Land Rover Discovery 3 V6 07 Diesel good choice or not?
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Hello, looking at one of these for my business to tow a car transport trailer.
It has to be fine, for the wife to drive as well. As she may need it to use, as I have a 7half ton transporter for a car as well.
Cambelt been done, and just had a serivce around 100k miles mark.
Price around 7k.
Any ideas people advice.
Thanks
It has to be fine, for the wife to drive as well. As she may need it to use, as I have a 7half ton transporter for a car as well.
Cambelt been done, and just had a serivce around 100k miles mark.
Price around 7k.
Any ideas people advice.
Thanks
Edited by SEE YA on Saturday 29th November 09:04
That engine is really underpowered in the D3. I had one in an S-Type and it barely coped with that, add on another 1000KG and you can imagine what it is like. It also threw up all sorts of expensive bills that would probably have been even worse with the poor accessibility in the Discovery. Not long after 100K it needed two new turbos, EGR valves a bit later and then the gearbox munched itself. The engine was impressively smooth and quiet for a diesel but the fuel economy was barely any better than the petrol. At £7k you can't just jib it off if you need to spend £2k on it either, so personally I'd walk away. Tales of bottom end problems with the 2.7 due to poor design of the bearings seem to be emerging too, with no parts available for a rebuild.
Oh and top of that you have the usual Land Rover build "quality" of the rest of the car.
Oh and top of that you have the usual Land Rover build "quality" of the rest of the car.
A few advising against the 2.7 derv, what about a V8.... http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
dme123 said:
That engine is really underpowered in the D3. I had one in an S-Type and it barely coped with that, add on another 1000KG and you can imagine what it is like. It also threw up all sorts of expensive bills that would probably have been even worse with the poor accessibility in the Discovery. Not long after 100K it needed two new turbos, EGR valves a bit later and then the gearbox munched itself. The engine was impressively smooth and quiet for a diesel but the fuel economy was barely any better than the petrol. At £7k you can't just jib it off if you need to spend £2k on it either, so personally I'd walk away. Tales of bottom end problems with the 2.7 due to poor design of the bearings seem to be emerging too, with no parts available for a rebuild.
Oh and top of that you have the usual Land Rover build "quality" of the rest of the car.
I gather the D3 has a single turbo unlike the twin on the Jaguar - which makes it both slower and accounts for the common turbo failure.Oh and top of that you have the usual Land Rover build "quality" of the rest of the car.
The wife has a disco 3 2.7 tdi and its excellent, very useful, apparently tows without drama and seems to be mechanically reliable - a few electrical gremlins though. Its also comfortable and well equipped too imo. I'd buy another.
7k? I'm not sure I'd be trusting one that cheap though - you don't need to spend too much more to get a reasonable one.
7k? I'm not sure I'd be trusting one that cheap though - you don't need to spend too much more to get a reasonable one.
Good to see some of the usual internet bulls
t has made an appearance.
1. You don't need to lift the body for anything bar and engine change now. Belts, turbos etc can ALL be done with the body on.
2. Yes the engine is a touch underpowered, good remap sorts it. EGR's can be blanked now to remove that issue, tbh, that's a diesel issue and not a LR issue alone.
The 07 DOES however, have an issue with the oil pump casing cracking around the tensioner support area, well documented on the Disco3.co.uk forum, there have been 3 revisions of the part now so unless you have paperwork to say the pump has been changed when the belt has been. Walk. A replacement engine is about £4k or so.
Yes, they are heavy on bushes etc, it weighs 2.7 tons, go figure eh?
They do like a good battery and alternator, they have lots of electrical systems, a strong charge is needed, one of those 2 failing starts to throw up error messages on the dash at start up. Just put a battery in mine, correct spec needed for the car for £80 delivered.
Usual issues with age and miles are front lower arms, and rear upper arms needing replaced due to bush/ball joint wear, arb bushes, front wheel bearings. Air compressors wear old, the new version is the AMK model and is much better than the Hitachi original, progress and better parts to thank for that.
I've went round mine and did a refresh on all the suspension arms, brakes etc and it's back to being a great car. Mine has 130k on it, gets used off road regularly and is also a daily driver. 10 years old next month and on it's original turbo, autobox, injectors etc.
There is one guy on the Disco forum that has a 55 plate with 675k on it. He looks after it, services it on time etc and tows daily with it. Do you think he would use a D3 if it was going to be unreliable for his towing business?
Plenty to choose from, make sure you get an auto as the manuals are awful.
Mine has done 32k with me, it's had a bit spent on it sorting the usual wear and tear issues, but it's a good car that has never let me down once.
There is a large and healthy independent and supplier market to care for them and to provide good quality ( not britpart, no one should EVER use britpart ) parts for them.
