I love the look of the old Defender, but I have zero desire to own one. And I'm perhaps a bit weird, but I actually prefer your lower quality, self-filmed videos over the more produced ones like this one 😄
I prefer the self-filmed ones as well. Probably because it feels like it's just me and Matt and he's showing me a cool car that he's bought. Doesn't make the video any less enjoyable with a cameraman but it does feel different.
@@dw300 It's good that you understand self-filmed...now try to understand the whole sentence. "Self-filmed videos" - meaning the videos on his channel that he does by himself. "More produced ones like THIS ONE" - referring to this particular video, for which he uses a cameraman.
I've been watching these videos for a while Matt and although this does technically look professionally filmed, the videos you film yourself in the parking lot just have that sense of personal touch and it makes me feel like I'm the one buying and selling these cars. Keep up the good work. Just a suggestion!
Defenders never die. I used to strip & rebuild 300tdi's & the occasional 200tdi, back in the day when you could pick up a good one for less than £5,000. The market for these has since gone off my scale, & my passion for refurbishing them has disappeared. No more cold nights laid on oily concrete floors grinding seized bolts etc.
@@williamegler8771 That isn't true to say. It used to be, in the days of home mechanics, but sadly, not anymore. Manufacturers have essentially made cars disposable items that are very difficult to keep on the road. Which is why you don't see a row of bonnets up on a Sunday, & instead, you see a pile of bills.
I would have suggested a recon steering box and saved yourself £600. I have rebuilt several Landy TD5s and Seriesll/lll and always made strong money out of them.
I have fond memories of the Defender. As a kid my family always had one. Was always in the back of one going fishing or taking the dogs out, good times! My dad also bought a limited edition Tomb Raider one, what a beast that was!
Never seen so many advisories on MOTs in my life - yuk - what a crock of shit !! Never seen the appeal and l hope l never do 😂😂. Each to their own though ❤
you can tell this guy aint got a clue about defenders the things hes saying ,when buying a defender ALWAYS TAKE SOMONE WHO KNOWS DEFENDERS INSIDE OUT TO AVOID A LOT OF DISAPOINTMENT AND MONEY,you dont judge a defender on it looking pretty get under it is were you need to be check footwells inder mats etc bulkhead tops rear cross member outriggers i could go on and on and on .
@@HighPeakAutos You just need to reply to Graham... "Well, proof is in the pudding. I made a good profit on the turnaround sale...so I certainly know the correct ones to buy." 😉
I love Defenders, but the cost of them now is insane, I use to buy good ones for about £5K, now your looking 4x that for a good one, can't justify the cost for a rough offroader. You can buy a Good Disco 2 with the same engine, gearbox, transfer box and axles for under £3000.
I remember going around the Solihull factory where they made these with some of the ship’s company from HMS ARK ROYAL which the captain’s secretary had organised. They supplied the Captain’s 4.0l V8 XJS and the Land Rovers for the ship, so they were returning the favour for the flag waving/free advertising we used to do in every corner of the globe we sailed off to. We got their corporate hospitality package. I remember seeing the hydraulic press that was stamping out the panels like the doors and bonnets and it was dropping something like 4000 tons of pressure down on the plate steel, or more or less the weight of a frigate. Incredible. It was recessed into the foundations and shock mounted to minimise seismic disruption to the surrounding. They showed us their Just in time logistics set up, where the wheels that were made to order for the car would join up with the chassis within 20 seconds in the production line. Takt time was everything to them. Then we took all the latest models out on the test track in the afternoon. The enormous seesaw twenty feet up in the air and driving through the “swamp” with a bow wave up over the bonnet were unforgettable driving experiences! Getting my MT form endorsed later on with my service Land Rover qualification was not challenging in comparison.
Brings back memories of my old Defender a very, very early 90, Land Rover standard green with the old 2.25L engine. Painfully slow but great fun off road on the hills with my setters. A great video and good to hear it made you a nice profit.
10:19 “It’s terribly built”. I don’t know much about Land Rovers, but it seems a shame that build quality in recent years is not good. I always assumed they were built like tanks!
Love your videos Matt and as a Defender owner this one was especially fun to watch.....no idea what you're on about though they're great to drive.... possibly the only car in the world where a 30 min spin actually clocks up about 500 steps on the fitbit 🤦🤣 Keep up the good work sir.
😂, I know exactly what your on about, I've got a 13plate pick up 110 and a show quality auto E93, for short journeys with the dogs I've just bought a golf while I'm fixing my Saab and I nearly put the pedals (especially the clutch) through the floor on it all the time, my best description for driving a discovery is its man stuff, if you moan you ain't man enough haha, damn I love that thing.....👍👌👍
Watching this im wondering if a newish Suzuki Vitara makes better sense for 21k, or an older Land Cruiser. Ive driven various Land Rovers, some in the military, in operational settings, the UN would drive Hilux, Shoguns or similar, they were better in every way, yet we would still be stuck with LR 🤦♂️ truth is there is nothing good about them
Defenders of that age are like Triggers broom. They’ll be so many adaptions over the years. Tell me you knew about the Cat D issue before underwriting….
Oh and you bought LR parts at crazy prices when online OEM stuff could have been half that money! Didn’t check car before purchasing. Great car dealer lol😂
Like driving a fridge freezer in the winter. Did you get the rear light fixed, I still would not exchange my 25 year old Toyota land cruiser for it. Good luck..
I have a similar td5 one and I love it. It’s an xs and I’ve had it stage 2 remapped so can be quite nippy if needed. On the whole I drive it quite slowly and it’s even quite economical when treated like that! I have carried out a lot of sound proofing which has been a game changer.
