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thinking its time for a change of my car and giving very serious consideration to the Disco 4 rather than a Range Rover this time and wondering if anyone out there in TP land drives one and if so what they think of it?

TIA Matt
 
A cousin of mine has one of the 3l V6 Diesels and loves it.
 
Don't own one sadly I can only dream, but have had a day of driving one on and off road. Very good engine the 3l V6. I was doing 120mph down the M50 without realising until the LR rep pointed out I might want to slow down!

Very comfy, great driving position, much more upmarket interior than the D3. I'd say its actually too good off road, it takes all the skill out of it and just climbs over and through anything. I much prefer my D2 in that regard.

The D5 is on the way and looks like a Range Rover clone, so now is a very good time to get a D4 if you love the boxy, rugged look before they stop making them.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Don't own one sadly I can only dream, but have had a day of driving one on and off road. Very good engine the 3l V6. I was doing 120mph down the M50 without realising until the LR rep pointed out I might want to slow down!

Very comfy, great driving position, much more upmarket interior than the D3. I'd say its actually too good off road, it takes all the skill out of it and just climbs over and through anything. I much prefer my D2 in that regard.

The D5 is on the way and looks like a Range Rover clone, so now is a very good time to get a D4 if you love the boxy, rugged look before they stop making them.
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I'll not going to buying new, didn't win the lottery last night, but hoping to be able to get a 2012 model if finances will allow it, not being an avid off roader I don't have the skills for it to take away, though I do use my cars off road :thumbs:

Good to hear you liked it over all, I'm encouraged

Nod said:
A cousin of mine has one of the 3l V6 Diesels and loves it.
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Good to hear :thumbs:
 
I can vouch for the 3l lump since it's the same one fitted to mine. FWIW, in the saloons they're fitted to, the 3l is more economical than the 2.7l.
 
Nod said:
I can vouch for the 3l lump since it's the same one fitted to mine. FWIW, in the saloons they're fitted to, the 3l is more economical than the 2.7l.
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Well that's again good to know, it's also nice to know considering I currently drive the woeful 2.5TD that is about the most pathetic under powered engine ever it couldn't pull the skin off custard :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
TD or TDi? The TD was basically the old 2.5 with a turbo bolted on and was renowned for autodestructing (as well as being rather puny!) the TDi was considerably better and could heave a Defender along at a reasonable rate, although the extra weight in the RangeRover did hinder it a bit! (Oh, and try an older 2.25 unblown Landy Diesel if you want to experience serious power lack!!!)
 
Nod said:
TD or TDi? The TD was basically the old 2.5 with a turbo bolted on and was renowned for autodestructing (as well as being rather puny!) the TDi was considerably better and could heave a Defender along at a reasonable rate, although the extra weight in the RangeRover did hinder it a bit! (Oh, and try an older 2.25 unblown Landy Diesel if you want to experience serious power lack!!!)
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Very much non TDi and it is s***e :lol: :lol: was a massive shock going to it from the 4L V8 I can tell you
 
BBR said:
I have the 3 .I bi turbo hse.
I love it. It's 5 years old now and I 've done 150k miles in it. I also get 30 mpg. Off road it is amazing. Thoroughly recommended.
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Dangerous question having driven products of Land Rover for about the last 15 years starting a few years before I could go on the roads but how have you found the reliability of yours, any niggaly issues I should be aware of?
 
It's a LandRover!!! FWIW, after rebuilding 3 of them with Dad and having had 3 others in the family, we found that one of the Paddock/Craddock lot's stuff was super cheap Eastern crap but the other lot's was a bit more expensive and half decent - Nod's law of fnurkled memory (and the intervening 7 or 8 years!) mean that I can't remember which was the crap and I can't ask Dad ( :( ).
 
