Bede
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Hi all.
Landy amateur seeks help!
I've had a disco 300tdi for a little over a year.
she's a dirty R reg on 134000k. I had to patch the rear arches a bit, the boot floor and the inner front wings to get it through last year's MOT. (I'm a fabricator welder of 16 yrs experience with my own family business so this isn't an issue) A couple of months ago I had a new head gasket on and to be honest the engine runs as sweet as a nut.
My landy has today failed an mot in a major way. both front inner wings are shot, as are both rear inner, both rear outer arches might as well go too, boot floor and rear cross members. It also has advisories on all four springs being corroded, along with a load of corrosion on the brake hoses.
Now, my business was hit hard over the past two years through the recession so I'm skint. I want to keep the landy as i tow a lot for work as well as use it as a plaything as I'm into climbing and mountaineering all year round so it's excellent around Snowdonia in winter. If I had the wedge I'd buy a 110 defender, but i don't.
Now, I'm considering stripping the bitch and replacing all the shot panels, also getting a 2 inch lift kit seeing as the springs and brake hoses will need doing at some point in the near future. If I'm going to bother with it, I'll be doing it properly and want some use out of it both for work and also a bit of greenlaning.
I'm having it up on the ramp at my local garage and he's going to run through the severity of it but as he knows my business he thinks I could sort it all out should I wish to. I know little about cars in all honesty but am well aware that all of this is standard trouble for a disco. (I'm something of a lurker on this site but don't contribute) He tells me that the chassis is absolutely fine, which was my main concern. So, given the chassis and engine are fine, I'm tempted to have a dabble.
So, after all that waffle, my question is, is it worth doing this and is it doable for an engineer that doesn't know a great deal about cars?
Staffordshire 4x4 are just a couple of minutes away from me so I may be able to get a bit of advice from them on the off road mods.
Am I better off saving for a battered 110 or does it sound like it's worth spending 400 odd quid reviving it?
Thanks for reading my inane drivel!
Yours skint and panickingly!
Steve Lockett.
Landy amateur seeks help!
I've had a disco 300tdi for a little over a year.
she's a dirty R reg on 134000k. I had to patch the rear arches a bit, the boot floor and the inner front wings to get it through last year's MOT. (I'm a fabricator welder of 16 yrs experience with my own family business so this isn't an issue) A couple of months ago I had a new head gasket on and to be honest the engine runs as sweet as a nut.
My landy has today failed an mot in a major way. both front inner wings are shot, as are both rear inner, both rear outer arches might as well go too, boot floor and rear cross members. It also has advisories on all four springs being corroded, along with a load of corrosion on the brake hoses.
Now, my business was hit hard over the past two years through the recession so I'm skint. I want to keep the landy as i tow a lot for work as well as use it as a plaything as I'm into climbing and mountaineering all year round so it's excellent around Snowdonia in winter. If I had the wedge I'd buy a 110 defender, but i don't.
Now, I'm considering stripping the bitch and replacing all the shot panels, also getting a 2 inch lift kit seeing as the springs and brake hoses will need doing at some point in the near future. If I'm going to bother with it, I'll be doing it properly and want some use out of it both for work and also a bit of greenlaning.
I'm having it up on the ramp at my local garage and he's going to run through the severity of it but as he knows my business he thinks I could sort it all out should I wish to. I know little about cars in all honesty but am well aware that all of this is standard trouble for a disco. (I'm something of a lurker on this site but don't contribute) He tells me that the chassis is absolutely fine, which was my main concern. So, given the chassis and engine are fine, I'm tempted to have a dabble.
So, after all that waffle, my question is, is it worth doing this and is it doable for an engineer that doesn't know a great deal about cars?
Staffordshire 4x4 are just a couple of minutes away from me so I may be able to get a bit of advice from them on the off road mods.
Am I better off saving for a battered 110 or does it sound like it's worth spending 400 odd quid reviving it?
Thanks for reading my inane drivel!
Yours skint and panickingly!
Steve Lockett.
