Yes, I moved it to the wanted section as it's a wanted ad.

 

I think Dave meant it to be an advice post for what 4x4 to get

And wanted to know ppl's opinions

 

lol, theres a nice range rover in my local paper for £1295, six months tax & test and fitted with a 3.3 nissan patrol engine!

 

Just how many posts of 'What can I get for 5k' lately?

Leave it here will ya as i'd be interested to see what people come up with as i'm looking at similar for my car!

 

Even i could see Yum was asking for opinions

Does it need a big enuff boot for the neon sub?

 

Dave, you can't beat a Land Rover mate. Not silly money to buy an old one, easy to maintain. Bit 'basic' so say the least but they go on for ever.

 

v8 disco... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1995-LAND-ROVE...QQcmdZViewItem

 

Another good option Dave is the Vauxhall Frontera! Cheap as fook at the moment!

Dad has just picked up a 2.4 petrol one on a K Plate for £150! 3 Good tyres, 1 ok ish one, and the rest aint bad at all

Don't go near the 3.2 Isuzu's though, Jasesapphy off here text me earlier saying that he did 140 miles in it and it cost him £140! and thats without the track car on the back!

 

Steer clear of the cheaper jeeps dave, they like a drive shaft and a head gasket!

 

Ok, i'd go for the Jeep mate, has to be a 4.0 high output manual, although the autos are still good for a bit of fun when in 2wd. Nothing is really over-complicated either. it's all very basic when you look underneath.

Maverick, well, i hate them with a passion they're dead slow and not the best at towing, infact they really do struggle.

Land Rovers, for £1k your looking at a bit fo a dog tbh, old discovery's are best avoided tbh, they really do rust like no tomorrow and are just not worth it, it might have a V8 under the bonnet but still doesn't make up for the car's lame-ness.

Frontera, i like these alot, but the engines really aren't anything exciting and i'd be suprised if any of them could pull the skin off a custard, that said the 2.0 & 2.2 goes go alright but i suspect it'd really feel the strain if towing.

Avoid Troopers, they rust like no tomorrow just like land rovers.

Thought about a old hi-lux or even a land cruiser? theres a 4.2 1993 in my local paper for £3k which is cheap for one of them, i know it's waaay over budget but they're very capable machines, esp. when towing.

EDIT: that disco looks good for the moeny, if you do go looking give it thourgh going over, take a screw driver and whip up the boot floor carpet when on testdrive, this is where they go and not often detected until very bad as it's above the fuel tank so all the mucd and shit gets trapped in there, the supporting strips between the chassis that the boot floor is welded to also rusts way. inner sills, front floor pan, rear wheel arch inner chassis legs and bulkhead are all favorites

 

I just saw your budget mate, avoid any 4x4 for a £1k, it'll just wind up costing you good money after bad [especially Landys round that price].

Get a Xantia TD or something like that instead, that'll tow YUM no problem.

Plus, you can take up smoking a pipe and they're cool.

 

an omega 2.5td is not a bad bet as it uses the bmw engine

 

Daihatsu Fourtrak?

We got a frontera sport we took in p/ex for that price at the moment, but to be honest they're shit

 

Not legal to tow a car of an Escort Cos weight though!

Graceland has an Omega for sale on here Dave....

 

My dad had the Nissan version of the Maverick for a while, it was the 2 door 2.7td short wheel base, van style one, was a really good tool and towed really well, it used to do 90mph with a car and trailer on the back .

He also had a Cherokee 4.0 petrol, used to do fooook all MPG when towing and was a bit of a pig because it kept kicking down all the time with a load on, oh and the bits for a jeep are mega bucks.

 

gimme a ring tomorrow mate, I need to go to bed

 

terrano i think

 

Yeeeeeeeeeeep

 

buy a recovery truck

 

Dave, what about a granada cosworth?

cheap as fuck, heavy enough to tow an escos on an a frame, an comfy, not to mention simple to maintain etc

 

Got to be an OLD land rover. Pre 1990s. I used to work for them, and they were far better

 

We had a old red maverick as a tow car at my work and it was seriously lame, it was towing a big trailer with a ford galaxy on the back plus three blokes inside and it really struggled, although i suppose it did have some load on the back easy 2ton i suppose with the trailer aswell?

we've got a few shoguns at work for tow cars and they cope quite well.

 

getting some maverick parts is as hard as getting S1 parts from Fords

 

explorers are good .... not to bad for parts if you get em from the states

you could always sell the g/f's car and get a bit more cash that way

 

if you think that's bad, i had a range rover that cost £4000 in the first 50 miles, and cost me nearly my life

 

Can fook off with that idea

 

I'm with Chip on the Granada Cossie suggestion

 

Didn't think you would be happy lol

Steve.

 

Nope, my baby going no where.

And if Dave ever suggested it, he would be first out door before car

 

 

you can get a half decent j/k/l reg shogun lwb now for £1500-both the petrol and diesels are a bit thirsty but niether is any worse than each other.i would say a 3.0 v6 lwb with leather for £1200-1500-ebay