to expect my land rover to go for more than 3 days before having yet another spectacular breakdown?

[MitchyInge]

or should I just give up and get a Ford Ranger?

Sorry Mitchy, but when I was car shopping last year I was told that each landy came with its own breakdown truck. Much as they are lovely, I bought a different 4x4.

Hopeyou get it sorted.

only ever had a diff go on mine.. barring that it was a fab workhorse.. I'd have another anyday

what sort is it?

comes with land rover territory in my experience....sorry to say. Not sure I'd go for a ford ranger as an alternative though....

par for the course.
Rav 4?

defender 90, van type

like this but instead of that basket thing mine's got an orange light on his head

yet still, after nearly £600 of repairs in half term and then the clutch going yesterday, still my heart aches with love and desire for him

I think I have got a mental disorder

AIBU to want to marry him, regardless?

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

the clutch reservoir thing has emptied itself over the weekend and I have no gears

why?

Awww feeling for you here!!!
I sold my discovery two weeks ago (after lots and lots of problems) for a perfectly nice new passatt estate,
I am seriously considering counseling,

can I borrow your passatt today?

I have moved through the stages of 'these things happen' to 'I have to laugh or I will cry' culminating today in utter despair!

thank you!

does that wreath come with enough clutch fluid stuff to get me to the garage where I can, yet again, exchange it for the Mondeo-of-Shame?

I was just reading about co-dependent type relationships and I think I am in one with my land rover

but seriously, I have to get to work (although could be any time between 11 and 1) and I just feel sort of paralysed with despair

Buy a Ford - I have a new Ford C-Max, a 1955 Ford 100e (Anglia) and a 1927 Ford Model T. They are all more reliable than any Land Rover ever built.

though

I know this subject is probably slightly less fascinating to everyone else than it is for me BUT I am still in the Mondeo-of-Shame and beautiful, beloved 90 has yet to be discharged from the garage

o me miserum

I'm still here, feeling your pain

I've got a super duper top of the range Discovery not 2 years old yet, it's sheer luxury and I love it ...... apart from.... the Service Manager at our local dealer is now my best friend, I hardly ever have a month where we dont see eachother, that say's it all really - it's got to be THE most crappiest car in terms of things going wrong I have ever owned in my entire life. It's dreadful, oh yes and on top of that costs well over £50,000 new!!! They have to be having the last laugh!!!!
Give me back my good old faithful Golf any day.

aw thank you macdog and all contributors

nobody should have to go through these things alone - but I bring you glad tidings of great joy, he is HOME and with a lovely springy clutch and full quota of gears

are you still under warranty oliviasmama? at least mine has the excuse of approaching the 200,000 mile mark so can only expect things to start falling off/apart!

back to being Mitchy

you can come and have a go in him any time

now all I have to do is start saving for some new mud terrain tyres, oh yes!

Ford

Ford

I seem to have posted twice for some reason.

Still it's worth repeating. Land Rover = Tears. Disco = Heartbreak

but I can go anywhere in him

(when not broken down of course)

Ah the give, give life of nursing an elderly defender. There should be some sort of carers allowance for people who have them. DH has always had the notion of having a landy (thinks it'd be good for hard to reach dive sites). When I point out to him the lack of decent heating, seats, comfort and sound deadening, he sighs and knows it's not meant to be. I went out with a landy driver for a while and most weekends involved pampering and patching up of the old thing or discussing landrovers with other carers.

i witnessed the sheer heartbreak that landrovers can cause over the weekend!

I travelled to Liverpool to see cirque du soleil (from the middle of nowhere wales) with the intention of bringing back a 1973 series 3 for our local First Responders. I wasn't too happy with this plan so my cousin in law?/ someone vaguely related offered to drive it back on sunday- he was beaming at the thought! UNTIL we got the sad news that it had sadly passed away (MOT station were refusing to let it go without serious ammounts of work)

The poor man was in bits- seriously, he had phoned everyone to tell them that he was driving this shed landrover and honestly looked as if he was going to cry!

So i do feel for you- i used to have a chrysler which bled me dry! The mechanic even knew the keycode for our keysafe in the end- he had to pick it up that often I now have an Isuzu Trooper LWB- oooooohhhh! fan-bloody-tastic! I say go Japanese for reliability every time!.

Good luck and hopefully you won't have to be in the mondeo-of-shame much longer!