2002 Land Rover Discovery 2 TD5 Purchase

[Bots97]

Hi everyone, new to the forum only just joined. Currently looking at a Disco 2 for sale and while looking underneath found some black sludge with a green tinge to it. It has 200,000ks and full service history. It's in very good condition and is going for $8000 and is the sludge worrying?

I'll try posting some pics of it

[rick130]

Could be PAS/ACE fluid. (power steering/hydraulic fluid for the anti roll bar control, if fitted)
The original Texaco/Caltex fluid is green, as is Penrites replacement PAS fluid.

Coolant should be orange/red/pink as the TD5 is supposed to use OAT coolant

It's a sixteen year old car, some of the seals, O rings etc will be getting hard/starting to weep

[Pedro_The_Swift]

As Rick said,, and regardless of what you pay,, the car is 16 years old,,
spend 8 hours on here and read about the TD5 D2,,
Your time is cheap compared to a Mechanics hourly rate,,

[V8Ian]

Are you in Woodend, Ipswich? There are a number of Land Rover specialists who could check it out.