Hooli wrote: ↑Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:09 pm Is it grease in the swivels on yours then?

Nope, no swivels - it's a Disco 2

It was yesterday, but hey... I replaced or topped up all the fluids in my Discovery. What a fucking ball-ache, I ended up lying in pools of oil for about 6 hours in total. But I did change the engine oil, gearbox oil and oil in both diffs (rear diff oil had emulsified) as well as the oil & air f...

Hmm OK, but a lot of insurance companies don't even charge an excess for a stonechip repair. I'd give them a call anyway.

A windscreen repair / replacement shouldn't load his premium.

I had the windscreen in my Disco replaced last week. I called my insurance company beforehand, they confirmed that there'll not be a loading on my premium as a result.

I had three fat bastards in my 300 TDi with me at the time, I used them as ballast

Functional wading limit on a Disco 1 200TDi is the water drain thingy on the bottom of the air filter box. Deeper than that the engine breathes water and you achieve hydraulic lock. (ask me how I know.) I only just managed to avoid hydrolock that time I had water over the door handles in my 300 TDi...

Multiplug under an arch, it's almost as if the designers had no concept of the purpose of an off road vehicle! Check the official wading depth, I bet it's about 10". I'm pretty sure the D1 was around that (it was the height of the hubs). A standard Disco 1 will manage a lot more than that... I...

fried onions wrote: ↑Fri Jul 19, 2019 2:15 pm Whatever they cost new I don't know, but that was expensive transport for somebody.

My Disco 2 cost the original owner £34,920, so it had depreciated by over £34,000 in just 140,000 miles

Oh dear, a Disco 3... I hope it was very cheap.

Good effort for getting some of it repaired, for now.

When's the last time anyone remembers reading a (non-Land Rover) thread about a defective manual gearbox?