Discovery Sport

[mf372]

Interested to hear if anyone has a Discovery Sport.
Thinking of getting a used one (6 or 7 years old), but of course hearing the usual warnings about Land Rover products

 

[Bald Rick]

Run away … very fast. Son had one. Went bang. Bought a Discovery 5 - went bang bigly

Freelanders were better but that’s not saying much

 

[copse]

Interested to hear if anyone has a Discovery Sport.
Thinking of getting a used one (6 or 7 years old), but of course hearing the usual warnings about Land Rover products

I think the engine likes to go bang on them sadly from what I’ve been told by more than one person.

 

[JMM]

Sister had one with the Ingineum engine, spent a lot of time in the dealer's workshop, the engine is made of cheese. I bought a Skoda Kodiaq at around the same time (which she took the mickey out of), which has had a new battery under warranty but nothing else except normal wearing parts like brakes and tyres.

 

[Nearly]

My next Land Rover will be a Land Cruiser.

 

[Tucker]

Good friend of mine bought a new one, engine fire at 1 year old, normally a write off but during covid couldn't get another one so about £15K spent on the warranty.

 

[Magnificent Earwig]

Parents had the cam chain fail, a rather expensive job. The garage which did the repairs were averaging about 4 of these repairs a month
Less than a week later the gear selector failed, our garage managed to find the last one available, more were on back order for quite a while.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Town car.
Unreliable.
Avoid!
They look nice but……
I’d hazard a BMW X5 would be a better choice?
SS

 

[nxy]

Were there a few around with the 2.2 ford/peugeot Duratorq engine? That engine was as far as I am aware well thought of. I think the ones to avoid were the igenium diesel ones with their elastic timing chains on the wrong end of the engine.

 

[BredRedHfd]

Were there a few around with the 2.2 ford/peugeot Duratorq engine? That engine was as far as I am aware well thought of. I think the ones to avoid were the igenium diesel ones with their elastic timing chains on the wrong end of the engine.

Yes. The 2.2 upto 2016 I think are the pick.

 

[ollandroverman]

As others have alluded to, the early Discovery Sport 2.2 was pretty much a new body for the Freelander 2, and are ok.
During production Land Rover changed to the new Igenium 2.0 engine. These are generally to be avoided. The timing chain is severely undersize and is likely to fail if left unchanged for too long.
Such a shame after Land Rover made such a good predecessor.

 

[Hampton]

Interested to hear if anyone has a Discovery Sport.
Thinking of getting a used one (6 or 7 years old), but of course hearing the usual warnings about Land Rover products

Got one for sale.
66 plate
104k miles
£7k
Very good condition

 

[Hampton]

Got one for sale.
66 plate
104k miles
£7k
Very good condition

Timing chain when changed 18 months ago

 

[Timbo]

Interested to hear if anyone has a Discovery Sport.
Thinking of getting a used one (6 or 7 years old), but of course hearing the usual warnings about Land Rover products

In a word, only buy the early pre 16 reg 2.2.

 

[cosmagedon]

Just bought one, lot of car for the money.

I've done the timing chain as a precaution last week, twit of a job but well worth doing.

The main problem with these engines comes down to DPF/regeneration resulting in diluted oil, the long service intervals are an absolute joke and only make the issue worse.

When I was looking through the auctions for one I couldn't believe the service history for some of them, some were on 50 or 60k miles and had only ever been serviced once!

 

[CPF]

“Before you do anything “
Got a insurance quote

 

[Hesstondriver]

“Before you do anything “
Got a insurance quote

the key fob security shares its technology with a turnip.

had a letter from land rover this week telling us to keep the key fob at least 3m away from the car when locked or in a faraday pouch

 

[BredRedHfd]

the key fob security shares its technology with a turnip.

had a letter from land rover this week telling us to keep the key fob at least 3m away from the car when locked or in a faraday pouch

Had a pouch turn up this week from Landover for my disco 4 key

 

[Pistonbroke]

Neighbours wife is trying to sell an 18 plate with 84000 miles . Asking £14500, phone not ringing much

 

[warksfarmer]

Interested to hear if anyone has a Discovery Sport.
Thinking of getting a used one (6 or 7 years old), but of course hearing the usual warnings about Land Rover products

Simply put dont even think about it. Got a tenant who repairs these things for a living. He is 'never ever' short of work ........... ever.