Thread: Disco 2 longevity

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Have you ever wondered why the old school Taxi's (petrol) went a million or more?
same as the big linehaul prime movers,,
they are never turned off.

Spot on, a lot of wear on an engine is caused on start up

I've been reading in LRM this month about a D2 needing a re chassis, seems they're getting to 10 years old in the UK and are rotting away with 60-70k miles on them! Might have to start exporting D2s back to the UK as classics!

I would hate to live where they salted the roads!

Cheers

yep, look under any car on the uk of reasonable age and rust is a major factor, family over there has an old d1 and i reckon it is held together by mud and rust.
compare that to mine now 11yo and no major chassis rust and easy to work on removing bolts, etc.

Originally Posted by Yorkie

yep, look under any car on the uk of reasonable age and rust is a major factor, family over there has an old d1 and i reckon it is held together by mud and rust.
compare that to mine now 11yo and no major chassis rust and easy to work on removing bolts, etc.

Same, mines 12 years old now and it has been modified, but I don't think there is any rust in yet. From what I recall it came out with a pretty good rust warranty too.

10 years in my manual,,
not sure how you service this though,,

no visible rust at all,,
in fact, extremely few rust posts about d2's,, maybe 2-3?
in ten AULRO years

Pedro - If I return to live in the UK I promise I'll do something about the rusty landie thread count!

Originally Posted by Marmoset

I've been reading in LRM this month about a D2 needing a re chassis, seems they're getting to 10 years old in the UK and are rotting away with 60-70k miles on them! Might have to start exporting D2s back to the UK as classics!

Any car in the UK over 6 years old will be rusting under. This time of year the Rock-Salt (gritters) dumped on the roads. So you end up driving around in wet salty slush for weeks and nobody ever washes the underside of their car like after a beach drive here. Waxol is usually sprayed on car chassis such as Land Rovers.

My 12 year old D2 has not one spec of rust on it here!