Thread: Attention Diesel Discovery Owners

Originally Posted by pop058

Lionel,

manual or auto ??

What Paul? You mean there is a choice!!!

Wow Discos are more advanced than ex-Army Series 3 Land Rovers

I think I am on the very steep end of a learning curve here

Just as well I have 7 months or so to decide

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

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So the binary temp gauge is like a temperature warning light - once it comes on it's too late!

It has a normal looking temp guage, however the sensitivity has not been well designed. It will sit on normal until seconds before the coolant boils - at which point it will jump straight to the top of the red.

At the $10K price point you'd really need to be patient to find a D2 td5 that was worth buying. You certainly won't find a 2003 or 2004 with low km for much less than $15K.

I don't really think the early D2's are particularly bad, after all at the time the UK motoring press thought they were a vast improvement over the D1.

( See file attached to this post:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ml#post1827663 for a road test of the 1998 D2 Td5)

I put together a introduction to D2 model years and key changes which can be found as a sticky in the D2 sub-forum: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ates-vins.html

Up to about april 2001 the transfer case had the diff lock internals fitted but no lever. There are various aftermarket levers available but you'd have to factor $4-600 to retrofit.

There was a period of about 16 months (last few months of 2001MY and all of 2002MY) where the d2 didn't have the diff lock internals fitted to the transfer case. If you were planning on doing off road work and wanted to retro fit the most cost effective solution would be a diff lock kit at around $600 plus lever as above. For off-roading the late 2001MY are probably best avoided. 2002MY Td5 were fitted with the revised EU3 motor which gave 40nm more torque and came with a reprogramable ECU and larger intercooler which make it a good proposition despite the missing CDL.

cheers
Paul

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

What Paul? You mean there is a choice!!!

Wow Discos are more advanced than ex-Army Series 3 Land Rovers

I think I am on the very steep end of a learning curve here

Just as well I have 7 months or so to decide

Kind Regards
Lionel

I could drop around and give you a steer of the wife's 96 D1. It is a stock V8 auto on LPG, so not really a fair horsepower fight against a TDi

BUT, the noise MMMMM

Originally Posted by OffTrack

At the $10K price point you'd really need to be patient to find a D2 td5 that was worth buying. You certainly won't find a 2003 or 2004 with low km for much less than $15K.

I don't really think the early D2's are particularly bad, after all at the time the UK motoring press thought they were a vast improvement over the D1.

( See file attached to this post:
http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ml#post1827663 for a road test of the 1998 D2 Td5)

I put together a introduction to D2 model years and key changes which can be found as a sticky in the D2 sub-forum: http://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-...ates-vins.html

Up to about april 2001 the transfer case had the diff lock internals fitted but no lever. There are various aftermarket levers available but you'd have to factor $4-600 to retrofit.

There was a period of about 16 months (last few months of 2001MY and all of 2002MY) where the d2 didn't have the diff lock internals fitted to the transfer case. If you were planning on doing off road work and wanted to retro fit the most cost effective solution would be a diff lock kit at around $600 plus lever as above. For off-roading the late 2001MY are probably best avoided. 2002MY Td5 were fitted with the revised EU3 motor which gave 40nm more torque and came with a reprogramable ECU and larger intercooler which make it a good proposition despite the missing CDL.

cheers
Paul

Hello Paul,

Thank you for the links and for the information too - it is much appreciated.

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by pop058

I could drop around and give you a steer of the wife's 96 D1. It is a stock V8 auto on LPG, so not really a fair horsepower fight against a TDi

BUT, the noise MMMMM

G'day Paul,

Yes I do like the noise of a V8 but I don't like the money you have to pay the Department of Transport each year to pay for the privilege of having one.

There is a Disco in the yard near the Kennedy Bridge that I spotted. The yard was still closed up for the holidays when I last looked. Not sure what engine type it is or now you mentioned type of gearbox. Or what Series either as I saw it as I drove past. I might pop in there and ask for a test drive!

Could be fun

Kind Regards
Lionel

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

G'day Paul,

Yes I do like the noise of a V8 but I don't like the money you have to pay the Department of Transport each year to pay for the privilege of having one.

There is a Disco in the yard near the Kennedy Bridge that I spotted. The yard was still closed up for the holidays when I last looked. Not sure what engine type it is or now you mentioned type of gearbox. Or what Series either as I saw it as I drove past. I might pop in there and ask for a test drive!

Could be fun

Kind Regards
Lionel

2001 D2. 4.0lt V8 auto in Bonatti Grey (i think). So called top of the range 7 seater, but no leather. My daughter took it for a test drive and it goes well. Was in the dealers office with the deposit in her pocket for it, but a few little issues (some warning lights on and lack of service history, etc.) turned the deal into "thanks, but no thanks". Bought the 96 instead.

if you're out the switch way I'm happy to let you have a look over a good $5k d1 and a dodgieish $2k unit.