Discovery TD5 - Comments on High Mileage..

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Gavin

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Hi all,

I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.

It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.

What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.

Cheers,
Gavin
 
Gavin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
> slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
>
> It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
> looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
> really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
> spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
> Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
> few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
>
> What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
> like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
> I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
> for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
>

I had a 1998 (first of them) TD5 that had over 140k on the clock by the time
I got rid of it at 3 years old.

Not too bad however I had problems with the hubs developing oil leaks and
contaminating the brakes, the ABS sensors getting iron filing
contamination, all of the brake disks needing replaced and the nearside
front calliper acting up very badly and needing replaced.

The transfer box rear seal had problems, but then again it had problems at
6k miles, so no change there.

The electronics can be *very* dodgy on the early TD5s - I caused most of the
saftey recalls in the first 3 years of the model life due to some issues
with the ATC.

Take the reg to the nearest dealer and make sure that the car has had all of
the recalls done.

That I can remember there was a recall for a faulty ABS ECU, poor materials
in the flywheel and a couple of other ones I never got to the bottom of. If
it has missed any of these recalls then I'd suggest walking away from it.

P.
 
[email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Hi all,
>
> I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
> slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
>
> It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
> looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
> really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
> spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
> Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
> few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
>
> What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
> like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
> I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
> for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin


Anyone...... ?
 
Gavin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
> slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
>
> It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
> looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
> really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
> spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
> Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
> few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
>
> What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
> like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
> I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
> for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
>

I had a 1998 (first of them) TD5 that had over 140k on the clock by the time
I got rid of it at 3 years old.

Not too bad however I had problems with the hubs developing oil leaks and
contaminating the brakes, the ABS sensors getting iron filing
contamination, all of the brake disks needing replaced and the nearside
front calliper acting up very badly and needing replaced.

The transfer box rear seal had problems, but then again it had problems at
6k miles, so no change there.

The electronics can be *very* dodgy on the early TD5s - I caused most of the
saftey recalls in the first 3 years of the model life due to some issues
with the ATC.

Take the reg to the nearest dealer and make sure that the car has had all of
the recalls done.

That I can remember there was a recall for a faulty ABS ECU, poor materials
in the flywheel and a couple of other ones I never got to the bottom of. If
it has missed any of these recalls then I'd suggest walking away from it.

P.
 
[email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> Hi all,
>
> I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
> slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
>
> It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
> looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
> really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
> spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
> Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
> few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
>
> What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
> like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
> I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
> for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
>
> Cheers,
> Gavin


Anyone...... ?
 
[email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> [email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
> > slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
> >
> > It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
> > looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
> > really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
> > spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
> > Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
> > few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
> >
> > What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
> > like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
> > I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
> > for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gavin
>
>
> Anyone...... ?

Come on guys, someone must know something about TD5's with high mileage... :)
 
On 3 Aug 2004 01:50:19 -0700, [email protected] (Gavin) wrote:

>[email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> [email protected] (Gavin) wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I've been offered a 1999 Discovery GS for £6500. Yes, there is a
>> > slight catch.....it's covered 155,000 miles.
>> >
>> > It's has a full main LR Dealer history up to 96,000 and then it's been
>> > looked at by one garage who deals in LR's all the time. It drives
>> > really nice and the bodywork only has few chips on the bonnet. It's
>> > spent most of it's life up and down the M1/M6 from London to
>> > Blackburn delivering clocks - it hasn't towed anything. Interior has a
>> > few suffs in the back but nothing I can't live with.
>> >
>> > What does the group think? I'm really tempted at the price but would
>> > like to know if anyone else has any experience of high mileage TD5's ?
>> > I've got a '96 300TDi ES at the moment and I reckon I can sell that
>> > for near enough what I'd pay for this TD5.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Gavin
>>
>>
>> Anyone...... ?
>
>Come on guys, someone must know something about TD5's with high mileage... :)

They do, which is why you have had replies. Can you not see them?
--

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
'77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
'95 Discovery V8i aka "The Disco" (FOR SALE)
'03 Volvo V70

My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com
 
In article <[email protected]>, Tim Hobbs wrote:
>>
>>Come on guys, someone must know something about TD5's with high mileage... :)
>
> They do, which is why you have had replies. Can you not see them?

Hmm, have there been many replies then? I have only seen the OP's, yours
and one other.

Is there summat up with individual.net?

--
simon at sbarr dot demon dot co dot uk
Simon Barr.
'97 110 300Tdi.
 
On 3 Aug, in article <[email protected]>
[email protected] "Simon Barr" wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>, Tim Hobbs wrote:
> >>
> >>Come on guys, someone must know something about TD5's with high mileage... :)
> >
> > They do, which is why you have had replies. Can you not see them?
>
> Hmm, have there been many replies then? I have only seen the OP's, yours
> and one other.
>
> Is there summat up with individual.net?

I've known similar problems with other .uk newsgroups. Chains of
articles not appearing for no obvious reason. That's the main reason I
don't rely on it as my main source. It's there for if another news
server undergoes a mammary reorientation event.

--
David G. Bell -- SF Fan, Filker, and Punslinger.

"History shows that the Singularity started when Sir Tim Berners-Lee
was bitten by a radioactive spider."
 
In article <[email protected]>, Tim Hobbs wrote:
>
> I have three copies of the OP and two identical responses from Paul
> Brown (the second apparently in response to the OP's repost, IYSWIM).
>
>

I can only see one reply from Paul.


I have been using Individual.net for quite a while now with no problems at all
so I suppose I can forgive them this one slip up :)

--
simon at sbarr dot demon dot co dot uk
Simon Barr.
'97 110 300Tdi.
 
Tim Hobbs <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> On 3 Aug 2004 09:36:56 GMT, Simon Barr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >In article <[email protected]>, Tim Hobbs wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Come on guys, someone must know something about TD5's with high mileage... :)
> >>
> >> They do, which is why you have had replies. Can you not see them?
> >
> >Hmm, have there been many replies then? I have only seen the OP's, yours
> >and one other.
> >
> >Is there summat up with individual.net?
>
> I have three copies of the OP and two identical responses from Paul
> Brown (the second apparently in response to the OP's repost, IYSWIM).
>
>
> --
>
> Tim Hobbs
>
> '58 Series 2 88" aka "Stig"
> '77 101FC Ambulance aka "Burrt"
> '95 Discovery V8i aka "The Disco" (FOR SALE)
> '03 Volvo V70
>
> My Landies? http://www.seriesii.co.uk
> Barcoding? http://www.bartec-systems.com
> Tony Luckwill web archive at http://www.luckwill.com



Apologies folks but it looks like I have a problem with the thread as
I can't see any of the original replies. All I can see is the comments
from Tim.

Could some post the thread for me under their Id?

Anyone know what's going on...Oh gawd here we go ago ;-(..........

cheers
Gavin
 
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