1.9td dmax or discovery 4 commercial?

Farmer_Joe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
once you had disco 4 you will not want anything else,

get as late as possible as common faults mostly resolved,

if not getting commercial be careful which year you pick as some early 4;s are higher tax.

some have spun shells but i think its quite rare, there is a specialist engine re builder on the discovery forum he took a tally over 12 months and it really was no where near what i expected and put into perspective how in-frequent it was.
I think this was made into a big issue as LR were poor at first on sorting it and secondly the cost they were charging for a new 3.0 engine!
 

toquark

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2.8 hilux is coming soon, I’d hold out for that. Forget the Isuzu - they’re grim in the 1.9 and a decade behind the competition.
 

grainboy

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Location
Bedfordshire
After years of pickups Bought new Hilux 67 reg, disappointing ride, especially with trailer, by chance bought a Disco at a farm auction, changed all my perspective, Then found low mileage commercial Disco 4 ,
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Life’s too short,
 

robs1

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why do you come to that conclusion ?
Know quite a few that have done it. Stepson bought one with a blown engine for pennies. He likes the vehicle and it's a nice ride without doubt but costs him a lot in parts, luckily he can do it all himself as we have a good workshop with a ramp. LR do love to make stuff complicated and charge for parts .
 

Timbo

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Location
Gods County
If you plan to tow then definitely a D4. Nothing rides as nice and the 8 speed auto is something else.


Definitely agree- the ride quality with the air suspension makes you wonder why the f**k others are still using leaf springs - pulling a loaded trailer it is superbly composed.

Plenty of gusto from the 3.0 motor but she does like a sip.
 

msheep66

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Location
Mid Wales
With regards to the engines I think its just the luck of the draw my pervious D4 had done 120k miles when I changed it for the current D4. I did a lot of towing during the time I had it.
 
I agree it's the luck of the drawer. Our 4 year old D4 needed a new engine at 50000 miles whereas one friend's 2010 has over 120,000 on it and so far no bother and another friend has about 80,000 miles on a 2012 commercial D4 with no bother.
 

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