Your restorations...what did you do wrong?

Okay, possibly not wrong but when you restored all or part of your Landy, looking back, is there owt you would have done differently. For instance, I am painting my S3 chassis with red primer and tractol paint. This may prove a folly but I wont know for a year or so after the rebuild.

Bought the fooking rot bucket in the first place.. It's all downhill from there on in..

redhand said:

Bought the fooking rot bucket in the first place.. It's all downhill from there on in..

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welding up all the hammer marks pikey put in the 110,s chassis

robint said:

welding up all the hammer marks pikey put in the 110,s chassis

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paid a so called pro LR mechanic to do about 5 jobs on the car of which he fooked up 4 of them and I had to re-do them myself and had paid him already!

fookin clown!

spent far too much time n money on it and then didnt want to drive it offroad so sold it

Sold it

Thought I could do it on a budget...

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made it so nice it was almost sacrilage to use it for what it was designed for then after 6 months you relise its a land rover and designed for work and work it shall just dont abuse the old girl

wiltshire landyman said:

spent far too much time n money on it and then didnt want to drive it offroad so sold it

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Ditto !!!! Didn't learn from it though as have now bought another one to restore

Tried to do it up looking smart and good off-road.

But now know you can have one or the other!!

sible88 said:

Tried to do it up looking smart and good off-road.

But now know you can have one or the other!!

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why did you fit 37" tyres..

1spin said:

why did you fit 37" tyres..

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No it's the body work!!

It's all scratched from trees and branches and tree sliders are mullered.
And also the tyres are M/T and give a nice shake at 70mph and it has caused the PAS box to leak due to the shake.

And fitted +2" springs and HD ones at that and going over a speed bump is like laying on a bed of nails.

But all theses problems I still love her :-/

Nothing, I am methodical in wot I do
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Bought it without looking properly the first time second one should have spent the extra 150 and taken it with the overdrive in hindsight but never mind

Wiring loom what a **** of a job to make one from scratch.

gazdav said:

Wiring loom what a **** of a job to make one from scratch.

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too true blue .

I very stupidly jumped straight in without knowing a single thing about Discos with my 1st one. Ended up with an absolute basket case and didn't even bother putting it in for it's next MOT. Paid way over the odds for it too...

Got the 2nd one for an absolute song which I went on to restore from a rust-riddled factory standard example to the highly modified monster it is today.

The only thing I'd have done different, or more to the point - not at all - is to NOT wax seal the inside floor plan after it was all welded up. A bloody nightmare in the warmer weather as it heats up and makes a ruddy mess.
Just need to figure out a way to get rid of it all now as it's gonna get a coat of 3M Stonechip and a lashing of paint!