Thread: Potential purchase - Discovery 2 V8

Is it local or easily accessible? An unregistered permit is under $100 and would enable a prolonged test drive.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Is it local or easily accessible? An unregistered permit is under $100 and would enable a prolonged test drive.

Thanks mate. I thought you could only get those for a vehicle you owned. There is insurance (property damage) to consider also and most/all insurers these days will not give cover notes and will only insure if it is your vehicle.

I think my lad will just need to take the risk, but valuing the vehicle is difficult. I would have thought about $4k but I might be off the mark.

Cheers

I would think any V8 would pull up at 4k, but it really depends on what people are prepared to pay, or sell for.

Originally Posted by V8Ian

I would think any V8 would pull up at 4k, but it really depends on what people are prepared to pay, or sell for.

True mate. There are very few D2's for sale (V8's probably 10 or less in number), and the prices vary wildly from min' $6k to $13,500 at the moment (and the $13,500 has 270,000klm and is not a heavily modified vehicle). I have a very nice RR 3.9 GEMS V8 long motor here that he can have it it all goes bad.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

True mate. There are very few D2's for sale (V8's probably 10 or less in number), and the prices vary wildly from min' $6k to $13,500 at the moment (and the $13,500 has 270,000klm and is not a heavily modified vehicle). I have a very nice RR 3.9 GEMS V8 long motor here that he can have it it all goes bad.

Cheers

Ain't that the truth! When I was looking for my D1, they came in waves (as opposed to Defenders, that come with waves ). I was living in Cairns and had to buy in Melbourne to get cost and condition to align.

Originally Posted by ozscott

Hi all,

Looking for a D1 or D2 for one of my sons. He is after a V8 in either auto or manual.

He will look at a D2 auto SE7 soon - just over 200,000k. My gut feeling is that it has been overheated - new radiator put in after cooling system 'problems', and we know how accurate the D2 dash gauge is... So, my boy cannot test it properly because it is no longer registered. Not a bad vehicle in terms of overall general condition - quite tidy in fact.

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Handy little gadget to have for this(works on V8's) is one of the cheapy/cheapest bluetooth OBD dongles(eg. off ebay and other such sites).
Run Torq app on phone, connect via bluetooth to the dongle, and set some gauges . ie. primarily temp.

Even tho I had nanocom, it's duties were strictly TD5 centric, other than diagnostic-ing the V8(while it was running).

Back in the day the V8 idled with fine temps, but any attempt to drive it would see the OBD gauge fly up into the hundred in no time. It had either slipped or cracked liner or something that assisted in my killing of the engine.
Still got it, will fix it one day.
But the point here is that those really cheapo OBD dongles on ebay will work fine on the V8.

I actually have two now, lent one out, and needed it back, but got delayed in getting it back,, so just bought another, and then the original one came back to me again.
I think I paid $10ish, but they go for about $20 now. You can get them from local sources so if timing is OK and he can manage to get one quickly .. could be of some help.

.. hope that helps.

Thanks Arthur. I agree. I have an Ultraguage running full time on my D2 and I have a wireless Bluetooth OBD2 dongle for my other vehicle using the Torque App on my phone. Magic setups the Bluetooth jobbies. The difficulty with the unregistered V8's is you cannot drive them to check to see if engine stress will open up a crack or force coolant out of a head gasket failure. Cheers

Do you know anyone with a trade plate?