2. Thirsty.....Oh Yes ! Unreliable.....No !
seriously? my series was the most labour intensive vehicle i ever owned, and its not like i didnt know about them, i could make the 2 1/4 petrol motor purr so smoothly that only the noise of the fan gave away that it was running, but they were forever leaking and stopping, carb icing, timing faults, charging faults, and i tried the lot, dynamo, alt, neg earth pos earth, i had a diesel s3 too and was forever throwing money at parts, sold it in the end as it was more expensive than my mortgage, my mate bought a 110 defender, and has had 2 cylinder heads, and a new gearbox, core plugs seals gaskets bearings and numerous propshaft uj's and diff seals, i reccon theyve spent 6 or 7k on it over the last 5 years, and that doesnt include fuel. best of all, the mechanic at the local land rover garage who fixes it for them(and who they know on first name terms) drives round in a mitsubishi shogun cos he cant trust a land/range rover to get him about everywhere!!!