Also, converting to coils is bonkers, the greatest benefit of the car is the air suspension for ride comfort, greater off road articulation etc. Coils were only offered on the base seat 5 model for 2 years, it's poverty spec model that was dropped. The days of the P38 style issues are long gone. You can trouble shoot any air issues by doing some simple checks and doing some googling/youtube searches.
t has made an appearance.1. You don't need to lift the body for anything bar and engine change now. Belts, turbos etc can ALL be done with the body on.
2. Yes the engine is a touch underpowered, good remap sorts it. EGR's can be blanked now to remove that issue, tbh, that's a diesel issue and not a LR issue alone.
The 07 DOES however, have an issue with the oil pump casing cracking around the tensioner support area, well documented on the Disco3.co.uk forum, there have been 3 revisions of the part now so unless you have paperwork to say the pump has been changed when the belt has been. Walk. A replacement engine is about £4k or so.
Yes, they are heavy on bushes etc, it weighs 2.7 tons, go figure eh?
They do like a good battery and alternator, they have lots of electrical systems, a strong charge is needed, one of those 2 failing starts to throw up error messages on the dash at start up. Just put a battery in mine, correct spec needed for the car for £80 delivered.
Usual issues with age and miles are front lower arms, and rear upper arms needing replaced due to bush/ball joint wear, arb bushes, front wheel bearings. Air compressors wear old, the new version is the AMK model and is much better than the Hitachi original, progress and better parts to thank for that.
I've went round mine and did a refresh on all the suspension arms, brakes etc and it's back to being a great car. Mine has 130k on it, gets used off road regularly and is also a daily driver. 10 years old next month and on it's original turbo, autobox, injectors etc.
There is one guy on the Disco forum that has a 55 plate with 675k on it. He looks after it, services it on time etc and tows daily with it. Do you think he would use a D3 if it was going to be unreliable for his towing business?
Plenty to choose from, make sure you get an auto as the manuals are awful.
Mine has done 32k with me, it's had a bit spent on it sorting the usual wear and tear issues, but it's a good car that has never let me down once.
There is a large and healthy independent and supplier market to care for them and to provide good quality ( not britpart, no one should EVER use britpart ) parts for them.
Also, converting to coils is bonkers, the greatest benefit of the car is the air suspension for ride comfort, greater off road articulation etc. Coils were only offered on the base seat 5 model for 2 years, it's poverty spec model that was dropped. The days of the P38 style issues are long gone. You can trouble shoot any air issues by doing some simple checks and doing some googling/youtube searches.
Edited by A.J.M on Saturday 29th November 16:16
May I suggest an alternative? The wife may not approve though 
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2014...
I may be able to comment,as we actually own an 07 Disco 2.7 HSE,rather than some of the absolute typical pub bore crap spouted by some on the thread.
We bought it at 9 months old in 2008 with 20K miles.....it's now done 125000 miles.In the last couple of years we've spent a few bob one way and another, namely belt service ( with the new oil pump casing fitted on my insistence,as per AJM's post above),air suspension compressor,alternator,battery, the rear latch etc.
Up until then, it had been relatively faultless, and now drives as good as it did when we bought it.
Like any other purchase of a car that was a lot of money when it was new, do lots of homework,check the history and the maintenance properly.If you do that, you'll end up with a car that will continually surprise you in it's ability to munch miles on the motorway,swallow the contenst of a house to the skip,do the school run,days out with kids and grandparents, and turn up anywhere and not look out of place.Ohand find a really good indi for servicing ( try disco3.co.uk)as the LR dealers I've found to be universally useless.
We bought it at 9 months old in 2008 with 20K miles.....it's now done 125000 miles.In the last couple of years we've spent a few bob one way and another, namely belt service ( with the new oil pump casing fitted on my insistence,as per AJM's post above),air suspension compressor,alternator,battery, the rear latch etc.
Up until then, it had been relatively faultless, and now drives as good as it did when we bought it.
Like any other purchase of a car that was a lot of money when it was new, do lots of homework,check the history and the maintenance properly.If you do that, you'll end up with a car that will continually surprise you in it's ability to munch miles on the motorway,swallow the contenst of a house to the skip,do the school run,days out with kids and grandparents, and turn up anywhere and not look out of place.Ohand find a really good indi for servicing ( try disco3.co.uk)as the LR dealers I've found to be universally useless.
Steve H said:
It's the kind of vehicle that spits out four figure bills just for fun.
Unless you deal drugs, are married to a footballer or can't park properly when dropping the kids off to school I'd suggest avoidance.
Seriously? In my opinion, a nicely-specced, unmodified Discovery is one of the classiest vehicles on the market.Unless you deal drugs, are married to a footballer or can't park properly when dropping the kids off to school I'd suggest avoidance.
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