Bolognese Sauce - contains Disco AND NOW oweld Landy 4 SAYELL!!!

[Guest Breadvan72]

I am thinking of a ski wagon for driving to the Alps in.   Hmmm, this one is already near the Alps....

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C568937

 

 

RyanScair, jolly night in Bologna (no Spag Bol, the Bolognese NEVER eat Ragu with Spag - they use tagliatelle or papardelle like civilised people), Eurotunnel home.   RHD and UK plates.  Wonder if it is dizzer or pezzer?

 

 

EDIT:  See BELOW for phab Series 3 LANDYSELLAGE OMG OFFA!!!!!

[skattrd]

If you're considering going to Euroland for Landy why not go to Portugal and get a LHD 3 door RR?

You can stop in Andora on the way back for a bit of skiage if you want as well.

 

You could always get an Umm whilst in Portugal if you were feeling like punishing the Mrs.

[HMC]

Seems cheap enough and looks pretty straight, I think theres a td5 badge on the back, although a dvla check (not suprising) cant help on the cc to confirm. -UA says it started life in leeds.

[panhard65]

DVLA says it is a diesel mot ran out in feb and hasn't been taxed for a couple of years. They really do like to rot though but the price is about right if it happens to be a good un. Watch for rust in the chassis and electrical faults kill most off

[EssDeeWon]

Its a 2.5 Dizzler mate.

 

Vehicle details

• Vehicle make LAND ROVER
• Date of first registration 09 June 1999
• Year of manufacture 1999
• Cylinder capacity (cc) 2495cc
• COâ‚‚Emissions Not available
• Fuel type DIESEL
• Vehicle status Not taxed
• Vehicle colour GREEN
• Vehicle type approval Not available
• Wheelplan 2 AXLE RIGID BODY
•  

[jakebullet]

I like it. Just check there's chassis at the back.

[andrew e]

Dependant on which euro-zone mountains you pick, you will need the bonafida snowflake-in-the-alp logo to be road legal, so factory in £400+ for new tyres too.

[dollywobbler]

As long as the engine isn't suffering from one of the many, many maladies these engines have - leaking oil into the ECU, fouling up the injector wiring, filling the sump with diesel until REVS OF DEATH, bending the exhaust manifold or OMG HGF, these are pretty decent. 

 

But did anyone mention chassis rot? 

[Guest Lord Sward]

I love these things.  They are bursting with character but with none of the drawbacks of the Offender.  Theres a Reader's Wives feature on them in this months Car Mechanics.

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

If you're considering going to Euroland for Landy why not go to Portugal and get a LHD 3 door RR?

You can stop in Andora on the way back for a bit of skiage if you want as well.

 

You could always get an Umm whilst in Portugal if you were feeling like punishing the Mrs.

 

 

Who needs Portugal when there is Monza?

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C616941

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Me hatez diesels and me lovez Rovah V8s, but even I recognise that if driving from Oxon to Chamonix and back with a load of fancy clobber and a bunch of fractious yoof in the back, diesel wins.   That way you can still afford some actual cheese and beer when you get to the ski hut.  

[Guest Breadvan72]

New tyres, no probz, as many chodes come with crapola tyres anyway so I usually expect to get some new ones.   Always refreshing when I buy a shitheap and the tyres are actually OK. 

 

Could always use the incipient Bimmerfive as a Ski trippage weapon, I suppose.  RWD auto on ice yaaaaay.  I fondly* recall lying on the ground in an Alpine car park using maximum swearing to fit snow chains to a Three Series just after the show jumping on ice circus had left town.  Mmmm, still steaming, too. 

[mat_the_cat]

Go on, take the Series 3 down to a ski resort, that would be an epic trip! Bonus points for doing in a day.

[andrew e]

I have some pictures of my E39 on chains, better than you'd imagine. But like you said a swine to fit, culminating in breaking my watch and busting my hand on a strut tower on one trip....

 

As for BMW's in snow - no worries!

