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As above really...recently bought a good old Series 3S to get to better landscape locations...

Any other off-road folks feel like chatting?
 
I love Landies and have an old 2A, not legal for the road, to get around our land.
But I wouldn't have one for road use, by the time it has all the toolkit, spares, towrope etc needed just to do a short journey, it's full up:)
 
Garry Edwards said:
I love Landies and have an old 2A, not legal for the road, to get around our land.
But I wouldn't have one for road use, by the time it has all the toolkit, spares, towrope etc needed just to do a short journey, it's full up:)
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I had a S3 for 4 years as my every day car while at college and for a couple of years afterwards :D loved it...well except on cold mornings when you had to de-ice twice again on the way to college :bang:
 
Disco 2 here.
Used to have a ex army series 3 109.


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ahhh miss my disco - she was a proper beast :) just sold it as i could not afford to carry on with the tinkering - plus all the local lanes are shut now so was tied to the club day outs :(
 
ex and I had a 1959 series 2 (or 2A, don't remember) with a 3l Ford V6 fitted. Picked up and went but was staggeringly noisy inside by 50mph, espeically with the overdrive engaged.

Who needs a Land Rover to get up muddy tracks anyway? :naughty:

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I've had many over the years, not long sold my beloved TD5 Defender 90 (sadly missed) and I'm currently rebuilding a rather tasty 1963 Series 2A 109 Truck Cab which will be ready and back on the road...one day :-)
 
MWHCVT said:
There are a few of us here :D but come on this thread is useless without pictures
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Fair enough on piccies...just finished some essential maintenance not done by previous owner for years...:shake:

Didn't break the bank but did set me back half a nice L to date...I have also done just over 3000 kms in less than 3 months of owning her and no incidents!

Will do my best to get a worthwile piccie or two up by the weekend!

Thanks again for all the wonderful responses!

Cheers everyone!
 
My parens have a 2002 Discovery ES Premium and an old series 3. My dads got me on the discos Insurence from July for the holidays - cant wait!! :D
 
I'm just about to sell my 300Tdi Defender hardtop...if I can bring myself to do it
 
I have 2, a 130 300tdi defender that is in the process of a complete rebuild including new galv chassis and bulkhead along with everything being reconditioned or renewed, and another 110 300tdi hicap that we abuse the life out of at work but we can't break it.
Once the 130 is rebuilt the 110 will be rebuilt.
 
Serious Discovery fan here ... on my 5th one ... and one of the four founder members of the Discovery Owners Club (membership no. 003) :D

The current motor is a 1995 3.9 V8 ES Auto running on LPG which was originally exported to Japan and then re-imported through Northern Ireland in 2005. I've had him since 2009.

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I had a 110 last year, sold it, missed it the bought a 90 300tdi as a project, it was and is MOTd but is currently undergoing restoration


It's getting there

Before

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During

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Just after the front garden respray, chequer back on but lots of bits to go on yet


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Bristolian said:
Serious Discovery fan here ... on my 5th one ... and one of the four founder members of the Discovery Owners Club (membership no. 003) :D

The current motor is a 1995 3.9 V8 ES Auto running on LPG which was originally exported to Japan and then re-imported through Northern Ireland in 2005. I've had him since 2009.
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Oh dear! That looks well stuck... Did you get a Toyota to pull it out? :)
 
Splog said:
Oh dear! That looks well stuck... Did you get a Toyota to pull it out? :)
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Sorry, stuck? Not in the slightest ... still, if all the experience you have is with Toymota you won't know what a real 4x4 is capable of :lol: :thumbs:
 
Bristolian said:
Sorry, stuck? Not in the slightest ... still, if all the experience you have is with Toymota you won't know what a real 4x4 is capable of :lol: :thumbs:
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Ah! ..... A Nissan man then.... :D
 
I have had landys in the past, now I prefer 4x4s that work and don`t cost the earth, so yes, Toyota and now in Y61 Patrol.............:)
 
onomatopoeia said:
ex and I had a 1959 series 2 (or 2A, don't remember) with a 3l Ford V6 fitted.
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That the Essex unit found in the Capri and Reliant Scimitar I assume?


Bristolian said:
The current motor is a 1995 3.9 V8 ES Auto
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Dogfish_magnet said:
Disco II 02 V8 auto - money pit
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I never even knew discovery's had the option of a V8. Are they rare over here, as I have never knowingly heard/seen one?


fracster said:
I have had landys in the past, now I prefer 4x4s that work and don`t cost the earth, so yes, Toyota and now in Y61 Patrol.............:)
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A 1990s Pajero/Shogun II will last almost forever if treated right. Still tons of them on the roads today, the 2.8 is as hard as nails. My folks had one and the ******** of a local mechanic told them that it needed lots of oil because it was a diesel (:cuckoo:) unfortunately I didn't get wind of this to warn them until it was too late... the engine ended up running away so they had to ditch in a field somewhere. Instead of exploding and throwing bits of piston everywhere it just burned all the oil away until it stopped, then started and ran afterwards as if nothing had happened :suspect:
 
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Disco 2 V8s are pretty common.
Loads have them in my club.

You cant really miss them, they sound loooooooverly.
 
TCR4x4 said:
Disco 2 V8s are pretty common.
Loads have them in my club.

You cant really miss them, they sound loooooooverly.
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Exactly which is why I'm surprised I haven't knowingly clocked one before. Range Rover V8s are quite popular here but I can't say there are any conspicuous disco V8s in my town... :|
 
In fairness, I have never had a Discovery, but I refuse to even get in a 90 or 110 ever again.The most uncomfortable things ever made.Shoddily put together and bloody archaic, dreadful things to drive any distance* and generally crap.


