Lack of delivery dates for some parts is a major part of Insurers writing off JLR vehicles at present. You could soon rack up another £5k in storage and car hire costs for several months whilst waiting for parts.

Great car for the channel Dean! I’ve been hoping a salvage channel will pick one of these up! Looking forward to it!

thankyou Dean looking forward to this project,,👍👍

I certainly didn't see this one coming!! Looking forward to this.

I have been waiting for one of these to be salvaged, great!

Awesome find Dean, good luck! I've got one and love it, reckon you will too when it's done!

Excellent, will stay tuned to this one for sure. Great series this will be

Great purchase my friend! Thats my favorite Model. I see one parked in our Doctors lot at work and it’s awesome! We don’t see many over here in East Texas USA

Hi Dean, hope everything goes to plan mate. It could be an exciting build fingers crossed mate. 😊😊😊😊

I like it, totally cool. Massive pair of spuds on you as usual for tackling these types of jobs. Hope it works out well.

Maybe the delay on parts which made it not viable.

I love these defenders glad your doing something different

Beware of the ingenium engine Dean, its a woeful engine and is plaqued with continuous problems that JLR failed to cure, timing chains are most common and I personally have changed these engines with chain failure with less than 10k miles, I haven't known an ingenium get past 50k without issues, the lifters seize in the head because JLR recommend in my opinion the wrong oil, they're just a nightmare full stop ! Timing chain is gearbox end and is a absolute nightmare to change and the chain is so pathetically small it looks like something from a mini moto, that's what happens when an engine designed to run on petrol gets converted to run on diesel, as this exactly what the ingenium is, it works fine as a petrol engine but not up to the task of a diesel engine, if your thinking of keeping this vehicle please bare this in mind as what I'm saying is 100% genuine from previous experience as as a JLR master tech 👍

Interesting to see you tackling a non VAG car for a change. Lots of reports of parts supply problems with JLR recently which may have been a factor in the decission to write this one off. Having said that there seem to be lots of crazy things going on in the car insurance world just now hence the outrageous price hikes!! Anyway could be a good result for you look forward to the rebuild.👍

Great episode looking forward to the follow up 🙏🙏

absolutely love these, should be interesting to watch

Depending on what you paid it could be a winner Dean. I too have never been a Land Rover fan, but the latest 110's look so cool and fetch such good money they're something I've been looking at. That one is defo a 40k + car , it looks stunning and will sell instantly.

Nice looking motor Dean and think this will be an easy turnaround, unlike some of the last projects

Hi Dean. Very nice. This will make a bit of a change for you Dean. A good one I hope, there doesn't seem to be much damage, just what you showed us, lol. Famous last words. It's totally crazy that this is a Cat-S like you said, Dean, I don't understand, great video, hurry up Part-2. Thanks Dean 👌💯🥰🇨🇮

I like them ... like the kit on it makes it look better ... as for the fix ?? ...

the landrover looks good love the roof spotlights great video as always

Nice work Dean looking forward to this

Top car. Looking forward to seeing it repaired

Gonna enjoy this one, and looks like they kept them easy for people to get to everything

Great channel. find it strange though that little damage done to parts and number plate, for front end smack. It'll Look good when its finished....

Great Video Dean

I think you are the first channel to do one of these. I think it will make for a good series.

I knew i recognised that plate! Service documents confirmed it was local to me. What a donut that lad was.

Very capable off roader had a demonstration ride in one very refined too

Looking forward to this build. Much better than watching people re-build another supercar.

Liked this video mate really good ,hope you don't find anymore damage

Not alot of damaged Lovely bit of kit and great content wondering what price you paid

I managed to put a slight crease in the front passenger door edge and it cost me nearly £900 so £5K for an entire front assembly sounds great. I was also rear ended by a van when it was 6 months old (20 plate) and it stood up really well but the dealer insisted the deployable tow bar needed replacing and it tools months as it was on back order.

Wow! So epic it drives with pretty much no front on it 🤩👍🏽

Love these, but do love Range rovers, have a L405. Looking forward to the videos. 👍👍👍👍

Yes ! something very different I am looking forward to watching this

I just bought and repaired a 6 month old 422bhp Smart Brabus #1 on my channel. It was written off in 300 miles by the previous owner. They wrote it off Cat S as well but the only structural damage I found was a golf ball size dent at the top of the A pillar. The rest of the damage was superficial. Cost about 4K in parts, body repair work and spraying. New, the car is £44,500 and I got it for 18K. So fixed it only cost just North of 22K. The reason it was written off was because they had no information on the arrival dates of some required parts so the insurance company could have been supplying a suitable replacement (like a Tesla Model Y) for in excess of 3 months so they cut their losses. Thankfully the parts only took 6 weeks so now I'm onto the proper job of modifying it.

Love these.This is going to be a good video.

Nice project ❤❤🎉🎉🎉 bro keep it up

What’s the lead time on the parts? My best mate works for Direct Line as an assessor, they write a lot of JLR stuff off because of the lead time of the parts. Also,separately check the steering rack for cracks theres an issue with the, cracking.

We have had a few Jaguars and Land Rovers at our shop beginning of this year and spare part delivery times for Jaguar were like 2-3 weeks for engine mounts, exhaust components and brake hoses. Land Rover was similar case with door lock bowden cables and other smaller bits. During the "component crisis" part delivery times were like month or two. Maybe they wrote the car off due to part availability or the insurance company was simply given way too high of an estimate for repairs by shop(s)

Although it's £5k for parts ( They haven't told you yet if some of those parts are on back order? )I would have thought the labour charges plus courtesy car rental over a prolonged time period would more than doubled that cost.

It’s great change from all the tread mill cars that many many KZfaqrs fall over each other doing all the time.

