KPTV8
Member Since: 05 Feb 2012
Location: Itinerant
Posts: 136
  
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Hi, I'm on my second D3 V8, both have been good cars, present one is excellent.
Look CAREFULLY at any with opening sunroof (as opposed to fixed roof glass), there's potential for a lot of ongoing trouble due to failed drain hoses. Even once that's fixed the legacy of electrical damage (corrosion due to electrolysis) in the floor pans can come back and bite you. ***
I've had one LPG and another straight petrol. I was very glad of the fuel cost saving with LPG, but the engine always ran hotter then my petrol version and I always felt worried about valve-seat problems after discovering the previous owner never used the LPG Flashlube system (some bozo had installed it incorrectly). That engine never let me down, but when running on petrol it showed MPG a lot poorer than my current non-LPG V8 (identical engine other than LPG).
For several years I was doing 25k miles per year, I found the V8 D3 the best-riding, restful, silent steady-handling car of all.
I'm sure they'll become a Classic Car.
*** I have a personal view that for many of those who end up with an unreliable Disco (where LR just never manage to fix a string of electrical and electronic incidents and failures) - that the common root cause will often in the end prove to be water in floor voids. If you don't mind compromising your wading capability, then drill a 3mm hole carefully down from the lowest point in each floor void. ***
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