Hey .....Wassup

Hi to All
After many, many years I've finally taken the plunge and got myself a Land Rover Defender 90 Pick Up.
I'm originally from the North West in the UK but have been living here in the Caribbean for more than 30 years. I've had many different vehicles .....currently got an Alfa 156, Audi A8 and crashed Subaru Forester Stb. Unfortunately all these are non runners (long stories) hence the Landy........

As a new user with no "owners manual" LandyZone has been invaluable in getting me started ..... learnt how to operate the transfer lever from the site ......big thanks.

The Landy is "rough and ready" but pulls like a train, stops on a sixpence has unexpectedly good steering and is a dream to guide along the road (I really don't think you "drive" it .....that's way too mundane!

Big thanks to you for the advice and for the jokes.
This is certainly a user friendly site......

Welcome

Welcome

Wow that’s a “marmite” colour. But it does look good
Enjoy it and trawl around for manuals plenty out there to download for free.

Parts not so easy where you are I guess.

Enjoy it

J

Petrol?

Check tech section in defender section for manuals. Transfer box working not stuck is good sign, never occurred to me someone wouldn’t know how to use one? Guess it’s not on the syllabus, hopefully you won’t need it

Welcome to LandyZone

Welcome to the forum

Shimsteriom said:

Welcome

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Hi Sir
Spent over a year in the IOM on business
Had my Renault 16 TS there abd my bosses Datsun 120Y
Got tired of looking for the hub caps that pinged off on the 120Y and experienced terminal understeer in front of a Ford that gave me enough room to dissappear off the road

marjon said:

Welcome

Wow that’s a “marmite” colour. But it does look good
Enjoy it and trawl around for manuals plenty out there to download for free.

Parts not so easy where you are I guess.

Enjoy it

J

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Thanks big time for your reply
Appreciate the feedback
My Forester was pushed off the road into a brick wall by a luni
And their insurance won't pay out!
Anyway every silver lining has a problem so I'm with a Landy

Carib Defender said:

Thanks big time for your reply
Appreciate the feedback
My Forester was pushed off the road into a brick wall by a luni
And their insurance won't pay out!
Anyway every silver lining has a problem so I'm with a Landy

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Claim off your insurance stating the other party caused it and were at fault. It is up to your insurance company to pay up and claim off the other party if they are at fault.

marjon said:

Welcome

Wow that’s a “marmite” colour. But it does look good
Enjoy it and trawl around for manuals plenty out there to download for free.

Parts not so easy where you are I guess.

Enjoy it

J

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Thanks
Appreciate your advice and support

Welcome to the mad house

Hippo said:

Claim off your insurance stating the other party caused it and were at fault. It is up to your insurance company to pay up and claim off the other party if they are at fault.

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Thanks for the help
Unfortunately I'm in a different jurisdiction so the logic is not necessarily supported.
If the other party just ignores the letters and you know the legal costs will be more than the repairs ....what do you do?

Buy a Freelander

RangeRoller dt said:

Petrol?

Check tech section in defender section for manuals. Transfer box working not stuck is good sign, never occurred to me someone wouldn’t know how to use one? Guess it’s not on the syllabus, hopefully you won’t need it

Welcome to LandyZone

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Well it may be novel to some of you guys but we actually do use 4WD to generally get around. My access drive is very steep and I needed the quattro on the Audi to get it out.
Often we go out in the country for a "cook up" and that means going through rivers and boulders to get to the site.
Now my Forester had 7.5 inches of ground clearance and huge power reserves so I could get to most places but the Landy has so much more ground clearance and rock climbing power that it will be even better in the rough stuff ....just a shame it won't be able to do 125mph on the straights on the way home!

RangeRoller dt said:

Petrol?

Check tech section in defender section for manuals. Transfer box working not stuck is good sign, never occurred to me someone wouldn’t know how to use one? Guess it’s not on the syllabus, hopefully you won’t need it

Welcome to LandyZone

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Petrol?

If you have sand diff lock will be handy. Only thing my Landy is missing.

RangeRoller dt said:

Petrol?

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Sorry
Didn't answer this before
It's a 300Tdi
Goodness ... it's got some torque
Needs 2nd or 3rd for the really steep hills and leave it in 4th for general terrain
Waiting for the fuel gauge to change position

my 300TDI would only do 80mph flat out but could pull off in 5th and tow anything. Very reliable

RangeRoller dt said:

Buy a Freelander

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Checked the Freelander out in the UK
I reckon it would last 5 minutes in the real country
Would rather not get home with a liad of plastic bits in the footwell.....
This Defender doesn't have any plastic bits to leave behind!

RangeRoller dt said:

my 300TDI would only do 80mph flat out but could pull off in 5th and tow anything. Very reliable

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Cool
I'm learning the vehicle
It's massive

Carib Defender said:

Thanks for the help
Unfortunately I'm in a different jurisdiction so the logic is not necessarily supported.
If the other party just ignores the letters and you know the legal costs will be more than the repairs ....what do you do?

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Not sure how it works on your side of the pond. I thought you were in the uk until i just looked at yer location.

It’s Hippos favourite, he’s the boss in here

90 is only little. 110 is the full fat loads more room, or a RR