That looks like a beautiful land rover actualy Dean not sure what they like machanicly because i have herd different opinions on them im sure that youl be aware of that good luck with it dean im sure you'll have it looking like new very fast man!. 👌✨👌✨👌👍👍✨🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿✨

I think the rite cars could take this channel to another level , interesting one this and so was the Audi you did

Hi Dean could it of been repaired previously on a Cat S and it's had another accident? Nice car BTW. Looks like you have a bargain!

Love this car

Wow bit pricey on parts mate 😭😭😭good luck mate and well done 👍🏽👍🏽

That's a nice jeep, it's nice to see something different every now and again hopefully it will be an easy fix for you

A perfect workhorse for your car transportation business

Ive just drove 1 and inspected everything beforehand, omg this is such a well made car. Lots of landrover haters in comments but you wont want to give this car up once you own it.

Never run a JLR without a warranty! Gap insurance is also good value back to invoice when written off. Lots of older Évoqués and Discovery Sports in the market all at around 50-60 miles coming off PCP.! All could potentially have an engine issue looming ? Great content Dean, j hope it’s us a sweet one for you. Think carefully about using in your business as a tow vehicle, could be an expensive move! 🤔

Looks good I think getting parts might be a struggle

wicked motor and i thik its going to be a easy fix how much was it

It will be smart when it's done. Have to put on a snorkel for the exhaust, I think I got it right. I am no mechanic. Great video 👍

They will include labour probably over 100 an hour plus bonnet wing and allowance for anything they might have missed so my guess is it was borderline so they just played safe and wrote it off

Can’t wait for this to come up on Compete For Cars!

Another great vid… although you still have some wild exposures. Time to upgrade the potato

Get rhino 4x4 bull bar installed instead of getting the lower front trims and also get the rhino fog lights etc much better than OEM

Cheers Dean

Great video

I’ve just had a headlamp panel come for mine mate, they’re on back order😬 I waited about 4 weeks

Lovely motor, we’ve had loads of parts on “back order” and I’m talking 6 months plus for our Sport so maybe it’s due to that ?

Really cool car i like it👍

I’m sure you will get it fixed up soon….please do not get fixated by the many gloom spreaders that will forecast misery in one way or another.if properly serviced with CORRECT oils and done at correct times, these are fine including the engines. Yes the ingenium was very underdeveloped when it appeared in 2014 but major improvements have sorted out the troubles. I can say that after 15 years with JLR cars, they have been a troublefree delight…and I have just got a new Range Rover Sport Autobiography Hybrid and after 1250 miles in the first three weeks..all is perfect! Good luck…remember there are many aftermarket styling retailers so if any parts are slow, you can often source them from those specialists. I did have to get a rubber mat set from Powerful U.K. and mudflaps from Stormer in N.I…but pleased..you have a good car and hopefully you got it under £40,000!! 😀😀😀😀

Interesting car - I would like one.

Done your job pal well done

This car is awesome. A great choice. Looking forward to all the future videos!

Dean you gone all “ GANGSTER “😮, mean looking car and can just see you driving it wearing a bandanna and massive gold diamond encrusted cross on an anchor size chain round your neck 😂, you gotta keep this one lol 😂

Porsche looked awesome on Gassed on Track❤

awesome car. never straight forward, but heres hoping.

It may well be parts availability…. We’ve waited months for JLR parts there could also be possible storage charges and like for like courtesy/hire car charges at ridiculous costs, it’s just far cheaper to write cars off and pay costumer out which is usually a finance or lease company.

Supply of spare parts was dire during the last 6 months after the JLR warehouse parts supply chain re-organisation, therefore long delays with hire car cover could have caused the Cat S write off Dean. Should be a great build if you can find the bits !

Love it ❤

This is a video that made me subscribe.

I wonder if it will be due to lead time on parts, JLR have been having a lot of issues with parts supply.

You should contact Urban or other similar companies and ask them what they do with parts they replace on their vehicles

Great car

Hi Dean in your pricing of £5000 for parts you omitted main dealer labour costs. Great video mate

It’s a lovely example of a defender I must say

Surely some enterprising company can supply upgraded timing chains etc!

Hi Dean, absolutely fantastic purchase. First new defender to be on a salvage channel. Hope it does very well for you Den. Can't wait until part 2. 😊👍

It’s has got the urban kit on it, if the bonnet is the carbon one it will cost you. My bother has the same car with the full urban kit!

Dean salvage rebuilds just did land rover and the chassis leg has an aluminium sacrificial part at the front and it was on back order with a delivery estimate then of 8 to 10 weeks recon that’s why it’s a cat s.

Looks very much like the G Wagon 👌

My Missus once went into the back of a bread van with our "old" Defender 90, so hard that we found out they had to cut the back doors off it to get the bread out. Our Defender, well the numberplate was a bit broken 😂

Insurance companies are not checking cars any more got my defender rear ended 3 weeks ago they just written off with 4 pictures of the car. I guess is the time that takes to repair cars and the hassle of hiring cars etc. is easier for them just to pay you off and then get the money back overtime increasing premiums. Looks like you will be ok. Nice car

Great

that is one lovely looking motor...........will it be up to win ????

Lovely car.

Nice something a bit different 👌

It will be the delay in parts, meaning more in car hire, as well as it’s not just the original front end you’ve got to add the urban cost after that.

Enjoyed that mate 😂😂😂😂❤

Helpful parts department.. .

bit of damage to the bumper as he points at bonnet 😂😂 nice motor though love these

Amazing Want it

Nice motor

Plus the courtesy car.

Land Rover labour repair hours, possible parts shortage and how much are courtesy car rates with insurance?

Kickback from that crash bar threw you into a different postcode 😅