After much arm twisting SWMBO has decided that the idea of driving a Disco has some appeal. Can anyone give me a brief rundown (or point me to one online) of the major changes/dates during the Disco I lifespan?
I'd also appreciate some feedback about how well auto tdi Discos perform and what sort of economy to expect.
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Not all that well, and not all that good, TBH. After owning one for 9 months and towing a caravan round France with one, I have concluded that the Tdi engine may be marvellous in many applications, but it does not suit an autobox. The autobox lets it rev very freely, even when you don't want it to - on some slight uphill stretches on the autoroutes it never made it to
4th gear. I don't think the Tdi has enough spare power to overcome all the losses in the auto transmission and still perform adequately. Overall fuel consumption was 23mpg, towing gave a tad over 20. And I'm not heavy-footed. A Jeremy Fearn intercooler and chip gave some improvement, but not enough for me to feel happy about it.An early Td5 would be a better bet - a much stronger engine and a better-built vehicle altogether.
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Discovery 1 comes in two flavors, 200Tdi (1989-1994) and 300 Tdi (1995-1999). The first has the input gear problem, the second has the cambelt problem. the 300 Tdi is all but sporty, but it has plenty of torque.
As for realiability i can only speak well of LR, my 300 Tdi has put 330.000 on the clock with ordinary maintenance. Never failed while on route.
Dunno, mine is manual.
12-13 km/L when young, now abt 11 km/L average.On or around Wed, 1 Mar 2006 21:20:32 +0100, "Vincenzoni Attilio, Esq." enlightened us thusly:
not actually quite true. You can still get input gear problems on early 300 TDi ones - the same trouble with lack of lubrication, and the same solution
- cross-drilled gear. I forget when they started fitting the cross-drilled gear in the factory to LT230 T-boxes, but it was, IIRC, after the introduction of the R380 box at the beginning of 300TDis.
FWIW, in terms of gear shift at the user end, I preferred the LT77 myself :-)
Austin Hi,
1995 is supposed to be the model year of the introduction of the cross drilled input gear but several vehicles of this model year were fitted with LT230 tboxes with out the drilled gear.Another solution which is easier and more cost effective and can be retrofitted to older Tboxes without replacement of the input gear is to fit the oil feeder plate the Steve Parker fabricates and sells. I have tried it on several vehicles of fellow members (about 30 up until now) and always got very good results in extending the life of those LT230 tboxes and quitening down the whine.
The 200Tdi engine is a bit more fuel efficient in terms of fuel consumption and easier to tweak especially when compared with the electronicaly controlled 300Tdi ones. 300Tdi engines tend to be a bit quiter and have relatively cheaper spares on most occasions.
Take care Pantelis
cross-drilled
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