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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415   
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After hundreds of builds on the Land Rover configurator I finally made a decision yesterday and placed an order for a Defender D200 SE and I went a bit mad with the extras, the full spec is as follows
Changing wheels to 19” gloss black alloys with off road tyres Privacy Glass Electrically Deployed tow-bar Sliding panoramic roof Ebony Grained leather seat facings with Ebony interior 12-way heated and cooled electric memory front seats with 2-way manual headrests Light Oyster Morzine headlining Driver Assist Pack Adaptive Cruise Control Rear Collision Monitor Off-Road Pack Electronic Active Differential with Torque Vectoring by Braking Off-Road tyres Domestic plug socket Comfort and Convenience Pack Twin front cupholders with cover Front centre console refrigerator compartment Wireless device charging with phone signal booster Cold Climate Pack Heated washer jets Headlight power wash Heated steering wheel Front Classic Mudflaps Rear Classic Mudflaps I have been given a delivery date of the 1st of October but I am taking that with a huge grain of salt  But can't wait for it to arrive whenever it does. The dealership let me have a D200 SE on an extended test drive for 4 days and that is what really made my mind up along with a small discount which helped things along.  Cheers Ian
-------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 Last edited by Hairy Dan on 12th Jun 2021 11:40am. Edited 1 time in total |
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11th Jun 2021 3:46pm |
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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415
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Yes I probably should have mentioned that, it's a 110  Cheers Ian
-------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 |
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11th Jun 2021 4:37pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753 
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Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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11th Jun 2021 6:16pm |
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| J77 Member Since: 04 Nov 2019 Location: Fife Posts: 3395 
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Nice spec.
Let the long wait begin, I didn’t think mine would ever arrive. 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue |
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11th Jun 2021 7:12pm |
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| Kubrick1978 Member Since: 01 May 2021 Location: Midlands Posts: 101
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Very nice spec - interesting that you opted for the new 6 cylinder D200 - a lot of people that have driven this one find it perfectly capable and struggle to justify the increase in cost for the D250 and D300. When I spoke to the dealership about any worries I had about engines, they said that the old D200 could've done with a little more torque, whereas the new one performs very similar to the old D240 (in some cases better) - and this was the engine that was receiving strong reviews (used by most companies e.g. car wow and carbuyer etc when reviewing the Defender). With all this in mind, this is why I opted for the D200, and I may try and unlock its potential further down the line with some engine re-mapping.
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12th Jun 2021 8:02am |
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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415
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Cheers Kubrick1978, I ended up choosing the D200 as I thought there was a £3500 price difference between the D200 & D250, but when I was placing the order the salesman said there is actually a £7970 difference between the 2! So that made the D200 a more sensible choice for me. As you say there are options down the line if you want to change to a D250 or D300 map, but I can't really see myself doing that. I do have a friend who has the D200 in a 90 and he loves it, he says it has plenty of power and like him I'm not really into 0-60 times and max power at my age, I'm much more of a sedate driver now
I may look at adding the Advanced Off-Road Capability Pack mainly for the Configurable Terrain Response and hopefully the TR2 has improved from when I had it on my Range Rover. On the FFRR if you had it in auto on cold mornings it used to delay the throttle response so you would be at a junction and need to pull away quickly and it just seemed to bog down so I just used to turn it off
 Click image to enlarge Cheers Ian -------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 |
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12th Jun 2021 11:38am |
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| J77 Member Since: 04 Nov 2019 Location: Fife Posts: 3395
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3.0 D200 out performs the old 2.0 D240, on torque at least, 500Nm vs 430Nm.
That’s about 3 months I’ve had mine, very pleased with the D200. 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue |
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12th Jun 2021 7:56pm |
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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415
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Well after being
 about by my salesman lately I found out yesterday that he has actually left the company!  I was told by the receptionist that I now have a new salesman and she gave me his email address to get in touch with him as he wasn't in yesterday. Got a reply from him today and seems it is not the bad news I was expecting. According to the vista system these are my dates
Planned Build Date - 27/08/21 Planned Delivery Date- 17/09/21 Last Spec Change - 14/07/21 So it looks like I have missed the chance to make any changes even though I did ask when was the final chance to make any changes so it looks like my build is locked in now and I just need to wait. Cheers Ian
-------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 |
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17th Jul 2021 9:27pm |
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| J77 Member Since: 04 Nov 2019 Location: Fife Posts: 3395
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At least you don’t have too much longer to wait but a bit of a pain though that your previous salesman didn’t say he was leaving and your new guy didn’t introduce himself. 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue
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17th Jul 2021 9:44pm |
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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415
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Yes hopefully that time passes quickly although I sure it will drag on as I am really looking forward to it.
It was annoying that the salesman didn't let me know he was leaving although he may not have left by his choice and I don't suppose my 'new' salesman will let me know why he left. I thought it was going to be a repeat of when I bought my FFRR from Pentland at St. Andrews, the salesman there made loads of promises that the dealership wouldn't honour when the guy left half way through the buying process  Cheers Ian
-------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 |
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18th Jul 2021 11:10am |
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| J77 Member Since: 04 Nov 2019 Location: Fife Posts: 3395
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Pentland Cupar has now shut altogether since opening Dundee, they were going to keep it open as a used car and LR service centre but COVID finished it off completely. I’m now using Dundee but the same salesman, much preferred Cupars after sales to Dundee but then I did build up a relationship with Cupar, hopefully I don’t have to build up a relationship with Dundee after sales team. 24MY 90 D250 HSE, Tasman Blue
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18th Jul 2021 1:57pm |
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| Tim in Scotland Member Since: 23 May 2007 Location: The Land that time forgot Posts: 3753
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I use what used to be Morrison’s Land Rover at Bannockburn near Stirling - as a family run business they were great and made you feel like a valued customer but in 2019 the family sold out to John Clark Group aka Pentland and virtually all of the staff who worked there under the Morrison’s banner have moved on and I think only one of the original sales team is still there, the rest are a bunch of unknowns who don’t seem to be interested in engaging with even long term loyal customers because they don’t know a regular customer from a tyre kicker and don’t seem to care. Pangea Green D250 90 HSE with Air Suspension, Off-road Pack, Towing Pack, Black Contrast roof , rear recovery eyes, Front bash plate, Classic flaps all round, extended wheel arch kit and a few bits from PowerfulUK Expel Clear Gloss PPF to come
2020 D240 1st Edition in Pangea Green with Acorn interior. Now gone - old faithful, no mechanical issues whatsoever ever but the leaks and rattles all over the place won’t be missed! |
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18th Jul 2021 4:45pm |
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| Hairy Dan Member Since: 25 Apr 2013 Location: NW Durham Posts: 1415
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I think this happens a lot when family run businesses are taken over by much larger groups, you lose that personal touch
I used to know Andrew Morrison as I used to take the odd photo of him before I retired, he was always competitive in the older V6 MGZR and also when he moved to the Seat
Cheers Ian -------------------- 22MY Defender 110 D200 SE, Fuji White. Kielder 4x4 Safari Instagram @defender_v8 |
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18th Jul 2021 6:28pm |
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| 90 Dreamer Member Since: 13 Jul 2019 Location: Oop North Posts: 2148 
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Used to often see Andrew M when he raced Northern Salons at Croft, etc........
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18th Jul 2021 6:42pm |
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