I've just had my Defender MOT'd, it passed with flying colours but has prompted a re-appraisal of just when does a hobby stop being a hobby and become a financial millstone...............

My 90 is now 15 years old and in the last 12 months has done exactly 1601 miles between MOT's, about 1000 of those miles have been offroad. Now adding up ALL the costs (including accommodation and entrance fees) the cost per mile is in excess of £11! OK so I could buy a tintent or even sleep under canvas but that doesn't really hack it for me, I like miy creature comforts whe I go away for the weekend. In the next year it will require same major engine routine open heart surgery on the engine (cambelt change) this is on elapsed time not on miles covered - LR recommend every 7 years or 72000 miles and mine has covered just over 10k miles since the first change at 7 years/61000 miles. So in the cold light of day when does one say that this hobby is getting a tad expensive? I love my Defender, I probably lavish more money (I can afford to) on it than most, I don't smoke, I drink little, I don't have sebveral expensive holidays a year (I get paid to go to the sunshine instead!) and I don't have to supply endless expensive handbags to a SWMBO...................
What to do? 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

what else would you spend your hard earned money on tim...enjoy life while you are healthy and financially secure.. ... - .- -.




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I suppose I could sell both cars and by a used D3/D4 that could do what both cars can do, except it cannot get through the narrow gaps between the trees in the forests I visit without loosing most of it's side panels! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

have you thought about buying your own forest and making the lanes wider..  ... - .- -.




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scarey wrote:

have you thought about buying your own forest and making the lanes wider..

oooh me ribs  Ian

Tim, its your money, its your hobby - you don't have to justify it - as long as the family isn't going without

Others spend thousands on golf club membership, yachts or season tickets. If you enjoy it and can afford it then do it

Just think Tim you could have had a wife that spent it all without batting an eye lid!! .....be very selfish and enjoy it all while you can!!

scarey wrote:

have you thought about buying your own forest and making the lanes wider..

Do the cam belt your self. Get a roof tent. Stop treating it so preciously and use it on road too!

I have the same dilema. Just fitted a new roofliner in the 110CSW also a Stereo... I really need to get a 200tdi in it though... which brings me to another point.. run yours on Veg oil and save 30p a litre All legal up to 2500 litres a year. 2010 Disco XS TDV6, 2009 Freelander 2 GS

Previous Landrover products -1990 110 TDI CSW, 2003 TD6 Vogue - RRC TD Vogue, RRC v8 Fleetline, Disco ES V8 LPG, 101 Ambulance "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".

Sell it Tim then you can build a proper sized garage for your other proper car  Far to many gone...

land will always be a good investment tim, and think , you could 'do' whatever you want on it... ... - .- -.




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Tboner, if I sold the Defender I would be able to put the RR in the same place as I store the 90 when I'm away, if the owner of the shed (my father) would hurry up and sell his huge motor home (he's been talking about it for the last 2 years as he's getting too old to drive it) then I would be able to get at least 3 FFRR's into the empty slot left by it! 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes

scarey wrote:

land will always be a good investment tim, and think , you could 'do' whatever you want on it...

i'm always interested in land that has shooting/stalking rights

salmon fishing would be a bonus

in Scotland!!

but i'm not having these nasty 4x4's scaring Bambi

nick h wrote:

but i'm not having these nasty 4x4's scaring Bambi

why?, you're going to shoot them anyway..  ... - .- -.




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Yeh, scarey, but Bambi doesn't know what's heading toward them whereas with a 4x4 they get the noise of a fleet of tractors coming in their direction......... so it's unfair sport giving them warning 2018 Mini Countryman Cooper S E All4 PHEV in Melting Silver - it’s whisper quiet in EV and polluter modes