SO You're Thinking About Buying A USED Land Rover Discovery II? Watch This FIRST

They're worth more than 1k these days, unfortunately.
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[@fitzventure]

The worst part of owning an old D2 is dealing with all of the crap repairs previous owners made. They aren't bad if not poorly maintained or poorly repaired.

[@pi.actual]

CDL was there up through 2001. Easiest way to connect it is to install the lever from a D1. I've had an '01 for 18 years and dealt with head gaskets, air bags, 3 amigos, front drive shaft... but over 180k miles on and off road it always got me home, never once actually "broke down" or stranded me anywhere.

[@sarahdell4042]

I wouldn’t even consider one, considering you can get an LR3 for the same money now. Had one new and it went through a set of head gaskets and a motor replacement 😂

[@Ankeneering]

Disco IIs; almost all of them have overheated and blown an engine in the last 20 years because the engine tooling at Land Rover was ancient by this time and those blocks were sloppy. The good ones were put in P38s. They also lack of inline fuel filter, thinner chassis steel, plastic diff plugs, for a while they removed the diff lock linkage…. Later ones had oil coolers removed (on an engine block that was cast sloppily on ancient machinery from the factory). Swivel balls removed…Etc etc LR did a LOT of cheaping out/“weight reduction” “mpg raisers” on these. The BMW engineers got in there and did a lot lot lot of hacking in areas that are not immediately apparent because D1s and D2s look mostly the same. D2 bodies don’t rust to shit like D1s though. And those door handles make more sense. A d2 body on a D1 frame is something a few people have actually tried. Thing is; if it’s running today someone in the past has replaced the block with a d1 block or has otherwise addressed it’s fatal engine flaw. (Or it was one of the 10 that came out of the factory good). So… go for it… if it’s still going today someone else has dealt with the big issues. Beware though, only trust them if they have a crap load of miles. The most frightening thing is one of those Bring A Trailer 03, 04 trucks with “only” 45k miles$$$. People think that’s good. It’s not. It’s terrifying. Only trust a D2 if it has at least 150k miles.

[@PugsCanDance]

I had a LR2 and it’s a nightmare thinking about taking it off road. That thing was the most unreliable vehicle I’ve ever owned in my life!

[@dans542]

People saying it’s great are fake

[@andrewash9318]

Budget $2500 per year for maintenance and repairs, or plan on spending lots of your free time fixing it yourself. Things don’t break once and are good forever after. For example, the valve cover gaskets leak and may need replacement every six years or so @ $600-$900 a pop. And many parts are not cheap. Very fun to drive, but not cheap.

[@stevebaker4812]

here's one for everybody....that stupid electrical gel that no one wants to mention. unless you live where the temps get below 32 degrees. get to drive in the snow... which these things love (with the right tires) with no dash anything... for about 5 minutes until the cabin heats up... always fun... no gas gauge or speedometer... but it's snow so... you can't being going but so fast and hopefully you know you got gas

[@doca8792]

Head gaskets, only real major issue and inevitable around 90k miles

[@shmandan]

I see these on Facebook all the time with like 180k miles for $5000 and wonder if I can save them.

[@sk8rMike360]

I love my 03 D2. Sometimes i wish i could take better care of it, but it is expensive and im not rich. Watch videos, work on it myself if i can. But when its happy and cruzing, its so rad!

[@Casey_J96]

Good information. Been looking for something interesting to get me to work in the winter. Between D2 and FJ Cruiser, these seem to be the better deals in my area but are almost eerily cheap lol

[@SteakandEggs43]

Check those chassis legs. Starting to find them rotten. Make sure head gaskets have been addressed and the driveshaft has been updated with serviceable Ujoints.

[@teyoung2000]

I have 04 D2. Love it.

[@matthewmarkert]

The Discovery 2 is not unreliable today. They were when they were new - but now all the bad ones are selected out by time.

[@milesoroads]

Love ours. Very simple motor. Replaced hg,ps pump,thermostat, and brakes. But that was an 03 i put a 4L in. Very reliably. Got an 04 i plan to run till it dies. Then,,,,prob going to buy a 4runner. But simple maintenance goea a long ways.

[@rafaeloreirorodriguez5278]

I’m after a Discovery 1 , D1 or 2. Found one tanks to KZbin and went to São Paulo is on mint condition less than 3.1 k on the odometer hardest part is entering into agreement form one collector to another. But boy was still on plastics.

[@stevebaker4812]

also for those that want to work on theses themselves super lock!!! lol... there is a device near the firewall in the engine compartment that will shut you down if it thinks you rolled over....these tend to malfunction or the harness will break... or in my case you take it off while working on the car and now you are screwed. in my case the battery was dead so I had to jump it and do the key thing

[@darkstarmobile]

What we have here in Australia that the U.S. market never got that the TD5 engine which was a five cylinder turbo-diesel. That engine is awesome compared to the 4.0 and 4.6 Ford petrol engines.

[@dre7767]

I have a Disco 1 tdi200 manual, I hate the v8s and automatics, and the Disco 2 td5 with Spanish AMC head upgrade is good