Here's What We Love & Hate About Our THIRD Land Rover Defender After Owning It a Month! 

Always great reviews

Voted best looking SUV on the back of a flatbed! 😀

Reliability has been pretty good, with the exception of the suspension fault lights, coolant fault lights, and the radio deciding to not work within the first month. 😂 Love you guys.

“The reason we bought this (Land Rover) was because of reliability...” 3 vehicles later. Give up.

I’m quoting here .... “it kinda lives in its own space” So far that “space” has been the dealership’s maintenance bays.

I thought the Land Rover was moving to TFL Off Road? Im so confused by how many channels. Nathan can’t even remember either!!!

I’d love to see you guys purposely pack on as many miles as you possibly can so we can get a real reliability review at the end of the year before you sell it. Shoot for 40k!

I’ve done 10,000 km in my new Defender 240 S 2 Litre twin turbo diesel in New Zealand taking it off road extensively on many demanding tracks. It has been faultless so far with 6 months ownership. It is fast and powerful on road with great road holding on our twisty windy roads. The interior is well designed, great materials, lots of USB ports, charging points etc and we find the touch screen quick and easy to use as are the off road programs ‘ mud & ruts’, ‘rock crawl’ etc. we love the vehicle and it’s all round capability. It is a big truck bigger than our Landcruiser V8 turbo diesel. The Defender is 400kg lighter than the Toyota Landcruiser so has about a 400 kg greater payload which is very useful, it’s much quicker and far more economical than the TLC and has the same 3500 kg towing capacity. The only two things I don’t like about the new Defender are the touchy over servo’d brakes but you soon get used to being more gentle with the brake pedal, but the servo assistance is just right when towing heavy loads. The second dislike is the lack of wide angle cornering headlights. When night driving on narrow wing roads or off road tracks all you see is a ‘dark hole’ about 45 to 90 degrees to the side of the vehicle made worse by ones eyes been bright light adapted to the otherwise powerful low/ high beams. The difficulties fitting front recovery hooks and the high cost of fitting the LandRover supplied winch and mounting kit are a disappointment. Overall, though the new Defender is a joy to own It seems very rugged and well built. It’s air suspension gives it a luxurious ride like the RangRover and it’s class leading off road ride height and front/rear and ramp over angles are well documented on many RU-vid blogs. It’s light years ahead of the old Defender in nearly all aspects Martin Rees Auckland New Zealand

One design feature that drives me crazy is that C pillar. I drive by one of these on the way too work and I always think it still has the window sticker on it, but it's just the giant C Pillar.

I know it’s not your experience but I’ve had Land Rovers for 15 years and Toyota for 12 years prior to that. All have been maintained as per the book and I’ve never had anything fail apart from a suspension compressor on the Disco 3, and it warned me so I got home. That’s pretty good considering the near 400,000 miles covered and three quarters of that in LR products. I love them. 😊

I’ve had my defender x for almost a year. It’s currently at 9,754 miles! No issues, knock on wood. Once I buy a Land Rover, I can’t go back.

Concur with other comments about reliability concerns and you guys probably have the most experience. If you guys - not necessarily easy on trucks - like these things, then I think I'll roll the dice and try it. Love the fact you guys have done multiple reviews. Really appreciate it.

Coming from a native British bloke, though I would naturally be a little biased in favour of the Land Rover, two issues I can't get past. One is value for money - It is very expensive once you have added 'normal' equipment. Second is Reliability - This is across the entire JLR range. I love the capability and the styling of Land Rovers/Range Rovers is usually brilliant, but owning one just causes me too much anxiety.. A wonderful car soon becomes a horrible car if it starts letting you down...

Lexus GX460 which is the Landcruiser Prado abroad and 3 rows seating is the nearest competitor with 1000% more reliability!

Your honesty is needed with this (questionable) suv

What Fast Lane Car: Hates: "It is not going to be the last Defender that we buy in a short time." Loves: "It is not going to be the last Defender that we buy in a short time." 😄

Had mine since December, works perfect and it's amazing!!!

Hi guys, thanks for all your great videos...love to watch. Regarding recovery points at the rear of the new Defender: lift the floor cover in the rear, you should have a screw in recovery eye (good size). The two recovery points on each end of the rear bumper with the little rectangular covers actually clip out if you push on the side of the little cover. Behind the little cover is the screw in point for the recovery eye, which is "snatch" graded. Greetings from South Africa, Charles.

You drove all the way to Wyoming,... from Colorado 😂

Just replaced my D240 4 cylinder with a D250 6 cylinder - boy, what an improvement.

Great review, thanks guys. I am thinking of getting one and appreciate your honest comments on the vehicle.

Brakes do take getting used to, that’s because of the system that recovers energy from the brakes, but once you do, they work really well. And that’s another reason to get the P400 - which comes with a 4 piston setup. 2 piston setups like on the lower model, doesn’t cut the musterd.

This defender is the best online advertisement for Toyota SUVs I’ve ever seen.

