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4 x 4 reliability
« on: February 18, 2012, 09:47:56 »
now this has been mentioned im sure before, but being a bit keen on land rovers i am now starting to wonder iff or what would be a good compromise. thing is im running two disco's and have a s111 for  a project but not very often or for very long are the 2 disco's running together,i admit they both have done over 100,000 infact one is over double that,
 keep looking at other marques but not sure of reliability price and availability of bits..
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Re: 4 x 4 reliability
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2012, 18:57:18 »
any 4x4 should be reliable.

However an off roader will only be as good as the maintenance it receives divided by the abuse it receives.

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Re: 4 x 4 reliability
« Reply #2 on: February 27, 2012, 20:31:41 »
When I had my scooby pickup that was forever needing sommat doing my maverick terrano was a basket case, the disco was an old car and responded to being treated as such, the 90 is a farm car but so far has only needed routine stuff. Looked after land rovers are fine they must be for 70% to still be in use.
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Re: 4 x 4 reliability
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2012, 22:48:30 »
its funny seem to go through a spell of work and repairs. then every thing calms down a bit .. i just wonderd iff there was anything more reliable , but i guess everything has its down fall.

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Re: 4 x 4 reliability
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2012, 23:23:05 »

 Offroading is a killer of anything mechanical even Tanks its all about preventitive maintainence you just have to check over everything  often  and it pays you back by not having surprising breakdowns, i have owned just about every 4x4 out there and not found one thats any better than the rest  , a good thing about Landys is that the spare parts cost about a third of most other trucks ,Love em :cool:
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