Needs to be cheap, durable, diy repairable, have good cheap spares availability, can tow a three ton trailer and be handy off road.
I bought the Shogun to replace a Tdi Discovery. The Shogun was a much better buy. I paid £1400 at auction for it with a new MOT. Four years on the scrapyard will give me £1000 for it for export. MOT and tax run out at the end of November, so I’d imagine with winter knocking on the door, 4x4s will be at a premium.
I’m after something at the bottom of the depreciation cycle that will have three or four years running left in it. I’m pretty handy with mechanical bits and welding.
Shed loads of cheap Range Rovers out there, with lots of faults like electric windows knackered but otherwise good mechanically (well, as good mechanically as anything from the LR is, which is to say not really)
In fact, if yours still works why are you changing it?’
There is a bit of chassis corrosion near the tank and its starting to emit some worrying black smoke when towing. I’ll take it for its MOT and see what else is lurking. I dont want to spend a lot on it if its not for long in this life.
A few years ago I did one of those offroad Land-Rover based thingies – part of a stag do.
The organisers reckoned that the smart thing to do was to look for the auctions where the army get rid of their landrovers – as they will have been fully maintained up until their end-of-life.
The organisers reckoned that the smart thing to do was to look for the auctions where the army get rid of their landrovers – as they will have been fully maintained up until their end-of-life.
Defenders are way overpriced for what they are. Most of the electrics on the Discovery didnt work. Everything on the Shogun still does, including cruise control and the sunroof. Stuff I’ve never used.
So I had kind of written off Land Rover products until I just found this….
I’ve got a 19 year old one, owned it for 7 years, and it has passed every MOT in that time. Only work I’ve ever done on it is replace front brake pads, a steering idler arm, and a rear drive shaft UJ.
And for the first 4 years I had it was used for 4×4 events a couple of times a month so did not have an easy life.
You’ve really got to love a Land Rover, I had an old ’63 IIA, I changed the engine twice and replaced most of the chassis. The chassis rust still hadn’t been addressed by the time I got the Discovery.
I had a look at some other Shoguns last night. There are still some good cheap ones out there.
Nissan Patrol? You’d not have to pay much more than £2k to get something reasonable, I shouldn’t think, though they can suffer from rusty chassis rails.
But to be honest, another Shogun is probably the better answer.
Whatever you decide, you need to get in quick. I was looking last year and after the first little snow flurry prices doubled or trebled in the older models.
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