Haven’t heard anything in a minute about this, I naturally assumed it was broken again.

Absolutely love the new Defender. To be honest I don’t think is expensive it is a premium brand.

One of the OG car and off road reviewers

Looking forward to following along with regards to reliably. Like the look of it, hate the price though.

Found you guys from the JRE Mike Baker episode. Not disappointed! Excellent content 💪🏼

Guys I just bought the inline 6 se package love it so far hoping to not run into any problems.

“I wanna take a road trip to Alaska in this...” Good luck with that.

Land Rover and reliability in the same sentence. Thought I was watching a comedy show.

I think one of the main things you should do with the Defender is to just use it a lot in the way most people would. You guys own it so someone should be driving it to work and back every day. If there are errands to run like picking up lunch or a trailer then send it. Sure you can also take it down trails when you get a chance but just seeing how it deals with a daily grind seems like what this story has become about. We know it has good capabilities at this point. We just don't know how often it is capable of those abilities.

Nice review. Well done as usual. Thank you!

I shouldn't be hearing "Warranty" so much in a 2020 Vehicle video

You guys should take a view of Doug DeMuro's review of his cross-country drive in his Defender 110.

I love this truck. The blue paint, with the rims are an amazing look.

Great review. Glad we opted out of buying one of these. They look great, very capable, but I am not one who wants to deal with nagging warning lights and other failures. Trips to the dealership is always a day off from work and just not worth it.

Thanks for these reviews of the New Defender , I bought a SE which will be delivered end of February, now I know what I'm getting in to...

Defender reliability, I think that question was answered when you took ownership of the third Defender lol

Good for you Roman for setting Tommy right. Huge, massive,..... Roman show him the difference.

Rear Recovery points - just push your finger into the silver squares on the left or right rear - behind the plastic is a screw in with the eye in the boot.

Over priced and poor reliability, I have a Land Rover series 2a so I loved the idea of a new defender but I'm hugely disappointed and won't be buying one

So much more character than the jeep products. I’d have a broken defender all day long!

Keep up the defender videos! Drive it as much as you all can on and off road so we can get some long term/ higher mileage updates. As always, great job with the videos.

After 4 Land Rover/Range Rovers I finally decided I had outgrown breaking down on the Jersey TNPK. Not being able to shut the vehicle off at a Dermatology appointment that I waited 5 months for and had to miss. Overheating, and of course a zillion fault lights and body pieces falling off while driving. I love the new Defender from everything I've read, but you said it, Coolant fault light, Suspension fault light, radio not working. 3 things in a month that aren't really small. Sounds like you guys are so thankful that it didn't implode like your last 2 this one was nothing compared to those 2 you gave back. Doug DeMuro did 7000 miles and had a broken sun roof. That's not too bad but still, if it were out of warranty that could be a very costly repair. Out of warranty these need to be traded in unless you just really hate yourself and want more torture.

Congrats on 1mil!

How can any manufacturer with such a pathetic quality/reliability record be considered “premium”?

Hahaha Tommy u gotta keep saying stuff that ur dad doesn’t like you to say! Lol he LOVES THE DEFENDER AND DEFENDS IT SO STRONGLY!! Love your channel btw.

I just looked at the defender today. current jeep overland owner. they have 2 , 2020's - not seeing a BIG discount . have to make a second visit/ test drive - work the numbers. I do kinda like it. good video. ~ JDS/CT

Would like to see you towing a travel trailer.

It comes with a rear screw in towing eye like most cars. Fitting the permanent ones was a pretty easy fit, each rated at 7T too.

Well done. Well organized. Good advice.

Morning Roman and Tommy... 😎hope your enjoying the New Rover!!

*Congratulations on reaching 1M subscribers!*

I thought the “best” thing was that the RR got them home from their trip.

I picked up my 2021 Defender on Saturday, and they fixed the sharp brakes from the 2020MY.

Glad #3 is working out better for you guys! Nice review!👍 I was very shocked it doesn’t come standard with heated seats, I believe they are standard on all Kia products even LOL!

"Let me be clear, it really is a truck" on TFLC channel* puts all Bronco news on TFLC channel/page* Bronco is actually based on a truck* Defender is unibody* To be clear I don't mind that the Defender is unibody, and I don't consider either this or the Bronco, or the Wrangler for that matter "Trucks". If they don't have a bed, they aren't a truck IMO. I just found this sentence funny.

you can actually pop open those panels and fit temporary recovery hooks(found in the boot)

On the recovery hooks - I have an SE (exact same color) and it does come with a recovery loop as part of the toolkit (usual spot under the boot floor) that I can just screw in those rear recovery points - press a side on the bumper hard-ish to pop it open

I surf the web quite a bit looking for meaningful reviews and so far you have been exemplary .... looking forward to your next review of the LR 110

I absolutely have learned a lot from this Defender series already ! Unfortunately I don’t think Land Rover is happy with what I have learned.

3 month of payments and 1 month of using it. To me I see a big problem with that!

