Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
Just moved from D2 to D3
Picked up my new to me D3 last Thursday. Its an 06 SE Auto with 85k on the clock. Not perfect, few age related marks, worst problem is the leather on the side of the drivers seat has given up and needs sorting but overall very happy.
Drove up in my D1 with a car trailer, swapped when I got there and towed the D1 home, nothing like a good a workout to make sure its all good
18th Jun 2018 7:25 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6778
Welcome! Good luck with your new D3
18th Jun 2018 7:26 pm
Mike_A4
Member Since: 25 May 2018
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 75
And now, if you're anything like me, you start to spot the things you wished you'd spotted whilst you were looking at it before you paid for it.
I'm still doing that.
19th Jun 2018 5:29 am
indy4x
Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
Yep, already there, list of jobs to do and little niggles to sort out is growing
Shopping list is mounting up as well
19th Jun 2018 7:40 am
Mike_A4
Member Since: 25 May 2018
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 75
Glad it's not just me then. My shopping list and niggle resolutions have stopped - I hope - at just under £2000. I'm not looking for anything else now!
19th Jun 2018 8:01 am
indy4x
Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
Was adamant I didn't want another project as have enough to do on the D1 and thought I'd learned my lesson after having a TD5 for 4 years, was all set to buy a Focus or Mondeo type vehicle and my Brother in Law gets himself an 05 plate FFRR and set me off on another LR quest
19th Jun 2018 10:40 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Ive had several D1 and a D2 all had non stop snag lists to keep them reliable and on the road, the D3 I bought 3.5 years ago has been a revelation for me, with the odd niggle nothing to vor it or caseu it to not work, but essentailly just like any normal boring car, service it and drive it, repeat and so on.
20th Jun 2018 6:14 am
thommo1927
Member Since: 30 Sep 2016
Location: Cardiff South Wales
Posts: 416
Stick with it mate ,Discovery 3/4 are amazing when right I went from a Disco 1 and even though I miss my old disco. I wouldn’t go back especially as I have a 2yr old boy now .Much safer than the old disco.
20th Jun 2018 7:38 am
Steamyrotter
Member Since: 03 Jul 2017
Location: Somewhere near Somewhere else in Somerset
Posts: 117
I went from a D1 300tdi to the D3. (Not counting the written off X5)
Wife loved the 300TDi right up to the point i showed her the fifth gear crash test..........
D3 now her fave...
8)
.If things were meant to be easy, then I will soon complicate them....
Please note...
Anything I say is only from my personal experience and knowledge..
I don't assume to know everything, and know there is a lot I don't know..
But then I could be talking .. O
20th Jun 2018 12:23 pm
indy4x
Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
The D1 is really agricultural but its an off road toy so not too bothered, my D2 I loved to bits, 03 ES Manual so had lots of toys plus was comfy and fast, well it did have the Bell Autos VVT, big Allard intercooler, 3 bar MAP sensor mod and tidy remap, de EGR/DPF and straight through centre pipe, surprised quite a few vehicles including some D3's and still gave me 28mpg average
Kept it on air plus ACE meant you could really hustle it along
But the chassis was getting quite crisp and had been repaired to the point where even a half chassis wasn't enough to sort it out so had to go. I did toy with putting a galv chassis on it but too many projects and not enough time killed that idea
But the D3 is here and am really enjoying it so far
26th Jun 2018 12:03 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Get a nice bright torch and really really study the sills from under the car especially the bottom where the inner and outer over lap each other, this is going to be the D3s weal point rot wise.
26th Jun 2018 6:19 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73144
If that’s where I think about it mine were looking well ropey there for years, but never seemed bad enough to need sorted. MOT testers would point it out and say will need sorted for next time, it was alway a sort for next year job. Unfortunately there is a bigger Achilles Heel that lives just behind the rad.
26th Jun 2018 6:47 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
I got an aerosol tin of chain/wire lube frome bay and soaked the inside of both sills and anythwere I could see on the outside, this years job is to wax the whole underneath, but I want to do front arms first otherwise I will get filthier than normal!
26th Jun 2018 3:40 pm
indy4x
Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
Work started, well it is a LR
A few days after buying the rear tailgate latch stopped working, could open it with the 2 button press on the dash but tailgate switch was a no go. Ordered a replacement from PowerfulUK cos they could get it to me next day and then chopped the loom and soldered in the replacment.
Gave it an engine oil & filter change plus fuel, air and pollen filters plus EGR blank and removal of the EGR butterfly.
While I was in there I noticed the timing belt cover looks like it hasn't been off for many years but according to the documentation I had with it the belt has allegedly been changed in the last 5000 miles so another job to add to the list
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24th Jul 2018 8:45 pm
indy4x
Member Since: 24 Nov 2017
Location: Pontypool
Posts: 195
Today it started making noise from the brakes, looks like pads have just about had it. It also developed a wobble through the steering under braking a few days after picking it up.
Was already planning the V8 brake upgrade so ordered a complete Delphi kit off Advanced Factors today with next day delivery (used the forum discount code ) and they should be here tomorrow
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Yep, already there, list of jobs to do and little niggles to sort out is growing
.. O
