Jeep, Disco, or Toureg

There's a range of diagnostic equipment available for the Disco, at various price points, and various ranges of functionality.

The Hawkeye, IIDTool and the Faultmate are 3 that spring to mind.

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Originally Posted by Plendo

I have been watching with interest the passion that people feel about the Discos, it is clearly a special vehicle that get under your skin.

My first 4wd was a Willys back in Scotland, and that was quite something, we replaced that with a Land Rover, I can not remember the model, but every farm in the area had one, and they were close to unstoppable in their day.

Then in the late eighties I bought a GQ Patrol, and used to love nothing better than un bogging Land Cruisers, kept that one into the next century. The good old Patrol took us to many interesting places, but there was not much left of the original vehicle by the time it passed half a million km.

What we are looking for now is not a vehicle we will challenge (much), but one that tows well, and offers the comfort my old frame tells me it needs.

Your comments above have convinced me I am on the right tracks, I see positives for both the Disco and Touareg.

I know I can get diagnostic software for the VW, can I also buy software for the Disco that will show me the alert codes, or is it tightly held by the dealers?

Thanks again for all your help.

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Yes, absolutely. There are a few to choose from. Blackbox Solutions is generally considered to be the best:

Blackbox Solutions Ltd - Designers and manufacturers of the best vehicle diagnostic tools.

You can go for more simple devices that allow you to just read faults and clear them or get the top of the line that allows you to do this and enable/disable features and change config setting etc.

Do you want people to say she bought a Jeep?

Or do you want people to say look at the Disco.

We Made our decision, and today we picked up a White SDV6 SE.

I had forgotten how nice they are to drive, love it.

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Originally Posted by Plendo

We Made our decision, and today we picked up a White SDV6 SE.

I had forgotten how nice they are to drive, love it.

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Excellent choice !

Welcome aboard !

Brett

I'm glad you didn't get the Jeep. I owned mine for less than 12 months and it spent 9 weeks of that in the workshop. Also as you have probable read, the 4wd system failed on the beach 3 times. My mate is still having problems with his. I'm hoping the DIsco is more reliable, I don't know what I'll do if this one also proves to be a lemon. Only 6 more weeks for delivery, can't wait