Changing my Disco for a Range Rover

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Shark

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Hi can anyone help me as I am thinking of changing my 300tdi and getting a Range Rover.
Could anyone tell me which model (diesel) would be best and least troublesome.
Many thanks
Mark
 
My personal advice would be to go for range rover classic, around 1990-1995 200tdi. Some may have been converted to tdi from v8 but as long as it's been done properly there is no harm in this. If you get a late classic (like a 94 onwards) it will be a soft-dash model and hence it is generally a nicer place to be in (similar dash as the 300tdi disco, but without the buttons around the clocks as far as I can tell) It is more likely to have the gismos such as cruise controll, heated screens, heater electric leather seats etc. These dont tend to be too bad reliability wise, but I have heard air suspension on them is troublesome once they start going wrong and best to just convert to coil springs as that cant ever really go wrong. If its mainly reliability you are looking for, get one with the least gismos, as there will be less to go wrong.

Don't go p38 as they are not the most reliable.

Hope this helps
 
I have only just changed from a 300TDi Disco to a P38 and my advise is DON'T unless you have a large budget. Don't get me wrong, I love my P38 and by the time I have stopped spending money on it I will have a new car!
 
I owned a P38 for about 4yrs, finally stopped bashing my head against that brick wall and now have a 300tdi disco. Now got a different brick wall to butt! When P38 work well they are great cars, BUT parts are all more expensive than for a Disco, and all the electrics are prone to failure now.
Seems to me that the L-R engineers fulfilled their brief perfectly, design a car that wll last 10 years with no major faults, then self-destructs!
The Classic seems to built to last, more than a P38, but are not to every-ones taste.
Depends what you`re looking for, but DO look at www.rswsolutions site; DO check out threads on
EAS. EKA, viscous-coupling, blend-motors, leaking heater o-rings, corroded fose boxes.
 
Thanks for all the responses, even more confused about what to do.
Will keep you all postsd.
Thanks
 
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