Landrover facts

[96terrano]

Was chatting with a mate on facebook and he wrote this. Made me laugh so thought I'd share it with you guys:sly:lol

I hate landrovers, I don't care what anyone says there uncomfy damp noisy cold windy draughty sore on fuel, freeze in the winter time, get wet in the rain take for ever to get any heat into, massive steering wheels and no room for your right arm ..lol I hated mine and glad it failed its mot and got scrapped..

[terranobreakershropshire]

ha ha - spot on but missed the part about the crap reliability also !

[(RIP) PLANK]

don'tlaugh but o have often fancied owning a disco. looked at everyone under 5k and ended up buying my present T2 for half that. a couple of years on I tried again this time 10k budget! found a beaut, FSH one owner 28k miles and multiple oil leaks! sticking with the T2 - again!

[clivvy]

lol, brilliant! Lots of them about though. My mate had one, he loved it, BUT, it was just fecked!!

[Kamsin]

Was chatting with a mate on facebook and he wrote this. Made me laugh so thought I'd share it with you guys:sly:lol

I hate landrovers, I don't care what anyone says there uncomfy damp noisy cold windy draughty sore on fuel, freeze in the winter time, get wet in the rain take for ever to get any heat into, massive steering wheels and no room for your right arm ..lol I hated mine and glad it failed its mot and got scrapped..

I had a Landrover 300TDI (Never again) and the story went like this.......
Got it at auction for £2,100, it was an N reg and it was about 8 years ago.
Drove it 2 mile from auction site and the head gasket went (I suspect it had already gone when i got it) AA recovered it.
Had head sent away and skimmed new gaskets fitted.
Then it went in to limp mode, 2 auto sparkys later and a few ££££ limp mode sorted.
Head went again. Turns out there was a fault on the block.
Recomended new engine.
Got engine from Ebay, company in Halifax. £1100
Turn out to be a scrap engine.....company refused to refund, so we took them to court. Was awarded £2000 compensation, as of yet im still waiting for it.
New engine sent for full rebuild at a cost of £900. Mansfield Engine centre did a first class job on it too i may add.
Engine refitted, and car ran like a dream..........UNTILL!
The ring gear went on the fly wheel, great engine out again.....but, Landrover did not have any in stock and there was a back order of them 4 weeks old. Its not looking good.
The car was dragged back and left out side my house, (Minus the engine) as the garage needed the room.
Then some BASxxRD STOLE IT!
How the hell they did it i dont know!

In a way i was greatful to them, i was bloody sick of the damb thing.

This was all over the course of about 1 year, in that time the car spent 2 months in total driving on the road, the rest it was broken down.

And thats MY story about Landrovers.

[96terrano]

I had a Landrover 300TDI (Never again) and the story went like this.......
Got it at auction for £2,100, it was an N reg and it was about 8 years ago.
Drove it 2 mile from auction site and the head gasket went (I suspect it had already gone when i got it) AA recovered it.
Had head sent away and skimmed new gaskets fitted.
Then it went in to limp mode, 2 auto sparkys later and a few ££££ limp mode sorted.
Head went again. Turns out there was a fault on the block.
Recomended new engine.
Got engine from Ebay, company in Halifax. £1100
Turn out to be a scrap engine.....company refused to refund, so we took them to court. Was awarded £2000 compensation, as of yet im still waiting for it.
New engine sent for full rebuild at a cost of £900. Mansfield Engine centre did a first class job on it too i may add.
Engine refitted, and car ran like a dream..........UNTILL!
The ring gear went on the fly wheel, great engine out again.....but, Landrover did not have any in stock and there was a back order of them 4 weeks old. Its not looking good.
The car was dragged back and left out side my house, (Minus the engine) as the garage needed the room.
Then some BASxxRD STOLE IT!
How the hell they did it i dont know!

In a way i was greatful to them, i was bloody sick of the damb thing.

This was all over the course of about 1 year, in that time the car spent 2 months in total driving on the road, the rest it was broken down.

