing, then a Landrover, of any flavour, is probably not the vehicle you want ..

Of course they are not, they have coil springs and comfortable seats. but you were asking for me to say that :)

For that sort of distance I'd get a car, possibly a 4x4 car, and fit decent winter tyres and carry a full set of snow chains and digging-out gear.

I used to have a 1959 100E Ford Prefect. Back in the mid 1990's there was knee-deep snow where I lived. My little Prefect didn't get stuck because it had decent tread on the tyres instead of the usual summer tyres most British vehicles seem to use. There was only one steep hill I couldn't get up but if I had snow chains as well then there would not have been any problem. The only other places it couldn't go would have been difficult even for a Unimog.

Decent winter tyres and snow chains and some digging-out equipment is all you'll ever need. Most people seem to drive on tyres which are virtually slicks and then wonder why they get stuck or spin off the road whenever a tiny amount of snow falls.

I would agree with you about the motorway miles,

But can you see light between the top of the doors and the roof when belting along, never mind the noise from the roof rack. I'd probably remove it if I had anywhere to keep it, but at least it is good for climbing onto to take pictures, and sooner or later I am going to find it useful as the back soon fills up with junk.

Clive,

I'm a big landy fan - always have been, I went down this route last year, and after lots of soul searching I ended up getting a Nissan Navara Outlaw (imported version with leather etc).

It may go against the grain of this newsgroup but I have to say its brilliant - without fail, it does 35mpg - cruises at 70 - will do 90+ but the fuel gets burnt quickly - its got leather, climate control, 6 cd electric everything, alloys, masses of room, seats 5, looks good, even ok off-road to a degree! - and best of all its selectable 2/4wd so I can imagine im in a super smooth series and change to 4wd!

I've done 48K in my first 9 months with it, its been great, service intervals are close though - every 6k

I got every extra available and didn't even touch the 20k limit I have.

Of course there are the tax benefits for those whose company still owns them, but this loop hole will get closed eventually - don't get a Mitsubishi l200 though - I tried them all from the diesel to the V6 petrol - they are lethargic (but slightly better ride!).

Of course - its even good at towing my trialler home when its been broken!

Rog

On or around Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:47:25 GMT, "Clive" enlightened us thusly:

blag the 25K, buy a late-model TDi... for about 10K, pocket difference.

I don't suppose that'll work, unfortunately.