Looking at buying a discovery, the budget is £4500 max so looking at between
8-10 years old. Do all mk1 disco's have the gearbox problem which i have been reading about? if so looking at vehicles of this age if they have the original box fitted would be best to avoid them? Do the automatics have the same problem? if i go the automatic route how much worse are they as regards mpg. how often should the cambelt be changed?Paul.
On or around Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:15:34 -0000, "Paul" enlightened us thusly:
yes, up to about erm... 98 I think. might be 97.
not necessarily. our '95 TDi is OK. You have to check it, which you can do by listening for excessive clank/clunk from the midsection of the vehicle when taking up drive, changing gear, or when going from over-run to drive again. try moving off forwards and then backwards, drive in say 2nd or third gear, come off the throttle and then put the power back on a bit hard. If you get loud noises from doing this, then it's on the way out. Not necessarily a "walk away", though - if the vehicle is otherwise sound, then you can haggle about the price. Just fixed this problem on mine, recon gearbox (main only) plus new transfer gear plus fitting comes to about a grand, if you go the whole hog and have a recon transfer box as well, you're looking to add about another 500 to that.
no, and not much. The ZF 4-speed is a nice box.
36K miles is prudent, 'specially on a 300 which may have the cambelt problem.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.