Nod said:
It's a LandRover!!! FWIW, after rebuilding 3 of them with Dad and having had 3 others in the family, we found that one of the Paddock/Craddock lot's stuff was super cheap Eastern crap but the other lot's was a bit more expensive and half decent - Nod's law of fnurkled memory (and the intervening 7 or 8 years!) mean that I can't remember which was the crap and I can't ask Dad ( :( ).
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I seem to remember that Paddocks is the good one but that's something I leave to my brother in law or my village garage :confused::rolleyes: I'm not a mechanic and never will be :( :punch:
 
Avoid britpart items and you wont go far wrong. Having said that, a disco 4 isn't really a home mechanic car and they are pretty reliable anyway. Certainly a big step up from traditional Landrover products. However parts are pretty horrendous when something does happen. No reports of common issues like faulty oil pump housings that killed so many disco 3s yet, and it's been in production long enough for stuff like that to crop up. I think the disco 4 and the freelander 2, were/are the most reliable Lr products ever.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Avoid britpart items and you wont go far wrong. Having said that, a disco 4 isn't really a home mechanic car and they are pretty reliable anyway. Certainly a big step up from traditional Landrover products. However parts are pretty horrendous when something does happen. No reports of common issues like faulty oil pump housings that killed so many disco 3s yet, and it's been in production long enough for stuff like that to crop up. I think the disco 4 and the freelander 2, were/are the most reliable Lr products ever.
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That's reassuring to read, though anything from LR has to be more reliable than my P38 Range Rover, I've come to the conclusion the electronics were designed by a chimp and installed by an over enthusiastic work experience boy while the rest of the production line was on tea break
 
One of the biggest problems with the engine electrics of the early RRs was that they had left the distributor on the front of the engine where it would get soaked (and I mean SOAKED!) by a plume of water thrown up by the fan as soon as it got deep enough...

As Tom says, modern engines aren't really intended to be user serviceable - hell, when I open the bonnet I can't see the bleeding engine!!!
 
Nod said:
One of the biggest problems with the engine electrics of the early RRs was that they had left the distributor on the front of the engine where it would get soaked (and I mean SOAKED!) by a plume of water thrown up by the fan as soon as it got deep enough...

As Tom says, modern engines aren't really intended to be user serviceable - hell, when I open the bonnet I can't see the bleeding engine!!!
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I'm just pleased that it's sounding like QC has improved at JLR since they built my current car :lol:
 
MWHCVT said:
Dangerous question having driven products of Land Rover for about the last 15 years starting a few years before I could go on the roads but how have you found the reliability of yours, any niggaly issues I should be aware of?
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I have had mine regularly serviced so have been ok. You need to ensure all 4 tyres are the same or handling becomes crap. The front tyres wear out the quickest but new tyres should always go on the back so garage needs to swap when you renew. Spare wheel we get nicked (as mine did) due to zero security underneath back where spare is kept. Sat nav is crap and update v expensive. Apart from that it is great and surprisingly fast for a 2.5 t car. 0_60 8.5 secs.
 
BBR said:
I have had mine regularly serviced so have been ok. You need to ensure all 4 tyres are the same or handling becomes crap. The front tyres wear out the quickest but new tyres should always go on the back so garage needs to swap when you renew. Spare wheel we get nicked (as mine did) due to zero security underneath back where spare is kept. Sat nav is crap and update v expensive. Apart from that it is great and surprisingly fast for a 2.5 t car. 0_60 8.5 secs.
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This is very positive news for me, well except the spare getting nicked I wonder if I could add extra security to it? Interesting about the tyres I wonder if it's any worse that a Range Rover for tyres I'd imagine they're roughly similar, generally I get about 15-20,000 out of my tyres which while not great I can live with
 
I had to drive someone into central London in their Disco 4 (18 months old) not so long ago, and it was interesting as I'd just done a long drive in my fathers VW Touareg (2007). The LR was the 3.0 turbo diesel, the VW was the 5.0 twin turbo diesel.

Performance - VW wins easily although LR had ample performance
Economy - both were getting about 30mpg on a motorway run
Manners on-road - win to VW - ride was more controlled
Refinement - both refined, the VW engine sounds busier (10 cylinders), but was quieter than the LR
 
andrewc said:
I had to drive someone into central London in their Disco 4 (18 months old) not so long ago, and it was interesting as I'd just done a long drive in my fathers VW Touareg (2007). The LR was the 3.0 turbo diesel, the VW was the 5.0 twin turbo diesel.

Performance - VW wins easily although LR had ample performance
Economy - both were getting about 30mpg on a motorway run
Manners on-road - win to VW - ride was more controlled
Refinement - both refined, the VW engine sounds busier (10 cylinders), but was quieter than the LR
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Fair enough and good to hear your experience but and this is a big thing for me I'd rather if I'm going to be driving a large 4x4 buy a Land Rover as they support a hell of a lot of employment in my area and I want to see that continue :thumbs: plus I find the VW damn ugly much prefer the interior and exterior styling of the LR D4
 
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