RE: Land Rover Discovery: Catch It While You Can
Discussion
They aren't all complete rot boxes. I bought my 165,000 miles '95 V8 five years ago and have just had the sills professionally replaced. The rest is in reasonable order body wise for a twenty plus years old workhorse. Lots of wear and tear mechanical work done in the first year or so but very little since.
Rear door removed for attention to some alloy corrosion around the exterior door handle
Midway through the sill replacement work
All back together again
Rear door removed for attention to some alloy corrosion around the exterior door handle
Midway through the sill replacement work
All back together again
with regards to the rust, my experience having gone and looked at many of them and bought a few:
Those that were specced with metallic paint suffer a lot more rust than those with the matt paint finishes.
Blue ones rust worse than green ones
300tdi (facelift) metallic colours rust worse than 200tdi (pre-facelift) metallic colours.
Not sure if this is entirely the case across every model, but I have looked at many over the last 7-8 years since I bought my first one and this is what experience has suggested to me.
Those that were specced with metallic paint suffer a lot more rust than those with the matt paint finishes.
Blue ones rust worse than green ones
300tdi (facelift) metallic colours rust worse than 200tdi (pre-facelift) metallic colours.
Not sure if this is entirely the case across every model, but I have looked at many over the last 7-8 years since I bought my first one and this is what experience has suggested to me.
Have to remember that these came out in the late eighties ! so a combination of 80s design, build and quality combined with being very old, its only because a 4wd always has some value that people bother repairing them and hence notice the rust, most other stuff from the era is long gone, even W124 Mercs succumb to rust eventually, arguably the best built car ever, so what chance does a BL product stand ?
That said, have driven a few, the later facelifts were much better but earlier ones, like being at sea, either the clattery slow diesel or the smooth and slightly slow Petrol, unless you need or really want a 4wd, I just cant see why you would bother, suitable only for those with a bottle of seasickness pills and a Mig welder !
That said, have driven a few, the later facelifts were much better but earlier ones, like being at sea, either the clattery slow diesel or the smooth and slightly slow Petrol, unless you need or really want a 4wd, I just cant see why you would bother, suitable only for those with a bottle of seasickness pills and a Mig welder !
My folks had a face-lift mk1, that they took from about 10k to nearly 200,000 miles. Then a mark 3, and about 12 months ago changed it for a mk4. They tend to keep their cars for about ten years, so will be a while before they look at the latest model.
They have MX5's as the other car, so very PH!
They have MX5's as the other car, so very PH!
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