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playboaterkev:
hi mate has two big horses and is looking for a 4x4 for towing dose not want to buy a new one so looking for 2nd hand what is the best thing for the job?

cheers hope this is in the right place to ask

Range Rover Blues:
Personally, I love my Range Rover Classic LSE for towing, if you can live with the fuel consumption.

It will tow up to 2 tonnes with ease (auto box) and will happily shift 3.5 tonnes though for steep hills you need to learn to use the transfer box with that sort of weight.  It can take 150kg noseweight happily when most 4x4 struggle to take 100kg. 

This is true of most Disco 1 and RRC whether TDi or V8, auto or manual to be honest but the auto makes towing a lot less effort! and the LSE is 8 inches longer which makes it more stable at speed, the LSE also had the 4,275cc engine :twisted:

Budget will be the big factor, then running costs and I guess thinking about all the uses it will get put to.

If it's not going off-road then a Defender will probably be too much for what it offers, they hold their money well and aren't as well appointed inside.

DiscoII TD5 make a good tow car if you have a bit more money and can be chipped to make them pretty awesome.  Service costs are significant as they are for the P38 Range Rover (which you might pick up for similar money).  I've been told the BMW Deisel engine fitted to the P38 is torquey & econmomical but not very nippy.  Tows well but uninspiring to drive.

Either P38 or DiscoII have good V8 engines if you can live with the fuel costs, later engines are more economical but LPG is really the way to go with them.  Watch out for high mileage V8s with cooling system problems!

Newer LR products (post 2001) also attract higher road tax, whereas a RRC is currently £190 a year!

Offset that with the availability of parts for older LR products now the LR has changed hands and the new owners don't care about anything that left Sollihull more than a couple of years ago.

Whateveer your mate fancies there are plenty about to choose from so look around.

zebidee:
We use an Isuzu Trooper LWB for towing our horsebox - I wanted a Defender but SWMBO wanted a vehicle which didn't look like a tractor.

Very capable beast - also max tow weight of up to 3500kg, so towing two (or even three) large horses is well within its limitations.

Troopers aren't made any more so you're unlikely to get one new. Only thing about it is that it doesn't have a central differential so suffers from transmission wind-up ... so 4WD shouldn't be used on dry roads but is fine off-road (e.g. at a horse show).

Z~

ben-dent:
i would also like to recomend the RRC or the Disco, and as RRB says, the P38 and Disco11 are fairly good, but also consider the Jap vehicles such as the Isuzu Trooper LWB, Mitsubishi Pajero/Shogun LWB or the Toyota Hilux Surf,

they are all good and happy tow vehicles,

bigant:
series 3 lwb with a Perkins 4203 in :)

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