Doom and Gloom for Disco owners

**Ace** · 24th July 2007, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by Frenchie

I would have thought the answer would be yes. Didn't know the Patrol could tow 5 tonnes!

There was a trhead in another forum, can't remember which, about a Ford Ranger chucking a bolt in the timing case after 75km which half destroyed the timing belt, made it slip, which put out the timing and resuted in four broken rockers. Sounds like it was from a Ford dealer because they said they checked some of the others and the same bolt was finger tight. Another case of someone forgetting the loctite! Can happen with any vehicle.

I saw that on 4wd monthly a while ago aswell, very worrying, makes the TD5 oil pump bolt with no loktite look small in comparison doesnt it.

All the brands have issues, its just that land rover owners actively seek answers to the problems on public forums instead of pretending their car is bullit proof and never has a problem like the toyo drivers do.

As Reback said, you go off road, you break stuff, plain and simple, wouldnt be any different with another brand, you just brake different things. matt

DougLD · 24th July 2007, 07:25 PM

Hi all
At least with the forum we are aware of any problems that might come up and what fixes that are available. The Disco was our first LR and we both love it then theres the rangie and I would not swap it for quids love it.
Regards
Doug

**Disco Steve** · 24th July 2007, 07:31 PM

As said above every car has it probs. i had a LPG triton which in the end was dumping straight LPG out the tail pipe

nice flame though

**DiscoTDI** · 24th July 2007, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Disco Steve

As said above every car has it probs. i had a LPG triton which in the end was dumping straight LPG out the tail pipe

nice flame though

Your game

**Disco Steve** · 24th July 2007, 07:42 PM

didn't realise it till till guy behind me at the lights flashed me down and showed me

i even started to melt his indicator

**WildOne** · 24th July 2007, 07:51 PM

Originally Posted by Disco Steve

didn't realise it till till guy behind me at the lights flashed me down and showed me

i even started to melt his indicator

mcrover · 24th July 2007, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by Disco Steve

As said above every car has it probs. i had a LPG triton which in the end was dumping straight LPG out the tail pipe

nice flame though

I also had a 92 triton 2.6 on LPG and it was great for me, but no flames though.

That was 1 4wd that never actually broke anything, just everything was just about worn out when I left it with my Ex wife.

My Sister and bro in law had it until recently when they sold it recently to one of his mates and it's still going and they bought a Hilux.

**Disco Steve** · 24th July 2007, 08:15 PM

Originally Posted by mcrover

I also had a 92 triton 2.6 on LPG and it was great for me, but no flames though.

That was 1 4wd that never actually broke anything, just everything was just about worn out when I left it with my Ex wife.

My Sister and bro in law had it until recently when they sold it recently to one of his mates and it's still going and they bought a Hilux.

mine was a 02 model 2WD triton with only 92,000KM's, serviced evey 5000KM when I took it back to mitsubishi they said " it's a common problem" but wouldn't touch it cause it was on LPG.

you would hope flames were not a common problem

**Discopug** · 24th July 2007, 08:41 PM

Hello all
This is my first post to aulro
I bought a D2 td5 manual in october last year. My first four be, but I did learn to drive in a landrover.
Any way, I agree they grow on you, I have done nearly 35,000kms since I have bought it and every time I drive it I get a smile on my face because it does so much as a standard vehicle. My friends drive tojos' and tell me I ' m mad but they are the ones spending serious money on after market mods to make their trucks as nearly as good as the LR .
So whos mad ?
The best way to get them wound up is to tell them how little fuel you use.
That hurts a tojo owner running a vehicle with an antique engine.

**DiscoTDI** · 24th July 2007, 08:47 PM

Dont worry, I just had one of my drivers start telling me how **** disco's are because his mate just went on a big tour with him and his high milage series 1 disco (and we are talking about the early shape) kept breaking down. He was comparing it to his 2 year old Patrol

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