Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

Originally Posted by Tins

Thanks. If it reduces the pedal weight, does it also alter the stroke? I suppose I mean is it's change a function of bore size?

Yep, bigger internal diameter, not advisable to use until clutch is bedded in on a Disco, but ok from the getgo on Defender as it can be adjusted.

Mine has been in 2 years, 50 odd thousand K's now, no issues.

Well should be in the high country now with a beer and good fire after a good feed...

Headed off on Tuesday morning to go Golfing in Corowa and then off to meet the mates in the High Country, dreadful traffic and just before Seymour, blew the turbo outlet hose off. Had thought it was all fixed but anyway, a few burns on the hands and got it done. Back in and NO START, zip just a drop in voltage, so replaced contacts have gone already, less than a year and 5K kilometres arrrgh. RACV back home (96.5 k's) and unpack and load up the D2 but not for the high country.

So a few days playing golf and enjoying time with mates, came back this morning and we stopped at the BP McDonalds near Glenrowan, coffee and pie and get back in and the key would not open the doors, so did it manually with horn blaring tried to start it nothing, light on the dash but no turn over. No nanocom and thinking a $400 key and $140 charge for pairing etc.

RACV again thinking I am now over 200k's and this was further than the 100 allowed so what was going to happen now. Well the bloke arrives and tells me he's going to tow me 50 metres and the car will start - yeh sure I am thinking even when hitched up and being towed - sure enough parks just the other side of the exit, first turn of the key and the TD5 stops honking the horns and starts. This he tells me is common, moreso on the Melbourne side of the BP's, they used to tow back to town on a flat top, take it off and the cars would start, they then found the nearest safe point, the exit, and it solves the problem.

Now need to find the best kit for the starter motor, any suggestions good people, do Nippon Denso do a kit???

Glad you finally got going!


Yep exactly the same thing happened to my Son at that same Glenrowan BP in our D2a. I think in the Nth Bound BP.

Lucky he could ring me and I talked him through the EKA procedure to get it started and keep going without the tow.

I never stop there anymore- always too busy.

Originally Posted by RRT

Well should be in the high country now with a beer and good fire after a good feed...

Headed off on Tuesday morning to go Golfing in Corowa and then off to meet the mates in the High Country, dreadful traffic and just before Seymour, blew the turbo outlet hose off. Had thought it was all fixed but anyway, a few burns on the hands and got it done. Back in and NO START, zip just a drop in voltage, so replaced contacts have gone already, less than a year and 5K kilometres arrrgh. RACV back home (96.5 k's) and unpack and load up the D2 but not for the high country.

So a few days playing golf and enjoying time with mates, came back this morning and we stopped at the BP McDonalds near Glenrowan, coffee and pie and get back in and the key would not open the doors, so did it manually with horn blaring tried to start it nothing, light on the dash but no turn over. No nanocom and thinking a $400 key and $140 charge for pairing etc.

RACV again thinking I am now over 200k's and this was further than the 100 allowed so what was going to happen now. Well the bloke arrives and tells me he's going to tow me 50 metres and the car will start - yeh sure I am thinking even when hitched up and being towed - sure enough parks just the other side of the exit, first turn of the key and the TD5 stops honking the horns and starts. This he tells me is common, moreso on the Melbourne side of the BP's, they used to tow back to town on a flat top, take it off and the cars would start, they then found the nearest safe point, the exit, and it solves the problem.

Now need to find the best kit for the starter motor, any suggestions good people, do Nippon Denso do a kit???

This is an old issue. AMCAL chemists would cause my D2 to have the same issues. My dealer was very good. Got LR to agree to put in a new receiver and give me new keys where the frequency went back to late D1 which never seemed to get interference. Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

This is an old issue. AMCAL chemists would cause my D2 to have the same issues. My dealer was very good. Got LR to agree to put in a new receiver and give me new keys where the frequency went back to late D1 which never seemed to get interference. Cheers

Interesting. I wonder if it did that to MGs etc. They used the same 433MHz receivers. Do you know what freq the D1 was?

Originally Posted by Tins

Interesting. I wonder if it did that to MGs etc. They used the same 433MHz receivers. Do you know what freq the D1 was?

From memory Tins it was in the 200's. Played up several times and RACQ towed me several times away from Amcals and after it was changed I would search out and park right in front of Amcals just for kicks. Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

From memory Tins it was in the 200's. Played up several times and RACQ towed me several times away from Amcals and after it was changed I would search out and park right in front of Amcals just for kicks. Cheers

You anti-establishment rebel!

Originally Posted by ozscott

From memory Tins it was in the 200's. Played up several times and RACQ towed me several times away from Amcals and after it was changed I would search out and park right in front of Amcals just for kicks. Cheers

I ask because the central locking on mine has been a PITA since I got it. Maybe a change to a D1 system could work. Key blanks aren't a problem as they are the same, just need a receiver and fob... Hmmm.