Still enjoying your videos. Started watching maybe a year or two ago when I started pondering a vehicle update and now am just here for the entertainment.
Here in West Virginia in the States, only rich smart college professors with tweed jackets with elbow patches on them and smoked pipes had Defenders, they also had nice estates and were always to busy to talk about their unstoppable British tanks and I loved them! Your Defender is beautiful!!!
Im not a Land Rover fan at all, but this one looks really cool, the colour, combined with the modernising touches added by the previous owner, really makes it stand out😊.
I would bite your hand off for a car like that but the price is too steep for me as I could pick up a 3 year old Discovery Sport for similar money or you could do a few years back when I bought mine. Sadly though despite being a huge fan it regularly broke so since then I am onto my second Jag 4x4 with no major issues outwith my warranty not that I keep them after the warranty expires. I'm not completely stupid!!!!
About the only "car" which currently enjoys negative depreciation. This will continue until they're either ULEZ'd off the road, or the diesel runs out. The garage I used to work for had a short wheelbase Series 3 "Two and a quarter" petrol as a breakdown truck. About 5 minutes after I drove it for the first time, I fell in love with it. It took some getting used to though, especially the very methodical way it insisted you change gear - baulking any attempt to hurry things along. The massive amounts of play in the steering box made you feel like you were in a movie, sat stationery with a scrolling background - exaggerating your arm movements to look like you were actually driving somewhere. With the style of the new Defender though, JLR may have committed corporate vandalism in my opinion. It's almost like they asked owners what the new vehicle should look like, then ignored each and every one of them.
They are so cool, I’m not normally a fan of the whole blacked out look but it looks great on an old defender. I though there might have been a chance you’d have kept it but not surprised it sold fast. Keep up the great content!
LMAO blatantly obvious mate. Just hit the like button on ya comment, and its a no go! Seems he don't want others to see that a host of 👍will show that he can't take the banter!! He looks pretty in pink though💕
Pretty general comment here, but I like how open you are about profit/loss, even when it doesn't go your way. Great videos that give the average laymen some useful info about the many cars you cover. Keep up the good work! 👍
Sweet video. I don't know if you keep an eye on the classic market - a 1987 5k miles Sierra RS500 Cossy just sold at auction for a whisker under £600k. That's not a typo. So buy a special edition, keep it mint for 36 years and - bang you're sorted. Especially relevant as we're now at the final curtain call for internal combustion.
Hi matt.. Just a thought really.. Why do you advise people to check car vertical before purchasing any car.. But you only check after you have purchased.. Seems a bit back to front to me 🤔
Being someone who has and still is infected by Landrovers, as a rule of thumb...if it doesn't leak inside when it rains then you need to return the Landy from wherever you'd bought it from and ask for your money back because it certainly isn't a Landrover oh, and it's the same about Oil leaks on your nice clean drive, no leaks then it ain't no Landrover!
Bought an 05 Td5 XS a few months back, put a stage 1 tune on it and it gives me the biggest smiles of any car I've owned. The history file was just like yours, but absolutely no retro fit anything. I just clean the glass and the rest takes care of itself. Absolutely perfect for the moor, and as well as my smiles I get loads from other road users. Just need to get it waxoyled when the weather gets a bit warmer. Oh and had a LOF clutch powerspring fitted, makes it a much more pleasant in traffic.
I work / worked with these.. off road… wild horses couldnt drag me into owning one. Never been moist over them although I respect the heritage. New one however, in base spec form.. oh yes!
That was one nice Defender TD5. I think anyone who compares what is basically a small truck (not tractor) to a modern euro box with its 2mm shut lines, gizmo's, luxury, warning lights and fault codes is missing the point of the original Defender. There will never be another vehicle to compare to the Landy that is why it is so sought after.
Unless you wear a flat cap and own copious amounts of undulating land, i really carn’t see the point in owning such a vehicle in the first place! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
The Defender drives amazingly compared to my dad's old Series III which I learnt to drive in! Getting out of a modern Rangerover will make any car feel agricultural haha.
I got to drive a brand new one of these a few years ago , like you I was excited, it was like jumping into a big Tonka toy , fantastic ! After driving down a rough 300 yard farm drive and half a mile on the road I couldn’t wait to get out of it and never wanted to get in one ever again . To put it in perspective I once bought a 1968 ex Godfrey Davis van rental Ford transit with 160.000 miles on the clock ( probably been round the clock twice before ) for £100 and it was like driving a limousine compared to that brand new Land Rover .
Matt with regards to part exchanging a car with ream’s of history paperwork,I found some dealers are not really interested.All they are interested in is the service book and current mot.A few years ago I traded a car with a folder like the one you have in this video and it contained every single invoice for every part,service and work done on the vehicle(even invoices for bulbs and wipers all from the main dealer).When I took all this to the dealer he said”we are not interested in all that,you may as well throw it all in the bin!.I would like to think that that dealer is in the minority,as a buyer I really relish all things like that.
Dealers tell you the extras on a car you're part-exchanging are worth nothing BUT when they're selling on that same car...."and just lookat all the extras!"
That's a great shame isn't it? It's usually because they're selling it to the trade. BUT some of those "Trade dealers" include Matt - our very own motor philanthropist, who would really enjoy passing that laminated folder of dreams onto the next owner 👍😁
A lot of dealers will tell you anything. What if the car you are trading in doesnt require a service book? A lot of cars now its all done on a database.
