How far do some people go?
Submitted: Tuesday, Jan 04, 2005 at 21:47
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marcus
Hi all,
A mate has found a late 2001 defender extreme for sale with many extra's including winch for just under 30k.The price sounds good but in just on three years it has done 167,000 kilometres.That equates to over a thousand k,s a week consistently for three years.How do people run up that sort of mileage when it is only around 13,000 k,s to go right around
the block?Sounds excessive to me but i have to work for a living and really only get out on week ends.
cheers mark
Reply By: Bazza - Wednesday, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:11
Wednesday, Jan 05, 2005 at 12:11
It amazes me that so may people concider a vehicle, passenger car or 4WD, stuffed after 100,000 K or so. It was'nt that long ago that if you did'nt get 200,00
miles out of your Kingswood, you'ed bought a lemon. As long a the vehicle's not flogged, regularly serviced and any repairs done when required, high K's should'nt be a problem in regard to reliability, only the markets reflection of resale value will be the issue. IMHO I'd rather buy a vehicle with high freeway K's than one that's been flogged to death off-road with half the K's.
I travel in excess of 45,000 K annualy just commuting to work and back. Why?.... Because in my line of work the salary is usually $20-25,000 more, working from the city than the suburbs.
Bazza.
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Reply By: Member - Landie - Thursday, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:06
Thursday, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:06
Johnno
We can all find stories and stats to back our view. But, importantly we all have our own preferences. Clearly, you are not a fan of Landrover and there is nothing wrong with that at all.
However, this thread started with someone askiong about a Landrover Defender for sale and was obviosuly looking for balance
views and opinions.
So far you have stuck your 10 cents worth in despite being uninformed about the power system of the vehicle. Either provide some factual information for the poster and in a balanced way, or move on - most will accept you don't like them and leave it at that.
As for redbook values - they are a guide (yes guide), and bear little resemblance to the prices that these vehicles often change hands for.
My last word...........good luck, try and move on if you can't offer something a little more constructive.
Landie (forever!)
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Reply By: Disco200Tdi - Thursday, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:15
Thursday, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:15
Defender's are expensive because not many are sold every year. What happens is there is just enough around for the land rover die hards so that keeps the price up.
Glass's price guide means nothing when buying a 'fender.
Another thing to note is that the Tdi engine and probably TD5 only have a life expectincey of about 350K before needing a rebuilt and I believe the TD5 is not rebuildable, ie liners are not replaceable. Maybe the k's will give your mate some bargaining power ?
John D - Disco 200 Tdi
PS Johnno the more BS you spit out the more it makes me want to keep my landie forever just to spite you.
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Reply By: MRTEE ( VIC ) - Sunday, Jan 09, 2005 at 14:20
Sunday, Jan 09, 2005 at 14:20
Johnno
The 80% quote is a fact according to a landrover web site ;I find it hard to believe they would make it up for the whole world to see and judge if it was not true !! Do you really think you know better than the information that land rover put out; the fact that you are laughing about it speaks volumes. I don't dispute some of your criticism of rover, they have made many mistakes over the years, no manufacturer is perfect. But if you do some
home work on the subject you will see how ridiculous you sound; and more people would listen to your point of view if you had some balance in your
views. Why don't you do some research on the Camel Trophy and see how many countries all around the world it has been held in & how the competitors rate Land Rover & it's capabilities.
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