looking for my adventure vehicle after serious illness recovery. would like to learn here.

Hello , thankyou for your time. i am a former freelander owner. I had recently bought a scam jimny i was hoping to turn into a dream fun vehicle. now im thinking sod that, go landy, get something proper.
hoping to learn from all the experience and knowledge here, had helped me suss out a problem on a freelander my garage took 3 months to not fix,,,,,so i know this is the place to be.
just saying hi. please any advice on buying would be greatly received, just as much as saying hello. im hoping 4wd offroading will provide some joy that life had taken from me, its a way to adventure my body can handle.
thanks if you read this, pleasure to meet you.
as said any advice, or welcome, im grateful for. im sure this is a good place to start to get me that joy im after.

I would stick with the Jimny, bloody good cars off road with the right tyres.
Some laning is a good way into the hobby.

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Hi and welcome.
Do you want to follow the heart or the head?

The Jimnys ive seen always do very well, much lighter shorter/wheel base id have one to plod about in the lanes.
Welcome to lz.

lynall said:

I would stick with the Jimny, bloody cars off road with the right tyres.
Some laning is a good way into the hobby.

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Good ??

Hello and welcome

kermit_rr said:

Hi and welcome.
Do you want to follow the heart or the head?

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head. always. the jimny is dead

lynall said:

I would stick with the Jimny, bloody cars off road with the right tyres.
Some laning is a good way into the hobby.

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wish i could have but sold an absolute rotter by dealer, i dint buy it it was a gift bought online,,,,Yeah the MoT showed work needing doing that hadnt etc,,,,
jimny is just sat in a corner till we figure out what i wanna do with it.

i have a budget of about 8 k meek i know buts its what i have. ,,, just want something to go have fun in, that i can have fun working on etc.

any suggestions or which model to look out for?

thankyou for all replies

kevstar said:

The Jimnys ive seen always do very well, much lighter shorter/wheel base id have one to plod about in the lanes.
Welcome to lz.

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oh mate capable little cars no doubt can get into smaller spaces etc..
ive been put off them for life with the rust..... i know this is a thing on all vehicles....buy jimnys are great at crumbling underneath.

redfoxy said:

oh mate capable little cars no doubt can get into smaller spaces etc..
ive been put off them for life with the rust..... i know this is a thing on all vehicles....buy jimnys are great at crumbling underneath.

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Yer cause landys dont rust

redfoxy said:

oh mate capable little cars no doubt can get into smaller spaces etc..
ive been put off them for life with the rust..... i know this is a thing on all vehicles....buy jimnys are great at crumbling underneath.

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Land Rovers can and do rust really bad, once past 10/15 years old then you are on borrowed time corrosion wise.
P38 do not seem to rust, but the rest of the car is questionable.


8k will buy something nice, unless you want a defender.
The most comfortable and best bang for your buck is a Discovery, but they of course also rust, the newer the disco the more expensive they are to maintain.

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Good ??

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Yes I have now edited it, thank you.

This one time I had a jimny, it never got stuck, apart from the time it rolled.. but thats a story for another day.

P38 (or any RR) is a full time job keeping on top of everything, after you’ve fixed it, but doable with <8K if you’re wise with it. L322 could also be an option, maybe even a rough RR Classic
Discos are more than capable of greenlaning and off-roading, as standard, plentiful and reasonably priced in general.
We will skip Freelanderers
Unsure how much a decent 2 1/4 goes for?

There’s plenty of chioice with Landys it’s more finding a decent one that speaks to you and sticking with the git you got sorta thing. Have a look and chat in the different forums get an idea of what you like. There’s nothing they can’t help or advise you on whatever you go with.

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