A few years back I bought an Audi A2 and it had a fully stamped service book but nothing else. I wrote to the previous owner and by return came a full Audi maintenance history! Every bill… I was delighted as I just wanted to confirm what had been done. Worth trying!
Interesting video of a nice Landy. Not convinced about Car Vertical though as at the start you said the report came back as not stolen (3:38) but turns out it had been stolen. I wonder what other inaccuracies there were. 😉
It’s best to think of a Defender as a tool. It’s designed to get you and an amount of equipment to a location. Don’t get a Defender if you want comfort, in fact don’t get a Defender unless you want discomfort. It’s a lifestyle you’re buying into. You could probably save a good chunk of money by buying a Disco and falling down the stairs every time you go to drive it.
Agree a Defender was designed for a specific purpose its not a car, I've had my 90 TD5 13 years but I have never found it excessively uncomfortable to drive in fact its surprisingly comfortable I have recently completed a round trip of 320 miles and was fine, I've driven modern cars which have given me back ache on long trips. It's not a Range Rover Vogue though & the ride can be bumpy every rough roads pot holes and noisy etc. but thats all I love mine and all its foibles.
The best and shortest review of any Land Rover Defender is summed up in this short sentence," I can't tell whether my door is closed or not in fact I think the door was installed by the same person that installed the ashtray". Quintessentially English and I understand the attraction but would I buy one? Not a chance in hell.
Great looking truck! Not surprised it sold so quickly, especially being a 'posh' one 😂. Done loads of miles in these back in the 90's, long before they had electric windows, heated seats and so on. Some didn't even have pas! Loved every minute.
My neighbour had one of these and spent every weekend under it or peering under the bonnet. He would always boast that the parts were very cheap, bless him. He finally got a life by buying a Toyota.
I wish you showed the undercarriage on these older vehicles, and cheap vehicles that you have on the channel. I’m always curious to see how much rust there is on models that come from rust prone areas. Love the content though, keep it up!
Yeah maybe he can film when the car is at the mechanics and film under the vehicle and maybe get some remarks from the mechanic? If they are into it ofcourse
Ain't that the truth! Japanese 4x4s are even worse than Landys for that. Yes, your Toyota Land Cruiser could potentially do 500.000 miles and rarely break down. But, by about 80.000 miles the chassis will look like a rusty swiss cheese. C'mon Matt. get yourself an old piece of cardboard to lie on and let us see underneath these old girls.
I don't really understand the hype around defenders. There are better cars off road & better cars on road for better prices. Much rather have a disco 4. The new ones you typically see parked up at waitrose, not on a farm
I am sure you know what you are doing Matt, your success shows that, but personally I would have walked away at £15k until I saw the history and heard the story about the write off. Good call.
Love your Videos and always look forward to them, a mixer of VLOG and this new style would be a great plus. Also reducing the background noise would help. Cheers. From Tanzania 🇹🇿
Fella! well done and glad you came out on top in the end - I like the old 'proper' Land Rover but it doesnt suit me as at 6ft 8 my knees are pressed against the bottom of the dash! Did some off road courses in old ones years ago but ended up in agony with purple knee caps. Bought a 6month old Discovery TDS Auto in 1995 (to slow myself down) they had to turn the seat runners around just to give me an inch and a half between knees and dashboard again!
Maybe cars just aren’t for you? Try walking, will be quicker than driving with your stride especially when you factor in folding yourself in / out of anything this side of a Hummer
I simply don't recognise your negative description of defenders. I have an XS90 it's fab and drives like a dream and this is from a 61 year old petrol head, who has owned probably well over 100 cars from Porsche 911's , lots of them , through to Rs6's and Rs4's and Aston's all the way down to a Citroen DS's and minis, even had a bubble car once. and everything inbetween. I have owned two Defenders, both Puma 2.4's. I would drive them anywhere, with a stage 1 remap they are far more tractable on the road. They are not uncomfortable to me and the smile I have when im driving mine is just non stop. Biggest mistake Rover ever made to stop making this car. Their biggest icon. The replacememnt defender is a nice car but it has none of cache of a proper defender...Classless, friendly anonymous and posy without being posey, that was the old defender. Im not surprised that the market for these beasts is stratospheric, They are an British Icon. Not many of them left in this lost country of ours.
The 2.4 and the 2.2 Puma's are totally different from the TD5's and before them. A lot of the complainers have never driven a Puma, the difference is like chalk and cheese.
Totally agree with you, I own a 17 year old DefenderTD5 had at least 50 cars including 5 Porsches, we have a lot in common, my first car was a bubble car a BMW 300 Isetta, had my Landy 14 years most other cars only lasted only 1 - 2 years before I sold them.
I wanted one of these for 20 years. Finally, when I tried to sit in and drive a V8 Defender, I immediately decided that it was actually a medievil torture device designed to make people buy a Discovery. Bought the Disco 4 instead.
Just saw this posted and rushed to the information on the episode hoping it would be in your “raffle prize” as I’m always too late for entry. Love the defenders, we used to use them on the proper rural rounds at Royal Mail up here in Cumbria. I never got the chance to drive one though! 😢 what an iconic motor. Cheers fella
That's got Twisted stickers on it, they make defenders a bit posher and better. Some of them fetch a hefty price, you might have landed an absolute bargain there!
