disco 4 turbos
- Thread starter derek
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quavers
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
friends went a couple of years ago , got a few other little jobs done at the same time , was a 7000 grand repair sold it 18months later for £4500 oil was starting to weep again
Diggerdave
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I don’t doubt it. As far as I know it’s a body lift job to fit them. Whilst the body off it pays to do the cross over pipe. Rear injection pump cambelt. Metal brake pipes if they are corroded. It soon mounts up. Great cars to drive but extremely expensive to repair. As the job is labour intensive If you are planning to keep the car I’d purchase the best turbos you can not the cheapest.
spanners and hammers
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
not the same but few years back nissan one went i used turbo tenics at northampton there where spot on would recommend
- Location
- The North
Agreed definitely get best you can but I’m not certain on any recommendations, I got a super cheap one from London Turbos on eBay to test something on another car I own that was using oil, the new turbo is definately worse that the original That had done 130k I would not recommend it 
perhaps try ringing a few independent lr specialist see who they use
perhaps try ringing a few independent lr specialist see who they use
- Location
- Hampshire
Don't know where you are but we have had excellent results from Universal turbos. https://www.universal-turbos.com/
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
Why the hell anyone would want to run these terrible vehicles is beyond me. The V6 diesel in them and the general design that never took account of repairs are shocking to say the least. After spending thousands sorting the turbos you just live in fear of the crankshaft shearing.
ollie989898
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I just don't understand buy people buy the green oval when you can spend similar (or often less) on a Toyota Land cruiser or similar. It's almost like LR want you do buy a new vehicle the second your existing one goes out of warranty. And who the hell designs or engineers a vehicle that you have to dismantle so fully just to change a turbo or a belt?!
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
Like he said above, 100% do the cross over pipe before it burns the truck to the ground, and waxoil the chassis. Brake pipes too.
Rear belt can be done body on.
Just check it's had the secondary turbo drain mod done if its a pre 2012 car , and id personally only use new LR turbos ( not their reman ones ) or have yours overhauled by someone like Scan
Cowabunga
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- Location
- Ceredigion,Wales
They charge a high premium for a nice but substandard quality of vehicle and the worse part is that once out of warranty, and sometimes even while in warranty, they don’t want to know.
Their service managers are and always have been under intense pressure to lower warranty costs per vehicle as well. That the best way to do that is to build reliable faultless and easy to repair vehicles has escaped many generations of their management.
Timbo
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- Location
- Gods County
Absolutely
Lakesdigger
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But why build a reliable and dependable vehicle when you want your target market to live in fear of warranty running out and buy another new one instead.
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
Because most of them are fine and you only hear about the bad ones.
On top of which, Sundays would be boring if you didn’t watch Christian and Vera’s It’s LR Time on YouTube!
They even have something to say about Toyota Whatsit Cruisers too.
ollandroverman
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- Location
- nr Kendal (The Lake District)
How many turbos or belts have you changed on Land Rover products and other vehicles by way of comparison?
I am assuming not many.
Most cars are extremely awkward to work on these days. How about a full engine out to change a belt, or manifolds then head off to reach a starter!
I hate working on most vehicles now. Land Rover products are certainly no worse.
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- Location
- The North
my discovery's (had 3 of them) are the nicest vehicles ive ever owned and driven, with out doubt the best for towing and nicest engines too i was a sceptic about reliability and running costs before owning one like most of the people on here who have never owned one too,
there engines do have faults but they are unbelievably good especially the 3.0, although the 2.7 sounds nicer but less power and much more thirsty
they are actually very good to work on, quite logical, and simple, dont get me wrong body off for turbos is not great but its not as complex as one might assume.
parts are unbelievable cheap and advice is everywhere,
there's sh!t load of good independents, dealers are strokers but who cares as you would not use them if they were good at their rates?
there engines do have faults but they are unbelievably good especially the 3.0, although the 2.7 sounds nicer but less power and much more thirsty
they are actually very good to work on, quite logical, and simple, dont get me wrong body off for turbos is not great but its not as complex as one might assume.
parts are unbelievable cheap and advice is everywhere,
there's sh!t load of good independents, dealers are strokers but who cares as you would not use them if they were good at their rates?
cosmagedon
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- Location
- North Wales
Body off is easy and makes working on them a doddle, just remember to open the boot and remove the rear bumper before you disconnect all the front end wiring!
Go for genuine turbos if your keeping, turbo return mod, crossover pipe, do the belts and tensioners whilst it's in bits, change the gearbox oil and filter as it's easier to lift the box and remove the filter, remove the rear upper arm bolts and grease them incase you have to change them in the future as it's an absolute barsteward to get to them otherwise! Brake pipes front to back then clean, paint and waxoil it all up, also check the centre prop bearing, common to go but easy to change with body on or off.
Parts are reasonable to buy for them if you can do the repairs yourself.
Go for genuine turbos if your keeping, turbo return mod, crossover pipe, do the belts and tensioners whilst it's in bits, change the gearbox oil and filter as it's easier to lift the box and remove the filter, remove the rear upper arm bolts and grease them incase you have to change them in the future as it's an absolute barsteward to get to them otherwise! Brake pipes front to back then clean, paint and waxoil it all up, also check the centre prop bearing, common to go but easy to change with body on or off.
Parts are reasonable to buy for them if you can do the repairs yourself.
- Location
- The North
Nice tip on the bolts, re bushed my rear arms at around 125k on one of my old ones had to use reciprocating saw to get them bolts out, was not to bad to be fair just steady
who makes the gen turbos ?
ollie989898
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Most does not excuse the fact that LR vehicles are badly designed and engineered. Anything German is normally a disaster as well.
Have you driven them side by side… there is no comparrison. The LR is so much nicer place to spend 80,000 miles before it blows….
edit. I may have mentioned it before. I did best part of 300,000 miles in disco 4’s and loved every minute. I did 80,000 in the Japanese version , all be it the shogun and hated every single mile