Also the cheaper (SIC) road tax.Up to vin 6a999999, yours should be fine as well. Just how many of us here have early Discovery 3s with ridiculously high miles in daily use?
Also the cheaper (SIC) road tax.Up to vin 6a999999, yours should be fine as well. Just how many of us here have early Discovery 3s with ridiculously high miles in daily use?
Cheapest place for an IID BT is BASHmmmm maybe I did get done over a bit but this one did have a full service history and full year MOT. Thanks for the hints I'll get looking.
Right I'll have a look for one of those signed up to the disco forum.
The switch is naff and a frequent failure. All it does is complete the contact across the connections so its easier to unplug it and stick a paperclip across the connector to complete the circuit. You know if the bonnet is open so dont really need this and the car will think it is shut then - which has the added bonus of stopping the alarm going off randomly in the middle of the night because the car thinks someone is breaking into it!Switch under the bonnet failed? Easy enough to unplug and test with a multimeter.
The switch fails because of the amount of spray grease/lubricant they have pointed at them. If only the pivot point & latch are lubed, the switch only has the weather to contend with and stays working for a very long time..The switch is naff and a frequent failure. All it does is complete the contact across the connections so its easier to unplug it and stick a paperclip across the connector to complete the circuit. You know if the bonnet is open so dont really need this and the car will think it is shut then - which has the added bonus of stopping the alarm going off randomly in the middle of the night because the car thinks someone is breaking into it!
Fair enough. I cleaned mine several times and it still failed though so rather than keep having the alarm go off in the middle of the night (or replacing it at £25) I just disconnected it as above. I cant see the point of it really - I can see if the bonnet is open.... Its just another unnecessary part and there are lots of those on the D3..!The switch fails because of the amount of spray grease/lubricant they have pointed at them. If only the pivot point & latch are lubed, the switch only has the weather to contend with and stays working for a very long time..
Robbie - for the parking sensors (if you are bothered) its worth checking the loom before buying sensors. Stick it in reverse with the engine off (ign on) and then go listen to the sensors - they should click if they are working. Mine werent working and hawkeye said it was the inner rear right. I bought a spare rear sensor thinking it must be that. Then a few months later when I went to fit it I checked the codes again and two werent working. The same ones that werent working werent clicking. I thought oh bugger, i needed two sensors. I pulled the bumper and identified breaks in the wiring to the two that were not clicking. I fixed the breaks and now all works fine and I have a spare sensor!
Thanks guys that's much appreciated.Yep, the rear PDC does suffer with harness problems, there's a couple of splices in there that can get a bit 'green' causing the voltage to the sensors to drop. It's something like £92 for as replacement harness but they occassionally come up on fleabay for £10-20. Or you could get the connectors and make one.
Depends what you need really but if you want something multi car then you wont get all the programming functions. I'm sure I read that Autel could do keys but could well be wrong on that. I have a nanocom as well but its a generally ****e creation and often does what it likes. I have only kept it to change fuel maps on the d2.Code reading yes, being able to program, code, add keys, change car profiles / extras or reset modules I dont think so.
Ummmm well after saying it's not what I was after I have gone and bought one apologies to @puffernutter I got side tracked and am off the the post office now.
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It has a few faults, permanently says the bonnet is open when it's shut on the dash, in typical land rover fashion the passenger side front air bag or one of the air lines failed on the way home in Glencoe accompanied by a burning smell in the cabin though the compressor seems ok so think that just might have been the heating fan not being on a high enough setting. More than a few body issues but seems very mechanically sound. Total cost £3300 with 203330 miles on the clock.
Used to get that quite often, sometimes a bad connection, sometimes one or more of the motor brushes was just on the limit of it's wear, taking the starter off would rattle the brushes around enough for it to be rejuvenated for a while, sometimes weeks. It'd always come back as a 'repeat repair', just when it was at it's most inconvenient.Well the disco went out on its first service call last night and today. Mates grandpa's mrk 3 VW polo wouldn't start, car performed perfectly for the job, was diagnosed as faulty starter, went back to take it off today to get the part number for ordering a new one. Decided to double check the starter was definitely faulty so tested it. Worked no problems off the car so put it back on still working so put it down to a bad earth connection due too age and corrosion. Mates grandpa's happy and car works fine for now.
I have warned him I'm unsure of how long it will stay fixed for so he'd better start saving for a new starter motor.Used to get that quite often, sometimes a bad connection, sometimes one or more of the motor brushes was just on the limit of it's wear, taking the starter off would rattle the brushes around enough for it to be rejuvenated for a while, sometimes weeks. It'd always come back as a 'repeat repair', just when it was at it's most inconvenient.
"None of that reliable Japanese nonsense everybody thinks are great"
I bought a Nissan Navra last year, really nice to drive and does what I need it to, but Navara forum is full of people having DPF problems etc, mine has been fine apart from the gearbox (auto) which had a delay / lag which I complained about and they changed the gearbox under warranty.
Traded in a Jaguar XF 3.0s , 2 years of problems, was at the dealer more than times than I washed it..... never again, rightly or wrongly I tar Landrover with the same brush now....
It seems that no matter what you buy there are problems, do manufacturers not test cars now before releasing a model? You would think they would be improving.....
Cant quantify it but the only issue I ever had with my, Micra, golfs and Isuzu was they weren't land rovers. There is just something that provides that X factor that makes them special.The L200 was fast, (not fast for a truck, it was fast, 175 bhp and 400nm torque) reliable and quite nice to drive
But oh so boring! Hateful interior but I always knew that
In some ways it was good, I doubled the mileage, removed the canopy and added several battle scars, then sold it for £1k less than I paid for it
Give me a D2 any day