I always like your videos! They are great! But i like them more when you film them by yourself with the mobile, it gives them better feeling according to me . Good work and interesting videos! Greetings from Sweden
As you opened up the folder of service history I think the theme tune to "This is your life" wouldn't have sounded out of place 😂 I love a defender! Driven some proper dogs owned by farmers.. one of which the seats had rusted so badly he had replaced them with..... Straw bales 😂😂 It was only used on the farm and field tracks accessed from the farm and never public roads I'd like to add
Decent looking truck there and another great video. If it had been through the Twisted workshop I'd say for 21k the buyer got a great deal especially after your extra prep work. Those seats in the back are Puma seats so it would be interesting to see how they were fit into a TD5 tub. Done properly any method is not cheap and the actual units cost a fortune. Shame the steering box couldn't have been adjusted to remove play as the adjustment bolt can be tightened a few times before a new 1 is required. It looks like absolute luxury compared to my '91 110 200di🤣 which is why I seem to be adicticted to surfing the market for an L322 TDV8 4.4 😀 Thanks again for another cracking video👏
Welcome baaaack Matt. Good skills. I get the feeling you enjoy working hard, seizing opportunities and the relative freedom that comes with the sort of work you do. Always enjoy your vids mate.
Defender prices are bonkers. I paid £34500 for my 110 XS 6 years ago and it's now worth £40000. Although that may change with Sadiq Khant's ULEZ scheme. Paying £12.50 to move off off your driveway every day will probably reduce it's value. There's an outfit in Chester that will retro fit parts to make it Euro 6 compliant but at a cost of £7000. I may go down that route though.
Get rid asap, the arse is going to fall out of the defender market before too long, there are thousands and thousands of them for sale right now. I'm seeing people slash 2 grand off asking price every few weeks.
@@rogermellie8068 That may be the case but with the mod done to Euro 6 spec it will make it quite a rare vehicle. With other cities probably going the way Khan't is, very few areas will be around to drive them in without paying for the privilege. People have said what happens when Euro 7 comes out, but that won't happen due to the phasing out of all new private fossil fueled vehicles from 2030. Not only that, when road charging schemes are rolled out across the major cities in the UK. Everyone will pay then, even fully electric vehicles. As my mate always says, we had the best of times, now everything is f#cked!
@@rallychamp2003 I've always wanted one so when I retired I bought the newest one could afford. The Puma is quite civilized to drive around London but it also gets used off road as well. You have to make sure all the mud is removed from underneath, as Defenders always start rusting as soon as they drive off the assembly line. Far more fun to drive than a Euro shit box amyway.
Ran a 99 TD5 90 as a daily for six years, sold it for two grand 🙈 , this was before prices went mental. They definitely saw you coming with those parts prices.
Used to drive a Defender 90 as a job car and always remember that I had to have the drivers window open to have somewhere to put my right arm! Yes they are terrible to drive however I felt a pang when I saw the completed job at 16:24. They are and always will be cool.
I love the look of the old Defender, but I have zero desire to own one. And I'm perhaps a bit weird, but I actually prefer your lower quality, self-filmed videos over the more produced ones like this one 😄
I prefer the self-filmed ones as well. Probably because it feels like it's just me and Matt and he's showing me a cool car that he's bought. Doesn't make the video any less enjoyable with a cameraman but it does feel different.
Do you think he's levitating the camera with mind control?! 🤣
@@dw300 Did you actually understand my comment, or it was too much for you?
@@georgimihalkov4781 You didn't answer my question. And to answer yours, yes, i understand what self-filmed means.
@@dw300 It's good that you understand self-filmed...now try to understand the whole sentence.
"Self-filmed videos" - meaning the videos on his channel that he does by himself.
"More produced ones like THIS ONE" - referring to this particular video, for which he uses a cameraman.
The reason the ash tray comes out eaasily is because someone has had the dash top off, perhaps to try and replace the screen washer.
I've been watching these videos for a while Matt and although this does technically look professionally filmed, the videos you film yourself in the parking lot just have that sense of personal touch and it makes me feel like I'm the one buying and selling these cars. Keep up the good work. Just a suggestion!
Totally agree!
Also agree. I just don't like the videos that are not filmed in first person as much.
Forgive me for asking but why didn’t you do a Car Vertical check before buying,therefore avoiding the stated issues.
@@jamessykes3965 Because he gets paid to advertise CarVertical on his videos lol
Totalt agree, especially that for me the cameraman's movemen feels little clumsy
Forget car vertical check you might want to do a double yellow line check @2.50 😉
At worst you'd get a VIP parking fee for for that 😉
Typical parking for a Range Rover!!
If that app that you used to check the car before you purchased the TD5 is so great then how did it fail to alert you that it was stolen?
haha - good one
Spot on 😅
Because it was found. It only shows that it is stolen if it's still missing.
I don't understand this comment?
Defenders never die. I used to strip & rebuild 300tdi's & the occasional 200tdi, back in the day when you could pick up a good one for less than £5,000.
The market for these has since gone off my scale, & my passion for refurbishing them has disappeared. No more cold nights laid on oily concrete floors grinding seized bolts etc.
Happy memories of doing the same thing. The prices now are madness!
@@squadmeta I actually quite like them but as you say, prices are silly now.
Any vehicle can be kept running indefinitely if you kept refurbishing the body and repairing them mechanically.
@@williamegler8771 That isn't true to say. It used to be, in the days of home mechanics, but sadly, not anymore.
Manufacturers have essentially made cars disposable items that are very difficult to keep on the road. Which is why you don't see a row of bonnets up on a Sunday, & instead, you see a pile of bills.
Love the way you abandoned your Range Rover on double yellows at 2.49
Come on Matt, parking on double yellows! Tut tut.
also blocking the like button. Will tell the Landy boy's. Such a wimp
Saw this posted after 2 minutes, watching in 1.5x speed to be the first person to watch the whole video. Big brain.
