Thread: $5500 Discovery 2 - Repairable Write Off

Will need to price this lot up and see what the likely wallet damage is going to be but unfortunately it's not looking like such a cheap purchase any more and i'd by lying if i said i wasn't a touch gutted as i for some reason had got myself thinking it would sail through.

Like others suggested, you'd get those kinds of problems on any vehicle. I still think you got a bargain. I paid more than double what you did for my D2 3 months ago.

If it makes you feel any better, i have spent about $1.5k so far just getting my so-called immaculate D2 into shape, not including the frivoulous spending on things like a leather steering wheel, pdc, seat covers and exhaust muffler.

sorry, i cant see where you're from in the reply screen, but when they say oil leaks, are they leaks that always leave little puddles of oil behind. or just enough so that u can see it on the respective gearboxes/sumps? in SA, i think the leak has to be leaving puddles to be defective. looking at the list you made, surely it's doable to dodge up the interior trim pieces so that they're secure. maybe $1000 for labour and good nick used parts for the mechanical stuff. i cant see the exhaust being an issue. if the cat isnt hollowed out and overall it passes the noise test, it should be ok?

for what youve got, IF your handy with spanners theres less than $1.5K worth of repair work on what youve got incuding paying an exhaust shop to put back the requires Cats and the like if the roadwothry guys dont like what youve got.

take no short cuts on the leaks if your thinking about using something like a stopsleak product it'll bite you on the ass...

best of luck.

The oil leaks are just a hot wash before you take it in.I think you have a good buy

Thanks guys, feeling a bit better about the whole thing, just annoyed with myself for getting my hopes up that they would pass it straight away and for jumping the gun and booking the VIV test in before it was really ready to do so.

If i had access to a decent garage setup i probably would try to do some more of the work myself, can't imagine that doing the engine mounts etc would be overly safe or easy with the car up on stands in the driveway however.

Is there anywhere that rents out garage space with hoists etc in Melbourne that anyone knows of?

With the extractors/cats i think they were possibly only flagged up as a potential problem becuase the garage i took it to today are a well known landrover specialist so know exactly what the standard fitment on a d2 looks like. A general rwc place may not have picked up on this and just tested on the specs as is.

I think first priority will be to get the wheel sensor sorted and the 3 amigos extinguished from the dash as that is the only bit i really need somewhere with the proper diagnostic kit to do. Beyond that i can use another garage i know who have done great work on the TVR before who will likely be a bit more reasonable in terms of pricing to do the rest of the work and the rwc.

I suppose the way i also need to look at it is i was looking at various S1 Discos with every bit as many/more km on them and no rwc etc either for very similar money, which would have stood every bit as much chance of having these sorts of faults.

oh and just for my curiosity, how did they determine the engine mounts were stuffed? do they leak? even when technically collapsed, they still wouldnt be noticable to, well, most people. even TRS(my local and a respected LR specialist) dont know how to diagnose a buggered one.

No idea to be honest - I had started to feel a bit feint and had curled up into the foetal position in a corner by that point in the runthrough of the 2 page fault list I fear and didn't grill them any deeper.

"Broken" was the descriptive term he used rather than stuffed, leaking or collapsed - all it lists on the paperwork is "left engine mount needs replacing" and "right engine mount needs replacing".

They do however still appear to be present and at least performing some level of engine mounting function, noticeable from the fact that the engine is still mounted in the Disco rather than on the driveway below said Disco which is nice..

Originally Posted by ariddell

Is there anywhere that rents out garage space with hoists etc in Melbourne that anyone knows of?

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I do for beer, but a little far away