The Land Rover Appreciation Group.

[John Hancock]

Must admit mate, I did go and have a look at a new (ish) car the other day – A 04 registered Discovery TD5. It looked very nice, till I crawled under it and inspected the chassis – It was just as rusty as mine! Guess the owner must have lived by the sea.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Shock! Have I single handed brought about the demise and downfall of this elite group?

 

Even its creator is showing chinks in his armour with thoughts turning to a comfortable, reliable modern motor.

 

Go on John admit it, your hankering for something jap but dont want to let your followers down.Haha.

[John Hancock]

It’ll never happen Mick!

 

You can bury me in a Discovery – Granted it’ll probably decompose before I do but I’ll never buy a bland, plain, mediocre, run of the mill, soulless Japanese 4x4.

[Mick Stockbridge]

Spoken like a true leader of an elite group sir!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just dont let them drive you to your own funeral in one or you'll be late.

Edited September 15, 2009 by Mick Stockbridge

[tommer9]

Must admit mate, I did go and have a look at a new (ish) car the other day – A 04 registered Discovery TD5. It looked very nice, till I crawled under it and inspected the chassis – It was just as rusty as mine! Guess the owner must have lived by the sea.

 

you really realy dont want one of those poxy TD5's mate. Stick with a 300Tdi.

[Charlieh]

td5 discos are rubbish, the old man has one, it seems gutless as hell and has a stupid rev limiter thingy that i kept triggering when i drove it as it just didnt seem to be picking up well.

 

my 300tdi 130twin cab can eat his td5 for breakfast

[penfold]

my 2.5TD beat a TD5 off the line the other day, i'm not sure who was more shocked me or him!!! However my landy is starting to feel her age now but as i've had to buy a new van i'm going to have to do a lot of the work myself so i bought the haynes restoration manual yesterday, the only thing i wont be doing is the wiring as she needs a rewire due to it all being a manky mess and i need to repair the bulkhead so i might as well kill two birds with one stone and have the wiring done whilst the bulkhead is off.

[combined tree services]

you really realy dont want one of those poxy TD5's mate. Stick with a 300Tdi.

 

and you really do not want on of the new defenders according to the fitter at my local western powerd yard he has taken more of there landrovers back to the local landrover dealer than he can remember !! some are on there third and fourth trips back !!!! and at one point they had more of them off the road being fixed than they had on the road !!!!!!!!!!

[John Hancock]

you really realy dont want one of those poxy TD5's mate. Stick with a 300Tdi.

 

A few years ago there were several companies that specialised in importing 300TDI’s from Japan. All had low miles and zero rust! I’d snap one up if I found one of those.

[Mac McLennan]

I'm in :-)

Edited September 16, 2009 by Mac McLennan