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Ade_S
Member Since: 19 Jul 2018
Location: Warwickshire
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| A few issues flagged during service |
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Hi all,
I recently had the big 7 year service on the car (including timing belt - ouch! £££  )
The garage highlighted a few things that need doing before long, apparently. As they've just lightened my wallet considerably doing the service, I'm wondering how easy these are to do for a reasonably competent home mechanic (though I've not yet had experience of working on the disco):
- "Prop donut split". I think this is the rubber coupling in the centre of the prop shaft(?)
- "Exhaust pipe for air suspension compressor has slight leak". Guessing not too critical if exhaust side?
- "OSR slight play in hub bushes". Gather this is a common issue at this sort of mileage (100K). Suspect it may need special tools to do the job?
Has anyone got experience of doing any of these jobs? Just trying to work out whether to tackle some of them myself, or bite the bullet (the estimate came to about £1K to do all three jobs!  ).
Cheers,
Ade MY2012 D4 HSE in Siberian Silver, 1967 MGB
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 8th May 2019 9:32 pm |
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Mr Kington
Member Since: 12 Dec 2011
Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 1549
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Who did the service ? When mine had its first big service Stratstones gave about 4 amber warnings and a couple of red ones. Total lies and just trying to grab more cash. One of the red ones was for a re alignment. When I questioned why, they said that if they replaced one of the suspension parts it would then need a re-alignment after !! James favourite hobby is writing in the third person.
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| 9th May 2019 1:36 pm |
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PCT3
Member Since: 13 May 2017
Location: Kent
Posts: 144
 
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If you do any suspension work on the D3/4 it will need realignment just changed all my wishbones then had it realigned that alone cost £235, not just 4 wheel alignment but caster and camber too, my next job is prop centre bearing, as I have 140k on my speedo think it would be wise to put a complete prop on sure the uj’s will be worn too Discovery 3 HSE 07
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| 9th May 2019 5:19 pm |
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Ade_S
Member Since: 19 Jul 2018
Location: Warwickshire
Posts: 90
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Picking this up again and apologies for not replying sooner, guys.
It was my local indie; I've never had reason to doubt them. They've now done the prop donut and hub bushes for me, but I didn't get the suspension compressor exhaust done as it didn't sound too critical and the other two jobs were expensive enough! As PCT3 says, it needed a wheel alignment after the bushes were done, too.
How easy is the exhaust to do myself? Guessing if I can find the part it shouldn't be a biggie?
Cheers,
Ade MY2012 D4 HSE in Siberian Silver, 1967 MGB
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