Land Rover Defender 90
- Thread starter Vizslaman
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Dave W
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- chesterfield
Christ. For £14 k you could buy something good and 10 years newer.
Do people really pay that much for land rovers?
Do people really pay that much for land rovers?
I'd buy it, bump 4 grand on it & flog it in the new year ............................
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Seems pricey unless the chassis and bulkhead have been replaced. That and it needs to be a high spec (XS or similar). A basic 90 would be overpriced at that, imo.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Love 90s and have owned 3 simce they came out but jesus christ they are vastly over priced .
Dave W
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- Location
- chesterfield
I’ve a trooper couple years older than that with half the mileage. It’ll do exactly the same as a 90 but with significantly more comfort. Cost £1800. No brainier for me
Stupid thing is, if bought a new galv chassis, 2.5k?, spent two weekends on moving everything over, it may well then have been a 15 to 20k motor...
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
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The value of a useable landrover is only ever going one way.
We use 110 hcpu....and there's not much else that would do what we ask of it.
Collects 2x 500kg dumpys of cake all winter, often combined with delivering a handler bucket load of logs (tipped straight in from bucket).
The boy takes his shearing pen/gear off in it in summer.
It tows 3.5t loads of timber and livestock all the time (avoiding vosa weighbridges just in case...).
It feeds cattle straight out of butt, inc using whole big squares, or 4' rounds.
With the Ifor canopy on it moves up to 10 ewes.
Seats 3 'friends'
It'll be 20 y/o next March, now has galv chassis, and unless someone comes up with summat new to match it, I suspect i won't ever buy another pickup.
Cost -if memory serves- was £17k new.
That was the no-brainer.
They had a price to change chassis. £8000+ by the time all brakes,brake lines, clutch, and suspension was replaced . They decided to cash it in instead.
- Location
- Wiltshire
Dad always had blue Land Rovers. He had a panic when he heard they were going to stop making them and ordered one. Dealer phones up one day, Mrs Bg answers the phone and it’s the dealer saying LR have run out of blue paint it’s either grey or red. So we have a grey one, Red would have been the right answer but dad would have hated it.
He’s gone now but the land rover is still here and even though it is impractical for everything other than my shooting dog waggon we are keeping it for dad.
Bg
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
She looks tidy, if you can afford it and want it (I expect you can and do as you're in talks about it) - get her bought.
Fair enough some people dislike them, but plenty run them down based on their hatred - the market dictates their value... and there is not much around with the real value of a Defender
We've had a few over the years, and absolutely love the current one (2.4 puma 110 single cab pickup). Nothing comes close as a farm truck, IMO.
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
I did my own chassis change , i dont think it can done properly for 8k, i think id want 10k to do a propa job .
local outfit did mine for £6k in 2020 - lots of experts on here insisting it should be far less.
Luckily, i'#m not an expert.