Thread: Discovery TDI reliability

Originally Posted by UKLRO

I am looking at a Discovery, 97 TDI and was looking for opinions on the relaiability of this engine. It is low kms, 130,000 and regularly serviced with no off road or towing. A Rover tech advised me to steer clear of the TDI for electrical problems, but there seems to be plenty of guys that use them off road.
Thanks,

What some rover tech he would be , my 300 Tdi Defender is going strong almost 220ks

The TDI was a generally mechanical engine no real electrickery problems, I traded mine in at 285000km and it was still going strong with no issues other than a couple of things wearing out. I found it to be the most reliable Landy I have owned, have not had the D3 long enough to rank it yet

my disco tdi well serviced from new i am 3rd owner 272k on clock and runs great

Defender 300TDi @ 275k - no problems and going strong. Only ever had timing belts replaced at 100k intervals, oil every 5k, regular filters (oil 10k, air/fuel 20k), and periodic tappet adjustments. No electrical problems at all. Oil seals however are a different matter...

SneakyPete

mine is 97 Tdi 205,000 K/m. Only problems it has had are problems I have caused

Maybe the rover tech meant steer clear of the TD5s rather than the older 300Tdi's?

Originally Posted by UKLRO

A Rover tech advised me to steer clear of the TDI for electrical problems, but there seems to be plenty of guys that use them off road.
Thanks,

I think I'd steer clear of that Rover tech! You'd be hard pushed to find any electrics on a TDi - that's why I bought one!

Originally Posted by jik22

I think I'd steer clear of that Rover tech! You'd be hard pushed to find any electrics on a TDi - that's why I bought one!

Yeah! There is like three wires on my 200Tdi

Originally Posted by joel_nicholson

Yeah! There is like three wires on my 200Tdi

and i bet two of them are holding the engine in place the other one is the seat belt