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Which are Best "Jap 4x4's or british Landies " ??
Jim-Willy:
Out of the box i still reckon nothing touches a 90 offroad......... Mine is practically standard and very little stops her.
lee celtic:
Neither....
LADA ;) cheap as chips cheap to fix easy to fix and go anywhere...
There you go messed up your plan now :twisted:
Tommo:
with land rovers you know where you are, you know whats going to brak next, what is on its way out etc, and the chances are you still have a spare one in the garage off your last landy. anything could brake on my 90 and it couldnt bankrupt me.
With the jap stuff you buy it with the confidence it wont brake all the time, but you know that when it does it will pull your pants down. i would quite like a nissan patrol but i know if anything went wrong i would have to take it off the road while i saved up to fix it. usually i can bodge somthing up for the time being with the land rover, i fit new parts if i can afford but if not then im down the scrappys.
Not all jap stuff is up to it though, look at all the problems they keep having with L200's and navaras. cranks snapping etc.
Oh and if its not rated to tow 3500kgs then it cant be a proper 4x4 can it??? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
lambert:
Let us consider one important issue. All cars are expensive to maintain. How that cost is met varies. Eg bits for a landy may be cheap but they seem to need plenty of them, and whilst jap's tend to need less bits they can be expensive one off's.
That said i feel happier with jap cos it's better in every way than that nasty tata rubbish!
Tommo:
--- Quote from: Bigbluemaverick on August 02, 2008, 21:37:22 ---
That said i feel happier with jap cos it's better in every way than that nasty tata rubbish!
--- End quote ---
now now, calm down.
Another thing to bear in mind is that most landys people off road are over 20 years old, so everything is generally on its way out, steering box, diffs, gearbox etc etc, but the few japs that you see about always tend to be mid 90's onwards.
This is what jap stuf looked like in 1991 (which is probs the average off roaded landys age)...
And how often do you see stuff like that about? Where did they all go? you see the odd rot box old fourtrak still on the road every now and again but thats about it. Must be because as soon as they start going wrong they become scrap, not worth fixing.
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