Recent content by Higgo

I think you might be right. I have another one lined up to view tomorrow.

Well here we go again... I was a member here when I had a Disco2 and now (after a couple of years of a sensible car) I'm looking at a Disco 3. MOT has an advisory of 'both rear interior sills rusty'. I've not viewed it yet (Monday) so that's all I have to go on. But if I bought it I'd want it...

As per my 'Thank you and goodbye' post in the Discovery subforum, it's time to move her on. She's for sale on Ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Land-Rover-Discovery-II-TD5-/172642181764 I genuinely have no idea what a fair price is so I'm letting Ebay decide but if you're inerested, I'm happy to...

Sadly it's time to let the Disco go... She's running fine for now but I need to get a more modern (boring) family car. Something that I can rely on for long family driving holidays into Europe (3 planned in next 12 months). In part I've been out-manoeuvred by Mrs Higgo. She used to have the...

Good to hear. Sorry I couldn't help last night.

Sorry, no. I'm the only one of my mates with a 4x4 these days. I'm an un-modified D2 with road tyres and a tow rope but I could go up tomorrow morning. If one road-tyred D2 can't pull him out, maybe two can?

Yep, Derbyshire Bridge is the top of the Goyt Valley, Cat & Fiddle end of the old road to Buxton. I'm down the road in Macc but have had a few beers watching the football so not much help.

Looking back at the MOTs of mine it has a long history of scraping through on retest emissions. I recently had my EGR blanked and it failed next MOT. After some enthusiastic driving up a local hill it passed.

It's 2000 registered, '99 built so I assume it doesn't have a cat?

OK, I'm convinced. I plan to get one of these: http://www.flatdoguk.com/discovery-td5~480 unless anyone recommends better/cheaper?

Yep, I know that bit doesn't remove any emissions per se but wondered if changing the back pressure changed how it runs. I don't mind a bit of extra noise and I certainly don't mind a bit of extra throttle response. I am told by the local pub doom-monger that it will use more fuel and be a...

I'm sure this has been done on here and I have looked. My exhaust is blowing from the mid section. I'm toying with replacing it with a 'straight-through' pipe. What are the pros and cons? In particular mine has a long history of scraping through MOTs on emissions. Will a pipe make this worse...

Well done, Disco. Good luck with the insurance company.

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Seen it and done it but I think it's gone beyond that now. What I've found is that when it won't open it will if I go for a drive. My two (equally unlikely) theories are that It's often stood for a few days - driving it may give that extra little bit of oomph to the battery to actuate the...