A borrowed set of wheels..
I recently had my brakes done at the Land Rover dealer. After getting my car back I noticed a disturbing use of brake fluid, and I subsequently had to take the car back to have the brakes fixed for both front wheels.
Apparently the dealer got a faulty set of refurbished calipers, and after a short while they started leaking heavily. In fact so much that the car had complete brake failure.
The issue was fixed on the guarantee, so aside from some driving back and forth and time spent on this little was lost.
As a small bonus I got to drive a tricked up Defender for a day.
The car was a 90" soft top van with the new 2.5 TD5 power plant. Additionally the car was equipped with a bull bar, snorkel, lift kit and large wheels with BF Goodrich T/A Mud Terrain.
It was very windy the day I had it and I have to say this car is by far the noisiest thing i have EVER tried. Not even my own Discovery 3.9 EFI v8 with its exhaust broken right after the manifold comes even close.
In fact I think it is about the same amount of db in the cabin at 100 km / h as my dads old Massey Ferguson 165 at 2500 rpm at plowing.
The diesel is quite noisy in itself. But if you add to this that the tires are very noisy on road and that the soft top makes an extreme amount of flapping noise - especially on the highway of cause - It really put me off considering a soft top Defender. It is really only usable on the African savanna.
My suggestion is to buy a hard top or a pickup version.
Aside from that the car has a good engine. It was the first try of the Defender 2.4 for me.
And I have to admit it does look quite nice on my driveway. I really like this car in white.
I recently had my brakes done at the Land Rover dealer. After getting my car back I noticed a disturbing use of brake fluid, and I subsequently had to take the car back to have the brakes fixed for both front wheels.
Apparently the dealer got a faulty set of refurbished calipers, and after a short while they started leaking heavily. In fact so much that the car had complete brake failure.
The issue was fixed on the guarantee, so aside from some driving back and forth and time spent on this little was lost.
As a small bonus I got to drive a tricked up Defender for a day.
The car was a 90" soft top van with the new 2.5 TD5 power plant. Additionally the car was equipped with a bull bar, snorkel, lift kit and large wheels with BF Goodrich T/A Mud Terrain.
It was very windy the day I had it and I have to say this car is by far the noisiest thing i have EVER tried. Not even my own Discovery 3.9 EFI v8 with its exhaust broken right after the manifold comes even close.
In fact I think it is about the same amount of db in the cabin at 100 km / h as my dads old Massey Ferguson 165 at 2500 rpm at plowing.
The diesel is quite noisy in itself. But if you add to this that the tires are very noisy on road and that the soft top makes an extreme amount of flapping noise - especially on the highway of cause - It really put me off considering a soft top Defender. It is really only usable on the African savanna.
Aside from that the car has a good engine. It was the first try of the Defender 2.4 for me.
And I have to admit it does look quite nice on my driveway. I really like this car in white.