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Contact Craig Anderson on Tel: +27(0) 44 874 7251 or Cell: +27(0) 72 380 9870 for assistance in Services, Upgrades and Fixing of all makes of Land Rover vehicles.

Craig Anderson, the owner, has 7 years advanced training at the Land Rover Academy and has dedicated himself to this profession of rebuilding, servicing and repairing of any Land Rover to park in front of him. Though training is not always enough, experience is the key to our company’s success the last 17 years. One of our other specialties is supplying second-hand parts and vehicles. Therefore we buy the parts we need from the local Land Rover owners or any other source to keep the Landy public in George on the road, for new Land Rover parts is a bit more expensive because of shipping costs and all that. Land Rover is the name of one of the first civilian all-terrain utility vehicles, first produced by Rover in Eventually, the Land Rover division was split off from Rover, and produced an expanding range of four wheel drive vehicles under a succession of owners, including British Leyland, British Aerospace, BMW, and, from 2000, Ford in their Premier Automotive Group. Land Rovers are manufactured in Solihull, England (near Birmingham) and Halewood, England (near Liverpool) and are exported around the world. Like any other company that has the responsibility to deliver a high standard of work, we try and do a bit more. Therefore we only have the best equipment to service any Landy that crosses the Garden Route. The first Land Rover was designed in 1947, in Wales in the United Kingdom, by Maurice Wilks, the chief designer at the British car company Rover, as a farm vehicle that could be used for everything from ploughing fields to driving in town. It is said that he was inspired by an American World War II Jeep that he used on his estate. A distinctive feature has been their bodies, constructed of a lightweight rustproof proprietary alloy of aluminium and magnesium called Birmabright This material was used owing to post war steel shortages and a plentiful supply of post-war aircraft aluminium. This metal’s resistance to corrosion was one of the factors that allowed the vehicle to build up a reputation for longevity in the toughest conditions. The early choice of colour was dictated by army surplus supplies of paint, so early vehicles only came in various shades of green; all models until recently feature sturdy box section ladder-frame chassis. The early vehicles, such as the Series 1, were designed to be field-serviced; advertisements for Rovers have bragged about vehicles driven thousands of miles on banana oil. Now with more complex service requirements this is less of an option. This engine also continued in use in some export markets. The Land Rover Defender is also used by military forces throughout the world. In Australia at least, pricing is actually comparable or in favour of the Land Rover. In Britain, the Land Rover fell from favour with the farming community with the arrival of less expensive Japanese alternatives, with Diahatsu Fourtracks and Isuzu Troopers becoming a common sight on farms around the country, until rust eventually ended their working lives. 1986 BL, now known as the Rover Group, is privatised and becomes part of British Aerospace. Some of the service problems in US specification Land Rover Defender and Discovery models are related to the Rover V8 petrol engine, as Land Rover increased the displacement and otherwise modernized the engine, which was designed in the late 1950s by General Motors for Buick. Despite the recent drops in quality, it is rumored that 75% of all Land Rovers produced since 1955 are still on the road. The longevity of individual vehicles may also tend to hide any improvements in production quality as assembly faults, once fixed, may stay fixed, and so may only matter to the first buyer.