Thread: Disco 4 best for touring Aust?

Not bad for 5 years and 113,000km towing and exploring. We're going to really miss it

Rob

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Originally Posted by PeterJ

Now, where was that airport and hotel againAttachment 156794 Montecollina Bore in SA. Yep D4, great vehicle for touring

WTF - load the photo upside down, it imports upside down, load it right way up and it's still upside down. Maybe time for some of the annual fees to be used to make this site more user friendly

Export to Flicka,then back to AULRO,and it will be the right way up.

Don't ask me why,but seems to work with me.

Originally Posted by scarry

Time comes into it,not unnecessary at all.
Mine did 7yrs,i think spec is 6yrs.
Mileage not relevant in my case.

Also,never had a vehicle that has needed rotors and pads at less than 120 000K,before.
And they were needed,done at 75K.

I rest my case

Never considered it being an 'age' factor when I opened my big mouth, ha. Even so, when considering the belt/s replacement as an expensive pain in the proverbial, i look at it this way: About $2k for labour, belts, idler pulley brgs, coolant, oil pump if necessary, etc, factored over 154,000 klms works out at 0.0129 cents per klm which i can live with. In the earthmoving business that is one of the methods they judge their costs (maintenance cost in $'s, per machine hours worked "uptime") which helps to determine which brands are better etc.
My mate with his (now ex) 100 Series L/cruiser V8 petrol was quoted $1500 to replace timing belt and also water pump which he was told is absolutely essential to replace at the time (120,000 klms) as it is such a pita to do later. He was also quoted 'up to and around' $1000 to check and if necessary set valve tappet clearances as they are done by shims. Very time consuming job. I have done many early Jaguars which use the shims.

Just had beers with a VW/Porche/Merc/Skoda mechanic. OMG the issues they are having with Amaroks and indeed with other VWs etc ...esp related to dpf and ad blue systems causing fault lights and limited performance issues. Plus costs to resolve if out of warranty...plus costs re maintenance eg timing belts etc.

He was brutally honest about the cost and inconveniences of owning these cars which he said shocked many owners esp if they were not being used for long runs to operate the dpf systems adequately. Seems like LRs many owners simply bail out b 4 major costs arise leaving new owners to cop the bills.

Take an Amarok across Aus or indeed across a dry paddock? No way he said!

Of course we also discussed flaws other brands. ..but that's for another day. Suffice to say his business is hiring more and more mechanics😎

Originally Posted by INter674

Just had beers with a VW/Porche/Merc/Skoda mechanic. OMG the issues they are having with Amaroks and indeed with other VWs etc ...esp related to dpf and ad blue systems causing fault lights and limited performance issues. Plus costs to resolve if out of warranty...plus costs re maintenance eg timing belts etc.

He was brutally honest about the cost and inconveniences of owning these cars which he said shocked many owners esp if they were not being used for long runs to operate the dpf systems adequately. Seems like LRs many owners simply bail out b 4 major costs arise leaving new owners to cop the bills.

Take an Amarok across Aus or indeed across a dry paddock? No way he said!

Of course we also discussed flaws other brands. ..but that's for another day. Suffice to say his business is hiring more and more mechanics😎

My BIL has 11 company Amaroks at the moment,will never ever buy another.He only bought them cos they were cheap,and everyone said they were fantastic....

Had Toyotas before,no comparison,back to Toyotas is what they have started doing

To be fair, the DPF problems would be worsened because our government has delayed moving us to the latest fuel standards now common overseas.
New vehicles are tuned to run on the latest fuel quality. If you put dirty fuel in clean engines you get dirty filters. Toyota is not the only company having this problem with its DPFs.
The short term answer is to go for regular long drives.
The better answer would be to move to the cleanest fuel standards.
That would require leadership.

Originally Posted by Discodicky

My mate with his (now ex) 100 Series L/cruiser V8 petrol was quoted $1500 to replace timing belt and also water pump which he was told is absolutely essential to replace at the time (120,000 klms) as it is such a pita to do later. He was also quoted 'up to and around' $1000 to check and if necessary set valve tappet clearances as they are done by shims. Very time consuming job. I have done many early Jaguars which use the shims.

As a comparison,to replace the timing belt on our 3.0L diesel Tojo vans is half an hour extra on that particular service,plus the belt price.

The Ford designed engines in the D3/4 are ridiculously difficult to do,and there is more than one belt.

True the Ford engine is stupid in regards to belts. Reminds me of our old pajero v6 which was also a difficult and expensive job to replace the cam belt. But at least you could get reasonable access albeit having to remove lots of stuff in front of the engine. Doing the cam seals was also challenging and if too brutal could result in broken parts. Most repairers left the cam seals alone. ..just too hard and risky😎