Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by admiralranga

The ****part one is like $700, terrafirma is around 1.5k. Making one isn't that hard a task depending how fancy you want it. Tho I've got no ability to throw shade cos my rear bar is currently a 120x45 plank with a pair of trailer lights.

Hey if it works!

The ****part bumper is fairly OK.
Brother fitted to his(which is now mine) .. Seems strong enough. bumper light fittings feel snappy and secure.

For the money it's fine.

Originally Posted by AK83

The ****part bumper is fairly OK.
Brother fitted to his(which is now mine) .. Seems strong enough. bumper light fittings feel snappy and secure.

For the money it's fine.

Plenty of D2s happily running around with the cheaper one - including mine.
Mario/Heather used to stock them, so try them first unless going 2nd hand ex wrecker or whatever

Originally Posted by admiralranga

The ****part one is like $700, terrafirma is around 1.5k.

THink the Terrafirma one uses a slightly darker black paint, not a lot in it. For $700 the rear bar is tucked up, couple of tow hooks and sturdier and then stood on with reliance - for me it was a no brainer anyway. Four holes and you got the rear parking sensors licked.

I think all steel bars have problems with reversing sensors, hence the omission of provision.

Originally Posted by gavinwibrow;[URL="tel:3131308"

3131308[/URL]]Plenty of D2s happily running around with the cheaper one - including mine.
Mario/Heather used to stock them, so try them first unless going 2nd hand ex wrecker or whatever

X2. Mine is fine.

Got a tonne of new toys for the D2.

ARB winch bar off a D2 tha went up in flames. it's now being sand blasted and powder coated satin black
Runva 11XP Premium winch
23Zero 270 degree awning
Engel Smart Battery Box and 135ah lithium battery
Oricom UHF
Terrafirma Cat delete
Terrafirma Centre muffler delete.

Loving this car! Next for a lift kit, bigger wheels and then go out and enjoy her!

Originally Posted by Matt_Rides

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Loving this car! Next for a lift kit, bigger wheels and then go out and enjoy her!

I can highly recommend LRA up north for this.
Dunno if you know, but they have an exchange service if you're not particularly happy(or, just want to be happier!)

You'll get your springs, and if they are too hard, or too soft you have three weeks to take them back and get next rate up/down.

I ended up getting billie 994/995 shocks +2" (they work well enough) and 200 lbs front springs and 275 lb rears.
LRA uses a colour coding system. Front spring colours ended up at blue/green and rears are whites. (it's just colours painted on the springs to indicate their spring rate)

With dual batteries, bar and winch up front the fronts feel really good. Rears feel just a tad too hard unloaded, and I thought to use the exchange service and go slightly softer, but then load it up and it'd feel too soft/spongy.
So left it at the harder rate.

Watch tho .. if you get a 2" lift, also get a cross member spacer too, just in case on full drop the front prop binds up on the cross member.
Two options for this ... just flat spacers, or a tilt version. Tilt version looks better, but the cheaper flat version does same.

Just for an idea on price, if you want to shop around: shocks came in at $900(give or take a couple) springs came in at $660.
The price of the springs may have been cheaper tho. reason is I can't find the entry for the cost of the cross member spacer, IIRC was $30 or $50 or something .. but I don't have an entry for it in my costs spreadsheet .. so maybe springs alone could be closer to $600 plus the extra for the spacer. The angled spacer(looks neater and will give a few inches extra ground clearance) was about $100-ish by comparison.

Hope that helps