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Haha thank you. I guess I sound like a chipmunk
I watch on 2x so normal you sounds weird to me 😂
Probably the fastest that defender has ever been!
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I would have suggested a recon steering box and saved yourself £600. I have rebuilt several Landy TD5s and Seriesll/lll and always made strong money out of them.
I have fond memories of the Defender. As a kid my family always had one. Was always in the back of one going fishing or taking the dogs out, good times! My dad also bought a limited edition Tomb Raider one, what a beast that was!
I had one of these and even though it quite literally wrecked my back I have nothing but love for them. The heart wants what the heart wants….
Never seen so many advisories on MOTs in my life - yuk - what a crock of shit !! Never seen the appeal and l hope l never do 😂😂. Each to their own though ❤
you can tell this guy aint got a clue about defenders the things hes saying ,when buying a defender ALWAYS TAKE SOMONE WHO KNOWS DEFENDERS INSIDE OUT TO AVOID A LOT OF DISAPOINTMENT AND MONEY,you dont judge a defender on it looking pretty get under it is were you need to be check footwells inder mats etc bulkhead tops rear cross member outriggers i could go on and on and on .
Ah yes. Next time I’ll contact you Graham. Cheers
@@HighPeakAutos You just need to reply to Graham... "Well, proof is in the pudding. I made a good profit on the turnaround sale...so I certainly know the correct ones to buy." 😉
I love Defenders, but the cost of them now is insane, I use to buy good ones for about £5K, now your looking 4x that for a good one, can't justify the cost for a rough offroader. You can buy a Good Disco 2 with the same engine, gearbox, transfer box and axles for under £3000.
Why didn't you do the Car vertical check before you bought it?
He probably did!
Cos he was sick to death of hearing about car vertical
of course he did… just adds for fake drama
Because it's £29 a go
Love how she’s channels sell something else. Moan moan moan yet he’s bragging at the same time. Bore off fella.
I remember going around the Solihull factory where they made these with some of the ship’s company from HMS ARK ROYAL which the captain’s secretary had organised. They supplied the Captain’s 4.0l V8 XJS and the Land Rovers for the ship, so they were returning the favour for the flag waving/free advertising we used to do in every corner of the globe we sailed off to. We got their corporate hospitality package. I remember seeing the hydraulic press that was stamping out the panels like the doors and bonnets and it was dropping something like 4000 tons of pressure down on the plate steel, or more or less the weight of a frigate. Incredible. It was recessed into the foundations and shock mounted to minimise seismic disruption to the surrounding. They showed us their Just in time logistics set up, where the wheels that were made to order for the car would join up with the chassis within 20 seconds in the production line. Takt time was everything to them. Then we took all the latest models out on the test track in the afternoon. The enormous seesaw twenty feet up in the air and driving through the “swamp” with a bow wave up over the bonnet were unforgettable driving experiences! Getting my MT form endorsed later on with my service Land Rover qualification was not challenging in comparison.
Parking on double yellow lines Matt ...naughty
Beautiful motor though
Brings back memories of my old Defender a very, very early 90, Land Rover standard green with the old 2.25L engine. Painfully slow but great fun off road on the hills with my setters. A great video and good to hear it made you a nice profit.
10:19 “It’s terribly built”. I don’t know much about Land Rovers, but it seems a shame that build quality in recent years is not good. I always assumed they were built like tanks!
Love your videos Matt and as a Defender owner this one was especially fun to watch.....no idea what you're on about though they're great to drive.... possibly the only car in the world where a 30 min spin actually clocks up about 500 steps on the fitbit 🤦🤣 Keep up the good work sir.
😂, I know exactly what your on about, I've got a 13plate pick up 110 and a show quality auto E93, for short journeys with the dogs I've just bought a golf while I'm fixing my Saab and I nearly put the pedals (especially the clutch) through the floor on it all the time, my best description for driving a discovery is its man stuff, if you moan you ain't man enough haha, damn I love that thing.....👍👌👍
Everybody outside London having it of as we have to get rid of our older cars
ll ove the videos, but not sure you are aloud to park on double yellows 😂
Watching this im wondering if a newish Suzuki Vitara makes better sense for 21k, or an older Land Cruiser. Ive driven various Land Rovers, some in the military, in operational settings, the UN would drive Hilux, Shoguns or similar, they were better in every way, yet we would still be stuck with LR 🤦♂️ truth is there is nothing good about them
These properly recorded episodes are just leagues ahead of the vlog style.
Good stuff.
Defenders of that age are like Triggers broom. They’ll be so many adaptions over the years. Tell me you knew about the Cat D issue before underwriting….
Love them old land rovers. They are fantastic old trucks just go on and on. The td5 are the cherry on the cake
Would it not have been better to do the CarVertical check before you bought it?
love the way the previous owner took care of their car and kept all the records
Yes special that when i saw the binder,thought wow
Am I the only one that noticed you were driving into Hayfield then it switched to Romiley ...
Oh and you bought LR parts at crazy prices when online OEM stuff could have been half that money! Didn’t check car before purchasing. Great car dealer lol😂
I think your videos are better when it's just you and the camera - the extra angles and wide shots take away far more than they add
Like driving a fridge freezer in the winter. Did you get the rear light fixed, I still would not exchange my 25 year old Toyota land cruiser for it. Good luck..
I have a similar td5 one and I love it. It’s an xs and I’ve had it stage 2 remapped so can be quite nippy if needed. On the whole I drive it quite slowly and it’s even quite economical when treated like that! I have carried out a lot of sound proofing which has been a game changer.
Parking your Range Rover on double yellow lines and the pavement, nice work.
