my curious case of roveritis.

[LoveB]

yeah I'd have loved a 5cyl. td5 with exhaust is the best sounding one i reckon. thats why i dont want to put an exhaust on this cause its 4 cyl

[irsa76]

I have no idea why they didn't fit the 3.2 ranger/bt50 5 cylinder motor to the upspec models given its the same family as the 2.2 4 pot.

NIMBY I reckon. The 2.2/2.4 were used in the Transit, the 3.2 wasn't.

[Jack Nicholson]

Don't forget Ford sold Jaguar Land Rover in 2008, so access to the parts bin got a bit limited after that.

[Jack Nicholson]

So curiosity got the better of me and I did a bit of digging into the torque/power outputs of the 2.2 in the regular Defender, vs. the "Autobiography" tuned ones.

Nice of Land Rover to put this info in their brochures and tech guides, but I had to make a new one to combine/compare the two though.



Can see why it would go a bit better...

Had a bit of a chat with my ex-JLR mate about this as well, LoveB you can blank your EGR now if you want to, the tune we flashed is a Euro 2 emissions spec and the EGR is not monitored, so no codes if you blank it off.

[LoveB]

woohoo. how do I blank it off though? I dont think you can buy blank off plates aftermarket cause everyone had the issue of codes coming up so they had to be tricked to stay open

[Crais]

seeing how this is a bit of safe space...my head says Landcruiser, but inner 8 year old wants a series III / 110 / earlier defender

if these are supposed to be unreliable, what is it that actually goes wrong? my previous daily was a 186 no syncro HK holden ute....so my tolerance is pretty high

[BigJonWB]

if these are supposed to be unreliable, what is it that actually goes wrong?

Most people that say they are unreliable have exactly zero real world experience with them.

I have had my 88 Rangie for 13 years or so and it has been towed once, when an inlet manifold gasket let coolant out. I would have done a couple of hundred thousand km in it. Our 07 Vogue has gone from 63 000 to 123 000 in the four years we have owned it. Never had a fail to start moment yet.

[irsa76]

I think people think they're unreliable because they require a little bit more than simply fuel to keep going.
Also depends on what people call unreliable, some people assume just because a bit of trim fell off the car is unreliable. Toyota=reliable, even when the late model diesels blow injectors. Land Rover=unreliable because bits fall off them randomly.

[clutch-monkey]

Mine caught fire during a river crossing (!), but to be fair that was due to azn previous owner wiring the winch all wrong and causing it to start up and short circuit.

[BigJonWB]

I think people think they're unreliable because they require a little bit more than simply fuel to keep going.
Also depends on what people call unreliable, some people assume just because a bit of trim fell off the car is unreliable. Toyota=reliable, even when the late model diesels blow injectors. Land Rover=unreliable because bits fall off them randomly.

What bits have fallen off your Land Rovers? Just offhand I can't recall anything falling off mine, or my old man's Sport.

[Crais]

what about a disco in comparison? something like the 04 a few pages back? are they just defenders with a different shell? or a whole different world?

[da9jeff]

Defender 110, disco 1 &2 and range rover classic are all pretty similar underneath, just different motors, gearbags and transfers. Discos are a bit shorter in the rear, so less luggage space. RRC deeper but not as tall, and defender seem massive in the back (wagon) but obviously they are a colourbond shed on wheels so there is some trade off.

Currently loving our RRC but I think most Landy weirdos lust for at least 1 defender in the garage.

[Sloth]

ill take a runout 90 in green with a tvr v8