Great review! Love that blue color.

Good video. Good pace . Defender does look pretty nice

Why don’t you try and fit the recovery hooks like Simon in Uk did? Powerfulukltd

I am and always will be a die hard Land Rover fan ❤️

Proud owner of one. I love it so much x

The reliability question is key, thanks for focusing on that aspect. Happy to spend the money, but not on a car that is going to have me in the shop getting warranty repairs once a month.

“The Japanese are less off-road worthy when you’re looking at a three-row” ... Land Cruiser? I heard those are pretty good off-road.

I am really hoping that this one is reliable. I love the looks but I am nervous about the cost of keeping it going.

Thanks for the review, Guys. How about in the next video reviewing where the Defender is now with add- on off- road customizations, both from LR and after market. By now you would imagine that off- road companies would have started making after market, more functional roof racks, snorkels, roof ladders, bumper replacements, recovery hitches. winches, etc. Basically things to convert the vehicle into a more versatile off roader. My thought here being that the lure of this vehicle will likely be from those that always wanted one because of the legacy but couldn't get one in America and will then want to fit it out for off- roading.

I know the video is 2 years old... :-) but you can screw recovery hooks in the back where the covered-up rectangular holes are. I am not sure there's one supplied, but I think there is. The option on the X is to have them visible at all times.

I think the most interesting thing you could do with this is get a comparable, recent Discovery and do proper testing. This thing occupies that niche far more than that of the traditional Defender.

0:45 sorry Roman, unibody + no solid axle makes it far from a truck

As an RU-vidr, this is a good car,. A lot of story can tell. If it's a 4 runner, you got no story

Hi - so my first 2022 X broke down second day and was towed to the dealer. Couldn't figure out what was wrong so they ordered a new one and received another X 3 months later. That one is back in the shop with 400 miles on it...been there for 2.5 weeks. Great experience...

Where is that bronco sport?!? I'd love to see a comparison between that and the Land Rover

Give us more hardcore offroad with defender. Greetings from Serbia!

except the blue color, i don t see anything to dislike to this new def

I would just like to see you guys doing just what you usually do, find out what it's designed to do and test it at its limit, then evaluate how it performs. As of right now I'm not optimistic that it will be as advertised when the first two were lemons.

Would love to have this if I could afford it

I feel like this new Defender is really good out of the box but the upgradability is very poor. Although a brand new Wrangler isn't quite as good, with a few upgrades, it is a far better off-roader. Also, I am not just a Jeep person saying that, I own a Land Rover Series III.

Great review, would love to see you guys really push it off road if possible

I have the Defender 4 cyl 240 p.s. I agree with you guys that a LR should have the option of the HD rear recovery points from the base model up. Other wise I love mine. I am currently reader hing retro fitting a winch !!!!!!! Thanks for you footage. Regards Nick from England

Love the roll of toilet paper in the back... way to be ready for all eventualities!

“The look of this thing screams off roader”....please people, don’t take that literally. This car, however, is the perfect ride for the modern social media couple or corporate executive who wants to project the appearance of rugged individualism and capability. They are perfect pavement queens for Denver, Aspen, Vail, Salt Lake, and Jackson, Wyoming. As someone who has actually spent a significant time off road over the past 40 years, I have never, ever seen a new series Defender off-pavement on purpose. Last but not least, don’t wander too far from your authorized Land Rover service center because they will be your lifeline.

I'd like to see a typical overland build of the Defender. Do it as most buyers would over time via the aftermarket. It would show how modifiable the vehicle is (or isn't) and at what cost.

Congrats on the million subscribers, guys !! 👍👍

I almost threw up in my mouth when I heard him refer to it as an "actual truck"

Anyone: Land Rover Defender *Reliability has left the chat*

Putting my hand up I do work for LR. I think one thing I could like to see is a comparison between toyota's crawl control and land rover's ATPC. Because I think ATPC works beautifully. It can do pull aways on ice/snow and climb up and down tricky hills

Finally, a video with Roman and Tommy that's watchable due to the lack of petty disagreements with each other! 😉

Surely among the dislikes is the reliability sword of Damocles forever hanging over your heads with this.

"we'll get the two-door, that's coming" Tommy : That's true. I felt that.

Powerfuluk have a you tube video detailing rear bumper removal and fitting of Off Road Recovery Tow Hoops. Just exactly what you need.

Nice review. I am waiting now for your comparison, next to each other, of the latest JGC Trailhawk, the Bronco (not the Sport) and the short Defender; as and when they become available! On and off-road of course.

Where's the winch? I thought the POINT of testing the Defender was to test one fully kitted for off roading?

You guys need a lesson in how the seats fold flat. Drives me crazy you won't do it.

Presentation tip - I've seen this in a few of your videos - when signing off at the end with half a phrase from Roman, don't look towards Tommy to finish it, keep looking at the camera, let Tommy finish the phrase on cue while also looking at the cam. It looks more professional and synchronized.