Tips for buying landy thats not been on road or mot for a while...

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If it's only top corners of the bulkhead then I wouldn't worry too much. Look further down the bulkhead under the bonnet to see if it had spread at all. Mine was quite obviously a duff repair and had spread all the way down.
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Even if it does need a little work then I wouldn't worry about it. My 110 project has cost me about £4K including the cost of the vehicle and a new bulkhead and I'm pleased with the car I've got now but it just took some time and effort.

Albert
 
Seems a bad egg likely repainted to cover up even more issues, i missed the bulk head brackets good spot. Think its time to walkaway sadly. Thanks for your help
 
You didn't actually say how much they wanted for it, unless I'm going blind. If it was cheap enough it might be worth spending on to get it right. You would have to declare the engine change to your insurer and the DVLA but I don't think a 3.5 v8 would put future sellers off it was converted well. In fact it might be a good selling point as these engines are popular with the landy fraternity.

Col
 
With the bulkhead, it looks a bit like it's been surface patched with a repair panel and the edges finished off with filler or sealant. It's not out of the question to do a better repair, and people on here have tackled far worse. The chassis looks like it has had a new rear section, and presumably a crossmember at the same time. That home made exhaust seems to be fouling the mid-section crossmember. There's work to do - depends on how much you enjoy welding I suppose.

The petrol engine might also make it more popular with future buyers, given the current proposals to tax or otherwise restrict diesels.
 
Brown said:
With the bulkhead, it looks a bit like it's been surface patched with a repair panel and the edges finished off with filler or sealant. It's not out of the question to do a better repair, and people on here have tackled far worse. The chassis looks like it has had a new rear section, and presumably a crossmember at the same time. That home made exhaust seems to be fouling the mid-section crossmember. There's work to do - depends on how much you enjoy welding I suppose.

The petrol engine might also make it more popular with future buyers, given the current proposals to tax or otherwise restrict diesels.
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They aren't going to put a levy on old diesels are they surely? They'd never get away with it how much they pushed buying diesels on everyone. I've never owned anything petrol :D
 
I'm hoping not, as I bought my TD5 with the intention of keeping it a long time. But I'm sure you've seen all that stuff recently in the news about taxing diesels more heavily, charging them to come into cities, banning them from city centres, scrappage schemes and the like.

However, given the result of the recent election, it doesn't look like any particular party is going to get an easy majority to push legislation through so we may not be seeing anything new on the statute books for a while.
 
Brown said:
I'm hoping not, as I bought my TD5 with the intention of keeping it a long time. But I'm sure you've seen all that stuff recently in the news about taxing diesels more heavily, charging them to come into cities, banning them from city centres, scrappage schemes and the like.

However, given the result of the recent election, it doesn't look like any particular party is going to get an easy majority to push legislation through so we may not be seeing anything new on the statute books for a while.
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Yeah I saw the news, I just assumed it would only affect new models like how tax on a new fender is like 500 compared to mine being 200. Only 13 years till its tax free... :D:rolleyes:
The city charges probably still affect em but I hate going town anyway so I'm not as gutted by that :p
I might get more on the scrapple scheme for my disco than selling it haha. Tempted to put the td5 into a 110 when I've finished the 90
 
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