The Land Rover/ Range Rover appreciation thread

[Lyons]

My new to me TDV8 sport.
Sold the prefacelift I had for a few weeks, and picked this non runner up in England. Sold as a crank no start, I brought it home and put a battery in it, boom it started..

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Turns out it had rotten ACE pipes. Shorter belt fitted the same day and that was that bypassed for now.
Put approx 100 miles on it and then the reason it was parked appeared- leaking diesel from drivers side of the engine.

Leak off pipes looked to be the culprit, so ordered x4 seals from LandRover at an eye watering £10.20, and fitted them. Now running and driving perfectly

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Fitted some new wheels too
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Super happy with it so far. Have the cable coming so I can code out the ACE system, and then once that's done I'll get some standard ARB's in it. Incredible driving thing for the small investment it was, and a big step up from the pre facelift cars in my opinion

Some transformation there! Looks so much better!

 

[swansty]

The weight of a disco / rr is so underestimated, properly huge big things. Maintenance is always going to compare badly to cars carrying over a ton less (doesn't excuse the engine failures all the same haha).

Disco 3's are seriously cheap atm though with all the engine horror stories.

cheap D3 4.4V8 on gas on another forum i use. would be a class bus.

 

[Jbridges522]

cheap D3 4.4V8 on gas on another forum i use. would be a class bus.

Same setup as in my l322, still going strong after 4 years of ownership. Its 100% your best option in a discovery.

 

[gary1365]

Id love a v8 disco/Range Rover as a daily would be perfect apart from the lack of gas nearby

 

[veron]

Quick question guys. My Defender is now coming up to 3 years old. Needless to say I want the car to continue to have a warranty just incase anything blows up. Anyone got recommendations?
Land Rover sent a letter for their Extended Warranty for £918. Their "Select Extended Warrenty" is £810. This looks like it covers less things.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks

 

[mk2driver]

Quick question guys. My Defender is now coming up to 3 years old. Needless to say I want the car to continue to have a warranty just incase anything blows up. Anyone got recommendations?
Land Rover sent a letter for their Extended Warranty for £918. Their "Select Extended Warrenty" is £810. This looks like it covers less things.
Advice appreciated.
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For the sake of £110 go for the full coverage

 

[Daviddunlop83]

£3k wouldn’t get you far in a dealership

I’d def be going for the full warranty

 

[davyk31]

At that level of money and a relatively small difference for sure go for the dearer option.

 

[Jbridges522]

Big old girl bossing it as always, new radiator, ac condensor and rear hub bushing recently and as good as she was when we got her 4 years and nearly 50k ago now.

Longest I’ve ever kept a car and they really are different gravy,

 

[driven]

Picked this up recently nice TDV8 had all the usual parts including an engine, also had the hydraulic antifouling bar system removed. Off to get some paint in the coming weeks and 2 front wings and autobiography bumpers, gunna get the khan's refurbished too undecided on colour

 

[Daviddunlop83]

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[Daviddunlop83]

Got the calipers back from Big Redd

 

[swansty]

Got the calipers back from Big Redd

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Living up to their name with that set….

 

[collyirwin11]

After 13weeks, the Discovery is hopefully fixed (I feel like I’ve been here before). To cut a long story short, it ended up at Donnelly's as BLRC said they couldn't diagnose an exact fault and it would be trial and error which becomes expensive. So sent to Donnelly’s LR and checked over, and after extensive checks off modules etc, they found 2 wires had rubbed through and shorted out, what they believe was causing the intermittent fault. I am hopeful that it’s fixed. It’ll get a baptism of fire as its immediately back to use, my wife is 37weeks pregnant and using the S4 was getting harder and harder to get in and out off. It’s driving lovely and great to have it back.

 

[saxo_man]

After 13weeks, the Discovery is hopefully fixed (I feel like I’ve been here before). To cut a long story short, it ended up at Donnelly's as BLRC said they couldn't diagnose an exact fault and it would be trial and error which becomes expensive. So sent to Donnelly’s LR and checked over, and after extensive checks off modules etc, they found 2 wires had rubbed through and shorted out, what they believe was causing the intermittent fault. I am hopeful that it’s fixed. It’ll get a baptism of fire as its immediately back to use, my wife is 37weeks pregnant and using the S4 was getting harder and harder to get in and out off. It’s driving lovely and great to have it back.

What a result! Hope it’s permanent

 

[Ged]

Still waiting on the machine shop to finish with the block but been working away at stripping and getting shot of the 2 spare discoverys.

Using my time wisely i got new rear arms bushings and brake lines put into the d4 while i wait.

The other work hasnt stopped, im missing my lift thats tied up I can tell you, had the worst wheel bearing and swivel bearing failure ive ever seen so far, half shaft was acting as the wheel bearing it was that far gone.

Had to be some noise out of that. not a drop of grease.

Well gouged at the top of the swivel

All new required. Also welding drive flanges is one of my pet pains makes the job 10 times worse.

Cheers,
Ged

 

[svensktoppen]

Do people just drive on stuff like that and actually not notice? Must have been rough as...