JoDefenderGirl · Wednesday at 17:25

Does anyone know of a Land Rover mechanic course in Cheshire?
I’m looking to retire soon and my dream for retirement is to buy an old defender and do it up myself.

Hicap phill · Wednesday at 17:32

You don’t need to do a course.
As long as you have a methodical way of taking things apart & can weld you will be good.
Have a look through of the threads where people have rebuilt these & you will see what’s involved.

Good luck & enjoy.

saxavordian · Wednesday at 19:02

Workshop manuals and parts manual are valuable sources of the breakdown of most land rovers series to early-ish 2000 range rover. Unfortunately when the push button is pressed into modern, the costs for parts become beyond the reaches of the average plodding fixer. As for Evoques a full petrol can an lit match normally sorts the problem

As mentioned earlier you can learn by fettle read replace parts for old models. While if not confident with engine brakes gearbox a good garage mechanic with a brain cells will help.

JoDefenderGirl · Wednesday at 21:13

saxavordian said:
Workshop manuals and parts manual are valuable sources of the breakdown of most land rovers series to early-ish 2000 range rover. Unfortunately when the push button is pressed into modern, the costs for parts become beyond the reaches of the average plodding fixer. As for Evoques a full petrol can an lit match normally sorts the problem
As mentioned earlier you can learn by fettle read replace parts for old models. While if not confident with engine brakes gearbox a good garage mechanic with a brain cells will help.

Amazing, thank you

scott3933 · 2025-06-12T11:31:54+0100

Youtube is a very good resource to help tackle a lot of DIY jobs etc these days. Ultimately as a lot of people say Land Rovers are just giant meccano sets, everything is just fixed together in one way or another and can be unbolted etc.

I've never had any training, I currently work in IT but I've been around Land Rovers from an early age so its no big deal. For me limits of how far I can go are definitely my working environment, I just work outside on my drive so that's the limiting factor. No fancy workshop with a lift or pit.

Wildefalcon · 2025-06-12T22:28:45+0100

I can recommend the Haynes manuals as a start point if you prefer to read. The actual factory manuals can also be found in line and from booksellers. Britannia restorations, Mike, from Canada, on YouTube, is excellent.

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