Thread: Disco 2 TD5 question

Originally Posted by jvdk41

Hi I'm new around here and i like this forum a lot.
I'm a member from the Dutch Landrover owner club as well. Land Rover Club Holland

My name is Jeroen and i'm from holland.

Next year i'm coming to Australia for 3 months and i want to take my
Land Rover Discovery 2 from 2000, td5 with me.

I want to drive it from Adelaide till Cape York and want to do some tracks as well.

It's fitted with all terrain tyre's, two spares, TJM coils and springs, TJM T15 bumper and a winch.

Can it be done and what are the problems i can get?
And is it possible to get the most stuff when something brakes or something?
Are there many dealers around in that area?

Hope to hear from ya.

Thanks allready

Jeroen

Jeroen,

You did not say what tyre size you run - I assume 235/70 (29") - you could have some ground clearance issues - nothing drastic, you just might bottom out or get hung up and require snatching. Personally, I would prefer to run (and do) 265/75's and find that I rarely ever bottom out with this tyre size.

I also think you have a left hand drive vehicle and would check to see if there are any critical parts that may be different and therefore not available here.

Cheers,

Franz

Hi Jeroen - that will be an excellent adventure

There are a number of LR places in Adelaide who will be able to get work done on your Disco. Once you leave Adelaide it's probably 1000Km (?) until the next LR place! Way different than Holland.

As long as it's properly serviced and you've got the basic spares you'll get up there no worries. We did it 5 years ago in our old Disco 300TDi. Just take it steadily.

Are you looking for suggestions on the route to take or places to visit with your request for internet addresses?

Cheers
David (from Adelaide!)

Originally Posted by Franz

Jeroen,

You did not say what tyre size you run - I assume 235/70 (29") - you could have some ground clearance issues - nothing drastic, you just might bottom out or get hung up and require snatching. Personally, I would prefer to run (and do) 265/75's and find that I rarely ever bottom out with this tyre size.

I also think you have a left hand drive vehicle and would check to see if there are any critical parts that may be different and therefore not available here.

Cheers,

Franz

Hi Franz,

I'm running on 245/75/R16 BF Goodrich tire's and have a 2" lift from TJM.
For the rest of your tips thanks and will look after it.

Cheers 2.

Jeroen

Originally Posted by big guy

Internet addresses for what?

people, places sites?

Get rock sliders etc here, second is easy and will get scratched on first outing.

PM me and I give you e-mail address and more info, may also have some accomodation in our sleepout.

Anyhow, see what happens.

I was looking for 4wd shops near Adelaide.
i've send you a PM.

Originally Posted by spudboy

Hi Jeroen - that will be an excellent adventure

There are a number of LR places in Adelaide who will be able to get work done on your Disco. Once you leave Adelaide it's probably 1000Km (?) until the next LR place! Way different than Holland.

As long as it's properly serviced and you've got the basic spares you'll get up there no worries. We did it 5 years ago in our old Disco 300TDi. Just take it steadily.

Are you looking for suggestions on the route to take or places to visit with your request for internet addresses?

Cheers
David (from Adelaide!)

Hi David,

Yes i'm looking forward to the trip.
1000 k's is way different than in holland, the longest distance till the next dealer is about 75 k's

I'm looking for adresses for routes and stuff for my D2. (tent, roofrack, rocksliders) Want to compare the prices with the prices over here.


Jeroen

you'll be fine, Dealers here are not as useful, in general, as european ones but we do have some excelent guys who work non dealer side and if you do the intro thing on the way around and the word hits AULRO that your a good bloke and you'll get access to a support network that you cant even imagine.

Originally Posted by DiscoStew

I am not 100% sure of this but I think one of the forum members works for a Land Rover Dealer in Alice Springs. Depending on what route you take you might go through Alice Springs so could be worth popping in to see him.

If you post your route in a thread I am sure people would be happy to point out where their preferred Land Rover mechanics are near your route, in case of trouble. Most people on this forum seem to avoid dealers.

Also what sort of time frame are you looking at? You never know there might be someone else on the forum going at the same time who could buddy up with you. The cape has two seasons (wet and dry) and the driving is much more difficult in the wet (Nov to April I think).

Sorry for the late answer Discostew,

I´m looking at a time frame of 3 months.
When i´m at Adelaide i will put down a line if there are any other people that are gonna do some tracks.

I will be at the cape at half july i think, so that would be the dry season

In answer to your rock slider question, a lot of people dont have sliders. Just side steps..

Some of us with sliders use 4x4 intelligence, others use some UK stuff and a few made their own...