[FS] Discovery

Would turn heads on the school run and ensure nobody boxes it in at Safeway...

I think this is a very fair price David. I hope it goes to a good home - and please suggest to the buyer that they join the Discovery Owners Club - in time, it may join Piglet in the roll of honours :-)

Martyn

You haven't said what colour it is David.

It's Foxfire Metallic Red. There is a fairly lousy picture of it here:

David.

On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:12:09 -0000, "David French" made me spill my meths by writing:

He's...he's.... POLISHING IT!

I've done the sensible thing and set up a Web page for it.

Thought I should mention that the counter doesn't work.

Nice looking motor though - it's just the sort of thing I'm eventually hoping to do with mine (modify it, not sell it!).

Good luck - if someone out there wants one it should make its money.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

Thanks, counter removed. The Frontpage ones never work, do they?

David.

Do ANY Frontpage extensions actually work?

If you want the information it's easier to download the W3C logs into something like FastStats Analyser. That way you get the numbers and a reverse DNS on who looked.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

Or try 'Analog'. Can be run on server or client. If on server gives real time analysis, graphs stats etc., like this:

Martyn

We have something similar, but far less readable, on our Cobalt boxes. As we don't get quite as many hits as Google it's still manageable to download the figures, but I tell the MD of our sister co. to use the online version because it doesn't involve teaching him how to use software!

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

After a few hours with the hose pipe I've taken some more photos and added them to the site. Hmph, maybe I should ask for more!

David.

Wayne,

I think that, if David had taken the picture from further away, you'd be able to see that he's just had some cowboys build him a new garden wall, and that he's attaching a magnetic grab to the roof to aid in helicopter recovery!!!

David, only jesting!!, very clean looking car. (Is that a VERY large paint chip on the passenger wheel arch?) Where are you based?

Can anyone in the group give me a guestimate of the annual running cost of a toy like this? I'm thinking more of servicing, tyres, etc. rather than fuel (e.g. do all the guards mean that servicing takes longer? i.e. costs more?). Also what about insurance? I take it you can insure against off-road mishaps? I would be using it as a run-around and I'd use it as an off-road toy. I'm frightened to scratch the wife's (i.e. I pay & she drives) 02 Serengetti (SP?), but I'd like to join the local club.

Foxy :-)~

Yes, it's where the ally has corroded a bit and the paint has come loose. I have some paint & lacquer that would sort it out, but it's not something I've felt a burning desire to rectify. Like all Discos of this age, it would benefit from some plastic wheel arch trims, but I'm not vain :)

I'm in Bagshot, in Surrey.

Not in my experience. For the last 18,000 miles or so, I've serviced it myself, partly from a conviction that I can do a much better, more conscientious job than a lot of garages. (Before that it has a full service history). It also means it's had plenty of things done (eg axle oil replacements) which wouldn't have been part of the service schedule. I wouldn't do a cambelt change though. But when I had the bushes done, it was no more expensive with the guards. The front axle guard, which is the only one which would really get in the way, only takes a few minutes to remove from its mounting brackets anyway.

The tyres last forever and these ones should be good for at least another

Most of the time, if you're green laning, you're on a public byway anyway. IIRC my insurer covers me 3rd party for off road events but not fully comp.

Feel free to pop by and see if it whets your appetite!

David.

On or around Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:34:57 -0000, "David French" enlightened us thusly:

looks nice. Lucky it's a diesel, if it were a V8 I'd be tempted, which would be bad for my bank balance...

Well, only 2 responses so far, both from West African con artists. This is the latest:

Hello, My name is wilsom micheal i base in ireland am a business man that deal in all kindd of car for sale for my customer in ireland i saw your 1992 Discovery 200Tdi which price is . £3850 an is okay by me i will like to inform you that my payment method will be by cashier cheque drawn from uk bank only,we have a client in the state and that client of us is owing us . £8,000 cheque we will have him send the cheque to you then you get it cashed and send the rest balance to our secretary in dublin so that he can arrange for the shipping from out destination,if this is okay by you let have the full informtion of which the cheque will be madew out to you, FULL NAME TO WHOM TO ADDRESS THE CHEQUE TO, FULL ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, COUNTRY, OFFICE PHONE NUMBER, HOME PHONE NUMBER, CELL PHONE NUMBER, as soon as this information have been provided the cheque will be made out to you as soon as posible.

Funny. For an Irishman he speaks appallingly bad English. Not quite as bad as the other scammer though, that one was barely comprehensible. You'd think that if they were going to go to the effort of forging banker's drafts, they would at least bother to write a comprehensible email.

David

And he couldn't even get the bloody name the right way round!

Whooo.... I've often heard about these, but have never seen one before - scary...

Where have you actually placed the link to your 'for sale' site?

Martyn

On all of the sites I just listed under Derry's thread, plus a couple more.

For amusement value, here was my other one:

i am interested in buying 1992 Discovery 200Tdi UK which cost £3850 will like toknow your name and contact address an you # in whicn you can received a certified cashiers check payable in immediately u give me ur contact addres i willinfom my clients to make the payment by check and he will aslo arrange for the shipping. please note that he will be giving you a check of £8,850as soon as u agree to send the remaining money to the shippers after u have received ur money i will give u the information of where to send to the for pic up shippers looking foward to hear from you i will need your address and your # in wish you can received the paymaent .

This is getting dull - another one...

i am FAN from east london based in west africa,i am interested in your 1992 Discovery 200Tdi ,i am offering $3,850,if my offer is accepted get back to me,for the shipping aspect i will be picking it up from your location,get back to me with full i details concerning my purchase including pictures and dont forgent to send your name an address or whom to send the check to, i'm paying with check.