Thread: Do you stop for broken Discos at the roaside?

Funny, I was coming back to Mildura from Mungo on my lap last year and there was a Disco 2 in front smoking like mad, and he stopped on the side of the road. I pulled up, and the bloke said he was OK. His ACE pump had blown a seal and he was stopping and filling it every few Ks.

Second one a week later waiting at the car ferry to Kangaroo Island a bloke came up to me asking If i had spare batteries for a remote for a D2. I gave him the batteries from my wife's key fob. Turns out no start in the carpark, so deducing it was the dreaded RF interference no start, we pushed it to the other end of the car park but still no start.
The crew pushed it on to the ferry and when he got to Kangaroo Island it started fine.
By this time I was questioning the wisdom of doing a lap in a D2.
Regards Philip A

I ran out of Diesel on way to work one weekend waiting on a new sender thinking I will make it into town about 200 meters from the servo up nice steep hill. was helped by Land cruiser who pushed her up the hill and I rolled gracefully into the servo :P

That's why my everyday car is 4.5 L Nissan patrol.

450k and driving like new.

My wife's disco 2 has done only 120k and gets hardly driven, if I had a choice of two to go to Cape York and back, I wouldn't go LR.

I was once stopped in traffic to help a Jag driver ( a new JAG), poor bastard ran out of fuel .

I had a jerry can that day in the car and he was on it's way in 10 min.

The sad thing is that 100 cars didn't even pay attention to him.

Society today... crap

D2 radio interference...changed it back to a late d1 and never a problem again. Mad not to take a safe comfortable and reliable if properly looked after d2 to Cape York...heaps of people do and I will.

Cheers