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Its so heartening to hear these stories re- Disco as I was feeling down in the dumps after getting a '91 and hearing all the bagging on other 4b websites. Bugger em I say! Ive always been into the quirky ( hence Yam xs 750 reference) so I am looking forward with great anticipation to the roads ahead. Cheers. :)
I went to a Brisbane show in around '89 and there was the D1,,
I'm now on my 3rd D since '97,,
I really cant understand why people buy other cars--
I'm only new to the wonderful world of the Disco (have always liked the look),I got my D1 two years ago 96 v8 it would have to be the most relaxed drive I have had,even SHMBO likes the ride.I know have my beloved 96 v8 and she know has her D2a TD5 and I think I can honestly say we are done with other cars we will always have a Disco of some sort !! The kids love mum and dads trucks.
Back from my vacations, a coworker told me his complaints because the air conditioning from his Honda CRV did not work ,having hot weather.
I am equally angry: after 14 years of traveling together with my Disco, we dump and now she has many more dents than before :-(
But yes, the air conditioning is still working perfectly ;-)
Regards
When you buy something against all good advice and practicality you know it may break you but you just have to have it, I reckon folks that own Discos and other oddball cars are people who buy with their hearts and not their head. I have always had mostly oddball cars, started out with an Austin A40 ute back in 1965, followed by a Morris 1100, then an Austin Healey Sprite, then I crossed the channel and drove a Fiat 2300 for a while, a HK Monaro, XA Falcon V8 panel van, (surfing phase), married and then bought a Datsun 1200, (no money) then a Cortina station wagon (kid phase), a Peugeot 504, an ex army Landrover series 2, that the wife hated, a Toyota Crown wagon, that would not pull the skin off a rice pudding, a Triumph 2500 TC, an E type Jag, an S type Jag, another S type Jag (masochistic stage, owned all 3 at the same time), a Moke Californian 1275 (insanity stage), a Landcruiser BJ 42, a 60 series HJ diesel Landcruiser, that would not pull the skin of that same rice pudding. Then revelation and halleluja, a work mate of mine was selling his 1977 Range Rover Classic, it was 12 years old and had nearly 400,000 on it, but I had a drive and fell in love, that old Rangie took the wife and kids and I on lots of great holidays and adventures for the next 11 years, I pulled the engine out at 650,000 and had it bored .020 over, the crank went back in std, a new cam, fitted gas and a new clutch, it completed just under 900,000 when I sold it to a mate to give to his son as a first car.
This is of course a bit off the subject of why we love our Discos, but when I bought my first Disco, which was a cheap old dog of a thing, I hopped in and drove it and it gave me the same old feeling of comfort and familiarity that I remembered from the Rangie, onto the next Disco now, same model with a lot less K's no rust no cracks and no clatter from the engine, but none the less still lots of work to keep up with the shabbily made bits that fall off or break, but it is more than a car it is a hobby, an old friend, a comfortable ride, and a masterful off road machine, it puts a smile on my face, if I had bought my 4X4 with my head I'm sure it would have been a Tojo because up here in the North it is Toyota country and every body has one, yes the proverbial BUM, but the old '97 Discovery will do me for all the reasons I have just mentioned, I could not make friends with a Cruiser..............................no sir!!
as i have said in a post elsewhere you have to do a bit of thinking to drive a Land Rover product, the same as classic cars, but like the classics the rewards for perseverance are greatQuote:
I reckon folks that own Discos and other oddball cars are people who buy with their hearts and not their head.
yep i reckon that you have to have a particular mind set, as for me i was already gone as i'm into classic cars particularly from the Leyland/BMC range :o;):(
I like the D1, especially the TDI, as it is low-tech - not too many electronics. High back door for van sized stuff so good for work, for which I use mine every day. Comfortable ride and driving position. Not too hard to work on. Its fairly strong, its old enough that the axles still have decent bearings - unlike the tiny things that Jeep use for instance. Parts are far from rare even for a vehicle that is a couple of decades old. For me its an all round practical vehicle.
Xstripple maaate, if ya like the car don't worry about em. Everyone looks at my car or notices it, dunno why , yet it's usually the only one amongst the droves of big flash Jap jobs and what have you in most car parks .Even at Christmas time , everyone was standing out on the balcony and guess what I realized after awhile . Amongst all the flash top dollar sparkling new top shelf Fords and Holdens and Nissan everyone else had parked out there , they were all looking at the 2nd hand Rover. So that just goes to show they might bark about us but eh , when no ones lookin :cool: !!:p
Nahh can't knock the Jap 4wd, they do it all , have all the bells and whistles but eh , they ain't no Rover.
That's funny , me either :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
After having Holdens for many yrs,went on a shooting trip with one of my brothers in his D1 in '98,and realised these cars aren't bad.
Dad always had LR's,but they didn't really interest me,particularly as he seemed to spend a lot of time fixing em.Over the yrs he had Series vehicls,RR classic's,rover 75,etc.
That shooting trip it rained,we had heaps of fun,wet black clay is always interesting.
We had our own business which was going well,and SWMBO wanted a car with 7 seats so we could take her parents with us,as they were driving less.Shopped around & eventually ordered one of the first of the D2's in '99.
Sad to see the last holden go,a HSV,as they were great cars.
Bought the last D2 in '04,which was a great car,we looked at other brands,but nothing else ticked all the boxes.
Hunted around the last six months to replace the D2a,couldn't find anything else that ticked all the boxes,although the Paj came close
Ended up with the D4