I BOUGHT A CHEAP LAND ROVER DEFENDER
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Today I've bought a cheap Land Rover Defender… Let's see what it's like...
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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.
Saw this posted after 2 minutes, watching in 1.5x speed to be the first person to watch the whole video. Big brain.
😅😅😅
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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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.
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.
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?
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!!
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.
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
ll ove the videos, but not sure you are aloud to park on double yellows 😂
Love the way you abandoned your Range Rover on double yellows at 2.49
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 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 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.
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 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….
The CD player is like a Dutch knocking shop window
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.
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
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.
Come on Matt, parking on double yellows! Tut tut.
also blocking the like button. Will tell the Landy boy's. Such a wimp
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.
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!
"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💕
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.
These properly recorded episodes are just leagues ahead of the vlog style.
Good stuff.
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 !
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 ❤
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 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.
Old LR Series/Defenders and G-Wagens are ridiculous expensive for what it is, but damn they are the coolest things...
Love them old land rovers. They are fantastic old trucks just go on and on. The td5 are the cherry on the cake
Brilliant place to park. Only a Range Rover driver would do that.
Exactly what I thought
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
Parking on double yellow lines on camera????
I like the extra effort put into production on this one. New standard going forward?
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😊.
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
I really enjoy your videos. I'm not really a car buff but I like the way you walk around every car explaining what you are looking out for. Plus I used to live opposite Etherow Park where you pull in to that little car park. Happy memories.
Not surprised it sold so quickly, it was stunning and a Td5! Thing of beauty
pmsl @ a thing of beauty 🤣
Cracking video Matt as always. I LOVE Defender and its nice you made a decent profit. Well done 🤩
Thanks 👍
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!!!
Great video HPA, defender looked amazing after all the work,I like the way you shot this video, rather than a POV, well done, nice one 👍👌😀
Love the look on your face driving this.
Theres something so raw and stoneage about them.
Loved the looks like my dads letting me drive his car comment.
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.
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
The constantly changing colour stereo was doing my head in! Great video though Matt.
Nice video as always and nice outside shots as well throughout the video! Good addition imo!
Best n most honest car video channel on CZcams.
Thanks!
I agree 👍
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
First time I’ve actually watched the ad rather than skip through it, really well integrated into the video, well done Matt
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 .
Always high class reviews as always 🎉
Love the defenders but yeah definitely can tell that they aren't made for cruising the city streets. Still wouldn't say no to a tidy example of one if the opportunity came up! Great video Matt also look forward to the notification from your channel 👍 😀
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.
Love the format of your videos. Very informative, interesting and engaging. Subbed 👍
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
If the chassis is straight and rust free then you’re laughing with these things..😮🎉❤
Just loved the description,iof your experience with them,had many in the resent past ,watching that video reminded me of enjoyment that got from them,give one a sense of honest mechanics and basis enigeering which you do not get with modern cars
Claude Greengrass... what a pop culture throwback that is! Another great vid Matt!
Great video, love the look of the Defender, looks like it was an extra in SPECTRE! It was nice to see some exterior shots of the car you're driving, it makes it more interesting. I noticed your Range Rover had disappeared as you drove away. Did it get towed for being parked on double yellows? 🤣🤣
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.
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 🇹🇿
Hello Matt, thank you for uploading another great video. Ged.
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.
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
Stunning example, great video and buy as usual Matt :D
Great video. I'm currently saving for my very first Defender and this has been really helpful
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
Matt you are reading my mind, just today I was researching a little about land and range rovers.
I know you are a Rover connoisseur, which one do you think are the nicest/best ones?
Great video btw
Love the illegal parking. Typical new Range Rover owner
I am watching you video talking about your heated steering wheel and heated seats in you luxury car and I remember I also have those in my econobox. What a time to be alive...
Look nice Matt fair play in black and the blue one is gorgeous great content as usual.
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👏
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
Thank you for investing in your channel and getting a cameraman! The production quality has gone through the roof!!
I prefer the old style
Slagin a defender off, parks on double yellows,and near a corner, Chelsea tractor driver!
Nice one Matt. You can never resist a Land Rover can you? To be fair in the walkaround I thought the Cat D didn't add up. Especially given the money spent on the interior. Clearly loved. And you've done a grand job turning it around.
why would anybody try to make a TD5 look like a puma....
Because it looks better
This last defender you drove was realy nice ! great combination , but the best of all is your Range .. realy love it .
Loving the new camera work!
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.
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.
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!
Great video, decent and honest.
Hey, just wanted to take a moment to let you know how much I enjoy your vids. I’ve learned a lot and your presentation is top shelf. Thanks for all the hard work! Also, do you ever come across any Acura TLX models? My latest is a 2021 TLX and I’m curious about your take. Anyway, cheers! 😎👍🏼
Thanks! We dont get the Acura TLX in the UK
Man the video quality gets better and better. Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
I totally agree 👌
Not a defender fan matt but great to see a reward for a change and a fair profit margin and the new owner has now got a well sorted nice looking one to plough through a field keep the videos coming matt 👍
Finished product looked great and obviously very desirable. Not bad for farm vehicle!!
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.
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.
Can’t overstate how much I love your sense of humor man 😂
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 loved my old 200tdi. I could sit on the wings with my legs in the engine bay whenever I needed to work on it. Which being an LR was quite often. But with my RRS I have to use tweezers to top up the water bottle. The 200tdi was bulletproof though; notwithstanding I blew one up.
It was popular with the military as it gave off very little electrical interference so it was great for the FFR Radio Trucks.
The flipside of that was that the 200tdi could survive the EMP blast from a nuclear explosion. That was very reassuring in my canvas roofed vehicle.
I've always wanted a Defender like that, but even when the prices weren't stratospheric I knew damn well that I'd hate owning one given that I don't also own large tracts of land to mess about on. As a Venture Scout in my youth, we used to knock about in some Series 3's (I think - not enough of a nerd to know for sure) and did some great off roading in them, but I recall being in the back on the bench seats from Cambridge to Dartmoor on a summer venture one year and it was the longest journey in the history of the world (or felt like it). Mind you, we'd refurbed the transfer box or done some other work, and forgotten to put any oil said transfer box and it still survived the journey, and once oiled up, carried on doing so for quite some time afterwards. And I still both want and don't want one.
Matt I love your bravery and tenaciousness with the business 👍
Me like a lotta other comments here wouldn’t of parted with £15 grand mate 😎 So a BIG well done
Td5 is the best motor, sounds brilliant, great to tune. I love the tdi 300 personally, spent many a day working on them.
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.
Great video, very helpful thank you.
Well done Matt. The profit is in the buying.
That was a lovely looking Defender, the spend even after getting a loved example seems pretty typical. I spent over £10k on mine over a couple of years. Sold it last year but still miss it, even though I’m driving a L405 SDV8! It’s a kind of madness!
Totally agree