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Bob Ajob:
Hi Graham,

Short answer - probably, maybe...
Longer answer below:

I would always be wary of one from a farm just because there generally are things on farms that love eating metal if not washed off.
They get washed very rarely, so check over the whole chassis with a little hammer - ting is good, thud is not. Hammer going through a bit of chassis is defintely not good.

Definitely check the electrics over that all the lights work etc. With it having been on a farm, it may have been neglected for a period of years. I would say the first thing to do would also be to give it an oil change. Oil changes may have been done frequently / infrequently depending on how much the Landrover has been used.

Do you know what they used the Landrover for? General run-a-bout, driving through fields, driving through cow muck, sileage?

Check the gears work in both low ratio and high ratio, odds are if it's been a field run-about, it's spent a lot of time in low box 4wd. Check high gears work, also high with yellow nob pressed down for 4wd. Red lever forward is high gears, red lever backwards is low gears. When in low it's always in 4wd. When in high, 4wd is turned on by pressing down the yellow nob. Pull the red lever back then forwards again to release the yellow nob.

Take someone with you to give you a second opinion that may have bought older cars in the past, it there's nothing you can find wrong with it then it may be a good buy. Will they do any kind of guarantee, or even pre-test it for you? It's at least useful to get a list of faults so you can see how much roughly it may cost to fix them.

Chances are also they're not in a rush to sell, it's not really the farming way to rush about. I don't want to put you off, just to make sure you are careful, especially with no MOT. Try to write down a list of faults so that you can roughly tot up how much it will cost to do up, or at least make road worthy with MOT.

Don't forget however, always make an offer, chances are they don't know what it's worth either, if they did they would probably MOT & advertise it!

Regards,
Rob.

cherokeegraham:
Thanks very much guys, am looking at it on saturday, fingers crossed! will let you know what it's like.

Bob Ajob:
Good luck mate, hope it's a good 'un for ya!

tomarse:

--- Quote from: "cherokeegraham" --- it's a hard top.
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which makes no difference since the roof just bolts off. get yourself a set of sticks and a rag and you can have a soft top instead if you like! :)

cherokeegraham:
Well, I've just been to see it, WOW! Chassis is solid, body ok, runs well, everything works, spare set of wheels, full tank of fuel and a haynes manual, £450. Very happy & pick it up next weekend, can't wait! Cheers for all the advice guys.

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