Thread: Doom and Gloom for Disco owners

I think that we just hear the bad side of all the storys. or atleast I hope

Even the unbreakable pootrol and the king of reliability toymota breakdown.

I am very shocked and suprised this question has been asked. If you don't get it now, you wont get it.

People tend to post problems to get help from others, so a lot of posts are "negative" by default.

People don't post "I went exploring today and nothing out of the ordinary happend".

Also, LRs get abused more than the normal suburban runabout, so you get disproportionately higher failure rates when people cane them off road. Harder life = more problems.

Well here's my view on the differences

I go out on a regular basis with a mate who has a 100 series Cruiser.

Score so far

100 series;

2) transfer case rebuilds
1) rear diff
1 bent front diff housing

My Disco

1) CV
1) front axle
1) rear diff
1) tail shaft

If you go off road you break stuff.

Baz.

The list of possible problems for a TD5 is pretty small in comparison to a GQ patrol or even a 100 series cruiser.

TD5 wiring loom has been an issue but there are mods around it and if you do them you shouldnt have any problems and then there is the CDL locking lever theat LR forgot to install or the fact that they werent thinking when they put a Jeep part in their transfer case in the later ones (Viscous coupling) but these can also be worked around.

Everything else is either caused by lack of maintenance at some stage in the cars life or accidental damage off road which any vehical from a motor bike to a truck can suffer from.

If it puts your mind at ease, 3.0 poo's, early ones pop 5th gear all the time (probably not any more as they all would have been replaced by now and the later ones did engines, some early ones too.

100 series love to wear the needle bearings in the gear bos so they constantly jump out of 4th gear and are noisey in 5th and they blow transfer cases a fair bit.

These problems rarely occur while picking the kids up from school so that is why they have such a good reputation for being reliable as only a small percentage actually go off road unlike landies.

Dont stress mate, it's only money anyway lol

go onto www.patrol4x4.com, have a look at the problems they have, no different to any other vehicles, i'm looking at buying a new Subaru Outback, so found a forum on them, it's all the same, all sorts of problems etc, it's in no way Landrover specific,pick any model car, you are bound to find a forum with a load of issues about them...

Problems aside, theres something about the LR's and RR's which have got me wanting them over any other make. My mates who no nothing about LR's and RR's are constantly impressed by the vehicles 'feel' on road and off... these intangible qualities are what is important. As it has been stated above, any machinery will break over time, but how you feel driving them is what matters

Yeah Stooge, I agree. Theres something about the "feel of" a Land Rover that is like nothing else. I've had cruisers and a pootrol, which, while good cars in their own right just aren't the same. I think about getting something bigger or more powerful, but every time I hop into my Disco, I get a smile on my face....It must be a Land Rover thing! (now where have I heard that before?)LOL.
Chris.