Thanks!
@@HighPeakAutos you're welcome!
Still enjoying your videos. Started watching maybe a year or two ago when I started pondering a vehicle update and now am just here for the entertainment.
Thanks!
The TD5 was designed by a guy who used to design enginee for Perkins diesels. Fun fact.
I didn’t know that
Love the illegal parking. Typical new Range Rover owner
Here in West Virginia in the States, only rich smart college professors with tweed jackets with elbow patches on them and smoked pipes had Defenders, they also had nice estates and were always to busy to talk about their unstoppable British tanks and I loved them! Your Defender is beautiful!!!
Illegal parking, less than 10 metres from a road junction and on double yellows. What makes you think you can do this? You need FPN.
Im not a Land Rover fan at all, but this one looks really cool, the colour, combined with the modernising touches added by the previous owner, really makes it stand out😊.
I would bite your hand off for a car like that but the price is too steep for me as I could pick up a 3 year old Discovery Sport for similar money or you could do a few years back when I bought mine. Sadly though despite being a huge fan it regularly broke so since then I am onto my second Jag 4x4 with no major issues outwith my warranty not that I keep them after the warranty expires. I'm not completely stupid!!!!
Old LR Series/Defenders and G-Wagens are ridiculous expensive for what it is, but damn they are the coolest things...
20 grand for this?? you could have a 2006 Shogun for half that and it will be better in every possible way
Brilliant place to park. Only a Range Rover driver would do that.
Exactly what I thought
The CD player is like a Dutch knocking shop window
About the only "car" which currently enjoys negative depreciation. This will continue until they're either ULEZ'd off the road, or the diesel runs out. The garage I used to work for had a short wheelbase Series 3 "Two and a quarter" petrol as a breakdown truck. About 5 minutes after I drove it for the first time, I fell in love with it. It took some getting used to though, especially the very methodical way it insisted you change gear - baulking any attempt to hurry things along. The massive amounts of play in the steering box made you feel like you were in a movie, sat stationery with a scrolling background - exaggerating your arm movements to look like you were actually driving somewhere.
With the style of the new Defender though, JLR may have committed corporate vandalism in my opinion. It's almost like they asked owners what the new vehicle should look like, then ignored each and every one of them.
They are so cool, I’m not normally a fan of the whole blacked out look but it looks great on an old defender. I though there might have been a chance you’d have kept it but not surprised it sold fast. Keep up the great content!
I like the extra effort put into production on this one. New standard going forward?
"It appears you have disabled / turned off the "Like's".... I wonder why. LOL
LMAO blatantly obvious mate. Just hit the like button on ya comment, and its a no go! Seems he don't want others to see that a host of 👍will show that he can't take the banter!! He looks pretty in pink though💕
Nothing screams chav more than a private plate on a white Range Rover. Very Katie Price!
It’s a full size autobiography and the plate is a number one plate - that isn’t chav. A BO55 plate on a sport, that’s a chav car.
Pretty general comment here, but I like how open you are about profit/loss, even when it doesn't go your way. Great videos that give the average laymen some useful info about the many cars you cover. Keep up the good work! 👍
I’m a business, I don’t think there’s anything wrong with making a profit
Sweet video. I don't know if you keep an eye on the classic market - a 1987 5k miles Sierra RS500 Cossy just sold at auction for a whisker under £600k. That's not a typo. So buy a special edition, keep it mint for 36 years and - bang you're sorted. Especially relevant as we're now at the final curtain call for internal combustion.
Hi matt.. Just a thought really.. Why do you advise people to check car vertical before purchasing any car.. But you only check after you have purchased.. Seems a bit back to front to me 🤔
Incredible as always mate learnt so much from you and now in engineering at work because of the skills you've taught me. Thanks Mate !
Being someone who has and still is infected by Landrovers, as a rule of thumb...if it doesn't leak inside when it rains then you need to return the Landy from wherever you'd bought it from and ask for your money back because it certainly isn't a Landrover oh, and it's the same about Oil leaks on your nice clean drive, no leaks then it ain't no Landrover!
Best n most honest car video channel on RUclips.
Thanks!
I agree 👍
Bought an 05 Td5 XS a few months back, put a stage 1 tune on it and it gives me the biggest smiles of any car I've owned. The history file was just like yours, but absolutely no retro fit anything. I just clean the glass and the rest takes care of itself. Absolutely perfect for the moor, and as well as my smiles I get loads from other road users. Just need to get it waxoyled when the weather gets a bit warmer. Oh and had a LOF clutch powerspring fitted, makes it a much more pleasant in traffic.
Not surprised it sold so quickly, it was stunning and a Td5! Thing of beauty
pmsl @ a thing of beauty 🤣
I work / worked with these.. off road… wild horses couldnt drag me into owning one. Never been moist over them although I respect the heritage. New one however, in base spec form.. oh yes!
That was one nice Defender TD5. I think anyone who compares what is basically a small truck (not tractor) to a modern euro box with its 2mm shut lines, gizmo's, luxury, warning lights and fault codes is missing the point of the original Defender. There will never be another vehicle to compare to the Landy that is why it is so sought after.
The constantly changing colour stereo was doing my head in! Great video though Matt.
Cracking video Matt as always. I LOVE Defender and its nice you made a decent profit. Well done 🤩
Thanks 👍
Unless you wear a flat cap and own copious amounts of undulating land, i really carn’t see the point in owning such a vehicle in the first place! 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
The Defender drives amazingly compared to my dad's old Series III which I learnt to drive in!
Getting out of a modern Rangerover will make any car feel agricultural haha.
