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| TD5Ad&Alf Member Since: 06 Jan 2025 Location: Staffordshire Posts: 16   
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Hi All,
Me and my 13yr old son are first time defender owners  having owned a V8 Rangerover classic for 10yrs I am fairly experienced in LR ownership (well certainly with rust remedy!  )
Our new truck is an outwardly fairly tatty 2003 TD5 County Stationwagon 2 owners from new and barely run in at 110k. It’s solid and has lots of history and we love it! Looking forward to getting some great advice and sharing some of our experiences with it, we are already experiencing our first issue, which I will post in the TD5 section but wanted to say hello and thanks for having us!!  Click image to enlarge |
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13th Jan 2025 8:44pm |
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| landy andy Member Since: 15 Feb 2009 Location: Ware, Herts Posts: 5820 
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Hello. Looks like a nice project and a very happy boy
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13th Jan 2025 9:08pm |
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| TD5Ad&Alf Member Since: 06 Jan 2025 Location: Staffordshire Posts: 16
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Thanks I hope so, I seriously think my son would sleep in it every day if he could!
aiming for him to learn to drive in it in a few years, my dad always said if you can drive a landy you can drive anything! |
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13th Jan 2025 9:20pm |
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| Alitaff Member Since: 21 Dec 2017 Location: N-Wales Posts: 119 
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Hi,
I am sure you both will enjoy working on the Landy, good luck |
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13th Jan 2025 10:23pm |
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| Procta Member Since: 03 Dec 2016 Location: Sunderland Posts: 5242
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welcome there pal, great to see your son taking a liking to it too
These id say are the last of the best motors to learn on mechanical side i would say. All the modern crap is too computerized. So get him involved as much as you can
Closest thing me and my dad did as a father and son project was rebuild a rover metro, back in the late 00s to the early 2010s. We did welding, rewiring, engine conversion. So basically anything the defenders threw at us practically, we can do A few have said a couple of jobs are a pain in the arse to do on defenders, me and my dad are like, hold our brews  Two tank out jobs on defenders, TD5 an TDI and we found them a piece of cake, others have said its a pig of a job. ( we have tackled far worse Defender TD5 90 ---/--- Peugeot 306 HDI hatch back
Success is 90% Inspiration and 4 minutes Preparation # you can make it! |
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15th Feb 2025 2:00am |
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