RE: SOTW: Land Rover Discovery V8
Discussion
JamStar said:
I used to like these, until someone in my otherwise respectable estate started collecting them for parts.
They have one daily driver which seems to run and another two discos on their driveway slowly rotting away. I'm sure you could put your hand through the rust on one of them that also seems to have collapsed suspention.
I'm tempted to set them on fire so they get moved away :-)
Sounds like a stiff breeze would see them gone.They have one daily driver which seems to run and another two discos on their driveway slowly rotting away. I'm sure you could put your hand through the rust on one of them that also seems to have collapsed suspention.
I'm tempted to set them on fire so they get moved away :-)
varsas said:
Fair lurking.
Was thinking the same, but didn't want to risk incurring beard-wrath in case I was wrong.
Been looking at these for a while, wondering if I should swap my Series III for one. It'll be OK as long as it doesn't make any nasty noises and isn't too rusty.
Would be worth buying to transplant the engine and running gear to your SIII!Was thinking the same, but didn't want to risk incurring beard-wrath in case I was wrong.
Been looking at these for a while, wondering if I should swap my Series III for one. It'll be OK as long as it doesn't make any nasty noises and isn't too rusty.
Might get in trouble for this but could it be an ideal donor car for a Westfield Seight? All that burbly V8 Se7en action for £695!!! The rest is flogable parts - otherwise LPG it for big family off road action! 
And this article from PH 2002
http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.asp?c=111...
Edited by Gorbyrev on Friday 9th March 10:58
And this article from PH 2002
http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.asp?c=111...
Edited by Gorbyrev on Friday 9th March 11:01
Top shedding, love Discos. Only experience of the 1st generation was going to buy one when younger and far more nieve about them, and accidentally discovering there basically wasn't a boot floor left. Left it at that and bought a later one that'd been looked after (which was still a money pit, but I loved it) before moving on to a 4.0 SII.
Can't beat that body-rock when blipping the throttle on idle.
Can't beat that body-rock when blipping the throttle on idle.
I think the quality of some of the posts in this thread only re-inforce what a load of nobs are about these days. £695 for gods sake.
had someone threw the landrover away and advertised the engine and box as a single lot for £1000 it would have sold within a week and people would be proclaiming that they had gotten themselves a bargain muscle engine....
Stroll on !!
had someone threw the landrover away and advertised the engine and box as a single lot for £1000 it would have sold within a week and people would be proclaiming that they had gotten themselves a bargain muscle engine....
Stroll on !!
heightswitch said:
I think the quality of some of the posts in this thread only re-inforce what a load of nobs are about these days. £695 for gods sake.
had someone threw the landrover away and advertised the engine and box as a single lot for £1000 it would have sold within a week and people would be proclaiming that they had gotten themselves a bargain muscle engine....
Stroll on !!
There are many sub £1k usable Disco's out there. They won't be mint, but many are perfectly serviceable and usable. If this is a Jap import model then it's likely worth less than a UK spec one. V8's also don't command the same price as Tdi's.had someone threw the landrover away and advertised the engine and box as a single lot for £1000 it would have sold within a week and people would be proclaiming that they had gotten themselves a bargain muscle engine....
Stroll on !!
miniman said:
shed said:
(before the Discovery Land Rover was just a model name)
How's that then? What about the Land Rover Range Rover? Dr Interceptor said:
Just check the boot floor - if that's in tact, then go for it. Chances are though it will have more holes than swiss cheese.
Loved my Disco - I had a V8 Series II, fantastic thing!
The boot floor is not such a big issue, it's not structural and the rear belt mounts go through it and attach to the chassis below.Loved my Disco - I had a V8 Series II, fantastic thing!
Easy fix, cut it out and simply bolt in a big sheet of aluminium.
I used to have a white 3 door V8 when I was in Oz a few years back, it was unstoppable off road, I remember fording crock infested rivers with water washing over the bonnet - which was slightly concerning as it didn't have a snorkel...
It had a high lift kit, bull bar on the front and you could start off in 3rd no problem, would love another.
It had a high lift kit, bull bar on the front and you could start off in 3rd no problem, would love another.
interesting formatting in the PH reproduction of the advert
"4x493,000" makes it look like its done nearly 2 million miles!
I have always been put off these after following one along a slip road onto the M6 just as its rear diff gave out and exploded in a shower of metal parts. Still to this day not sure quite how it managed that. It was only a few years old too.
Still makes a decent offroad toy for someone at that price. Its actually quite tempting!
"4x493,000" makes it look like its done nearly 2 million miles!
I have always been put off these after following one along a slip road onto the M6 just as its rear diff gave out and exploded in a shower of metal parts. Still to this day not sure quite how it managed that. It was only a few years old too.
Still makes a decent offroad toy for someone at that price. Its actually quite tempting!
They're not the most economical of cars, but with the V8 are strangely charismatic things to roll round in. I like them and this one comes as a welcome relief to me from the long run of hot hatches on SOTW. The little buzzy things are popular on here, but do nothing for me at all. Good to see a big British brute on SOTW again. 
Gorbyrev said:
Might get in trouble for this but could it be an ideal donor car for a Westfield Seight? All that burbly V8 Se7en action for £695!!! The rest is flogable parts - otherwise LPG it for big family off road action!
And this article from PH 2002
http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.asp?c=111...
Nah wrong engine for that, it'll be a Land Rover standard version low compression and all that.Edited by Gorbyrev on Friday 9th March 10:58
And this article from PH 2002
http://www.pistonheads.com/roadtests/doc.asp?c=111...
Edited by Gorbyrev on Friday 9th March 11:01
I've driven around 300,000 miles in that model Discovery split between a V8 auto and two TDi's. The V8 needed a viscous fan and one of the TDi's needed a pinion oil seal, everything else was just servicing and consumables. I can't understand why people think they are unreliable personally, though it often boils down to inadequate servicing.
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