Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by johntins

Used to listen to this crap way back in the coach days. With 40 odd people behind me, and everything to do in the snow for example, why should I be worrying about missed gears?
Besides, autos are better off road.

That old chess nut really
Horse`s for courses and personal preference honestly mine does me just fine thank you infact every 4WD i have owned has been a manual .
And you know what at the end of the day they both do the same job i have driven autos off road they have some benefits but not enough for my liking
Oh now my DMF is going to leave me stranded come guys what drugs are you on seriously

Originally Posted by gusthedog

I'm going to jinx myself but mines never broken down in the 10 years I've had it. Not once on a tilt tray does that mean I'm not in the Landy club?

My old defender and d1 were both on tilt trays though so I suppose I still qualify

Edit - I'm not calling the broken key issue a break down ok

Never been towed/tilt trayed until the D2, have always been lucky that I've been able to do some sort of fix or had someone able to get some parts back to me, even if it's taken six hours or so, but as I said, there's been a lot of luck involved over that thirty odd years and that's included sheared wheel studs on a Jeep, but the D2 stuck me up.

[edit] and that includes repairing broken valve springs, I used to carry ridiculous amounts of tools but I did drop a valve in the 351C in my old F100. That was a show stopper, although there was lots of steam and horrible noises as the valve head and half the stem bounced around inside the chamber I was able to drive the several hundred metres home.

I have had problems with my D2 But I have not had to resort to using a tilt tray.
Regular maintenance and preventative maintenance is the way to go I feel, You would be surprised at the number of drivers that simply jump in the car turn the key on to check the fuel and that is the extent of their pre start and off they go.

Horse`s for courses and personal preference honestly mine does me just fine thank you infact every 4WD i have owned has been a manual .
And you know what at the end of the day they both do the same job i have driven autos off road they have some benefits but not enough for my liking

I agree with the horses for courses and the transmission choice is just a personal preference.
I have always had a manual transmission in my previous 4WD's But when I got my left arm smashed up in a car prang I had to get an automatic because changing gears for me now is "Problematic" so I bought the auto D2.
I am not sure if it is because the D2 is an inherently better truck But I can now go to the places I used to go in my other manual Toyota/Nissans and the D2 auto does it with ease in the places where my other trucks struggled.

Originally Posted by trout1105

I have had problems with my D2 But I have not had to resort to using a tilt tray.
Regular maintenance and preventative maintenance is the way to go I feel, You would be surprised at the number of drivers that simply jump in the car turn the key on to check the fuel and that is the extent of their pre start and off they go.

The problem is that preventative maintenance doesn't and can't account for catastrophic failure.

Yes, preventative maintenance picks up a lot of wear and tear stuff, but sometimes things just fail before their time.

The other thing is how far do you go on a preventative maintenance tack?
Do you actually strip sub assembly's to inspect?

I actually had a customer ask why a fan blade and hub failed recently and why it wasn't picked up in the prenetative maintenance that one of my blokes performed.
It was a fatigue failure of aluminum and it shouldn't have happened, but it did.
There is no way we would've stripped that assembly and inspected the hub in a normal maintenance but that's what the customer expected so I asked how far do we go?

The other thing is how far do you go on a preventative maintenance tack?

I just look to see if anything is looking "Dodgy" and fix it Or if I notice odd noises that weren't there before I get it seen to instead of ignoring it.
Usually things like the UV joints, Diffs and transmission give some indication that they are on their way out before they Cark it.

Originally Posted by trout1105

I just look to see if anything is looking "Dodgy" and fix it Or if I notice odd noises that weren't there before I get it seen to instead of ignoring it.
Usually things like the UV joints, Diffs and transmission give some indication that they are on their way out before they Cark it.

A lot of drivers class their vehicles as a 'turn key' , turn the key and expect to drive. Things age, these disco 2's are approaching 18 years old some of them, parts wear out and when they break some people whinge , surely they cant' expect components to last forever.

these disco 2's are approaching 18 years old some of them, parts wear out and when they break some people whinge , surely they cant' expect components to last forever.

Agreed, But give then a little bit of TLC and look after them they Will last a little bit longer