Discovery 3 TDV6 Reliability?

Dennis, for off road work I have Cooper STT 245/70/17 on 17" Performance rims and they are considerably noiser. I damaged a Goodyear at about 30,000 km (They were at the end of their life anyway) and have been using the Coopers full time until hopefully early next week when the first shipment of General Grabber AT2's in 255/60/18 arrive. These by all accounts are a good all terrain tyre and will be less noisy than the Coopers. I will keep the 17" rims for four wheeling. It only takes about 30 minutes to change over, but the Generals may be good enough for most situations anyway. If I was buying a new Disco3 right now I would get the dealer to swap to the Generals at the time of purchase. That way you get something for the Goodyears.

PS. Denis, its not the hardening of the rubbers in the wipers, its the wipers themselves. I originally replaced a set which I got from Landrover and almost had to mortgage the house to pay for them. But after a note from another owner, have since found a set of 560mm Aunger blades from Supercheap for $10.99 each do the trick and dont judder accross the screen.

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Originally Posted by hopperoo

Ace, I read between the lines that the comparison you mention with the Jeep was a couple of idiots attempting to wreck two good vehicles and the Disco certainly seemed to stand up to most of the driving they put them through.

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So you are familiar with how 4wd Monthly operate then. :D

Thats pretty much what they did. I irritates me because there is no way anyone would treat a vehicle the way they do, as a consequence they arent engineered to take such abuse. Matt

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Originally Posted by hopperoo

A concern I do have is the cost of parts once out of warranty. The cost of regular servicing of a TDV6 is double that of the equivalent DiD Pajero, if I was to take it to the Landrover dealer in Canberra for services. However to take it to a reputable, approved and licenced mechanical workshop can cut this almost in half!!

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Hopperoo, do you work for a large company with a vehicle fleet? I recently bought the V6SE and got 3 years free servicing thrown in as the company I work for has 60 odd cars on the road (none of them LRs).

MO

Servicing costs vary. like all modern cars there's a minor service, an intemediate service and a major service that sort of go: Minor-intermediate-minor-major-etc.

Minor services are around the $200 mark. whereas the major (48,000km, 96,000km and so on) is around the $1000 mark. These are dealer prices.

HI All,

lrdef110, I have been in the retail tyre industry for 35years, the latter period selling mostly Yokohama, Michelin & BFG, and I believe Yoky are not far from producing their Geolander GO12 in a range of 18" sizes. Hopefully 255/60R18 will be one of them, I know the 265/60R18 for the Pajero VRX etc are not far away.

These will be an excellent A/T along with the Michelin LTX A/T if it becomes available in these sizes.

Ace, you're right, but I guess it does provide an insight into how well the vehicle is built.

Morcha, no, my wife works for an ACT Govt dept who is able to buy at Govt contract rates exempt of GST and S/D which gets the price down considerably. The salary packaging provider does have a large fleet of vehicles but I was able to negotiate a much better price than they could. I guess it makes a difference if you have a vested interest in who pays at the end of the day!!

Regards, Dennis.

Jamo,

I was quoted, by dealer: minor service =$270, Intermediate =$680 and large 120k = $1100.
By comparison Pajero, by dealer: minor service = $177, intermediate = $391 and major = $706.

However, I believe there are at least two servicing agents for L/Rover in Canberra that will do all the services at around the same costs as the Mitsu dealer.

Dennis.

Just my 2 cents worth.

The problem is when it is out of warranty and needs diagnosis time to determine the fault plus the cost of the part(s) to fix the problem is when the big dollars will hurt most. I think everyone expects to pay for regular (6 monthly) servicing on their D3's but don't expect to pay for unplanned expenses that come with a complex truck you can't fix on your own.

Enjoy it during the warranty period. If you can buy extended warranty then go for it IMHO.

I've had my D3 for almost 2.5 years and will be thinking really hard about keeping it after 3 years. It hasn't been trouble free like any other vehicles I've owned (which have been numerous but not so complex) but it hasn't completely broken down either however I've wasted a heck of a lot of time seeing the Dealer for warranty repairs which is quite unacceptable to me. You can be lucky and get a trouble free truck which many have had or unlucky like me and get a bit of a lemon.

Chris

Dennis,
Welcom, I have had my D3 for nearly 2 years now it is a fantastic truck,
I have had nissan's toyota's and several Landys, The D3 has some problems
but they all do, Mine have been minor, But the D3 is no compromise between
on road and off road it handels like no other, My advice is go for it and enjoy
driving. Like most of us I feel just as good hopping behind the wheel now as I did when I first got it home.

Rob

Mines never let me down either! It's had the suspension compressor changed for the upgraded one though (under warranty).

PS, it's for sale: :D

http://www.aulro.com/apc/showproduct...duct=980&cat=9

Jon