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chassis - change or not?
muddyjames:
Do you use your landy as a work tool and class it as it's just outside and does the daily duties it needs to or is it your baby like Keri's is and most other MC members inclucing myself!
Do you plan on keeping it for a very long time too? It is always better the devil you know! I had the engine on my rover 600 replaced 5 years ago (due to some wolly driving through a flood that was deeper than expected and blew the piston out the sump. :oops: )
I am very very hesitant to get rid as I kow the cars whole life from when it was the AA service managers car, then my dads car and then me. It is only worth about £50 (no seriously it is. 220,000 miles on the clock). I will get nothing for it but it is highly reliable and still does good mpg etc. Its a wonderful car and if I did sell it and buy a newer car would I get a right dog that needed loads of money spent on it? I'm keeping it now until someone rights it off for me :?
So is it your baby or a work horse? Work horse I would say get rid, if its your baby and intend to keep it for a long time (as with you a new chassis you can do) then I would have a new chassis fitted.
Thats my 2 pennies worth and thereply is a long one 'coz I am bored!! :lol:
tonycougar:
I agree with muddy james above. If you intend to keep it re-chassis it. I'm in the middle of doing mine (and it wasn't half as bad as yours and is 21 year old) putting a galvy one on, so maybe it will last another 20 odd years.
I do a lot of heavy towing with mine and thats the reason I chose a new chassis. Wouldn't have got anything for it if we tried to sell it, so that meant we either fix it or scrap it, and look for another. But then you are in the same boat again. Only got so much cash so you end up with another rotten landy. I figured spend £1000 on a new chassis for this one, and keep it. Obviously its gonna cost more than that with the fitting etc but should be worth it in the end.
Better the devil you know.
blackbeltbob:
thanks for all the comments so far :D :D :D
the landy is slowly becoming my baby but it keeps pooing on me :D
she just needed a new centre section for the exhaust - which was not cheap :cry:
i tend to get bored with cars after a few years and need to change them but with a defender you can just modify it some more when this happens so I feel if i was to sort it i would keep it for a long time after, i hope.....
so far i have had to change the battery, front and middle section of the exhaust, new alternator belt, number plate light, not to mention all the money involved in the mods as well. i know they are money eaters but this is a big bill.
TDi90:
yes i had the same problem.
when i first baught my landy it cos me alot too...
but i am having so much fun with it, and once you spent the money you can enjoy it for a while till you break it again!
also most of the stuff can done by yourself,... so you learn and save money at the same time!
iomlr:
--- Quote from: "blackbeltbob" ---thanks for all the comments so far :D :D :D
the landy is slowly becoming my baby but it keeps pooing on me :D
she just needed a new centre section for the exhaust - which was not cheap :cry:
i tend to get bored with cars after a few years and need to change them but with a defender you can just modify it some more when this happens so I feel if i was to sort it i would keep it for a long time after, i hope.....
so far i have had to change the battery, front and middle section of the exhaust, new alternator belt, number plate light, not to mention all the money involved in the mods as well. i know they are money eaters but this is a big bill.
--- End quote ---
get a nice galvanised chassi and then you 'll Never have this problem again and even if the vheicle around it falls apart around the chassi, u can remove the chassi and put it under something else!
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