Disco 3 Rear diff' parts availability?

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Originally Posted by OLD4X4

Thanks to all those who have had some input into my difficulties.

Certainly given me some direction.
I enquired about the re-co diffs' some of you suggested on ebay, and while they sound OK, they are just fresh bearings and seals, I need new gears.
In my opinion, anyone who is prepared to stand behind a better warranty probably has a better product. My Disco' has nearly 240K on it in 6 years, so it to does more than the supposed average.
I'll be in touch with "unseenone" if the product is better, because stock obviously doesn't cut it.

Thanks again.

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Might be worth trying to source an e-diff? They are larger/stronger apparently.

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Originally Posted by isuzurover

I cannot see any reason why the average disco 3/4 driver would represent a significant deviation from the mean???

It is certainly good to have options, and as you are several standard deviations above the mean then one of the options is significantly better than the other.

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"there are lies, damned lies and statistics".

The mean distance travelled as determined for all drivers in Australia is, at best, a vague statistic. It does not take into account vehicle type, demographic, predominant use per vehicle type or any other affecting variable. One could not, with any reasonable accuracy, blindly adopt such a statistic for the average Disco 3 driver.

The mean for Disco drivers may be similar, but then it may not be; especially given the (I would guess) relatively low percentage of Disco 3 owners compared to the overall australian vehicle ownership population.

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Originally Posted by Jamo

"there are lies, damned lies and statistics".

The mean distance travelled as determined for all drivers in Australia is, at best, a vague statistic. It does not take into account vehicle type, demographic, predominant use per vehicle type or any other affecting variable. One could not, with any reasonable accuracy, blindly adopt such a statistic for the average Disco 3 driver.

The mean for Disco drivers may be similar, but then it may not be; especially given the (I would guess) relatively low percentage of Disco 3 owners compared to the overall australian vehicle ownership population.

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Ahh, a post by someone who doesn't understand statistics...

As I said above, I cannot see any reason why the average D3/4 owner would be a significant deviation from the mean of car owners in AU (they could be expected to have slghtly more income on average, but that would be about it). I am sure D3/4 owners would like to think they are special, but in reality I bet they would be pretty average... ;)

There are n=7 D3s for sale on carsales atm, which have averaged between 6000 km/yr and 22000 km/yr. The mean is 16000 km/yr, which is not too far off the 14000 km Australian average. I would bet that a larger sample size would probably end up closer to the average.

Anyway - all this is getting very OT.

Really are a soft car. I have seen rebuild kits on ebay for over $400 . May not be oem parts, but why the hell would u want oem parts.

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Originally Posted by Keegan

Really are a soft car. I have seen rebuild kits on ebay for over $400 . May not be oem parts, but why the hell would u want oem parts.

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Err.. why would you dig up a 10 year old thread just to dump ?

What I find hilarious is the diff got 240,000km but the factory spec “isn’t up to it”. Well while you’d love it to live forever, it didn’t put in a bad innings, and when you just purchase it and have no idea on how it’s been treated …..

A replacement factory diff is likely to outlive the rest of the vehicle at that age [emoji2369]