I've been watching these videos for a while Matt and although this does technically look professionally filmed, the videos you film yourself in the parking lot just have that sense of personal touch and it makes me feel like I'm the one buying and selling these cars. Keep up the good work. Just a suggestion!

I love the look of the old Defender, but I have zero desire to own one. And I'm perhaps a bit weird, but I actually prefer your lower quality, self-filmed videos over the more produced ones like this one 😄

Defenders never die. I used to strip & rebuild 300tdi's & the occasional 200tdi, back in the day when you could pick up a good one for less than £5,000. The market for these has since gone off my scale, & my passion for refurbishing them has disappeared. No more cold nights laid on oily concrete floors grinding seized bolts etc.

The reason the ash tray comes out eaasily is because someone has had the dash top off, perhaps to try and replace the screen washer.

Saw this posted after 2 minutes, watching in 1.5x speed to be the first person to watch the whole video. Big brain.

Forget car vertical check you might want to do a double yellow line check @2.50 😉

If that app that you used to check the car before you purchased the TD5 is so great then how did it fail to alert you that it was stolen?

I have fond memories of the Defender. As a kid my family always had one. Was always in the back of one going fishing or taking the dogs out, good times! My dad also bought a limited edition Tomb Raider one, what a beast that was!

I would have suggested a recon steering box and saved yourself £600. I have rebuilt several Landy TD5s and Seriesll/lll and always made strong money out of them.

Love your videos Matt and as a Defender owner this one was especially fun to watch.....no idea what you're on about though they're great to drive.... possibly the only car in the world where a 30 min spin actually clocks up about 500 steps on the fitbit 🤦🤣 Keep up the good work sir.

Love the way you abandoned your Range Rover on double yellows at 2.49

Brings back memories of my old Defender a very, very early 90, Land Rover standard green with the old 2.25L engine. Painfully slow but great fun off road on the hills with my setters. A great video and good to hear it made you a nice profit.

I had one of these and even though it quite literally wrecked my back I have nothing but love for them. The heart wants what the heart wants….

I remember going around the Solihull factory where they made these with some of the ship’s company from HMS ARK ROYAL which the captain’s secretary had organised. They supplied the Captain’s 4.0l V8 XJS and the Land Rovers for the ship, so they were returning the favour for the flag waving/free advertising we used to do in every corner of the globe we sailed off to. We got their corporate hospitality package. I remember seeing the hydraulic press that was stamping out the panels like the doors and bonnets and it was dropping something like 4000 tons of pressure down on the plate steel, or more or less the weight of a frigate. Incredible. It was recessed into the foundations and shock mounted to minimise seismic disruption to the surrounding. They showed us their Just in time logistics set up, where the wheels that were made to order for the car would join up with the chassis within 20 seconds in the production line. Takt time was everything to them. Then we took all the latest models out on the test track in the afternoon. The enormous seesaw twenty feet up in the air and driving through the “swamp” with a bow wave up over the bonnet were unforgettable driving experiences! Getting my MT form endorsed later on with my service Land Rover qualification was not challenging in comparison.

You don't need a good turning circle...you just go over the pavement, through the wall and on your way 😂

I love Defenders, but the cost of them now is insane, I use to buy good ones for about £5K, now your looking 4x that for a good one, can't justify the cost for a rough offroader. You can buy a Good Disco 2 with the same engine, gearbox, transfer box and axles for under £3000.

Still enjoying your videos. Started watching maybe a year or two ago when I started pondering a vehicle update and now am just here for the entertainment.

I have a similar td5 one and I love it. It’s an xs and I’ve had it stage 2 remapped so can be quite nippy if needed. On the whole I drive it quite slowly and it’s even quite economical when treated like that! I have carried out a lot of sound proofing which has been a game changer.

