Thread: What happened to your Discovery 2 today?

That’s reminds me Bohica, I snapped off the right angle connector joining the water feed from the engine bay to the bonnet but can’t seem to find a replacement for less than fifty bucks. Seems a bit rich for a plastic tube clip.

Originally Posted by biggin

That’s reminds me Bohica, I snapped off the right angle connector joining the water feed from the engine bay to the bonnet but can’t seem to find a replacement for less than fifty bucks. Seems a bit rich for a plastic tube clip.

My son did that and superglued it back together. Been a few months and so far so good. Cheers

Dropped the young fella's D2 TD5 in to have some exhaust work done with my local guy. Another item on the list after fixing the coolant leak and exhaust manifold studs, though he can't wait to get his hands on the new suspension and wheels coming from Les Richmond. Bring on Fraser he says .

Originally Posted by biggin

That’s reminds me Bohica, I snapped off the right angle connector joining the water feed from the engine bay to the bonnet but can’t seem to find a replacement for less than fifty bucks. Seems a bit rich for a plastic tube clip.

Irrigation connectors from bunnings.

Spent a bit of time on the white D2, restored the head light lens's using the RainX kit but I did wet sand with 400, 1500 & 3000 prior to using the kit, looks good, no idea how long it will last but looks heaps better.

The big one though for me was getting rid of the red SRS light, it's almost a factory option on just about every disco I've seen. I spent time going through the connectors under the seat, opened up the steering wheel cover and checked the clock spring (battery disconnected of course) still wouldn't clear, a quick search on here I found discussion of the connector behind the glove box. I removed the glove box and there was the problem, the plug had actually come undone! 2 minutes to clean and plug back in, bingo no more red light. will be interesting to see how long I have a warning free dash....

I thought I was on a winning streak so grabbed the young bloke D2 as he's got the same issue, pulled the glove box, no dice, it was all good, also checked everything else, still no dice. So for the moment he will have to put up with having the red light on his dash..

Ohh well, always next time

cheers

Redd

Originally Posted by Reddirt204

Spent a bit of time on the white D2, restored the head light lens's using the RainX kit but I did wet sand with 400, 1500 & 3000 prior to using the kit, looks good, no idea how long it will last but looks heaps better.

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I bought a couple of brands. One from Bars(i.e. Bugs) and a Repco box too.
Repco box came a bit more 'complete' .... more sandpaper, etc and even a small piece of chamois.

Used on the 307(pug) first, as that's the hack to test stuff on, and came up a treat.
Then used it on the LHS on the D2a a while ago, and it came up really ordinary(compared to the 307 attempt).

So had another look at the D2a light. I had a couple of spares to get it past RWC late last year, so the headlight I was doing is the one that came on the car. Had another go for the past week and for the life of me couldn't sand out some haze on the lens.
Then it occurred to me, the haze is on the inside of the lens ... so I sanded the lens for hours for no reason. Anyhow, sanded it with a few grades to get it back to smooth, then the wet and dry with the fine, where I only had up to 1500, came up nice.
Gave it a quick buff first to clear some of the sanding and looked good, considering the hazy/cracking on the inside of the lens, and finally shot the clear coat over the lens.

I did the 307 maybe a couple of years ago. Moved to country a year ago, now I have lots of driving with lots of bug splatter, but the 307s lights still clean up nicely enough.

I guess that sometimes having the older model is better. Good things come in glass

Speaking of the older glass model, the inner reflector on one of mine has had water ingress and lost its shine. Been meaning to do something about this for years now. I just need to work out what that something is.