08-11 discovery commercial

Robbie1985

Looking at getting one of these.. People telling me i would be mad..'there only trouble'.. Really want one but doubt in my mind now, are they that bad? i see so many on the road.

Mech1

2k per year for the running repairs, then servicing tyres etc on top. easy.

kay 9

2k on a good one if you're lucky, if carlsberg did unreliable pieces of #h#t these would rank near the top

road_high

I heard they were actually shock horror..reliable? Could be just bar stop talk though

exaisle

Start shopping now for a new transfer box. That'll set you back another couple of grand...

The kind of people who drive them tend to be people who want to be seen driving them and most of them must know nothing about cars. I think there's a lot of keeping up with the Joneses involved, but it makes me think that whomever was the first Jones to drive a discovery should be chemically castrated :-)
There are a lot of those kind of people around...and a lot of discoveries. Of course, they're essential in Dublin 4, where the heavy snows would otherwise prevent little Johnny and Mary from getting to school of a morning....

The people who don't drive a discovery have a word for the people who do drive a discovery.

That word is "g0bsh1tes". :-)

It makes me wonder why you really want one....there are so many other vehicles for the same money(and substantially less) that are, quite frankly, far superior. I'd suggest that you go and buy a proper car....You ask "are they that bad" and the answer is "no". They're far worse than that.
You say that you see a lot of them on the road...well...you see a lot of dogsh1t on the road too.....doesn't mean it's good, does it?:-)

Voltex

Had a Disco 3 for 5 years. Costs have been €1000 for 2 EGR valves, €1200 for tyres (4 of), €1200 for replacement parking brake something oranother, €2000 in servicing, €1300 for replacement clutch, clutch release bearing assay, dual mass flywheel.

Cost of owning this car are fricken crazy..but take it off road and you'll be utterly amazed. My Disco has scaled hills I was on my hands and knees to climb, no matter what the terrain..terrain response always worked. It waded through nearly 1m floods while other cars floated by, it laughed at snow and ice on the N7 while everyone crawled in the nearside lane. Its an amazing bit of tech when used in its natural form.

I absolutely love Land Rover..but ill never buy another one..Audi A6 or BMW 5 series for me.