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New boot, New rear inner panels, new arches front and rear, new body mounting points, new sills (Only because of the crap job done by the last owner and holes in the floor) it would take a complete strip down and rebuild to get this one back to health.

I'm gonna get as much as I can for this one in bits then later in the year start looking for a clean one that's been looked after.

I'll have to raise my normal £1000 budget next time.. :lol:

I might even stretch to a TD5 and just put my wheels and a lift on it for light off road use and weekend trips.

Soon we may need a family 7 seater anyway (No, Anita has not got a bun in the oven) and that will have to be nice and kept clean.
 
I wouldnt get a TD5, I know a guy who got his a bit wet at a P&P and blew the ECU :eek: OK for laning I guess but even then a deep ford might catch you out.

I would just look for a late 300 :)
 
Maybe thats the best plan.

I just want something with a little more power, and clean enough to be able to do minimal patching (There is no such thing as a rot free Disco 1) to make it a keeper.
 
Brian S said:
I'll have to raise my normal £1000 budget next time.. :lol:

I might even stretch to a TD5 and just put my wheels and a lift on it for light off road use and weekend trips.
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Yeah the £1000 budget may need a bit of raising or it will be a lot of legwork, but saying that you may get lucky.

I dont think the wheels will fit a TD5, I may be wrong But I think the TD5's are a differnt PCD, for the wheel nuts, and I think the Shocks are differnt as well as well, also ithink there is a couple of other blocks that are needed from memory, also with the air suspension think you would use lifting Blocks unless you converting back to coil.

There is a ride hight adjuster for the air bags that will need a tweak, of just a small mod, and a couple of blocks that will need to be added to the cross member at the font due to the prop rubbing on it, or possibility of that.

Hope that helps, but someone may know a bit more then I can recall, at this moment in time.

I would stick with the 300Tdi, as Tusken says water kills the electronics, unless you relocate them, or saty out of it.
 
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Brian S said:
Maybe thats the best plan.

I just want something with a little more power, and clean enough to be able to do minimal patching (There is no such thing as a rot free Disco 1) to make it a keeper.
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Disco 2 are begining to show rot as well by now, if you want more power just put a larger intercooler in, from Burnell Performance down at Tiptree I think they are.
 
Tuskenraider said:
I wouldnt get a TD5, I know a guy who got his a bit wet at a P&P and blew the ECU :eek: OK for laning I guess but even then a deep ford might catch you out.

I would just look for a late 300 :)
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thats strange the are waterproof to a degree, I know from bitter experience as i sunk mine and the ecu was not only under water it was full, garage opened it cleaned it and has been fine since.
 
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