Thread: My D3 came off best in crash

Yes, if you remove them you will castrate your Discovery, which turns it into a Freelander.

Originally Posted by Rich84

Yes, if you remove them you will castrate your Discovery, which turns it into a Freelander.

or a CRV .....

Yep they are tough. I posted here recently when we were sandwiched and an Audi Q7 looked like the Toyota. We were the only vehicle still drivable. We have just had the repair finished (well almost). Still waiting on a replacement bull bar. Even though the front impact was fairly light it had deformed the mounts enough to warrant replacement. Rear damage was more but only superficial.

I had exactly the same thing happen to me 2 years ago in the D4. No visible damage. But the tow hitch was difficult to remove like yours. I had dealer look at it and the result was that the hitch receiver and the rear beam it sits in was distorted enough that it wouldn't fit back in. End result was repair at a specialist chassis place with the rear beam cut out and replaced with a new one. I would get it checked out as I think a lot of the impact goes through the hitch into the receiver and beam.

I got rear ended about 2 years ago by a student. I was stopped at lights on Coro Drive at Milton. I was watching him in the mirror and thought to self this idiot isnt going to stop. As I had a car in front I had no where to go.

As he got close I could see and you guessed it, mobile phone in hand. Next things screech and "wack" I got out very irate and ripped into this clown, he admitted to texting at time and did not see the red light or me. Hello a D3 is not little!!

anyway there was no noticable damage to the D3 but his front was caved in. got his details, no aussie DL, just a (foreign) one. No insurance of course. I photographed his car details and him just in case. Took it to the dealer for a look over. Only think they could find was a very small bend down on the tow point. They said not worth bothering with. As my excess was around $600 and had bugger all chance of getting it out of the clown I lived with it.

They are strong. You find typically though that most vehicles suffer less damage to the tail than the nose of the vehicle doing the hitting - this is so even with small sedans etc.

Some years ago a nm pajero slammed into.the rear of my d2. My rear tyre carrier was bent a couple of mm and the front of the Pajero looked like it had hit a wall...undriveable in part thanks to guard damage but also the big hole in the radiator caused by my tow tongue. I changed my spare tyre bracket for 50 skins and that was me done...his was thousands.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Grumbles

I'd be looking for some panel/body/chassis distortion inside and underneath which is not obvious from a casual glance. All that impact energy had to be dissipated somewhere.

Yeah, it dissipated into the front of the car that hit it. What's the saying? I'm in a Land Rover, the other car is my crumple zone?

This video shows the strength well;

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3LIWXCuUUc]Land Rover Discovery / LR3 The Big Lift - YouTube[/ame]