A brilliant series

When I get any Land Rover (I have had a few) the first thing I do replace is tyres. When I got my Wolf HS90 I bought a full set of G90s and had them fitted. I know that seems overkill, or maybe throwing cash around, but that is your first contact with the road. Braking, cornering, in adverse weather - it pays to be safe, as it could save your life or others lives. Great video though!

My catle fence looks better than this. I wouldn't be too happy to pay that amount of money for this ''quality''.

Is the alleged armour coming out ? Great series & adventure !

So if i switched out my r380 and replaced it with a LT 77 are you saying I will have to switch slave cylinders as well ?

All great, just don’t know about the going back to the UK thing tho

Waste of time an money bro what the hell. These are on every second street here, would of been cheaper for me to send you someone else

Great trip! Congratulations!

Absolutely a fun project. I know you'll turn it into a beauty!

After your mot, wire your headlights via relays. You can use bigger gauge cable and get the full 12V at the bulb as well as saving your switch.

Really amazing. Loving the summary. Incredible how you even found out the vehicle?

Should have saved some time and money and just gotten a land cruiser instead 👍

you can mot on the chassis number i think i did that with some cars i imported from japan

We forget how good the UK motorway junctions are, the roundabout on top of, or below the main highway allows corrections of numerous f*ck ups and if you get it completely wrong it's easy to double back

I'm in the UK and my steering wheel does the same in very damp weather.

The series was a joy to watch. Thank you 👍

My family (wife and 4 small kids) and I drove from Northern Italy via Helsinki into Moscow last year; in a Defender Puma 110 from 2009. I did all the driving and it was a 72hr stint for 4000km. I know what you mean with the surreal feeling when you finally arrive! Thumbs up for the big achievement and for cool good quality content.

I’m glad you mentioned the roof rack drag reduces mpg 👍

Can’t you turn around and drive back for more content please!! I’ve really enjoyed watching this and proves that old Land Rovers, despite leaking and clunking with strange smells will keep on going! My lads just arrived back from his trip down to Greece in his 1990 Land Rover 90 county with a 150,000 miles under its belt and he did 4600 miles in a month .. he had a fuse blow,and slight manifold leak and lost a hub cap from the axle and had to divert to the west coast of Italy because JLR near Bari were extremely unhelpful.. all he wanted was a poxy plastic hub cap!!! obviously not interested now in the vehicles which made Land Rover what they are today.

Will when you do a ex mod vehicle they use to Mot the chassis number!

good mileage

Great stuff - I was hooked on this series 🙌

Brilliant, great commentary all the way Will. Looking forward to the next video. I’m had similar issue with the steering wheel on my 96, particularly on hot humid days but after a few years it stopped and no more black crap coming off it.

I really enjoyed this series, thanks for all your efforts.

I’ve really enjoyed this little adventure, congratulations for getting it back to Blighty, very admirable, the only downside is that I’m now scouring the internet for a Defender once again 😀

Good summary

Lmao spent wayyyy more than it was worth.

Is this an ex halo trust vehicle with the red fenders? Used to work on their fleet in Zimbabwe

Sounds like a waste of time and money

Did we finally arrive in the UK 😊??

Great set of videos. Looking forward to the follow up.

In the last scene, is the RHD a result of the selfie camera creating a mirror image or have you already done a conversion from LHD to RHD? Not that I am aware that you ever intend to make such a conversion, nor do I think that you should do so. Regardless, congratulations on completing an epic journey from Armenia to the UK. For someone like myself growing up in the 1970s and '80s, such a trip from the depths of the former Soviet Union was completely unthinkable and if I'm honest, I don't think that many during the aforementioned time period were even aware of the different names of the Soviet Republics with the exception of Ukraine, Georgia (thanks to Eduard Shevardnadze, the last Foreign Minister of the USSR), Belorussia (as it was known then), perhaps the Baltic States and of course, Russia! The rest were largely oblivious. Even today, many of these countries remain off of the beaten track, although it is only a matter of time before they too attract more and more tourists, other than the overlanders. You have done this journey just in the nick of time to see that part of the world which somewhat remains a snapshot into a bygone age. I envy you, although I was in Czecho-Slovakia on its last day of existence and consequently in Slovakia on its first day of its newly found independence.

That Tdi was always going to make it back without too many issues. That's what these cars do... It's hilarious that you pay for air in the UK - I remember my first encounter with that sort of nonsense way back in 2002. Paying for air? Seriously? No-one in Africa would dream of charging for air... In Mozambique you can get a puncture fixed for the money you pay for air in the UK...

At around the 5min mark, are you paying to put air in your tyre???

Sydney to Perth is 3900+kms. Well done

Enjoying the series a lot and learning about old Defenders (my main motivation for watching). Thanks for documenting and sharing! Greetings from a 1996 ROW Defender owner living in Suriname

Excellent trip, congratulations on ‘making it’. Can’t wait for more videos , been hanging out for the next installment of this series so will be lost until you post more!!

Excellent series so far, and I'm very envious of the ROAD TRIP!!!!! 👏👏👏👏

Sabotaged by the tyre extinguishers.

Never any doubt you'd make it back.💪

Incredible journey nursing this old lady back from Armenia, against the odds she made it! Look forward to seeing what happens next. I had valve end come off completely on a routine tyre check of my Lightweight just before a short journey. The valve may have been 20 years old or 1 year old cheap rubbish it had been driven like that just days before, really quite scary, had it happened at speed with my young son onboard we will never know.

Well done on making it back. Probably the valve. I had similar with mine back in August, two full days off road in North Wales, came home and shoved it in the garage all fine, went back two days later and it was flat as a pancake, was the valve. Local tyre place sorted it for me free of charge!

Reminds me of my parents picking up their brand spanking new V8 110 county back in ‘83, managed to get all of 10 miles from the dealership before getting a puncture.

An absolutely brilliant series

A video about registering the defender would be great if you have time? 🇬🇧

Epic! Excellent love the trip thanks for sharing.

i had same thing with my tyre the other day i used the weight of the jeeps disc on it to pop the tyre off the rim and stuck a new valve stem in easy when you have the gear in stock

Loved this, thank you

Border control? What's that then?

YOU MADE IT ! Well done . BTW , a round object like a Screw or Nail tends to HOLD air . Very slow leak , and not a huge concern . Just monitor it daily . The Valve stem was almost certainly where the Air got out quickly . Those Stems should be Replaced whenever a New Tyre goes on .