After a Discovery...

Up North Dan..........Durham....A little bit far to travel me thinks

nathan5346 said:

Land Rover Zone - nathan5346's Album: Me V8 - Picture

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Looks tidy that, the one I looked at on Sunday was the same colour I think. Did yours have cruise control btw?

Hmm WolfyDave, the Grim North oh no! I'm basically Manchester so that just a bit far, I was looking more for something in a 60 miles radius as I don't have the time to travel to far.

Also had bad experience of driving to places to see a car only to find out its been sold despite ringing up first to check.

Dan-Man said:

Looks tidy that, the one I looked at on Sunday was the same colour I think. Did yours have cruise control btw?

Hmm WolfyDave, the Grim North oh no! I'm basically Manchester so that just a bit far, I was looking more for something in a 60 miles radius as I don't have the time to travel to far.

Also had bad experience of driving to places to see a car only to find out its been sold despite ringing up first to check.

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Had everything cept leather

nathan5346 said:

Had everything cept leather

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Bad times just of been a bit thirsty in terms of fuel!

v8s when gassed up arent too thirsty, I used to run a 4.6 p38 rr with lpg and it worked out about 28-30mpg equivalent pound for pound but you also get the v8 rumble which is something i miss now i have a doozil.

bobbler said:

v8s when gassed up arent too thirsty, I used to run a 4.6 p38 rr with lpg and it worked out about 28-30mpg equivalent pound for pound but you also get the v8 rumble which is something i miss now i have a doozil.

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Hm that sounds good, yeah the V8 sounds does tempt me!

I run a Disco 2 V8 as my everyday car and i never complain about fuel economy....If you are taking fuel economy into consideration,then in my opinion you cant afford to run 1. With a V8 you just fill it back up when its empty and sod the mileage.

WolfyDave said:

I run a Disco 2 V8 as my everyday car and i never complain about fuel economy....If you are taking fuel economy into consideration,then in my opinion you cant afford to run 1. With a V8 you just fill it back up when its empty and sod the mileage.

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I was just wondering about the fuel economy, as someone said its horrible but others say as the chap before said your looking at in real terms 25-30 mpg which is not bad at all.

Its mainly for driving small distances and the occasional trip down South or off to Scotland.

I looked at a load of TD5's before Buying my 2002....I plumped for the V8 because i'm not bothered about the fuel economy. I was trading up from my 1995 2.0 mpi which i still have and the TD5 wasn't much better than that.

And 1 thing to remember.....you get the gorgous BURBLE for free with a V8

Ahem, just been to see one today and had a quick test drive, the bodywork was good and there was no rust. Guy wanted £2250 for it, V8 Auto with 130,000 miles, LPG system was done last June at a cost of £1600, loads of bills and it seems have been serviced at Land Rover dealerships up to around 100,000k.

I wasn't very impressed by the dealership and the tires had very little tread left so that would probably be the first expense... Tried to get £2000 for it but he wasn't having any of it, what do you guys think?

Saw another one on the way to work, rang the number found out it was sold...