Thread: Discos revenge

Originally Posted by Zute

Traction control and hill descent is generations ahead of the D2.

I would hope so being about 11 years younger than the last D2's

Originally Posted by d2dave

I would hope so being about 11 years younger than the last D2's

That's right Dave, the Disco was THE ground breaker. Would be nice if we could down load an app to the Discovery as an up date.

Originally Posted by relatively normal

I don't mean to put a downer on it all but I hope very much you got a good one, I work very closely with technicians at Volkswagen Osborne park and without exception they all admit the Amarok is by far the worst car VW has ever made.

Yeh I read a far bit of the problems. But they seem to be more the early ones. Rangers have their problems too. You could find fault with any car.
I never take much notice of dealer "technicians" no matter what the brand, they all say the stuff they work on are cr#p.

On the contrary, I believe you can always tell a good car brand by the cars the technicians drive. Most of those techs drive Golfs, Sicroccos and Polos.

Originally Posted by Zute

Yeh I read a far bit of the problems. But they seem to be more the early ones. Rangers have their problems too. You could find fault with any car.
I never take much notice of dealer "technicians" no matter what the brand, they all say the stuff they work on are cr#p.

Dealer Technicians

Originally Posted by relatively normal

I don't mean to put a downer on it all but I hope very much you got a good one, I work very closely with technicians at Volkswagen Osborne park and without exception they all admit the Amarok is by far the worst car VW has ever made.

Originally Posted by relatively normal

On the contrary, I believe you can always tell a good car brand by the cars the technicians drive. Most of those techs drive Golfs, Sicroccos and Polos.

While in the same neighbourhood (Osbourne Park) - drop into Barbagallo's Land Rover service centre and see how many of the "technicians" there drive Land Rovers.

What the "technicians" drive means absolutely nothing.

Sold, or rather gave away,my 00 d2,leaking oil cooler and turbo wastegate stuck open.Paid $27000 6 or seven years ago,got $4500 for it

Originally Posted by BMKal

While in the same neighbourhood (Osbourne Park) - drop into Barbagallo's Land Rover service centre and see how many of the "technicians" there drive Land Rovers.



What the "technicians" drive means absolutely nothing.

Why put technicians in inverted comas?

This is probably the subject of another thread, but I do believe that a good
middle range car brand will be shown by the choices of the technicians that work
there. They see the worst of what comes in and if they still choose to spend their
own money on that brand then it must be doing something right.

After your comment I ask some friends the question, they happen to be either
service managers or 2oc's for 4 major dealers in the area. They confirmed
that their technicians drive what they work on, but only the better, non problematic
models. Except for 1, he told me that none of his techs would ever dream of driving
that brand due to the inherent reliability issues and repair costs.

I'll give my friend at barbagallos a call on Monday and see what she says, but to
A certain extent your right, the techs won't be able to afford a lot of the newer model
land rovers any way.

Always listen to the people that know.