And thats MY story about Landrovers.

:eek::eek::eek::eek:

[spiderpig37]

had a swb 1963 series 2a would i have one again yes
had a series 1 200tdi disco would i have one again yes
had a 300tdi disco would i have one again yes
got a t2 would i you get the picture its horses for courses why do people get blinkered with owning a certain brand so feel they have to slag all others off
any way off to work to drive my case 360 boy i wouldnt want a cat or volvo or komatsu:augie
jeeze these 12hr nights are no good for my mental health:lol

[11redrex]

Case are poop, you want a Zaxxis mate......

[terranobreakershropshire]

about 6 years ago i had a 1993 disco 200tdi. id spend the week working with it (if it lasted long enough) and the weekend working on it !

i then saw the light and went jap (terranos)- i now have weekends free!

[SPARKIEDOO]

about 6 years ago i had a 1993 disco 200tdi. id spend the week working with it (if it lasted long enough) and the weekend working on it !

i then saw the light and went jap (terranos)- i now have weekends free!

:clap:augie:lol:clap:augie:lol:clap:augie:lol

[96terrano]

about 6 years ago i had a 1993 disco 200tdi. id spend the week working with it (if it lasted long enough) and the weekend working on it !

i then saw the light and went jap (terranos)- i now have weekends free!

We aren't the best at building vehicles. :o rover are ok, apart from some of the engines like the K series :banghead

[Kamsin]

had a swb 1963 series 2a would i have one again yes
had a series 1 200tdi disco would i have one again yes
had a 300tdi disco would i have one again yes
got a t2 would i you get the picture its horses for courses why do people get blinkered with owning a certain brand so feel they have to slag all others off
any way off to work to drive my case 360 boy i wouldnt want a cat or volvo or komatsu:augie
jeeze these 12hr nights are no good for my mental health:lol

I think i had good reason to hate mine though!.

I dont hate all Landrovers, but we all got to have something to take the micky out of. Its like "The Irishman" Jokes, we got nothing against the Irish, but you got to pick someone. :naughty

[96terrano]

The freelanders are ok. There based on the mondeo believe it or not:cool:

[firebobby]

The freelanders are ok. There based on the mondeo believe it or not:cool:

I'm back:D:D:D
I know 2 people who have had freelanders and both had had major problems with electrics...windows, rear tailgate window,not starting, gearboxes and the petrol k series engines are crap (head gaskets) apart from that:lol:lol

[spiderpig37]

Case are poop, you want a Zaxxis mate......

would have settled for owt last night blowing a gale and snowing and me breath blowing hotter than the heater:lol

[96terrano]

I'm back:D:D:D
I know 2 people who have had freelanders and both had had major problems with electrics...windows, rear tailgate window,not starting, gearboxes and the petrol k series engines are crap (head gaskets) apart from that:lol:lol

My friends just bought a 51 plate freelander:doh

[stinka]

Freelanders are absolute shite

Land rovers are completely unreliable piles of junk

Yeh they are capable off road, but fook that a terranos not far behind and just keeps going

[firebobby]

A contractor at work had a Discovery on a 55 plate from new, it ended up with 3 new gearboxes and loads of electrical gremlins,never worked it, never towed with it. His wife had a freelander and that had head gasket issues, now has a Navara. He also has an x reg terrano van, which has done 200.000 plus miles.
This is one of the guys I asked for advise on buying a suitable 4x4 for towing my caravan 7 years ago...no brainer really :thumb2:thumb2:thumb2

[96terrano]

A contractor at work had a Discovery on a 55 plate from new, it ended up with 3 new gearboxes and loads of electrical gremlins,never worked it, never towed with it. His wife had a freelander and that had head gasket issues, now has a Navara. He also has an x reg terrano van, which has done 200.000 plus miles.
This is one of the guys I asked for advise on buying a suitable 4x4 for towing my caravan 7 years ago...no brainer really :thumb2:thumb2:thumb2

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