Reply to: Advice on Cars

[Alf W]

Lucky escape. The Discovery is a horrible thing to drive on roads. It's slow, unresponsive, rocks around all over the place and physically tiring to drive (ie you have to move your whole leg from the hip to use the clutch).

Anyway, there's a worrying trend on car posts on here. Simple Contractor rules state BMW or Merc for the man, Audi TT for the lady and Boxster for the Kid-Contractor. Those under 5'6" are also allowed dispensation for something like a Mitsubishi Warrior.

Skodas and Peugeot's? Permy cars!

[steve'O]

milan, next time if you like a car then go for it quick, it seems to me that you had a good logical reasons for getting it.. don't expect any logical meaningful or god forbids useful advice from the bitter old contractors round here.. ... I'd love to have a Discovery or Jeep too. don't have a good reason really, just like the really really really big cars

I though it was just the blokes that buy a really really big car cos of the size of their really really small dic*s.
Does that mean you got a small **** Sandy?

[Joe Black]

What about one of these Milan, much more economical round town. Space wise?...well you could always by two of them!



Edit:

"ontwikkeld door de Italiaanse Lamborghini groep"

It's apparently a Lamborghini as well!

[SandyDown]

milan, next time if you like a car then go for it quick, it seems to me that you had a good logical reasons for getting it.. don't expect any logical meaningful or god forbids useful advice from the bitter old contractors round here.. ... I'd love to have a Discovery or Jeep too. don't have a good reason really, just like the really really really big cars

[milanbenes]

destiny eh...

the Disco was sold today

looks like it's the Octavia for some time more then, better change the oil in that case

good weekend all,

Milan.

[Joe Black]

These are good. Bullet-proof motor (never going over 2,000 rpm helps), loads of space and very safe - there's six feet of bonnet and a V8 between you and the front of the car, and other cars just bounce off it. Sorted.

Correct, but if you do hit something a little bit harder than the average eurocar - a tree perhaps - because the suspension/brakes/handling are so abysmal, then you have two tons of engine block sliding towards you and not even the faintest whiff of an airbag or crumple zone...

[ratewhore]

tbh, if you only have the one baby then you don't need a disco...

[milanbenes]

thanks for the feedback,

on consumption, what do you do with these kind of cars, is the consumption really any better on the ML270, or Toureg 2.5, or Sorento 2.5 etc ?

also, not confident the skoda will be good for 100k, although the oil and filters are changed regularly it is driven hard

well destiny will decide, I can't get to the garage where the disco is until early November, if they still have it I'll try to buy it, if not I won't.

Watch this space.

Milan.

[EqualOpportunities]

Hmmm... Don't do anything rash.

The Disco is a nice enough motor - but it has it's flaws... The TD5 engine is indeed based on a VW one, as the chimp rightly says, but Land Rover fannied about with it - why they ever had to make the Disco drive-by-wire I will never know - you need to be a fecking psychic at traffic lights because if you wait til they've gone green before you put your foot down, they'll have gone red again before anything registers on the rev counter.

Oh yeah, another thing, for a diesel it's hideously uneconomical; the manual is far, far better.

Personally, I wouldn't have one - but that's only me.

Keep the Skoda mate - it'll be good for another 100k.

[Clownio]

Or perhaps one of these ?

[Fleetwood]

These are good. Bullet-proof motor (never going over 2,000 rpm helps), loads of space and very safe - there's six feet of bonnet and a V8 between you and the front of the car, and other cars just bounce off it. Sorted.

[Clownio]

Fancy one of these babies ?

[milanbenes]

thanks monkey

he probably used the airline socket on it

i saw someone undo the sumpplug on a ford 8210 once using an airline socket
and the plug came out before he could react, he got covered !

hmm this Discovery is a decision eh.

Milan.

[monkeyboy]

This will please you the td5 is a vw engine.

Got a 2002 td5 with 60000 on the clock and very pleased with it.

Mind you servicing is a problem. had service this week, got phone call monday evening

Sorry mr monkeyboy your car won't be ready tonight. When refitting the sump plug we managed to strip the thread and it will need a new sump. This will be under warranty.

2 things

This validates my view of main dealer servicing. They rely way to much on yts types who don't know what they are doing. But charge for formula one mechanics

Why is this a warranty issue they screwed up, it should be at there cost.


Now out of warranty so going to independant after this service.

[milanbenes]

if it was a Toureg it would be an easy decision, Toureg has volkswagen's reliability behind it, but you wouldn't get a 2 year old toureg for this price, my only worry is that the boys from Brown's Lane let me down on the reliability

Milanl.