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    Views for my first Defender

    I know what you mean, I agree that they are all overpriced at the moment!
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    Views for my first Defender

    OK, thanks. It is silly money...but I guess it's the market and with demand increasing possibly, they may go up more. Equally, people might not want them as much and they go down a bit, but I think it would fairly safe and not lose too much on it, if it bought it and then sold a few years later.
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    Views for my first Defender

    Very true. It's definitely not an investment thing but it would be nice not to lose too much (or even gain, like you say!) He said he would knock £500 off, but is staying with the fact the market value is strong at the moment like you mentioned too... Decisions!?
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    Views for my first Defender

    Thank you - I guess I needed some reassurance or someone to say it's really over-priced, but looking at what else is for sale at the moment... He's also just found service documents for 2014, 2016, 2016 before the refurb was carried out, so that's a bit better than just last years service record!
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    Views for my first Defender

    Yes, which is what I like about it and hopefully wouldn't need too much doing to it as time goes on (except usual/preventative stuff). Do you think that will help re-sale potential in the future? As I can't imagine there are many really nice ones out there for sale that haven't had some work...
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    Views for my first Defender

    Thank you for your thoughts. It does look new, with all the new parts above and the respray. The parts and materials were £9700 and labour around £6300, then VAT and a few other bits like MOT and wheel tracking/balancing. He has not advertised his yet but I've seen some on ebay, a green one that...
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    Views for my first Defender

    It didn't have an engine rebuild, but a few parts. I'll try and post photos of the receipt for the work done...
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    Views for my first Defender

    OK, thank you. I know what you mean, prices are crazy! I've seen some others for sale, that haven't been rebuilt (same age and mileage) and they're around £12-15k. This one looks 10x better and has had more done to it with the addition of the galv chassis, so in my eyes the extra money this one...
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    Views for my first Defender

    Good morning! I'm looking at buying a friends 300 tdi 90 (M reg) with 150,000 miles and it had a complete rebuild in 2020 with a Ricahards galvanised chassis. There are pages of receipts from the local garage (no-one big in the LR world as such) who carried out the work of approx £19,000. The...