My wife would love to have another. We only gave it up because we were worried about the £400 tax and we had just bought a new house.
EdS, whats an EGR blanket?
If you don't really need 4x4, look at the Fiat Doblo, 1.9 diesel, 40+ to the gallon in town, 60 on a run.
http://www.fiat.co.uk/Showroom/#showroom/doblo
You can pick them up within your budget range. When my knee is fixed, I aim to get one without a doubt.
That's a misnomer. The problem is, £3000 will buy you either a 5 year old Suzuki Jimny with 30k on it, or a 25 year old Land Rover with 250k on it.
I think you could expect any vehicle that is a quarter of a century old, with a quarter of a million miles on the clock to have some reliability issues.
Land Rovers are generally very reliable, but they do need regular maintainance, regular oil changes, nuts tightened, regularly greased nipples etc. It's the nature of the beast. Ignore them and they will break down, maintain them and they will run forever ...or at least long after all the jimny's and rav4's have been reduced to shrapnel.
But I agree, the said required, regular maintainance of Landy's is an issue. If you dont like the taste of waxoyl under your fingernails and you just want to buy a 4x4 and run it without liftng the bonnet - get a toyota.
there was an article in lro a while ago rm owns 4 landys and i expect the reason he drives a toyota is that its cheaper to hire over there than to ship his own truck there and back.the reason there are so many old landys on the road is not so much the enthusiasts,but the fact every piece comes off/apart and bits are cheap.a lot of people choose them for this very reason.i think this offsets the fact they need more maintenance than other make 4x4s.Landrovers have allways had poor reliability the only reason there are so many old ones on the road is because people who love them keep them going or restore them.
And the build quality of the new ones is terrible.
The reason most people in the outback drive toyota is they are reliable even Rm drives
a landcruiser in oz. (this is just my own opinion and experience no offence ment)