Hello

[duncanamps]

Just a quick hello from a new subscriber.

I don't have a Land Rover currently but will be looking to buy one in the next 2-3 weeks when my lease car goes back

 

[DIFFLOCK66]

WELCOME! Depending upon the mileage you were doing in the lease car and what it was for, you may want to factor reliability into the buying equation

Diff.

 

[bushwwacker]

Just a quick hello from a new subscriber.

I don't have a Land Rover currently but will be looking to buy one in the next 2-3 weeks when my lease car goes back

Owdoo.

 

[duncanamps]

WELCOME! Depending upon the mileage you were doing in the lease car and what it was for, you may want to factor reliability into the buying equation

Diff.

The lease car is doing very low mileage, only 11k miles out of a 30k contract - unfortunately my job changed a few weeks after I got it, so it's sat on the drive for most of the time and never really fulfilled its intended purpose.

For transport, I've also got a Sooty Van which has to be kept as a second vehicle, so.... the idea is to get a Landy to fill the slot of the primary vehicle.

I'm not doing significant mileage so an older one would be fine and I've got alternative wheels to get me around if the Landy needs structural or other time consuming repairs

 

[lorri789]

Welcome.

 

[duncanamps]

As a follow up, I've now bought my first Landy - a 2001 Defender 110 TD5. Still getting used to the controls, steering and seating position but nothing a bit more practice won't fix

MOTed this morning with no advisories, there was a bit of cutting out at higher revs/load and the MoT man advised me to shove a bottle of injector cleaner through the system before taking the wiring loom apart. That seems to have done the trick (it had sat around for a while before I bought it), well pleased

 

[Jaswilliams]

Check your wastegate is free it's a common problem on a Td5 that has been parked up douse it with WD 40 or similar then get a pair of mole grips and make sure it moves it will be stiff but make sure it will push towards the bulkhead

 

[duncanamps]

Spot on advice - the wastegate was jammed shut. I knew the Ferrari style acceleration didn't feel quite right

5 minutes work with 3-in-1 penetrating oil and some mole grips and it's now running very sweetly indeed.