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Vehicle & Technical => Series Land Rovers => Topic started by: Catharo on August 27, 2007, 23:06:09

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: Catharo on August 27, 2007, 23:06:09

i m looking to buy a SIII 88 to get around under the sun 8) ( Living in Spain :mrgreen: )

The thing is that i m not sure about what to look for..! Diesel o petrol..? which one would de best choice..! hope to use it as daily to go to work and leave de Disco for the missis:?

Thank you  for you time guys..!

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: Bob Ajob on August 27, 2007, 23:58:43

I don't know much about spain and the availability of parts, or even the availability of fuel in different locations?

Where are you buying from? Have a look around and see what you fancy, I wouldn't like to guess what there's more of either petrol or diesel. How many miles will you be doing daily?

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: Little-Green-Machine on August 28, 2007, 21:34:12

spares should be good because you get santanas out there which are practicly identicle :D

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: edy on August 28, 2007, 23:17:07

if it is anything like here i would say diesel is the best to go for if you are going to be doing lots of miles, if not petrol (more expensive but i find you get more power and is less noisey,well in a series vehical anyway, and easyier to turn over in them cold winter mornings, not shure you have cold winter mornings in spain)

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: alaric on August 29, 2007, 08:05:10

Maybe I'm missing something, but how is a Santana virtually identical to a Land Rover?

Alaric.

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: ChrisV8 on August 29, 2007, 11:05:49

:lol: Basically it's a Series 3 built in Spain under licence initially. There are loads around and two lasses from LRO have recently driven a diesel one back to England for a rebuild, all chronicled in last issue of LRO.

Santana are still building a clone of the Series 3 an excellent vehicle with little electrickery and a stonking Iveco engine.

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: jonny ramrod on August 30, 2007, 00:03:36

petrol everytime..... :D  :D

and yep, santana's are pretty much the same vehicle...

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: Bob Ajob on August 30, 2007, 01:20:53

Quote from: "jonny ramrod"

and yep, santana's are pretty much the same vehicle...

Except they were available with a straight 6 which they designed from the 4 cyl 2¼ - same engine, two extra cylinders.  :D

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Post by: Rich_P on August 30, 2007, 09:56:45

Quote from: "jonny ramrod"

and yep, santana's are pretty much the same vehicle...

The PS10 has some similarities to the Series 3 and was developed from the Series 3 but that's about it.  It's got a different engine, gearbox, and running gear.  Different interior, completely different bulkhead design etc.  It's best to call it the "Series 4" if anything.

Quote from: "Bob Ajob"

Quote from: "jonny ramrod"

and yep, santana's are pretty much the same vehicle...

Except they were available with a straight 6 which they designed from the 4 cyl 2¼ - same engine, two extra cylinders.  :D

Which are supposed to be far far far superior to what else was available from Rover at the time.

Title: Advice...! pretty please..!
Post by: jonny ramrod on August 30, 2007, 11:13:22

ok...i was being very general..... :D  :roll:

but they were considered a better vehicle, even the new ones are thought to be better than the defender by some...