Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
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fishinmad wrote:
Having said the above, I would love to go on a road trip from Southern Spain through some of the North African countries, however sadly I wouldn’t trust the D3 or D4 not to let me down, if I were ever do this I would buy a Toyota Land Cruiser, which I suppose defeats the object of owning a D3/4 with its incredible off-road capabilities.
Been to Morocco via Spain and back twice in D3's ....all came back 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
31st Jul 2012 8:04 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72799
Que gratuitious D3 in Desert pic. 3 trips & the car mostly came back in one pece.
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31st Jul 2012 8:34 pm
lespes
Member Since: 17 Sep 2009
Location: Sitting Down
Posts: 2232
Think you should buy a car to make you happy, all are money pits!
Last year went for the 2 yr old Merc E280 estate, from RRS, 10 mpg more sounded like a good wise choice with car tax half of a RRS and D4 and slightly cheaper insurance with more performance.
Cost me £8000 in 7 months of depreciation covering 8,000 miles. Though a nice car an annoying non locatable rattle drove me nuts and then it started to smell of fumes inside making the wife nd kids feel sick on longer journeys. i really tried to love it, but couldn't even like it, so it had to go
If had kept the realiable Sport would of cost me around £1,500 extraa in depreciation and cost a bit more in fuel but not £6,500 worth so it all turned out to be a huge false economy.
Prior to this had had 5 various discos and a Sport with no real problems over 13 years.
If you have a good Landrover keep it, but when they make a bad one they are bad, so loose it.
Avoid lower spec models, whatever the kit loaded on they never reflect this in the secondhand values, an S model iis always an S model in the black bookD4 Landmark MY16 Santorini Black THE LAST
D4 HSE MY12 Marmais Teal: Gone. Missed a lot!
Freelander 2 SD HSE MY11 Silver:Thankfully gone.
D4 HSE MY11 Silver: Gone missed !
Range Rover Sport MY06 HSE Buck Blue: Gone missed!
Discovery D2 TD5 Facelift MY Red Gone Missed!
Discovery D2 TD5 Cobalt Blue: Gone Missed!
Discovery D1 Auto Oxford Blue Not missed at all!
Discovery D1 Avalon Blue First LR! missed!
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