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Originally Posted by fordomatic
Got two mates with Land Rovers, they are great when they are going, I reckon they spend about 66.6% of their time at the mechanics. One mate calculated its cost him $24500 all up in 10 years for maintenance
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There's two types of euro owners. Those with newer ones that like throwing away money (new or near new, and buying for the badge and can't DIY), or those that want a DIY classic that isn't stupid amounts of aussie tax.
Yeah, I'm not interested in paying dumb money for a falcon, kingswood, commo or toyota, patrol etc; neither would I take a modern euro that's semi broken or cheap.
But older ones were fine and because of opinions like yours, cheap in comparison.
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my 2005 BA ute cost me $15500 (in 2010) and I've had to rebuild trans ($4k), it has electrical gremlins, needs a respray, did headliner some rubber, gaskets brakes.
My 1990 e34 cost me $2400 (in 2017), I did headliner and some rubber, hoses, gaskets, susp and brakes, (about $4k). No electrical gremlins, can still buy most parts, doesn't need a respray! Probably worth more than the falcon these days as well.
Don't mean to bite your head off., but the conversation ended up talking about a 2001 merc. While there's some iconic mercs around the owners aren't really in the diy category and neither were the landrovers you mentioned.
I first liked maxdas, then fords, then bmws, going back into the hey days where they'd be running around bathurst (falcons, rx3s, bmws etc)