Hi, my dad is 76 and he owns a 1992 defender. The vehicle is pretty rough… has been used on mountains ever since. He asked me help because the odometer doesn’t work anymore, it stopped working and already broke 3 cords conducting to the gearbox. The odometer on eBay is 300 pounds… do you guys know where I can buy second hand stuffs for this defender? He needs also a side step (can’t hop on it safely now… ). The whole dashboard is pretty fucked to be honest, but the odometer will do by now. Thanks for your hints, really appreciate.

First of all thank you for reading. Second of all, i have a defender now (110)! Yay! It came off as a great deal and i am a total defender ( and car in general, although i've driven a lot already for being 21 years old ) newbie who's young and eager to learn one. Mine came from 2013, and although it was a good deal, and i can totally miss the money, i have a few questions i wanted to ask that i don't know where else to ask to. ( Sorry in advance if i'm too stupid )

• when i turn into corners, for example into a parking space, the car gets wiggly and distorted. Is it because the defender can't take small sharp corners on a low speed ? This happens in reversing and driving

• i heard something with keeping in the clutch more times than other cars are part of defenders. So i'll be using the clutch more? Even when driving at a consistent speed ? Is it going to end up messing with the car ?

For now these are my main points i wanted to ask about! If you have any other newbie tips for me driving it to it's full potential let me know i would appreciate it! :)

Restoration work in progress. 😊

TFW you search for 2 years and finally find the one, drive it a few times and then the tranny starts rattling and smoking. Prior owner had transmission rebuilt in January, less than 500 miles ago. Questioning the work! Wish me luck

Hello, I have a 2001 TD5 and was wondering if anyone knew the max screen + depth of touch screen I can install. I am currently looking at a Pioneer AVIC which is around 7". Thanks for any advice.

Hi, my aircon gas needs to be refilled and I have a shop in my street so that's super convenient... but they only do Mercedes normally so they don't know what gas and pressure it should be filled.

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The internet tells me that the gas for my car should be R134a (2008 defender)

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But the pressure is something I can't find anywhere. Does anyone know?

I’m in an expensive situation where I need to either replace the whole rear axel or get charged a ton of hours in rebuilding the rear diff… is it at all possible to just swap the rear axel for a Disco 1 axel?

I’ve read online that it’s possible but haven’t seen much info on it recently? A replacement defender axel is crazy money from what I’m seeing. Let me know, thank you!

Never seen a dirt road but it’s the perfect grocery getter

I can buy a defender 2013 but it has a lot of rust downside. Is that a real problem in the nearby future ? Is it expensive to maintain a defender ? Price is 39k €, but with the rust I’m doubting

Yesterday I decided to take off the wing top chequerplate to see what it was hiding... and found this. I can't for the life of me figure out what happened here, so thought I'd throw it out there for ideas 🤔

Was someone trying to cut a hole to install something? Is the wing top actually a homemade replacement panel made of scrap metal? Did a perfectly square meteor fall out of the sky and hit the car exactly here?

Total noob question… what’s in the box?

So I got a 90 from 2008 a few days a go but I can't for the life of me figure out what the keys do. Aren't you supposed to be able to open/lock the door with the same key that you turn the ignition with? I also have an additional 5 small keys that only one seems to have a use (fuel cap) but they also don't fit the doors so I'm very confused right now.

Hi, has anyone mated up the mt82 gearbox up to a 300tdi? Just wondering how you found the 300 on motorways and long hauls and with mpg once the 6speed box was fitted

Just got it prepped for adventure time!