Think of Buying This Landy, Need Some Advice

I've seen the following Landy on eBay, does anyone have any ideas what might be the issue before I folk out 3K?

The description reads;

"This Land Rover came to us as a accident damage category D front end damage
We replaced drivers side wing, front bumper and headlight

Unfortunately it has the common discovery cold start problem in a morning
Takes 3 turns of the key before it will fire, once fired in a morning it will start all day with no problems until the next morning

Once its started in a morning the car runs faultless all day, you could evan leave it as is if you dont mine cranking it a couple of times in the morning
We have been chasing the problem for a while now, but are now out of time and ideas with it

We have replaced the usual common problems including
New injector seals, washers and O rings
Fuel filter housing on the back chassis
In tank fuel pump
Fuel regulator valve

The injectors have all been out and sent to our local diesel specialist to be checked
Cylinder head has been removed and sent to be pressure checked, we discovered it has a turner engineering cylinder head on which is a up rated £1200 cylinder head with thicker injector walls

We are now out of ideas and need the room back in the garage"

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2004-Land...579028?hash=item43ec9de2d4:g:MpoAAOSw8RJXB7r5

Would you mind sharing your thoughts please?

If it's just from cold then fuel delivery would be chief suspect. Would be helpful to know if there was any smoke on startup.

Would want hooking up to diagnostics really

What would the most expensive/worst case scenario be do you think?

Chasing an electrical fault I imagine. I'm certainly no expert but using the forum search brings up a lot of threads on td5 cold starting which would be worth reading through.

blue beasty said:

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Would want hooking up to diagnostics really

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Which, being a garage, you would imagine they would have......

Therefore, my advice would be that you NEED it hooking up to proper diagnostics before you consider it any further. ( and at their expense too ! ).

What the rear of the chassis like for rot ?

Also just noticed that the flea bay ad says its an auto, but, unless the pics are of another one, its a manual...

Personally with that mileage ..no .. Spend a bit more, lower mileage and a comprehensive service history you may be chasing and throwing money on this.
A garage out of ideas? Really

stew laws said:

Personally with that mileage ..no .. Spend a bit more, lower mileage and a comprehensive service history you may be chasing and throwing money on this.
A garage out of ideas? Really

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Have to agree. Also "out of ideas" might be a euphemism for "got a pretty good idea but we'd never get our money back so let's punt it on to some mug"

stew laws said:

Personally with that mileage ..no .. Spend a bit more, lower mileage and a comprehensive service history you may be chasing and throwing money on this.

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though the OP didn't ask for opinions on the vehicle - this would be my advice too

stew laws said:

A garage out of ideas? Really

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+1

SpringDon said:

Have to agree. Also "out of ideas" might be a euphemism for "got a pretty good idea but we'd never get our money back so let's punt it on to some mug"

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Nailed it.

Have a day out and come home with this....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-Land...321698?hash=item4afc784a62:g:9jQAAOSw5dNWs5zm

this.....

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2002-52-L...691165?hash=item2a623b78dd:g:KjYAAOSwuAVW0KGf

Up to you, head is worth some serious money, but out of all the 3 on here, I'd rather have mine.

Post on the TD5 and the Discovery pages

It's got a huge mileage. Try to find a lower mileage example. That is potentially just a series of further problems.