How good is your battery? The TD5 is a big lump to start and even a fairly well charged but not heavy duty job sometimes struggles. Other than that, I'd check connections to the terminals are good and tight, then look at the earth connections as jaygti says. That could just be it, as you mention...

There's a few models of stereo that came as standard with the D2, depending on trim level and age. I think they all had the ability to be controlled by the steering wheel. There was the Alpine system that had a separate 6 CD changer under the driver's seat and an amp under the passenger's, there...

Your Land Rover is lulling you into a false sense of security. A simple fix like this is always followed by a failure of a component that is just beyond the owner's ability to fix, so you either try to do it yourself, fail and then have to pay a fortune to a garage while the mechanics can't stop...

Mine's gone off a couple of time in the last week or so, late at night/early in the morning (of course). I think it's to do with the weather, or more accurately the temperature in the vehicle, which if placed in the sun will be extremely hot, then cooling, giving the sensors the impression...

The beep happens to indicate that something isn't closed when you're locking the vehicle. Or more correctly, it thinks that something isn't closed. Can't tell you what though.

Everyone likes to have bought a bargain and everyone likes to think if they were buying one they'd also have bought a bargain. Whenever I see someone on this and other sites wanting to buy and asking how much to spend, then I always see low numbers, sometimes bordering on reality. thebiglad...

Without checking (always dangerous) I think the service intervals are 12,000 miles or one year. So you're right in thinking there should be more stamps. The pursuit model is the one to go for in my opinion for the reasons you say. This one? Down to you, mon ami.

Ha. The longer the journey and the further I get into it, the faster I go it seems. Start off at an indicated 70mph on the motorway thinking that's fine and over the next 100 miles or so it slowly creeps up to the 80 mark. I think you maybe get used to the noise over a period. It's funny if you...

Try ebay, at a glance there's a couple of sets of front seats on there, maybe not your colour, but keep looking back and they'll appear sooner or later. Or try to find Disco 2's being broken. I know that there are seat restorers out there, not that I've used them, but just through looking on...

Hard to say really about performance and there's potentially many causes as the search facility here will reveal. Has he driven another TD5 with which to compare performance? Can someone familiar with them have a drive and that may confirm if there is a problem or not. £40's worth of fuel for...

Later and newer is always a good thing. But these days Disco 2's are at least 9 years old anyway, so condition would tend to come into it more than age. I have had both and did find the facelift one more reliable, but that's only one example of each. Given a choice, facelift is the way to go...

Hmm. At 70 my TD5 is humming a little and telling me it doesn't really want to go much faster. At 85 the big lummox is saying it'll do that speed but really doesn't like it and is telling me to slow down. Noises mostly are wind, these aren't aerodynamically very good vehicles. You can hear...

Maybe it's a British word. The binnacle is the thing that surrounds the clocks, with the fog lights, petrol (gas)/diesel flap opener switches etc. on it.

I got a facelift 04 TD5 and there's no ACE fitted. So they did make them without ACE and incidentally air suspension. Dunno about the big petrol things though.

Rust seems to be much less of a problem on D2 models than the previous ones. The bodywork in particular generally wears very well and even early ones are cosmetically good. Going for a facelift one would make sense, they incorporated quite a few small changes that improved things. The main...

Possibly. It's at a £4000 starting price but what's the reserve? Described as a well looked after car owned by the seller and his father before him. But there's a few dings on it, no doubt the spotlights have been removed after being damaged and the aircon isn't working (which MAY only need...

Look at it this way: It's got a year's MOT and cost £800. Even if it's a total wreck at the end of the year and needs so much work that it isn't financially viable to mend it, you're still ahead. :D

Occasionally when starting my TD5 the horn sounds momentarily. Dunno why.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Something at the bottom to make it tip back upright may have been a thought too far, as well as pulling it in the right direction. Still, the darlings do seem to be enjoying themselves.

To be honest, yes it would - if the gasket is okay, although best practice would be to put another new one on. I'd take the cover off and look at the gasket and decide then. It's a bit of a big thin cork type affair and it isn't that hard to get it positioned slightly wrong, so watch that...