Thread: buying a td5, pitfalls

Pricing is your main issue. However I have seen quite a few TD5 Discos advertised for around $16k-$18k so you should be able to get them down to $15k. $15k for a 300Tdi is too dear, more like $13, $15 maybe if it is loaded with extras, top of the range and in extremely good nick. The D1 series 2 97 on would be the pick in an auto, but the manual is good too, I had a 97 Tdi SE from new and loved it, a bit under powered but ok.
Scour ebay and autotrader and the like and see what is around.

G'day Blaze,

The TD5 was released in the UK in 1998, and first sold here in 1999. A mate of mine has the first TD5 registered in Victoria, and it is a 1998 build. It goes damn well I have to say.
You can certainly get cheap TD5's, at the expense of kilometers. Just checking our club website, a bloke is selling a 1999 manual, with 230K on the clock for $14.5K.
Now my TD5 has got about 100K less on the clock, and would only be worth about 4-5 K more, which in my book would be worth the extra money.
Cheers

Looking at prices tonight and TDI is more in line with the dollars I want to spend (hate spending $'s on vehicles)
Keep the good info coming
cheers
blaze

Just to add
Not into any real serious 44 wheel driving but do like to get off the tracks into the bush/beach and have intendings of doing the gibb river road next year (have been setting the rangie for this, may have to start unbolting)
By the way, whats my 89 rangie worth. Its rough inside, paint is full of crows foot but mechanicly good.
cheers
blaze