Why did you buy a disco!!

I had to get rid of some money before the wife got her hands on it, so I went out and got a Disco TD5, with all the problems I have had with it I still haven’t got any money:laugh:

sabredylan said:

Bought mine to pull a twin axle caravan. I then had to sell the caravan to pay for repairs to Disco. . . . .

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Nice One :lol:

I just swapped my 90 for a jap import 300tdi auto. my shed of a 90 was worth the same as a tidy rust free disco that's 10 years newer!

It'll be in the same condition as the 90 unless you treat her right.

Bizarre isn't it, the price difference is hard for me to comprehend too. I'd never select a Defender as a private daily driver ... self abuse and flagellation aren't hobbies I practice these days - life's too short. Given the choice though I'm not sure the Disco would have been top of the list. Despite the money spent I still don't trust it, the P38's legacy is still very much in my mind, time will tell but if it lets me down even once it will be gone.

BenKenobi said:

Bizarre isn't it, the price difference is hard for me to comprehend too. I'd never select a Defender as a private daily driver ... self abuse and flagellation aren't hobbies I practice these days - life's too short. Given the choice though I'm not sure the Disco would have been top of the list. Despite the money spent I still don't trust it, the P38's legacy is still very much in my mind, time will tell but if it lets me down even once it will be gone.

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Suggest you sell it now while your ahead!!

Landy DO breakdown lol

BenKenobi said:

Bizarre isn't it, the price difference is hard for me to comprehend too. I'd never select a Defender as a private daily driver ... self abuse and flagellation aren't hobbies I practice these days - life's too short. Given the choice though I'm not sure the Disco would have been top of the list. Despite the money spent I still don't trust it, the P38's legacy is still very much in my mind, time will tell but if it lets me down even once it will be gone.

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Suggest you sell it now while your ahead!!

Landy's DO breakdown lol

My 90 never let me down. I had to keep my eyes on it and replace bits here and there, unsieze brake pistons and stuff, but it never failed to get me where I wanted to go, and I had it 5 years

Oh I'll tuff it out for now, up until the P38 life with landrover was painless, I have invested heavily in bringing it up to the mark in both time and money.

Breakdown I accept but only if it is an issue that couldn't be prevented regardless of maintenance, I think a lot of landrover issues are cause by trying to run one on a bicycle maintenance budget - can't be done.

I bought my bobtailed disco because theievin bastards dont realy look twice at a disco.even though underneath its still got all the mint bits on it

Because they are 1/10th price of defender, more comfy and more practical for me more money for bits ha

never kept a car longer than a couple of years till ibought disco had it ten years crackin motor :5bdriving:

because i have 2 kids so a 90 was out of the question and wouldnt be given a
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there you go i said it

couldn't find a defender locally that wasn't rusted to sh**!

Because like everyone else I can't afford a Defender like Tomb Raider had. However, I wouldn't really swap my disco for a defender without serious thought.

More space. More comfortable and I have been where not all defenders have just as many times as defenders going where I couldn't. It's all down to the driver 90% of the time any how's

Went laning with 4 90's including my own + a 300tdi disco earlier in the year. The only thing the disco didn't handle as well as my completely standard 90 was the axle articulation. The rear springs kept on popping out of the hangars, and the anti-roll bar bracket snapped on the back axle. Those things can be resolved quite easily though. my friend attached his springs to the top hangars by using multiple jubilee clips in the end, and he's just left the anti-roll bar bracket broken!

Why did I buy a disco......Well here's why! Any vehicle I own has too...
1 Transport me, the family, two canoes (not kayaks), clothes, toys, canoe gear and other crap that we can't live without on our two week summer holiday. It was to do all this with comfort and at a reasonable speed.
2 It has to carry around the odd client of mine, without embrassment.
3 Go down to the dump and pretend not to be a commerical vehicle.
4 Carry a cement mixer, 4 bags of sand and one of cement without the suspension collapsing.
5 Easy to mend (with the help of the info on this forum)
6 Cheap(ish) to buy and run. They are certainly good value for your money.
7 Drive through rain, snow and mud whilst others around you can't.
8 It has to be LEZ complient.
What else could it be but a Discovery? It really is the vehicle for the common man...and I am very common!

Discovery Joe said:

couldn't find a defender locally that wasn't rusted to sh**!

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But you found a disco that wasn't rotten??
Think you found a golden nugget lol

I bought this (my second Discovery) because a rotten and barely legal Fender is 4000euro and up, a P38 that does not have serious electrical issues and or a fu**ed engine is 4000euro and up, a piece O'sh*t series3 is 3000euro and up and basically because it does everything I want it too.

All of the above vehicles and prices are not by any means exaggerations just what was on the market when I was looking to buy, I saw loads of cars and anything less than 3K was a basket case of rot and problems(usually worse than land rover could make themselves!!). So I bought the cheapest basket case Disco I could find and it is getting better everyday I work on it.

easy. I am to Fat to fit in a defender