Thread: Swapping Range Rover parts onto a Discovery

Originally Posted by trobbo

Here is a link to my thread. I have a range rover bar on my disco and think it looks ok - but then this bar has been moded and sits much closer to the panel work and has much smaller wings. The only real shots of the bar are on pg 1.

Fitting a bull bar isn't that much work so why dont you fit it so see if you like it or not.

subtle Disco 1

Yes, I was thinking about that last night, I'll just fit it up and see how it looks. I've made a few mods to the bar over the years, recessing my rectangular lights into the bottom wings and adding lots of light & aerial mounts, recovery points etc. Would be good to continue to use it.

Well the seats went in pretty easy- had to slot the holes at the front of the seat rails as the holes in the Discovery are very slightly further apart front-to-rear than the Range Rover, very easy job. I now have much more comfortable seats with a greater range of adjustments and, most importantly, arm rests!
The rear seats were a straight swap, just had to change over the latch mechanism as they differ somewhat but the holes for this even line straight up. Armrests in the back too, what more could the kids ask....

I pulled back a corner of the rear (5th) door trim and yes there is a central locking actuator there, so it has been disabled at some stage. No time as yet to fiddle further with that.

I also tried the bullbar for fit today, sadly it is not a goer, so will be looking for a Discovery bullbar to mount my lowmount Warn winch.
Never a shortage of things to fiddle with when one acquires a vehicle. Still have the sub-floor gas tanks to fit up (the Discovery has 120L of gas tanks occupying the entire rear load space), dual battery system to swap over, belly tanks to do likewise, bound to think of something else...

Originally Posted by trobbo

Here is a link to my thread. I have a range rover bar on my disco and think it looks ok - but then this bar has been moded and sits much closer to the panel work and has much smaller wings. The only real shots of the bar are on pg 1.

Fitting a bull bar isn't that much work so why dont you fit it so see if you like it or not.

subtle Disco 1

Just looking at your bar setup again, looks good but I think mine would need a lot of modifying to make it fit and it still would probably look NQR.

Any chance of a photo with the RRC seats fitted?

Originally Posted by POD

Just looking at your bar setup again, looks good but I think mine would need a lot of modifying to make it fit and it still would probably look NQR.

do you want some more pics of it - any particular angle?

Mine is a custom ARB job made to be fitted to an ARB sponsored range rover competing in the outback challenge a few years ago. It was made much stronger than a standard bar and has exceptional approach angles. But the concept should still be the same with a 'standard' arb range rover bar swap.

The main physical differences between a rr and disco bar appears to be:

the absence of some cross bars below the headlights on the RR bar
the RR bar front risers do not lift as high
the RR bar is straighter across the front profile and so comes closer to the bonnet in the centre when fitted to a disco (the disco bonnet curves, the rr bonnet is straight)
The bottom profile of the side wings appears different.

Originally Posted by Utemad

Any chance of a photo with the RRC seats fitted?

Yes please

oops- haven't been on here for a bit, busy time of year and all that. I'll try and get some pics up in the next couple of days, will have to borrow my daughter's camera as mine is dead. Apart from the colour not matching the rest of the interior- grey seats with brown door trims etc- they look like they were meant to be there, plus they are heaps more comfortable than the disco leather seats and have tilt adjustment which the disco ones lacked. And armrests.
Haven't had a chance to do anything with the bar as yet.

Originally Posted by Scouse

I'm surprised how good the RR armrests are - I wouldn't be without them now so I hope they fit into your Disco OK.

Interesting. I found them annoying on the RR classic and the same on the P38A. I never use them.