I got to drive a brand new one of these a few years ago , like you I was excited, it was like jumping into a big Tonka toy , fantastic ! After driving down a rough 300 yard farm drive and half a mile on the road I couldn’t wait to get out of it and never wanted to get in one ever again . To put it in perspective I once bought a 1968 ex Godfrey Davis van rental Ford transit with 160.000 miles on the clock ( probably been round the clock twice before ) for £100 and it was like driving a limousine compared to that brand new Land Rover .
Matt with regards to part exchanging a car with ream’s of history paperwork,I found some dealers are not really interested.All they are interested in is the service book and current mot.A few years ago I traded a car with a folder like the one you have in this video and it contained every single invoice for every part,service and work done on the vehicle(even invoices for bulbs and wipers all from the main dealer).When I took all this to the dealer he said”we are not interested in all that,you may as well throw it all in the bin!.I would like to think that that dealer is in the minority,as a buyer I really relish all things like that.
Dealers tell you the extras on a car you're part-exchanging are worth nothing BUT when they're selling on that same car...."and just lookat all the extras!"
That's a great shame isn't it? It's usually because they're selling it to the trade. BUT some of those "Trade dealers" include Matt - our very own motor philanthropist, who would really enjoy passing that laminated folder of dreams onto the next owner 👍😁
A lot of dealers will tell you anything. What if the car you are trading in doesnt require a service book? A lot of cars now its all done on a database.
Given the value why would someone trade it in?
A few years back I bought an Audi A2 and it had a fully stamped service book but nothing else. I wrote to the previous owner and by return came a full Audi maintenance history! Every bill… I was delighted as I just wanted to confirm what had been done. Worth trying!
Interesting video of a nice Landy. Not convinced about Car Vertical though as at the start you said the report came back as not stolen (3:38) but turns out it had been stolen. I wonder what other inaccuracies there were. 😉
It’s best to think of a Defender as a tool. It’s designed to get you and an amount of equipment to a location. Don’t get a Defender if you want comfort, in fact don’t get a Defender unless you want discomfort. It’s a lifestyle you’re buying into.
You could probably save a good chunk of money by buying a Disco and falling down the stairs every time you go to drive it.
Agree a Defender was designed for a specific purpose its not a car, I've had my 90 TD5 13 years but I have never found it excessively uncomfortable to drive in fact its surprisingly comfortable I have recently completed a round trip of 320 miles and was fine, I've driven modern cars which have given me back ache on long trips. It's not a Range Rover Vogue though & the ride can be bumpy every rough roads pot holes and noisy etc. but thats all I love mine and all its foibles.
Shitte I paid just £7k for a super ex shb, truck, 05 plated, with Puma Doors, Seats and its a 110
Puma bonnet on it too
The best and shortest review of any Land Rover Defender is summed up in this short sentence," I can't tell whether my door is closed or not in fact I think the door was installed by the same person that installed the ashtray". Quintessentially English and I understand the attraction but would I buy one? Not a chance in hell.
Great looking truck! Not surprised it sold so quickly, especially being a 'posh' one 😂. Done loads of miles in these back in the 90's, long before they had electric windows, heated seats and so on. Some didn't even have pas! Loved every minute.
My neighbour had one of these and spent every weekend under it or peering under the bonnet. He would always boast that the parts were very cheap, bless him. He finally got a life by buying a Toyota.
I wish you showed the undercarriage on these older vehicles, and cheap vehicles that you have on the channel. I’m always curious to see how much rust there is on models that come from rust prone areas. Love the content though, keep it up!
Yes it made me chuckle when he looked under the bonnet and said he could'nt see any rust....
Yeah maybe he can film when the car is at the mechanics and film under the vehicle and maybe get some remarks from the mechanic? If they are into it ofcourse
Very true with lands there are lots of rust traps
Ain't that the truth! Japanese 4x4s are even worse than Landys for that. Yes, your Toyota Land Cruiser could potentially do 500.000 miles and rarely break down. But, by about 80.000 miles the chassis will look like a rusty swiss cheese.
C'mon Matt. get yourself an old piece of cardboard to lie on and let us see underneath these old girls.
Just do a mot check
I don't really understand the hype around defenders. There are better cars off road & better cars on road for better prices. Much rather have a disco 4.
The new ones you typically see parked up at waitrose, not on a farm
I am sure you know what you are doing Matt, your success shows that, but personally I would have walked away at £15k until I saw the history and heard the story about the write off. Good call.
Parked on double yellows, naughty naughty.
Love your Videos and always look forward to them, a mixer of VLOG and this new style would be a great plus. Also reducing the background noise would help. Cheers.
From Tanzania 🇹🇿
Whack has to be at the front.New grille, new bonnet etc.
Fella! well done and glad you came out on top in the end - I like the old 'proper' Land Rover but it doesnt suit me as at 6ft 8 my knees are pressed against the bottom of the dash! Did some off road courses in old ones years ago but ended up in agony with purple knee caps. Bought a 6month old Discovery TDS Auto in 1995 (to slow myself down) they had to turn the seat runners around just to give me an inch and a half between knees and dashboard again!
