Early Discovery: Am I being daft?

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

Are there any 2.0 mpi ones left? I always quite fancied getting one just to be contrary, but they have stopped turning up in searches so maybe they are all dead.

When they do turn up, they tend to be tidy and lightly used, I wonder how many MPis are now TDis or V8s.

 

It's not such a rotten idea, a light pressure turbocharged T series would have gone well in a Discovery.

[beko1987]

I used to want a Disco 1, and did see a 2.0mPI in blue. Was very insurable, but people put me off by saying that the tiny engine would be ruinous to run, as it had to lug the lardy disco about.

 

Is this true or is it bollocks and I missed a chance when I was 23?

 

Still yearn after a nice Disco now tbh but I couldn't afford to run it, I don't bother even looking nowadays

[sutty2006]

Ugghhh. Discoverys.

 

The relationship I have with mine is a Love/hate scenario. I bought it about 4/5 years ago when my other 5 door disco needed LOTS OF WELDING. So I bought one that had been welded up and MOT'd. Already had a lift kit, better tyres, heavy duty bumpers and a neat paint job. 

 

2 weeks after its MOT we took it off roading.

 

 

 

 

 

I began to worry during the day that the rear door was becoming increasingly hard to open. Turned out the rear body mounts were swiss cheese and rear end was sagging.... So the day after I took it to be repaired (this is two weeks after I bought it with 12months MOT)

 

 

The rear cross member fell out

 

 

The body mounts had separated

 

 

And the previous repairs were laughable. Glued in with sikaflex.

 

 

Luckily my mate is a good welder/fabricator. But this wasnt cheep to put right.

 

 

This wasnt the end. 12 months later, it failed MOT again for all 4 sill mounts separated from the chassis. Infact, only the fronts and rears were attached. No wonder it drove like a wet sponge.

 

So both sills have been replaced with box section zintec and reinforced body mounts. Both front inner wings have been replaced and both rear inner wings have been patched. Theres more water on the inside than the outside when it rains. Power steering box leaves its mark along with the rear diff, and sump plug. I replaced the transfer box and front prop UJ last month as the transfer box ran out of oil and blew up. Apart from that, shes a mint offroader! lol

[John F]

I know that feeling...!

 

Here's the rear body crossmember I built for mine:

 

 

Full rebuild incl. boot floor, etc. here: http://autoshite.com/topic/18001-discovery-300-tdi-weldathon-now-with-added-mot/

[John F]

I used to want a Disco 1, and did see a 2.0mPI in blue. Was very insurable, but people put me off by saying that the tiny engine would be ruinous to run, as it had to lug the lardy disco about.

 

Is this true or is it bollocks and I missed a chance when I was 23?

 

Still yearn after a nice Disco now tbh but I couldn't afford to run it, I don't bother even looking nowadays

 

I drove one ages ago (about 18 years ago IIRC)... my daily driver at the time was a 2.25 petrol Lightweight, the 2,0 MPi Disco wasn't much quicker.

[twosmoke300]

Does the mpi still have a 3.5t tow weight )

[Lacquer Peel]

Does the mpi still have a 3.5t tow weight )

Yes!!!

 

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/facts-and-figures/land-rover/discovery/station-wagon-1989/7865/

[scruff]

The Mpi is in my experience a right turd. A tdi will leave it standing. The Italian cops got them in 90 station wagons and it works much better in those. However I have driven a turbo'd 2.0 Discovery and it was mental quick!! A real sleeper. I was told by an engineer at Gaydon that they actually built one or two of these but they were so much faster and more frugal than the V8s, management canned it. 

 

AFAIK they still have the 3500kg capacity 

[mat_the_cat]

Does the mpi still have a 3.5t tow weight )

No!!!

(According to the handbook...)

 

[twosmoke300]

Thank god

[2MB]

Looking at some of these horror stories, I hope it doesn't just fall apart around the new handbrake cable! The arse end cat be too bad, I had half a ton of bricks in the boot the other day and the tailgate still opens and shuts

[2MB]

The arse end wasn't too bad. Everything else was. Nothing came up apart from body rot, of which there is plenty. Baby due any minute as lack of welding equipment means I could do with moving this one on. Oily bits are all good, been offered £200 for the engine and box so if anyone wants it for bits or a brave project then let me know

[andy18s]

What you need is a nice P38..........

 

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