Many reasons NOT to buy a discovery 2. Tinkering.

[sutty2006]

11 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

I can highly recommend* a certain LR Parts Supplier.
Judging from our recent M6 South in Lancashire experience they are now fitting their own stock into their own lorries.

(Picture taken from a Canberra)

Tbh, those Merc Ategos are the most reliable 7.5tonne truck on the market. So no doubt it’ll have a broken aftermarket part failure on it. How ironic. Fucking shitparts. 
 

17 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Optimist: he who brims his Discovery-2 fuel tank secure in the knowledge that........

he says that right….. the fuel leak happened about 8 miles after filling the tank. Ungrateful b**tard… 

[EyesWeldedShut]

3 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

he says that right….. the fuel leak happened about 8 miles after filling the tank. Ungrateful b**tard… 

Tbh I have to admire your persistence.
My persistence gland has dried up. The last car that behaved like that (looking at you, b*stard-feckwit-ungrateful R50 thing) got itself bridged.
If it had been a RR/P38/Disco then maybe, just maybe, it could have stayed.

Disco 2 and the P38 (maybe) will both outlive their newer incarnations as they are much less mechanically/electronically* complicated? Twenty years ago that opinion of the P38 would have got me laughed out of The Brownies

[sutty2006]

2 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

Tbh I have to admire your persistence.
My persistence gland has dried up. The last car that behaved like that (looking at you, b*stard-feckwit-ungrateful R50 thing) got itself bridged.
If it had been a RR/P38/Disco then maybe, just maybe, it could have stayed.

Disco 2 and the P38 (maybe) will both outlive their newer incarnations as they are much less mechanically/electronically* complicated? Twenty years ago that opinion of the P38 would have got me laughed out of The Brownies

It’s a hard one, if a normal car have this much mither it’d be on the weigh in list, but with this kind of vehicle being so versatile and agricultural it gets repaired. And besides, I can’t afford a decent car like the A6 Allroad I had before again. I’ll just have to wait until interest rates come down and my mortgage gets cheaper…. 

[sutty2006]

I’ve been trying to get round to sorting some niggly little jobs on this. You know that snagging list you have ?? Yeah that’s the one. 
 

The nearside rear window frame is rotten, and the frame doesn’t sit tight against the seal. It’s like driving with a window open. 
 

I’ve bought a replacement for £20, in pretty good condition. It needed a few initial rust blobs repairing first. 
 

 

[sutty2006]

I’ve also been pulling the tints off, they’ve been on since new as any stickers added at PDI have been fitted on the tint material. The tints have started to break up now, and are shedding silvery material. 
 

this little sticker has now departed. 

 

im going to get the tints redone. 

[sutty2006]

Window frame took around 25 minutes to complete. Simply took the door card off, wound the window down, undid the bolts and out she popped. 
 

You can see here, the original frame crumbling away like the titanic 

 

and in this picture, the tell-tale signs that it’s on its way out

 

new one going in 

 

m and this last picture, after all bolts tightened up. It now sits flush with the other door.

 

just need to find my double sided tape and refit the wind deflector 

[sutty2006]

Yesterday at work I noticed the air suspension had dropped a bit during working hours. Same again this morning. 
 

By lunch today, it was sat on its arse. fantastic. 
 

 

lovely! 

I have receipts for new air bags not long before I bought it. He must have used cheap shit bags. 
 

not getting any parts for this over the weekend 🤦‍♂️

 

while it’s up on ramps, i greased the props.  Fucking pointless now haha

 

 

[goosey]

Liked for the double cardan prop not the leaking air bag 

[robthedonkey]

Got me wandering where you work now sutty ... Most of not all of those trailers behind your D2 are owned by the firm I work for

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[sutty2006]

4 minutes ago, robthedonkey said:

Got me wandering where you work now sutty ... Most of not all of those trailers behind your D2 are owned by the firm I work for

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Who do you work for? TIP? 

[robthedonkey]

Yes mate northern sales manager

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[sutty2006]

1 minute ago, robthedonkey said:

Yes mate northern sales manager

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Be nice. 🤣
 

I started working for TAG 2 months ago. Liking it so far 👍

[robthedonkey]

They're a good bunch mate you completely new to them or was in the tupe takeover ?

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[sutty2006]

48 minutes ago, robthedonkey said:

They're a good bunch mate you completely new to them or was in the tupe takeover ?

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Completely new mate. Spent the last 8 years at Mercedes and needed a change. 
 

So. This bag in question is 10 years old, so it’s seen its life span out. 
 

 

but the previous owner was royally shafted for a Nearside bag in 2022! 
 

[robthedonkey]

Eurgh Merc eurgh

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[sutty2006]

25 minutes ago, robthedonkey said:

Eurgh Merc eurgh

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Good trucks. Just dated now. And the mirror cams are shite. 

[robthedonkey]

I worked maintenance control for DPD for 10 years ..... Nowt but bother ...

Can't beat a daf

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[sutty2006]

39 minutes ago, robthedonkey said:

I worked maintenance control for DPD for 10 years ..... Nowt but bother ...

