I'm about to buy an imported 1995 3.1D Isuzu Trooper. Can anyone recommend a good independent in the Melton Mowbray or Boston area who could check it out this week?
Cheers
Need to get a 4x4 inspected before purchase
Sep 30, 2007
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Buy a Land Rover.
Don't. The Isuzu 3.1 is not exactly the most reliable engine in the world.
Don't!! buy my Toyota Surf instead.
Alan...
Phaeton ( snipped-for-privacy@none.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Very wise advice - and truly selfless.
...he...he... someone needs to buy a box of Comas to sprinkle on their sentences
AWEM
Andrew Mawson (andrew@no_spam_please_mawson.org.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
Well, yes - a persistent vegetative stage would probably be the end result of being forced to drive a Toyota Surf...
On or around Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:27:39 +0100, Phaeton enlightened us thusly:
is that the one with the dodgy 2.4 turbo engine?
:-)
Nope the one with the very useful 3.0 turbo
Unless your post which was corrupt & pointless :-)
Possibly the worst engine Toyota have ever made. Stupidly underpowered and with a penchant for cracking heads.
Awesome engine. Impressively powerful and extremely reliable. I transplanted one into a Disco I last year for a mate of mine and the end result is rather good.
That's a nice helpful comment. Or are you suggesting that Land-Rovers are sans faults? Mine certainly isn't, oooh, now where shall I start ...? lol
Heheheh, oh for a Landrover without faults .... ;)
Mind, whatever faults they have, they're still a damn sight better than most of the s**te flooding the country from parts East ...
Oh indeed, if you want a festering unreliable heap of crap.
Well, he did post to alt.FAN.landrover - what did he expect?
If you don't want a biased reply, don't post to a alt.FAN newsgroup. Muppet.
Replies from dribbling thyroid cases, and he got them.
Oh, the irony.
On or around Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:35:04 +0100, %steve%@malloc.co.uk (Steve Firth) enlightened us thusly:
I didn't start it.
What I fail to understand is how it's OK to cross-post to four newsgroups, but not OK to criticise a cross-poster to the same groups.
I'm not keen on cross-posting either, mainly because I can see very few circumstances in which it is justified. But a complaint or criticism should have the same audience as the original material, surely?
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