Test Drive Land Rover Defender 110 since 2007 SUV
Land Rover Defender 90. From 1,387,000 rubles.
The classic does not age and does not leave fashion. But how is it functional from the point of view of everyday exploitation?! Waving to this question, we decided to ride a couple of months on, probably, the most ascetic SUV of the modern auto industry Land Rover Defender.
The first bonus, which you will be provided on the road, the attention of the public. In whatever elite traffic jam you find yourself, DEF by definition will attract views: sometimes envious, sometimes just curious.
The first thing you pay attention to, for the first time sitting behind the wheel of LRD, it is necessary to get used to it. Moreover, it is most likely to get used, no day or two, and a week, or even a month. Maximum simple and honest equipment requires some tolerance and flexibility from the driver. The 2,2-liter Ford Diesel itself is very good and more or less reliable if refueling it with a normal diesel engineer, but in combination with a constant full-wheel drive, very voracious. Therefore, it is better for the first thing to learn not to twist the motor: traction on the bottom and so enough. Yes, and with the clutch we advise you to contact the softer, since this is the weakest place of Defender in terms of reliability. In general, if you evaluate the reliability of the LRD as a whole, then you can say only one thing: by and large, this is a lottery: you will not be lucky. Someone drives on it 150,000 km without a single breakdown, someone has a car begins to refuse after 40,000. At the same time, find parts for Defender on disassembly, you can hardly succeed. Too niche car! Yes, and the frequency of service is 12,000 km or every 6 months ... that, along with voraciousness, it leads to a very high cost of ownership and the price of each kilometer passed by 9.9 rubles, even in the absence of breakdowns.
Short Defender is ideal for moving both off-road and water
Another important fact: the car has a lot of small children's twils that require eliminating and refinement. Some of them can be cured by buying in the cabin, the part will have to withdraw already during operation. So, for example, to adapt Defender to the Russian winter, it is better to immediately equip it with its preheater Webasto. Ideally, it is also planted with insulation, but for this you will have to disassemble the salon to iron. A huge reversal radius is treated with the luxurious bolts on swivel fists. Someone still puts the winch and suspension ARB, but these are already personal preferences.
In the cabin, too, there is something to put on. High drivers, for example, most likely it will be necessary to put something under the end of Klesla so that they do not rest in the limiters. Otherwise, driving very closely. However, it will be close in any case. Behind a narrow rod, the driver and passengers have to be paid to comfort, the leg and elbow from the outside just nowhere to do, and the shoulders are constantly resting in the door. Rear on the folding seats of space for passengers are even less. So on distant distils from Defender are tired more than you get pleasure. But it is understandable, because his element off-road. And in neither LRD incentive. Other things being equal, thanks to honest blockages, a narrow rut and a short base of ninesty, which is a goat at high speed, but is invaluable to Off-Road, Defender practically does not have real competitors in terms of passability at all, and on our clay black soot especially.
Flat vertical door so closely adjacent to the driver's seat that the locations for the elbow simply does not remain
Operating costs
Car mileage for test test time, km - 2156
Fuel consumption (medium), l / 100 km - 14.9
Fuel consumption (minimum), l / 100 km - 13.1
Periodicity of maintenance - 2000 km / 6 months.
The cost of the official dealer, rub. - TO-1 / TO-2 (with removal / installation of crankcase protection) 17 572/35 785
The one in which the replacement of drive belts is required, km - by 120,000
Cost of CTP for this car (up to 5 persons), rub. - 5544.
Cost value for this car, rub. - from 60 000
Transport tax, rub. - 4270.
The cost of the mileage is taking into account that, gasoline and the OSAGO *, rub. / Km - 9.9
A source: Journal 5 Wheel [January 2013]
