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Having just had excellent responses to a recent fuel problem, I would now ask for advice on a rusting rear floor on my 1996 300tdi. It has now reached the stage where there is a lot of daylight visible through a tranverse rusted gap across the back just infront of the rear door and a similar...

1996 300tdi Disco. 190,000 miles. Always guaranteed to start first time but its suddenly started struggling. It fires for a second on first turn then nothing. Crank the engine for some ten seconds and then it will slowly burst in to life and all is well. Only seems to do it on a morning cold...

Christmas Eve and needed the Disco. Not even a click when key turned and no sign of life whatsoever except ignition light. Main Battery, Starter motor, new engine ?? ......Aargh. We've all had these nightmares. Put a question into Google and after looking at a few suggestions I had remembered...

I'm slowly getting used to my auto box thanks to some good nursing from forum and also a good deal of research into earlier threads. However one problem that will not go away is a reluctance to go into top when e.g. on a motorway run. Yesterday did a 40 mile m/way run and I was at least...

Love my 2003 Disco but really not getting on well with an auto box. Crossed my mind that it might be possible to convert an auto to a manual box. Can you advise if this is possible, easy, expensive etc. Has anybody done it? Obliged for comments.

1. Just had a full service on my 2003 TD5 (120k) with new filter and oil change on auto box. When starting in the morning and a quick shift in to reverse (for getting out of my driveway ) there is no feel of any transmission until at least five seconds after the shift. No slight kick as you...

Disco '96 300tdi. Bought several weeks ago with unusual fault. Regularly fails to stop the engine when ignition switched off. Vehicle runs on for about 30 secs, then dies. Sometimes if I open the drivers door it will stop as I gather this brings in immobiliser. Also quite often find that...