Maybe cars just aren’t for you? Try walking, will be quicker than driving with your stride especially when you factor in folding yourself in / out of anything this side of a Hummer
I simply don't recognise your negative description of defenders. I have an XS90 it's fab and drives like a dream and this is from a 61 year old petrol head, who has owned probably well over 100 cars from Porsche 911's , lots of them , through to Rs6's and Rs4's and Aston's all the way down to a Citroen DS's and minis, even had a bubble car once. and everything inbetween. I have owned two Defenders, both Puma 2.4's. I would drive them anywhere, with a stage 1 remap they are far more tractable on the road. They are not uncomfortable to me and the smile I have when im driving mine is just non stop. Biggest mistake Rover ever made to stop making this car. Their biggest icon. The replacememnt defender is a nice car but it has none of cache of a proper defender...Classless, friendly anonymous and posy without being posey, that was the old defender. Im not surprised that the market for these beasts is stratospheric, They are an British Icon. Not many of them left in this lost country of ours.
The 2.4 and the 2.2 Puma's are totally different from the TD5's and before them. A lot of the complainers have never driven a Puma, the difference is like chalk and cheese.
They had to stop making them due to safety standards and emissions. Real shame as it’s a British icon.
Totally agree with you, I own a 17 year old DefenderTD5 had at least 50 cars including 5 Porsches, we have a lot in common, my first car was a bubble car a BMW 300 Isetta, had my Landy 14 years most other cars only lasted only 1 - 2 years before I sold them.
Get off double yellows!
drove a few in my back in the military they were very rough to drive that one is like a Rolls compared to the ones we had
They are still ropey in green kit format and they won't get any better
I wanted one of these for 20 years. Finally, when I tried to sit in and drive a V8 Defender, I immediately decided that it was actually a medievil torture device designed to make people buy a Discovery. Bought the Disco 4 instead.
Just saw this posted and rushed to the information on the episode hoping it would be in your “raffle prize” as I’m always too late for entry. Love the defenders, we used to use them on the proper rural rounds at Royal Mail up here in Cumbria. I never got the chance to drive one though! 😢 what an iconic motor. Cheers fella
I,m not a big land rover fan but the defender is a proper off roader compared to the Chelsea tracker,s they produce now .
Looks like Car vertical is a load of crap then, at 03:37 it reported "It's never been stolen" just WOW let's not bother with that then
It was not wanted as stolen. It was written off for being found in a wrecked state
That's got Twisted stickers on it, they make defenders a bit posher and better. Some of them fetch a hefty price, you might have landed an absolute bargain there!
I always like your videos! They are great! But i like them more when you film them by yourself with the mobile, it gives them better feeling according to me . Good work and interesting videos! Greetings from Sweden
You've parked up on double yellow lines. That is illegal!
I like to keep the traffic wardens in a job
As you opened up the folder of service history I think the theme tune to "This is your life" wouldn't have sounded out of place 😂
I love a defender! Driven some proper dogs owned by farmers.. one of which the seats had rusted so badly he had replaced them with..... Straw bales 😂😂
It was only used on the farm and field tracks accessed from the farm and never public roads I'd like to add
Your reg', an anagram of it is 'MUG'. Ah well, can't get a cigar every time.
If the chassis is straight and rust free then you’re laughing with these things..😮🎉❤
On defenders you can just damage a wing and the insurance will write it off cos on the books it’s worth 2-3k not 15k .
Haha yes exactly
Decent looking truck there and another great video. If it had been through the Twisted workshop I'd say for 21k the buyer got a great deal especially after your extra prep work. Those seats in the back are Puma seats so it would be interesting to see how they were fit into a TD5 tub. Done properly any method is not cheap and the actual units cost a fortune. Shame the steering box couldn't have been adjusted to remove play as the adjustment bolt can be tightened a few times before a new 1 is required.
It looks like absolute luxury compared to my '91 110 200di🤣 which is why I seem to be adicticted to surfing the market for an L322 TDV8 4.4 😀
Thanks again for another cracking video👏
Welcome baaaack Matt. Good skills.
I get the feeling you enjoy working hard, seizing opportunities and the relative freedom that comes with the sort of work you do.
Always enjoy your vids mate.
Defender prices are bonkers. I paid £34500 for my 110 XS 6 years ago and it's now worth £40000. Although that may change with Sadiq Khant's ULEZ scheme. Paying £12.50 to move off off your driveway every day will probably reduce it's value. There's an outfit in Chester that will retro fit parts to make it Euro 6 compliant but at a cost of £7000. I may go down that route though.
Get rid asap, the arse is going to fall out of the defender market before too long, there are thousands and thousands of them for sale right now. I'm seeing people slash 2 grand off asking price every few weeks.
@@rogermellie8068 That may be the case but with the mod done to Euro 6 spec it will make it quite a rare vehicle. With other cities probably going the way Khan't is, very few areas will be around to drive them in without paying for the privilege. People have said what happens when Euro 7 comes out, but that won't happen due to the phasing out of all new private fossil fueled vehicles from 2030. Not only that, when road charging schemes are rolled out across the major cities in the UK. Everyone will pay then, even fully electric vehicles. As my mate always says, we had the best of times, now everything is f#cked!
Why on earth have you got a Defender in London?
@@rallychamp2003 I've always wanted one so when I retired I bought the newest one could afford. The Puma is quite civilized to drive around London but it also gets used off road as well. You have to make sure all the mud is removed from underneath, as Defenders always start rusting as soon as they drive off the assembly line. Far more fun to drive than a Euro shit box amyway.
Td5 is the best motor, sounds brilliant, great to tune. I love the tdi 300 personally, spent many a day working on them.
Ran a 99 TD5 90 as a daily for six years, sold it for two grand 🙈 , this was before prices went mental.
They definitely saw you coming with those parts prices.
Used to drive a Defender 90 as a job car and always remember that I had to have the drivers window open to have somewhere to put my right arm! Yes they are terrible to drive however I felt a pang when I saw the completed job at 16:24. They are and always will be cool.