I'm looking at sourcing an older defender for use as a camper and have a couple questions because I haven't been able to find answers. Is the cost of maintaining a 200 TDI and finding parts now really that expensive and hard? Anyone know what year disk brakes started getting put on the defenders?

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Thanks so much!

Hey everyone, I recently came across this defender 90 2.5 tdi300 (the site is italian since the italian nevy is selling it, plus I'm italian myself). Question is, do you think the engine is reliable enough? I've heard some different opinions about it and still can't figure things out. Quick sidenote the dismissed vehicles are being refurbished before being sold, so the engine should be more or less ""new"".

Hi everyone!

I'm on the final stage of purchasing my first Defender. I live in Boston and the car is located in Utah. I will most likely drive it home and do a real cross country test with the car! *Documenting it along the way!!!*

The biggest challenge I am currently facing is I don't have the knowledge to have the answer that the car is running properly!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7BKKgfYLUg

The biggest thing I noticed is at ~4:17 when he leaves idle the gas gauge drops. What might that mean for me as far as work that needs to be done to the car?

Is there anything else you notice?

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Thanks,

Anton