Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by discorevy

Nice job....well done.
With the exhaust , loosen the 2x 17mm head nuts on the first flange after the cat , then twist the main muffler so it's perfectly straight. This should bring the cat away from the chassis when the nuts are tightened

That worked like a charm but they're 15mm nuts. Well on my car they are anyway. There's an easy way too. Just drive a wood wedge up between the chassis and the CAT and THEN undo the nuts and it'll rotate itself to near enough the correct position and a quick twist of the tail pipe will move it the rest of the way. Tighten the nuts before removing the wedge.

After the test drive though when I was looking at the Nanocom I saw that there is a fault in the gearbox section. I've cleared it so we'll see how we go and hopefully it never reappears.
CODE P1612
Highside switch control cannot switch on or has S/C to ground

Could this just be an artefact from messing around adjusting the XYZ switch or could it be something more sinister ? There's no flashing M&S and no MIL or limp mode. I'm thinking perhaps a fault with the loom from the XYZ switch as it passes over the gearbox.

I had to change a tire today in a motel car park as my left front got a bubble in the side after I think whacking a rock on a bad dirt road. I think the tyre was already slightly damaged as I had a very slight wobble at exactly 80 kms.

Anyway went to jack it up and the jack would not lift the leading arm with the tyre inflated. So I went to Supercheap and bought some jack oil and refilled the jack. The jack then worked OK.

I am pretty sure that all those years on it’s side leaking emptied out enough oil that it would lift some distance like a flat tyre but not enough to lift an inflated tyre as the reservoir emptied before it got high enough.

It could be an idea to check your jack.

Regards PhilipA

I assume we are talking about the hydraulic bottle jack in a D2? They lie on their side and leak. The first time I used mine the same thing happened...it had been lying there for years. I hadn't had a puncture and I don't believe in tyre rotation.......so.....it ended up in one of the rear lockers.

Just finished the longest trip yet in my D2. Five days and 1600km to Big Desert and back. No problems at all, I’m happy to report.

Also happy to report, it started, drove 4 kays, parked, restarted( always the biggie) and drove 4kays home.

The other big success was the carpets were dry!

Originally Posted by PhilipA

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So I went to Supercheap and bought some jack oil and refilled the jack.

Co-incidence. I read this just after I came inside after going to Supercheap, getting jack oil and refilling and testing the jack...

Wife and I agreed on 2 weeks in the red centre in April next year....better get some of those maintenance tasks done on the Disco I have planned for years in the next few months. And check the tow bar oil....
glad the extension is basically finished....

It ran like clock work in the Flinders the other week, even when the kids sat on the Sport mode switch on the auto....s and m lights flashed...just turned it off and counted to 10

Yesterday ready I started and stopped the engine quickly and M&S came up.
pulled out the Nanocom and reported Canbus timing error or something similar. Cleared the error and all OK.
ALso showed driver demand error for motor but I think this refers to the cruise control. I still find it hard to get out of the habit of using the resume button to increase speed and if you touch it when the cruise is on it cuts out cruise. When the car was newly owned I did it a few times and it disabled cruise until next start up. Strange system with no reduce nudge.

regards PhilipA