Give me some top tips for buying a disco!

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PogueMahone

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• May 30, 2009

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Hey everyone,

Ive been looking for buy a discovery for a few months now and have finially decided to go through with it. The only problem I am having is that I don't have a clue what to look out for price wise and car wise! Which is not good.

I can afford to spend a max of 10k (preferably a lot less than that), which included a part ex or sale of my current car (which I have been offered 2.4k for). All the discovery's I have seen around me are in the 120k - 150k mileage range, which I feel is just too high for me. I am after a diesel manual preferably, although I saw a petrol auto today which only have 23k miles on the clock for £7995 which I was tempted by.

So, any tips you guys can give me to look out for on any cars I see? I have been going round used car dealerships/looking through every used car magazine and website I can looking for a disco that would suit me, but I am just nervous to spend my money since I am not 100% sure what to look out for.

Thanks in advance.

 

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Beast o Bodmin

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• May 30, 2009

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buy a feckin quad an have a crisis somewhere else

 

Series71

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• May 30, 2009

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Beast o Bodmin said:

buy a feckin quad an have a crisis somewhere else

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so a rrc then

 

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Mark Disco

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• May 30, 2009

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do a search on here - theres a million threads about buying disco's, what to look out for and so on.

£2k can get you a 300tdi auto with under 100,000 miles, leather, cruise control, leccy seats, air con and little or no rust as the bad bits have already been done. with £10k sounds like you want summat alot newer tho, sorry cant help you with that as disco's lose their appeal to me after the TD5

 

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disco dan

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• May 30, 2009

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with 10 grand you could have a different 1 for every day of the week

 

thebiglad

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• May 30, 2009

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Here's an example of what can be purchsed if you are patient, learn about Disco's and have your cash ready, to pounce on a good deal:

2002 Disco TD5 auto ES Premium, 2 owners, 94,000mls, leather and ALL the trimmings including compass in the rear-view mirror!!

Complete with Brownchurch roofrack (1000euros!!)


And how much was the purchase price you ask?...............................................£2,000 !!!!!!

 

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Mark Disco

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• May 30, 2009

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compass in the rear view mirror ....... where can i get me 1 of those??

 

thebiglad

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• May 30, 2009

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Mark Disco said:

compass in the rear view mirror ....... where can i get me 1 of those??

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How cool is that !!!

And it actually works very accurately too.

 

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raskazon

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• May 30, 2009

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thebiglad said:

How cool is that !!!

And it actually works very accurately too.

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now then, so when would you use that ,deepest asda.

 

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Mark Disco

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• May 31, 2009

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asda? um......... never seen 'asda' on an OS map before, anyone know if it has a symbol?

hold up ..... ASDA ....... that place marked with a petrol pump on me **** nav and only used when the 'oh ****' light comes on?

someone told me they sell cheap beer aswell, but i saw the doors had old people hitting eachother with these weird wire things called 'trolleys' so i refuse to go in there!!

 

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PogueMahone

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• May 31, 2009

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thebiglad said:

Here's an example of what can be purchsed if you are patient, learn about Disco's and have your cash ready, to pounce on a good deal:

2002 Disco TD5 auto ES Premium, 2 owners, 94,000mls, leather and ALL the trimmings including compass in the rear-view mirror!!

Complete with Brownchurch roofrack (1000euros!!)


And how much was the purchase price you ask?...............................................£2,000 !!!!!!

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Thats a nice looking disco. Ive just found a couple of discos to check out near me for less than 3k and the photos looks promising, and one is on 80k miles. Hopefully it wont be a rust bucket when i get to see it.