Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Without, shot blasted first

Originally Posted by John_D2

To me they look like standard D2 rims that have been powder coated.

They are early D2 16 Inch . I has the later D2 16 inch (straight spoke not clawed like those pictured) but I sourced a set of clawed type because I wanted to go black. I reckon the clawed ones look better in black and the straight ones look better in silver. Cheers

Fixed a few issues with rear door. 12 months ago I inverted my wheel carrier to accomodate my new larger tyre size which neatly dealt with 1 obvious problem but in the process created some new unexpected ones. In the standard configureation the wheel carrier offsets the wheel to the hinge side of the door. Inverting the carrier lifts the wheel centre by 35mm and shifts the wheel centre 40mm horizontally nearer to the centre of the door. As expected the vision out of the rear window suffered, but the re-distribution of the weight on the door now made the door feel heavy to open and close, and the door was unstable in the open position. The ramp and roller that aligns the door lock and catch when closing is now also showing increased wear. I contacted forum member RIJIDIJ and he modified a standard wheel carrier to lift the wheel centre by 40mm. Now that the modified wheel carrier is installed the door operation is back to what it was before and I’ve got improved rearward vision. Happy days

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Probably a redundant question, but are people smearing oil on the grooves in the new filter before fitting it?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Probably a redundant question, but are people smearing oil on the grooves in the new filter before fitting it?

Which filter, what grooves?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Probably a redundant question, but are people smearing oil on the grooves in the new filter before fitting it?

The o ring at the top of the oil filter? Yes

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Probably a redundant question, but are people smearing oil on the grooves in the new filter before fitting it?

All oil filter "O" rings should be coated in NEW oil before being fitted to prevent damage to the "O" ring and to ensure a correct "Fit" But you would be surprised at the amount of people that don't bother to do this and that includes many of the people that we entrust our cars to be serviced.

Originally Posted by onebob

Fixed a few issues with rear door. 12 months ago I inverted my wheel carrier to accomodate my new larger tyre size which neatly dealt with 1 obvious problem but in the process created some new unexpected ones. In the standard configureation the wheel carrier offsets the wheel to the hinge side of the door. Inverting the carrier lifts the wheel centre by 35mm and shifts the wheel centre 40mm horizontally nearer to the centre of the door. As expected the vision out of the rear window suffered, but the re-distribution of the weight on the door now made the door feel heavy to open and close, and the door was unstable in the open position. The ramp and roller that aligns the door lock and catch when closing is now also showing increased wear. I contacted forum member RIJIDIJ and he modified a standard wheel carrier to lift the wheel centre by 40mm. Now that the modified wheel carrier is installed the door operation is back to what it was before and I’ve got improved rearward vision. Happy days

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I like that, at some point as time permits I might do the same.
The rear view is a little annoying didn't think it would make that much difference but it does.