Thread: What are the reasons you bought your Disco

In a nut shell ??
Price, creature comfort, fuel economy,load space and load capacity, durable build and engineering.
I have always liked the Disco, my sister has owned several from new.
The cost of running the car vey nearly brought it to an end , but I can't find anything that will do the same job , so its behaving itself and I am more than happy.
Would I get another one ?? Yep 2004 model its all sorted by then , or I would put a TDv6 in mine now.( thats a 99 TD5 manual )

Originally Posted by Hoffa

I was pretty taken with it as it was quite striking with its unusual colour (green though seems to have a gold pearl) and late mod Range Rover wheels. When I checked it out I found it was a v8 with only 128 000 kms.

They are a great car but late model RR or D2 wheels won't fit them. The wheels must be aftermarket.

Also my 94 Disco1 has never given me any electrical problems. Nothing to worry about there. Especially since yours doesn't have airbags or ABS either.

Originally Posted by Utemad

They are a great car but late model RR or D2 wheels won't fit them. The wheels must be aftermarket.

Also my 94 Disco1 has never given me any electrical problems. Nothing to worry about there. Especially since yours doesn't have airbags or ABS either.

Cheers mate. I was told the wheels came of the previous owners fathers RR. They are 18 inch and the caps have the landrover logo on them, (they look factory to me.) The dealer told me that so it could be B.S.
Here is the wheel pic from my introduction post.



What makes them not fit? Now I am a little concerned. People say commodore rims dont fit HQ holdens when they do. They just break the wheel studs and fall off as the PCD as slightly different. Is this a similar situation?

Chris

Most of these stories seem very similar.

I was looking for a Four Wheel Drive to replace my fairmont ghia in 2003, At the time I was only looking at Nisstoys because i came from the mindset, european cars are to expensive and landrovers are unreliable, etc... At the time my yet to be FIL had a 1996 Tdi. He let us borrow it for a weekend away. Needless to say I was hooked. What got me was the handling I had never realised how well a fourbee could handle, especially through the mountains and the ride was far superior to anything else. The FIL's new Prado didn't even come close when I took it up to falls a while back, I just wanted my disco back. He came around to buying a new car and offered it to me for whatever trade-in they would offer on the falcon. In the end I got it for $11000 in 2003 when Tdi's were still around the 20K mark. Never looked back. I do miss the old girl from time to time, it never once let me down, parts were cheap, and my mates were constantly surprised how good it was off-road compared to there's.

Why did I sell? In the end, the clutch got to heavy for my wife (I looked into a booster), It wouldn't fit in the garage, and we constantly found we needed more room when camping.

The P38 is a beautiful car on the road, was cheap to buy, I've always wanted one (P38 and a V8). Its taught me to appreciate how good the disco was, but it costs heaps to run and maintain.

If I had a second chance, I probably would still have sold the Tdi, but may have tried to find a way to have both. In the next few years when finances permit, will probably get a D2 or D3 .

One thing is for certain, I'm now hooked on the Green Oval.

Stu

Originally Posted by Hoffa

What makes them not fit? Now I am a little concerned. People say commodore rims dont fit HQ holdens when they do. They just break the wheel studs and fall off as the PCD as slightly different. Is this a similar situation?

Chris

If they came off a RR then it must have been a RR Classic as the newer RR and Disco have different PCD (by about 40mm)to the old RR and Disco and the 18in rims didn't come out til D2 (don't know if P38 RR had them).. The Disco1 has a larger PCD. No way in the world can you swap rims between a D1 or D2 or D1 and P38 RR.
So if the rims did actually come off a RR then they are still aftermarket originally. The LR centre cap would be aftermarket too no doubt. Doesn't make them no good. Just not factory.

This is my Tdi discovery it has snorkel, larger intercooler, Arb bullbar, twin steel rear bar carrier, long range fuel tank 120ltr and front and rear difflocks (air operated).

I bought mine because I was originally after an 80 series Turbo diesel and at the time they were through the roof price wise, I found this one relatively cheap in comparison with nearly every thhing I needed on it plus some and by the time I bought a landcruiser it would have cost me about tripple the cost of my disco I bought it with 190 000 kms on it for $11000 I thought it was a steel.

It is more capable than the swb maverick, hilux and 60 series I have owned plus more comfortable and it looks the part when your trying to show off when I clean it that is.

Ralph.

My reasons for buying the disco are in the following order;

1) Comfort

2) Capability

3) Economy

4) affordability in price

5) styling

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Originally Posted by Hoffa

Cheers mate. I was told the wheels came of the previous owners fathers RR. They are 18 inch and the caps have the landrover logo on them, (they look factory to me.) The dealer told me that so it could be B.S.
Here is the wheel pic from my introduction post.



What makes them not fit? Now I am a little concerned. People say commodore rims dont fit HQ holdens when they do. They just break the wheel studs and fall off as the PCD as slightly different. Is this a similar situation?

Chris

Commodore rims will fit a D2 and P38a RR too.