Recent content by Failcon

When I purchased my 1999 TD5 Discovery about 6 months ago it came with a main dealer service and the coolant had been changed and refilled with OAT coolant. I needed to top up because a slight water pump leak had developed and because of the ice and snow I just used Q8 (?) coolant from the local...

I had mine done recently at a main dealer. The land rover part number for the spigot bush is LFB500050 (i.e. land rover genuine factory part). I think the reference to 8566 BUSH FLYWHEEL is a Bearmach part number for the same thing. Anyway they seem to have changed the spigot bush and the...

We live at the bottom of a long hill so my 1999 TD5 warms up pretty quickly as the engine is doing some work. I have noticed that the gauge shows tepid for a while then suddenly goes up to the half way mark, so I suppose the sender is on the far side of the thermostat (?). If so the engine may...

Perhaps this is a really dumb question, but I am new to all this and just trying to do some basic research before taking the plunge. Current fancy is a 300 TDi Discovery. Everyone seems to comment that the boot floor, cills and inner wings/door pillar bases rot and the Disco 1 is notorious...