MOT Fail - thinking of selling - advice please

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Update on this is that the landy is currently with Chapel Land Rovers who are going to do the work for me. Looks like a really good set up - will report back
 
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lightning said:
So, did you get it repaired then. And what did you do with it.
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7 and 1/2 years since the last post.............
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Indeed.
But the O/P is still active on this forum, and after three pages of discussion/advice at the time, he never updated this thread.

I am genuinely interested to know what happened. What was the repair cost in the end. Did it need a crossmember?
 
Plus seven years of inflation it is probably wirth at least £35 and a half chewed, second-hand Marathon Bar for the same era :cool::cool:
 
Repoman said:
Hi

I had a bit of a disappointing day today and need a bit of advice.

About a year ago I inherited my 1992 Defender 90 2.5 tdi hard top. It has been in our family since it was new, been garaged all it's life, regularly serviced and amazingly has still only done just over 60,000 miles. It has never been off roaded and only occasionally pulled a light trailer.

Today I took it down to Hallam brothers in Hayfield for what I thought would be a pretty straight forward MOT. uh-uh - never assume anything - it failed on the following:


  • Excessively corroded rear cross member
  • Play in rear axle swivel joint
  • Leak in rear exhaust
  • Misaligned headlights
  • Deteriorated front registration plate
Obviously it's the first two that are the issue and Hallam bros' estimate that it will be about £1000 to get it through the MOT. The simple question is what to do, but this is complicated by the fact that I dont actually use the Landy that much, and I have only kept it because it is a bit of a family heirloom. It was brilliant having it around in the snow but I cycle commute to work most of the time and we have another car in the family if I need one.

It seems that the options are:


  1. Sell it to Hallam brothers as is
  2. Get Hallam brothers to fix it and keep it.
  3. Get Hallam brothers to fix it and sell it
  4. Sell it as is via a forum such as this to an enthusiast (who would probably do the work themselves)
  5. Sell it as is via Ebay

I'm pretty sure that I will reluctantly be selling it so it is a question of the best way. Hallam Brothers are keen to buy it as they can see that it is an unusually tidy Landy with a mileage less than half what is typical for one of this age. I'm guesing they would do the work and have it on their forecourt for £5000+

The only supplementary information I can think of is that I have just put 12 months tax on it anticipating it's MOT pass...

Any thoughts would be welcome: you can see it here by the way -
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f7/90-wheel-bumper-refurb-83374.html

Thanks in advance for your input!
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This was a big con for 7 years ago prices too!!!
  • Excessively corroded rear cross member £30-200 depending if you fix or replace - maybe another £150 if you pay a welder to weld it.
  • Play in rear axle swivel joint £10-50 or about £65 if you buy with a fulcrum bracket.
  • Leak in rear exhaust £1-30 depending if you can weld it or even if you need to replace it parts are about £20-30
  • Misaligned headlights £0 - twiddle with a screwdriver.
  • Deteriorated front registration plate £10
So I think MAX to fix this should have been about £445.00
 
Soooo......what became of the Landy then.

Come on Repoman, put us out of our misery. l can see you are still out there!
 
F'ing con men, why wasn't the Excessively Corroded Cross member pulled as an advisory in the pervious MOT? Unless he had since parked it in the sea!
Saying that , look who he brought it to, why people think big posh dealerships wont rip you off is beyond me, big posh dealerships might do it properly but they will also rip you right off, ''specialists'' working out of a grubby old barn will bodge it and it will still cost you, I don't understand why people don't understand this.
 
Hallam Brothers are a local Indy near to me.
l've always found them to do good work, and have not heard any bad feedback from anybody who used them.
 
lightning said:
Hallam Brothers are a local Indy near to me.
l've always found them to do good work, and have not heard any bad feedback from anybody who used them.
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Until now, when they tried to charge someone for a dubious mot fail to the tune of 1K for work that usually costs half that, and low and behold they sell Landys, so a garaged , one owner, very low mileage, looked after wagon pulls into their workshop and all of a sudden its got a rotten rear cross member even though no previous MOT's pulled it up? Oh, and it will cost you twice or more the going rate?
Kaching!
 
But "now" was over seven years ago.

Still want to know what happened to the Landy!
The garage in Chapel that he said he was going to use, went out of business about five years ago.
 
Get a second opinion in the repair costs, it would be in Hallams best interest to make you bail at getting it repaired so that they can buy it cheap, and do a quick turn around and make strong money off it,

If I was you I would get a second opinion for sure as the only costly bit there is the rear cross member. The rest is either just adjustments or cheap parts and quick to fix. Swivel joint is easy if you buy the one with the mount so it just unbolts and new one bolts on.

Exhaust is just some repair tape or gum

Get a new garage.
 
flat said:
Get a second opinion in the repair costs, it would be in Hallams best interest to make you bail at getting it repaired so that they can buy it cheap, and do a quick turn around and make strong money off it,

If I was you I would get a second opinion for sure as the only costly bit there is the rear cross member. The rest is either just adjustments or cheap parts and quick to fix. Swivel joint is easy if you buy the one with the mount so it just unbolts and new one bolts on.

Exhaust is just some repair tape or gum

Get a new garage.
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Mate, the original post was 7 years ago.

Col
 
Just trying to find out what became of the old Land Rover.
The O/P never updated the thread but is still active on here by the look of it.
 
Still no word from the O/P about his Land Rover.
But he's not been on here since February so l guess we may never know now.
 
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