Ok, so maybe this old girl is refined, but it's still a landy. With a lot of pushing, wriggling I've FOUND DIFF LOCK, and even better, got a light to say so on the dashboard. The bloke I've just bought it from said he never used the lever, so no wonder it siezed up. Thanks guys.

Thanks for that. The sticker above the gear stick says "diff lock". It looks like this...

Now that page I've just pasted the address for states this: If you aren't sure if your diff lock is engaging or not, here is a quick way to test it. First the indicator light on the dash is not 100% accurate in determining if the diff lock is on. A bent linkage can make the light stay on or...

I have just found this site, which could be useful to others maybe - I'm going back to read it now - and bookmark it etc. http://home.twcny.rr.com/eeibooks/rover/discodifflock.htm

Just read all the old threads on diff lock. Didn't help. Sorry if this is daft to you, but I'm coming from a series L/R and the handbook is still in the post. Got this 1996 300Tdi Auto box ES Permanent 4wd. The diff lock lever - first, how stiff should it be? When got vehicle...

Hope you can read this through the tears. Thanks Sob-sob HOLD ON, there could be light at the end of the tunnel... No pun intended, not that it was a funny one. I'm good at not funny jokes. (In other works I can talk a right load of...) Have I just cra**ed myself for nothing??? The check...

Holy **. Already? If the light had come up 2 hours ago, I could have knocked a load off the price. How bad is it? Can we still drive it tomorrow, or has it got to got in straight away - and how much is it likely to cost? And any ideas what is is likely to be on a 300Tdi? Are we talking...

Oh ****. As soon as I get it home, the rear door jams shut. Fixed that. Now, the dash board has come up with "CHECK ENGINE". Haven't got a hand book yet, or manual, and there is quite a large chunk of engine there to check piece by piece. Any one give me a clue what's going on? Why has it...

Just been watching a second hand car show and the low prices were scarey. I'm going to look at a 1996 disco, 75K miles, scratchy metalic paint (hit a few twigs off road), auto box, Es, leather driver seat not cracked, rear got a big scratch on it. If all turns out honest and straight, what do...

Cheers for that.

Thanks for the replies guys. Should have said, it's a 1996. Cheers

Hoping to buy a lovely disco. (It's an ES - don't really want all that electric stuff - too much to go wrong- but the engine and chassis and body coondition on this one are great) Anyway, it has air bags. Now on my ffff Ford, when you first turn on the ignition, if the airbag light comes on...

Excellent. Cheers for that.

Hoping to buy a disco 1997, 300Tdi Where is the engine number and chassis number (just to make sure match up on log book) Thanks

Yeah, but why do you say Tdi?

We want a discovery. Were looking at Tdi's. Have only test driven Tdi's. (old 'uns). Now wondering if we should be looking at petrols with LPG conversion already in? Any comments? I mean: what sort of mpg are you looking at for Tdi -vs- petrol/lpg? Or as Lpg is cheaper maybe I mean what...

Thanks for that. If it has done 125k then some bits will be starting to go, but not all. If it has done 225k (even kind 225k) then I'd be expecting everything to start to fail from bushes to brake pipes to chassis parts etc. Everything gets old and dies even if looked after. (My 1997, 63k ford...

Sorry if this was supposed to be in Discovery part of Forum.

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Thanks chaps. I'll do my best to suss it out, but I'm a poor judge of cars - at least that's what my track record shows (whichh is probably why I like building from scratch) - and even the mates I take with me seem to be as bad (or unlucky) as me - I usually buy a pup (a well disguised pup -...