 

http://www.aronline.co.uk/blogs/marques/bmw/snow-joke-out-there/

[Junkman]

Spaghetti with Ragu. Cursed be Teutates! Sounds like a Range Rover with a diesel engine to me. How ghastly. Only total oiks would opt for something this barbaric.

The thought alone makes my semen curdle, my arse hurt and my dillywang fall off in slices.

 

O tempori, o mores!

 

The only normalised alternatives to a V8 Rangey for show uppage in an alpine ski resort would be a Bentley, or a DKW Munga.

[andrew e]

Junkman I raise you this:

 

[Junkman]

Now that's just one notch short of a Monteverdi Safari, well done!

[dieselassist]

...if were me, Id stear clear of that Disco; early TD5 engine Disco's; and this is an early one- 98/99 they came out in; have a bad rep here, at least. I have a 99 300tdi myself, n bought it as it was the last of the 'old style'/LDA non ECU interfered with diesel's rather than computer controlled TD5's.... as such late 99, n even 2000 300tdis seem to be more 'sought after' than the early TD5's... most folk in the know seem to recognise this; the rest seem to get smitten by the later disco 2's facelift n better spec...

My sister's fella is a vet n swears by the disco's - easy on juice, but recently told me 'all that I pretty much knew already' about the early TD5 disco's being crap n detonating their lumps - hes had six of them; the last 3 have been TD5's - his latest is an 03, n he reckons 'after 2001, they were 'a bit more sorted' or 'right enuff' to quote correctly... he rolled his 2nd last TD5 disco 2.... I drove his latest 2003 one briefly n the ride seems a lot more wallowey than my disco 1 300; sits a lot lower also than mine...

 

As for chassis rust; on the disco 2's - it seems the early TD5 millennium ones are the worst culprits; it seems to start around the rear spring cups- in board n outboard of the chassis on the 'rear axle 'hop' of the chassis, n spreads back - as I am a welder, I have, over the years been asked to 'shuffle in under' one or two....Ive seen all 'degrees' of rust - just a bit on the hop to lacey 'not much there at all'....

[garethj]

It's a bit of a trek to find that the chassis is rusty and you can see the rear tyres through the door jamb.

 

I'd echo the late 300Tdi if you can find a mint one, but the UK is probably a good place to search.  That 3 door Rangey is lovely and probably an excellent investment

[Guest Breadvan72]

Now that's just one notch short of a Monteverdi Safari, well done!

 

 

Monteverdi?  I knew him when he was still called Greenberg.

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

 

O tempori, o mores!

 

 

 

 

Totes Cicero PHAIL, brah.  He says "O temporA, o mores."   

[Guest Breadvan72]

I know that a Disco is just a Ranger Rover for povs, but I like the fact that the early ones are copies of Matra Ranchos.    The late ones look like shit houses. 

 

This one has the propah engine.  Diesel is the spume of Beelzebub, as any fule kno.  

 

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C575605

[Guest Breadvan72]

 

Go on, take the Series 3 down to a ski resort, that would be an epic trip! Bonus points for doing in a day.

 

 

Me, after five minutes driving to the tip in the Landy 

 

 

[auldford]

 

 

 

 

Me, after five minutes driving to the tip in the Landy 

 

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You've just reminded me that I really should watch Combat Shock again....

[Clanger]

I will look forward to the live updates as you cut a swathe through northern Europeshire.

 

I'll warm up the gluhwein and fondue.

 

Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant!

[Skizzer]

Buy my Yeti.  Comes with winter wheels and detachable roof bars.  Will qualify as shite one day.  Tis an OMG VAG Diesel though, so don't take it to California.

 

More expensive than a 90s Disco, but cheaper than that Range Rover in Monza.

 

2010 Skoda Yeti Elegance 2.0TDI 170PS 4x4 by Skizzer, on Flickr

[Guest Breadvan72]

Only snags are that it is gopping, and that Countess Blondewska thinks Czechs are common.

[Skizzer]

Harsh.  But fair.

[Sigmund Fraud]

I am thinking of a ski wagon for driving to the Alps in.

 

Look no further :

 

[Junkman]

Totes Cicero PHAIL, brah.  He says "O temporA, o mores."   

 

You heard him?