Thread: Should I sell?

its a tough question for any of us to answer..

I think 4k for a 96 v8 with loads of problems is probably worth it.. its such a shame you ended up with all these problems.. I'm assuming you've give up on repairing them..

If you've been to see a Rover specialist and they've told you that it's cactus then sell it and move on is my opinion. I was worried about my Disco 1 V8 for a while there though and I finally took it for a professional verdict and they ended up telling me that it only needed a couple of little parts replaced but otherwise it was a great car...so if you haven't done that already you might want to before biting the bullet.

If you have though I am sorry you got those problems, that really sucks and I hope the guy who sold it to you gets plenty of bad karma in the form of funny spots all over his pee pee!

Hi Mattskii, have you taken it to Fred Smith? he's exy but he's good

Ahh bugger - not a good situation to be in, and for what it's worth all of us get conned occasionally. I did with mine but I have kept at it and now it is pretty good; but I have spent way to much money on it. Now the only way to get some of it back is to live to about 1000 and have no other problems to break even.

If I added up what I have spent on it i could have probably bought a good disco III - so If you dont have the money to do that then it is probably a good idea to drop it and look for a better one. Most importantly dont let this damped your view of landies

did you ever get around to testing your fuel pressure?

If he is aware of the issues/problems with the car, and you are "happy" with $4000, then I'd say sell it and try again on another Disco, maybe a Diesel next time.

I was offered $4000 for my '97 Diesel Disco1 as a trade in, and mine was all working OK. Didn't take it as I reckon it's worth more than that to me around the farm.

Hope you have more luck with the next vehicle.
David

I would say sell it and buy a 300Tdi Disco or defender. No electrics, no vacuum advance, half the number of cylinders etc etc... mean diagnosis and repair is much easier if things go wrong .

I just bought a '96 300Tdi disco for a fair bit less than 4k in good condition (though I did already own the gearbox in it).

I have just reviewed several your posts and I have to say that I do not think there is a lot wrong with the car.

You look to be dropping thousands from what you say if you sell it yet you seem to baulk at spending a few hundred on a specialist to get it right.

Some of the symptoms suggest poor connections, as you mention in one post AFAIR that the connector was loose on the temp sender. What did you do about it? Did you give the spades a slight twist so that they would be tighter? Did you twist the blades in the MAF a little?

Before you sell it, have a specialist look at it.

I guess that you are also disappointed that it uses lots of petrol, but work out how many ks you will do say in the next 5 years and what the difference is fuel cost is. Unless you do over 20KK then it is not worth it IMHO compared with the changover cost and taxes.

Funny, I have never had these problems, although it always ran rich with the old injectors, and a new set from USA made a big difference. I look upon injectors and some sensors (TPS) as wear items and replaced all but the MAF when I overhaul the heads etc. I replaced the fuel pressure regulator this time and the TPS, temp, IAC, and injectors about 90KK ago. I also replaced the dizzy cap and rotor then.

I have since bought another set of recod Bosch gen111(yellow) injectors , but seeing mine still gave a good pattern , I have them as spares.
Another thing you have not done AFAIK is to methodically do a complete injection check as per the manual. There are 20 or so tests that can be done (with a multimeter) and these are more akin to computers than cars.
Regards Philip A