I got to drive a brand new one of these a few years ago , like you I was excited, it was like jumping into a big Tonka toy , fantastic ! After driving down a rough 300 yard farm drive and half a mile on the road I couldn’t wait to get out of it and never wanted to get in one ever again . To put it in perspective I once bought a 1968 ex Godfrey Davis van rental Ford transit with 160.000 miles on the clock ( probably been round the clock twice before ) for £100 and it was like driving a limousine compared to that brand new Land Rover .

love the way the previous owner took care of their car and kept all the records

"It appears you have disabled / turned off the "Like's".... I wonder why. LOL

The CD player is like a Dutch knocking shop window

These properly recorded episodes are just leagues ahead of the vlog style. Good stuff.

Why didn't you do the Car vertical check before you bought it?

Come on Matt, parking on double yellows! Tut tut.

Love them old land rovers. They are fantastic old trucks just go on and on. The td5 are the cherry on the cake

Nothing screams chav more than a private plate on a white Range Rover. Very Katie Price!

They are so cool, I’m not normally a fan of the whole blacked out look but it looks great on an old defender. I though there might have been a chance you’d have kept it but not surprised it sold fast. Keep up the great content!

Pretty general comment here, but I like how open you are about profit/loss, even when it doesn't go your way. Great videos that give the average laymen some useful info about the many cars you cover. Keep up the good work! 👍

Old LR Series/Defenders and G-Wagens are ridiculous expensive for what it is, but damn they are the coolest things...

ll ove the videos, but not sure you are aloud to park on double yellows 😂

I think your videos are better when it's just you and the camera - the extra angles and wide shots take away far more than they add

About the only "car" which currently enjoys negative depreciation. This will continue until they're either ULEZ'd off the road, or the diesel runs out. The garage I used to work for had a short wheelbase Series 3 "Two and a quarter" petrol as a breakdown truck. About 5 minutes after I drove it for the first time, I fell in love with it. It took some getting used to though, especially the very methodical way it insisted you change gear - baulking any attempt to hurry things along. The massive amounts of play in the steering box made you feel like you were in a movie, sat stationery with a scrolling background - exaggerating your arm movements to look like you were actually driving somewhere. With the style of the new Defender though, JLR may have committed corporate vandalism in my opinion. It's almost like they asked owners what the new vehicle should look like, then ignored each and every one of them.

Brilliant place to park. Only a Range Rover driver would do that.

Will never understand people who try to make a defender look younger lol

Incredible as always mate learnt so much from you and now in engineering at work because of the skills you've taught me. Thanks Mate !

Here in West Virginia in the States, only rich smart college professors with tweed jackets with elbow patches on them and smoked pipes had Defenders, they also had nice estates and were always to busy to talk about their unstoppable British tanks and I loved them! Your Defender is beautiful!!!

Not surprised it sold so quickly, it was stunning and a Td5! Thing of beauty

you can tell this guy aint got a clue about defenders the things hes saying ,when buying a defender ALWAYS TAKE SOMONE WHO KNOWS DEFENDERS INSIDE OUT TO AVOID A LOT OF DISAPOINTMENT AND MONEY,you dont judge a defender on it looking pretty get under it is were you need to be check footwells inder mats etc bulkhead tops rear cross member outriggers i could go on and on and on .

Im not a Land Rover fan at all, but this one looks really cool, the colour, combined with the modernising touches added by the previous owner, really makes it stand out😊.

I like the extra effort put into production on this one. New standard going forward?

It’s best to think of a Defender as a tool. It’s designed to get you and an amount of equipment to a location. Don’t get a Defender if you want comfort, in fact don’t get a Defender unless you want discomfort. It’s a lifestyle you’re buying into. You could probably save a good chunk of money by buying a Disco and falling down the stairs every time you go to drive it.

Cracking video Matt as always. I LOVE Defender and its nice you made a decent profit. Well done 🤩

I wish you showed the undercarriage on these older vehicles, and cheap vehicles that you have on the channel. I’m always curious to see how much rust there is on models that come from rust prone areas. Love the content though, keep it up!