* any distance means anything over 500 yards.
 
You wouldn't have fancied some of the trips I've done in my 110 then Frac, Nordkapp and back then down to France and Italy and another to Portugal and Spain. In fact I drove back from southern Spain in two days because my father was ill.
 
No thanks bud, spent enough time in the damned things.

Out of interest, how many gallons of engine oil did it use on these trips................;)
 
One good thing is that they never need an oil change, just keep topping them up.

Though, again in all fairness, they are good off road.
 
fracster said:
In fairness, I have never had a Discovery, but I refuse to even get in a 90 or 110 ever again.The most uncomfortable things ever made.Shoddily put together and bloody archaic, dreadful things to drive any distance* and generally crap.

* any distance means anything over 500 yards.
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You are entitled to your opinion, but to come onto an enthusiast thread and say something like that is in my opinion, the height of ignorance. Would you also turn up at a Landrover show and say the same to the enthusiast's faces? How rude.
 
Ste Manns said:
You are entitled to your opinion, but to come onto an enthusiast thread and say something like that is in my opinion, the height of ignorance. Would you also turn up at a Landrover show and say the same to the enthusiast's faces? How rude.
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Get a life and stop being such a wuss.

It is called banter.
 
fracster said:
In fairness, I have never had a Discovery, but I refuse to even get in a 90 or 110 ever again.The most uncomfortable things ever made.Shoddily put together and bloody archaic, dreadful things to drive any distance* and generally crap.


* any distance means anything over 500 yards.
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You're way out of line. They're good for maybe a mile, on a smooth surface when it isn't raining, hot or cold:)
 
fracster said:
In fairness, I have never had a Discovery, but I refuse to even get in a 90 or 110 ever again.The most uncomfortable things ever made.Shoddily put together and bloody archaic, dreadful things to drive any distance* and generally crap.


* any distance means anything over 500 yards.
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90s are the height of luxury compared to what went before. Coil spring suspension made the ride so much better than the previous leaf spring design, it was like a completely different vehicle! And they (at least the one I drove) had syncromesh on all the forward gears, no double declutching for 1st and 2nd.

Try travelling in the back of a SII / SIIA - boing boing boing boing thump (that's your head hitting the inside of the roof) boing boing thump.
 
onomatopoeia said:
90s are the height of luxury compared to what went before. Coil spring suspension made the ride so much better than the previous leaf spring design, it was like a completely different vehicle! And they (at least the one I drove) had syncromesh on all the forward gears, no double declutching for 1st and 2nd.

Try travelling in the back of a SII / SIIA - boing boing boing boing thump (that's your head hitting the inside of the roof) boing boing thump.
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That much is true. Many years ago, as a student, I had a holiday job driving visitors up and down to the 'Camelot' ruins at Tintagel. 12 passengers from memory, on wooden bench seats, at least I had a cushion of sorts on my seat. I had to drive at insane speeds because people didn't tip unless they had a rough ride, and I was black and blue...

Fortunately though, being a Landie, it broke down quite often:)
 
onomatopoeia said:
90s are the height of luxury compared to what went before. Coil spring suspension made the ride so much better than the previous leaf spring design, it was like a completely different vehicle! And they (at least the one I drove) had syncromesh on all the forward gears, no double declutching for 1st and 2nd.

Try travelling in the back of a SII / SIIA - boing boing boing boing thump (that's your head hitting the inside of the roof) boing boing thump.
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Coils all round are the future, my Patrol has them.................:lol:

All joking apart, landys do what they do, and do it well.The baggage is just too much.:lol:

I must be getting old, I just want them to work now.
 
Coils are for GOILS!:p

REAL MEN ride BLADES!:D

And yes, before someone points me in that direction, I know coil springs allow more wheel travel etc etc...

Anyhoo, she is going for new springs at the rear and shocks all round...and then the whole suspension and brakes will practically have been done good as new.

Then to start the cosmetic pimping!:thumbs:
 
trencheel303 said:
Exactly which is why I'm surprised I haven't knowingly clocked one before. Range Rover V8s are quite popular here but I can't say there are any conspicuous disco V8s in my town... :|
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There's a good reason you don't see many V8's driving around .... no-one can afford to keep putting the petrol in them!!!
 
Ste Manns said:
You are entitled to your opinion, but to come onto an enthusiast thread and say something like that is in my opinion, the height of ignorance. Would you also turn up at a Landrover show and say the same to the enthusiast's faces? How rude.
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Hold on. Fracster is actually pretty well on the money with his assessment of the Defender. It is cramped and uncomfortable. It is badly made and lacking in modern conveniences - like wipers and a heater that actually do what they're supposed to do. Oh, and it's way over-priced too. It's only saving grace is that it's (probably) the best out-of-the-box off-road vehicle of it's type.

And before you hop on that high horse again there's nothing in the paragraph above that I haven't said to members of several Land Rover clubs and the PR team at Land Rover on more than one ocassion.
 
fracster said:
In fairness, I have never had a Discovery, but I refuse to even get in a 90 or 110 ever again.The most uncomfortable things ever made.Shoddily put together and bloody archaic, dreadful things to drive any distance* and generally crap.

* any distance means anything over 500 yards.
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Compared to a leaf spring Iveco daily towing a trailer the ride in my 90 is like a Bentley :D

It's a luxury tractor loved by enthusiasts and something a Toyota or Nissan will never be, iconic.
 
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