Can't beat a daf

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Jesus, I hear nothing but trouble from all them DAFs culina have had 🤣 all back in for engine rebuilds. Them 18 plate mercs did 1.5million Ks without any major engine work. 🤣

[robthedonkey]

We have a few thousand new dafs on fleet now don't get major issues ... There was an issue with injectors .... Most drivers carry on and blow a hole through pistons ....

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[sutty2006]

I got a bag for £80 quid. A Dunlop bag too, not a Chinese shitter for similar money. 
 

Old contitech bag has a 10mm nut n olive fitting. 
 

 

new bag has a push fitting. So the fitting is removed and the pipe cleaned up. 
 

 

old bag comes off

 

 

whike I’m here, this is a common area to rot with out seeing it. So it’s cleaned

 

 

applied zinc galv spray acquired from brother in law

 

 

liberal coat of semi gloss black then bitcumen spray

 

 

pipe is cut clean

 

 

new bag fitted

 

 

 
 

as easy as that. 
 

while I’m in here, it gets a fuel filter change

 

 

don’t judge me

 

 

the old bag was definitely buggered

 

 

back to ride height and holding pressure 

 

 

until next time! …….

[N Dentressangle]

Nice job. Wonder how much worse the ride is with springs?

Time to chuck a fuckton of waxoyl and old gearbag oil at that chassis too?

[sutty2006]

1 hour ago, N Dentressangle said:

Nice job. Wonder how much worse the ride is with springs?

Time to chuck a fuckton of waxoyl and old gearbag oil at that chassis too?

If the D1 is anything to go by, probably not THAT bad. But with towing a caravan, and everything else in pretty much working order, I’d like to keep the air system for now. 
 

The back end was treated and waxoiled end of summer last year 

[N Dentressangle]

2 minutes ago, sutty2006 said:

If the D1 is anything to go by, probably not THAT bad. But with towing a caravan, and everything else in pretty much working order, I’d like to keep the air system for now. 
 

The back end was treated and waxoiled end of summer last year 

Agreed, I'd rather keep things standard too, plus unmolested Disco 2's are getting hard to find.

[sutty2006]

1 minute ago, N Dentressangle said:

Agreed, I'd rather keep things standard too, plus unmolested Disco 2's are getting hard to find.

And holding good value too. You’ll pay more for a tidy D2 than a tidy D3. 

[N Dentressangle]

On 27/04/2024 at 20:35, EyesWeldedShut said:

Disco 2 and the P38 (maybe) will both outlive their newer incarnations as they are much less mechanically/electronically* complicated? Twenty years ago that opinion of the P38 would have got me laughed out of The Brownies

This all day long.

The miserable values of Disco 3's and L322's tells you everything about how bloody awful they are to run. Such a shame.

I was at the tip with my Disco 1 a couple of weeks ago. An older, well-spoken gent with a gleaming Disco 3 approached me and was admiring it, telling me he regretted selling his. I asked him if he wasn't happy with the Disco 3, his face clouded and he told me it was 'a fucking pile of shit'. Oops

[sutty2006]

15 minutes ago, N Dentressangle said:

This all day long.

The miserable values of Disco 3's and L322's tells you everything about how bloody awful they are to run. Such a shame.

I was at the tip with my Disco 1 a couple of weeks ago. An older, well-spoken gent with a gleaming Disco 3 approached me and was admiring it, telling me he regretted selling his. I asked him if he wasn't happy with the Disco 3, his face clouded and he told me it was 'a fucking pile of shit'. Oops

The D3. A blooming lovely and capable machine. Thwarted by its terrible reliability and engine failures. Shame. 

[leafsprung]

Mine was on springs, or rather had had 2" lifted springs at the back and standard ones at the front, plus the ACE rams hadn't been removed. Replacing with standard height springs, decent shocks plus a proper set of conventional ARBs and the ride was perfect. Very reassuring to know that the rusted to fuck ACE lines weren't going to pop on me. I do miss it. 

[sutty2006]

On 25/05/2024 at 23:10, leafsprung said:

Mine was on springs, or rather had had 2" lifted springs at the back and standard ones at the front, plus the ACE rams hadn't been removed. Replacing with standard height springs, decent shocks plus a proper set of conventional ARBs and the ride was perfect. Very reassuring to know that the rusted to fuck ACE lines weren't going to pop on me. I do miss it. 

The only issue with the ACE lines is they are about £120 each. And there’s about 5 of them. Not so bad if you need to change 1, but I needed to change 1 and did 2. After changing 2, I now need to replace another 2. So they are waiting until I can afford to throw another 350 at it. I’ve only put a mouth full in since I did them, so it’s not leaking too bad. 

[Supernaut]

I just recall a D2 my parents owned about 10 years ago which had been converted to springs all round by a previous owner.

It made me seasick even when I was driving it!

 

Still, it was fun to drive a TD5 manual. The compressor stall on each gear change was epic!

[andy18s]

21 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

 I’ve only put a mouth full in since I did them, so it’s not leaking too bad. 

Is that a Metric mouthfull?