Fella! well done and glad you came out on top in the end - I like the old 'proper' Land Rover but it doesnt suit me as at 6ft 8 my knees are pressed against the bottom of the dash! Did some off road courses in old ones years ago but ended up in agony with purple knee caps. Bought a 6month old Discovery TDS Auto in 1995 (to slow myself down) they had to turn the seat runners around just to give me an inch and a half between knees and dashboard again!

Best n most honest car video channel on KZfaq.

Bought an 05 Td5 XS a few months back, put a stage 1 tune on it and it gives me the biggest smiles of any car I've owned. The history file was just like yours, but absolutely no retro fit anything. I just clean the glass and the rest takes care of itself. Absolutely perfect for the moor, and as well as my smiles I get loads from other road users. Just need to get it waxoyled when the weather gets a bit warmer. Oh and had a LOF clutch powerspring fitted, makes it a much more pleasant in traffic.

Sweet video. I don't know if you keep an eye on the classic market - a 1987 5k miles Sierra RS500 Cossy just sold at auction for a whisker under £600k. That's not a typo. So buy a special edition, keep it mint for 36 years and - bang you're sorted. Especially relevant as we're now at the final curtain call for internal combustion.

Just saw this posted and rushed to the information on the episode hoping it would be in your “raffle prize” as I’m always too late for entry. Love the defenders, we used to use them on the proper rural rounds at Royal Mail up here in Cumbria. I never got the chance to drive one though! 😢 what an iconic motor. Cheers fella

Great looking truck! Not surprised it sold so quickly, especially being a 'posh' one 😂. Done loads of miles in these back in the 90's, long before they had electric windows, heated seats and so on. Some didn't even have pas! Loved every minute.

That's got Twisted stickers on it, they make defenders a bit posher and better. Some of them fetch a hefty price, you might have landed an absolute bargain there!

Great video, love the look of the Defender, looks like it was an extra in SPECTRE! It was nice to see some exterior shots of the car you're driving, it makes it more interesting. I noticed your Range Rover had disappeared as you drove away. Did it get towed for being parked on double yellows? 🤣🤣

I had a land rover got rid for a Toyota never looked back

The Defender drives amazingly compared to my dad's old Series III which I learnt to drive in! Getting out of a modern Rangerover will make any car feel agricultural haha.

drove a few in my back in the military they were very rough to drive that one is like a Rolls compared to the ones we had

why would anybody try to make a TD5 look like a puma....

Being someone who has and still is infected by Landrovers, as a rule of thumb...if it doesn't leak inside when it rains then you need to return the Landy from wherever you'd bought it from and ask for your money back because it certainly isn't a Landrover oh, and it's the same about Oil leaks on your nice clean drive, no leaks then it ain't no Landrover!

I work / worked with these.. off road… wild horses couldnt drag me into owning one. Never been moist over them although I respect the heritage. New one however, in base spec form.. oh yes!

That was one nice Defender TD5. I think anyone who compares what is basically a small truck (not tractor) to a modern euro box with its 2mm shut lines, gizmo's, luxury, warning lights and fault codes is missing the point of the original Defender. There will never be another vehicle to compare to the Landy that is why it is so sought after.

Never seen so many advisories on MOTs in my life - yuk - what a crock of shit !! Never seen the appeal and l hope l never do 😂😂. Each to their own though ❤

The constantly changing colour stereo was doing my head in! Great video though Matt.

I always like your videos! They are great! But i like them more when you film them by yourself with the mobile, it gives them better feeling according to me . Good work and interesting videos! Greetings from Sweden

If the chassis is straight and rust free then you’re laughing with these things..😮🎉❤

As you opened up the folder of service history I think the theme tune to "This is your life" wouldn't have sounded out of place 😂 I love a defender! Driven some proper dogs owned by farmers.. one of which the seats had rusted so badly he had replaced them with..... Straw bales 😂😂 It was only used on the farm and field tracks accessed from the farm and never public roads I'd like to add

Interesting video of a nice Landy. Not convinced about Car Vertical though as at the start you said the report came back as not stolen (3:38) but turns out it had been stolen. I wonder what other inaccuracies there were. 😉

Had Defenders in the Army when I was stationed in Germany through the 90’s. Always loved them, just full of character. V8 Snatch ones in Northern Ireland, tdi ones in Cyprus with the UN and then the Wolfs in Kosovo/Iraq. Great times and awesome 4X4’s. Always loved being paid to go off roading!

