For Sale: Anyone fancy a trip to southern Germany for a Defender 90 Tdi RHD?

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Nice vehicle at a reasonable price. Also a 300TDi one of the better engines from LR and easy to work on for the DIYer.
 
I am only 60kms away if you needed to overnight.
I might even ride back with you.
I bought one in UK for my pal here and drove it from UK to here for him, I was in the UK at the time and he asked me to source one for him.
Ryanair seems to be on offer around the 45€ price from Stansted.
 
Bavarianbrit said:
I am only 60kms away if you needed to overnight.
I might even ride back with you.
I bought one in UK for my pal here and drove it from UK to here for him, I was in the UK at the time and he asked me to source one for him.
Ryanair seems to be on offer around the 45€ price from Stansted.
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Thanks for the offer but I’m not in the market for a Defender right now. Would be a good buy for someone though.
 
Could be great could be a money pit. A lot depends on chassis condition. Most of that vintage have either been rechassied or need it.
 
Great offer from Bavarianbrit 👍

From the pics it looks like it’s had, or perhaps still got, a few issues & had been owned by someone who is more focused on adding bits than looking after it. From the side panels being a different colour they’ve been added because they have windows in, however, they’re not genuine windows so it’s not a station wagon. There are marks on both sides of the grill panel & the bonnet that suggest someone has had to tape the bonnet shut at some point which makes you wonder why? It’s got some LED headlights - would they pass TUV? I doubt they’d pass MOT as no doubt set up for LHD. The chequer plate on the bonnet looks a bit heath robinson so again, got to wonder why it’s there? - at least they haven’t done the sills & tub corners with it. Wheels look tatty & it looks like it’s on some cheap tyres too - spare is a warn out remould for a start. No pics of the interior which also makes me wonder why? Maybe appeal to the weekend ‘pay & play’ hooligans for ragging around an old quarry but having owned 3 Defenders over a period of 30+ years, I’d say it’s going to be a money pit rather than a bargain I’m afraid.
 
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Just twigged, the wheels are actually deep dish so they’ve come off a Discovery - something else that’s been bolted on. Noticed it has cam belt replaced at 79000 miles written in English on the fan cowl so it’s been a UK car at some point?
 
Its not a bad drive to be honest, I used to drive from paderborn (germany) back home almost every weekend and on annual leave.

Or get a flight over which is pretty cheap and then drive it back
 
Docoak21 said:
Its not a bad drive to be honest, I used to drive from paderborn (germany) back home almost every weekend and on annual leave.

Or get a flight over which is pretty cheap and then drive it back
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Ever done it in a 30yr old landrover ?!
 
I did once a 1993 model 90 from Maidstone to the Czech border for my pal. Also collected a 1978 Lightweight with an LDV normal aspirated diesel engine conversion from Sheffield then went to the Solihull factory for a works visit (my job was the Disco dashboard launch in 2003) then I drove it on to Dover and then on to mid Bavaria. OK, never again.
 
Defenders seem to be popular in the state of Bavaria as a whole and in Munich there are plenty of very nice looking, well kept models, the majority would appear to be used as family vehicles as apposed to working.
 
venisonpie said:
Defenders seem to be popular in the state of Bavaria as a whole and in Munich there are plenty of very nice looking, well kept models, the majority would appear to be used as family vehicles as apposed to working.
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That's historical as BMW bought Land Rover and suddenly they were all over Munich for the wanabee BMW workers getting good discounts on them, buy a new one trundle around the alps every weekend and then sell it on to a Munich resident with no loss or a small profit a year or two later.
I was there at the time working on a BMW 4WD SUV that got cancelled after BMW had sucked up all the knowledge out of the Land Rover Solihull archives. Then they came up with the X5.
 
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