Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

The outer (wind/aesthetics) rubbers are perished and shrunken

I am a bit confused now. My D2 2002 does not have any outer rubbers on the alpine lights. They are glued in as are the side windows. D1 does have rubbers..
That is why you can just fill the gap between glass and body with sealant.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I am a bit confused now. My D2 2002 does not have any outer rubbers on the alpine lights. They are glued in as are the side windows. D1 does have rubbers..
That is why you can just fill the gap between glass and body with sealant.
Regards PhilipA

There are definitely rubbers in the alpine and cargo area windows, they have deteriorated and leave streaks on my paintwork, when washed.
I assume the windows are secured with the appropriate adhesive and sealed with rubber.

Originally Posted by PhilipA

I am a bit confused now. My D2 2002 does not have any outer rubbers on the alpine lights. They are glued in as are the side windows. D1 does have rubbers..
That is why you can just fill the gap between glass and body with sealant.
Regards PhilipA

Originally Posted by V8Ian

There are definitely rubbers in the alpine and cargo area windows, they have deteriorated and leave streaks on my paintwork, when washed.
I assume the windows are secured with the appropriate adhesive and sealed with rubber.

on both my 2000 D2 and 2004 D2a, the windows, both alpine and cargo, are sealed to body with no rubber - there were definitely rubber around the D1 windows.

This may be of use to people having problems with the unfindable leaks -- Captain Tolley's Creeping Crack Cure (leak/crack Sealer)

From factory there is sealant, and then a soft rubber face seal. After about 7-8 years this rubber perishes and breaks away.


The rubber face is part of the glass itself - so if you buy genuine glass the rubber is on there.

Originally Posted by Tombie

From factory there is sealant, and then a soft rubber face seal. After about 7-8 years this rubber perishes and breaks away.


The rubber face is part of the glass itself - so if you buy genuine glass the rubber is on there.

Yup! that is how I understand it be…
I’m going to caulk the shallow channel around my Alpine window where the face rubber is deteriorating using black windscreen sealant to restore it back to something resembling the original factory seal… it’s sort of a band-aid solution but I think it’ll be okay in the long run.

I wire brushed the rust off the sill, gave it two coats of anti rust primer/topcoat. Tomorrow the rock slider goes back on.
I also re routed the aux battery cables, the aux battery will sit under the RHS cargo bin. I just need to come up with a frame for it. It does mean that the lower trim has to come out, which means that the upper trim has to come out, which means that the cargo barrier has to come out. A member on this forum, has his aux battery in that position on a hinge. His name escapes me. He lives near Rochester, hopefully he sees this!!

Had a bit of a problem whilst on the Vic SA Border Track, taking one of the hills felt the rear thump a bit, not excessive as was using the traction rather than momentum with the twin Ashcroft ATB's just pulling the D2 up through the soft sand, and coming to a stop down on the other side, the drivers side rear was down, totally.

Had not heard a pop or such but after lifting with a hi lift on the rock slider, the solution was not the bag but the arm on the sensor had snapped! Easy change of the sensor with the spare and no Nanocom required, it lifted off the ground and sat beautifully.

The change of the prop shaft rubber has not cured the vibration starting at around 90kph but it reduced it then with it reducing over the trip but now at about 98-105 kph, then gone for 110kph cruising.

The track itself is a beauty, testing out the suspension in so many ways. The amplitude of sets of dips setting all vehicles on the trip into wild bonging pogo, for the D2 at least it did not hit the bump stops at any time and the tops of the track on the hills gave an outrageous up and down left and right shaking that's impossible to control. Must say that the front end with the Dobinson's and Bilsteins is a well tuned pairing and as noted never felt it would bottom out even with some pretty wild bouncing on the track.

The two way part of the track had the biggest pits I have ever seen, getting around them was scary, don't want to drop a wheel down that crevice. We only did couple of the moderate ones at the end and again the water on these was up to the doors and STANK, really really STANK.

The ATB's as mentioned worked exceptionally well and each subsequent hill was taken slower just letting it pull itself up the hill with much greater control. The Traction control light only lit once on the whole trip due no doubt to being almost airborne at various times - moments of complacency with settling in to cruise and then the set of dips...

Power was never an issue and I am pleased to say that the SS manifold is still in one piece, if that shaking up the top of a hill didn't crack or break it, nothing will.

Interestingly fuel use compared with the other vehicles, in the first section used 2 litres more than the other diesels (GU turbo, 80 Series turbo, Colorado ZR1, Ranger, Triton) I was using a technique of driving up the side of the groove to minimise the depth so was basically driving on opposite lock the whole time. On the second fill up at Border town used 3 litres less where I started to let the D2 cruise down the middle of the track almost like Tesla autopilot. So for the total for the border track (Rainbow to the track, then to Pinaroo then back on the track onto Bordertown) was just on 50 litres used.

We stayed at Cape Jaffa where we put them on the beach on the way to Robe with the sand surprisingly soft. Turned out it was a good move to then head home as the first one on the beach for the Beachport part of the trip got bogged 100 metres into it and then basically every other vehicle did the same during the day.

More plastic sacrificed to the rover gods.

Thumb went straight through when closing the rear door today