Defender prices are bonkers. I paid £34500 for my 110 XS 6 years ago and it's now worth £40000. Although that may change with Sadiq Khant's ULEZ scheme. Paying £12.50 to move off off your driveway every day will probably reduce it's value. There's an outfit in Chester that will retro fit parts to make it Euro 6 compliant but at a cost of £7000. I may go down that route though.

Decent looking truck there and another great video. If it had been through the Twisted workshop I'd say for 21k the buyer got a great deal especially after your extra prep work. Those seats in the back are Puma seats so it would be interesting to see how they were fit into a TD5 tub. Done properly any method is not cheap and the actual units cost a fortune. Shame the steering box couldn't have been adjusted to remove play as the adjustment bolt can be tightened a few times before a new 1 is required. It looks like absolute luxury compared to my '91 110 200di🤣 which is why I seem to be adicticted to surfing the market for an L322 TDV8 4.4 😀 Thanks again for another cracking video👏

Like many ex servicemen of a certain age I have no sentimental attachment whatsoever to Land Rovers. The ones I used to drive were…..💩

Used to drive a Defender 90 as a job car and always remember that I had to have the drivers window open to have somewhere to put my right arm! Yes they are terrible to drive however I felt a pang when I saw the completed job at 16:24. They are and always will be cool.

Love the defenders but yeah definitely can tell that they aren't made for cruising the city streets. Still wouldn't say no to a tidy example of one if the opportunity came up! Great video Matt also look forward to the notification from your channel 👍 😀

I didn't realise the Defender market was so crazy. I can remember when you could buy them at village garages for 3 or 4 grand, which doesn't seem that long ago. They were tired and a bit dog eared, but they always seemed to go on forever. Not sure I'd drop 21 grand on one now though. You could get a decent L405 for that, which I'd much rather have to be honest. Nice thing though.

Welcome baaaack Matt. Good skills. I get the feeling you enjoy working hard, seizing opportunities and the relative freedom that comes with the sort of work you do. Always enjoy your vids mate.

I,m not a big land rover fan but the defender is a proper off roader compared to the Chelsea tracker,s they produce now .

I am sure you know what you are doing Matt, your success shows that, but personally I would have walked away at £15k until I saw the history and heard the story about the write off. Good call.

That was a lovely looking Defender, the spend even after getting a loved example seems pretty typical. I spent over £10k on mine over a couple of years. Sold it last year but still miss it, even though I’m driving a L405 SDV8! It’s a kind of madness!

My old SWB Pajero 3.5 grey import would run rings around it! Incredible auto box with 4 or 2 wheel drive selected on the move and adjustable shocks, great cars!

Claude Greengrass... what a pop culture throwback that is! Another great vid Matt!

I loved my old 200tdi. I could sit on the wings with my legs in the engine bay whenever I needed to work on it. Which being an LR was quite often. But with my RRS I have to use tweezers to top up the water bottle. The 200tdi was bulletproof though; notwithstanding I blew one up. It was popular with the military as it gave off very little electrical interference so it was great for the FFR Radio Trucks. The flipside of that was that the 200tdi could survive the EMP blast from a nuclear explosion. That was very reassuring in my canvas roofed vehicle.

Ran a 99 TD5 90 as a daily for six years, sold it for two grand 🙈 , this was before prices went mental. They definitely saw you coming with those parts prices.

Love your Videos and always look forward to them, a mixer of VLOG and this new style would be a great plus. Also reducing the background noise would help. Cheers. From Tanzania 🇹🇿

The door was replaced by the person who replaced the ash tray”…classic Matt 😂😂😂 👍🏽

Just a question Matt ..... why do you not do a vehicle check before buying the car as opposed to after? 🤔 Great content BTW.

Man the video quality gets better and better. Keep up the good work!

Lol, classic bit of 4x4 driver's parking there right at the junction and straddling a double yellow!😁 But I do love the look of the Defender. Would never dream of buying one though, just seeing all those service / repair records tells a story....!

My neighbour had one of these and spent every weekend under it or peering under the bonnet. He would always boast that the parts were very cheap, bless him. He finally got a life by buying a Toyota.

I simply don't recognise your negative description of defenders. I have an XS90 it's fab and drives like a dream and this is from a 61 year old petrol head, who has owned probably well over 100 cars from Porsche 911's , lots of them , through to Rs6's and Rs4's and Aston's all the way down to a Citroen DS's and minis, even had a bubble car once. and everything inbetween. I have owned two Defenders, both Puma 2.4's. I would drive them anywhere, with a stage 1 remap they are far more tractable on the road. They are not uncomfortable to me and the smile I have when im driving mine is just non stop. Biggest mistake Rover ever made to stop making this car. Their biggest icon. The replacememnt defender is a nice car but it has none of cache of a proper defender...Classless, friendly anonymous and posy without being posey, that was the old defender. Im not surprised that the market for these beasts is stratospheric, They are an British Icon. Not many of them left in this lost country of ours.

Always high class reviews as always 🎉

Looks great in the Rain that's a Puma bonnet love the TD5 sound though and you can get some decent power upgrades for them. Looks like a Puma interior and steering wheel as well. Great truck even at £20k that could be someone's forever car.

I drove a V8 engined one a few times. They were rapid in a way, but you could tell someone had basically put a far-too-fast engine in a Chassis designed for a bygone era.

I often wonder why you never do a vehicle check before you buy these cars.

I've always wanted a Defender like that, but even when the prices weren't stratospheric I knew damn well that I'd hate owning one given that I don't also own large tracts of land to mess about on. As a Venture Scout in my youth, we used to knock about in some Series 3's (I think - not enough of a nerd to know for sure) and did some great off roading in them, but I recall being in the back on the bench seats from Cambridge to Dartmoor on a summer venture one year and it was the longest journey in the history of the world (or felt like it). Mind you, we'd refurbed the transfer box or done some other work, and forgotten to put any oil said transfer box and it still survived the journey, and once oiled up, carried on doing so for quite some time afterwards. And I still both want and don't want one.

Td5 was 1998-2007. Some of the very last pre 2.4 puma 90/110's were registered on '07 plates w/ the 5 pot motor

I really enjoy your videos. I'm not really a car buff but I like the way you walk around every car explaining what you are looking out for. Plus I used to live opposite Etherow Park where you pull in to that little car park. Happy memories.

Nice one Matt. You can never resist a Land Rover can you? To be fair in the walkaround I thought the Cat D didn't add up. Especially given the money spent on the interior. Clearly loved. And you've done a grand job turning it around.

Hey, just wanted to take a moment to let you know how much I enjoy your vids. I’ve learned a lot and your presentation is top shelf. Thanks for all the hard work! Also, do you ever come across any Acura TLX models? My latest is a 2021 TLX and I’m curious about your take. Anyway, cheers! 😎👍🏼

I am watching you video talking about your heated steering wheel and heated seats in you luxury car and I remember I also have those in my econobox. What a time to be alive...

That’s the thing about the defender. It can be stripped down, a new chassis if needs be and rebuilt for the individual. Driven plenty in my time in the army and put them to the test off-road, not much will touch them off road. My dad had a 1991 200tdi which was stolen and we never saw it again. Had a freelander Td4 but that was awful and put me off land rovers.

Matt you are reading my mind, just today I was researching a little about land and range rovers. I know you are a Rover connoisseur, which one do you think are the nicest/best ones? Great video btw

He got a personal camera man now 😂