2004 Land Rover Disco SE
#1
2004 Land Rover Disco SE - Decent deal?
I am going to look at a 2004 Disco SE tomorrow. It has 86,200 miles, heated seats, CDL, etc. From looking at it, it doesn't have the air suspension, 3 row seats, or navigation.
Shop is asking $8900 for it. Does this seem like a decent deal? What should I look for?
Bryan
Shop is asking $8900 for it. Does this seem like a decent deal? What should I look for?
Bryan
Last edited by penberthy; 04-22-2011 at 07:04 PM.
#2
I am going to look at a 2004 Disco SE tomorrow. It has 86,200 miles, heated seats, CDL, etc. From looking at it, it doesn't have the air suspension, 3 row seats, or navigation.
Shop is asking $8900 for it. Does this seem like a decent deal? What should I look for?
Bryan
Shop is asking $8900 for it. Does this seem like a decent deal? What should I look for?
Bryan
Price depends on location and negotiation skills. Use search button on what to look for. Good luck, you will enjoy.
#3
#4
Regardless, you will need to do DiscoMike's 60K service any way to know all is done and re-build front drive-shaft with greaseable parts if not already done.
#6
Looked at the truck
So I went to take the Rover for a test drive. Started it up and it has the three amigos. The place selling it says that they have an appointment with Land Rover Amherst on Monday to have that looked at.
Seems like it might have an oil leak from somewhere. The valve cover on the passenger side seems like it might have been "cleaned" up. But several of the cross bars underneath the truck looked "wiped" off. I touched them with my finger, and some oil rubbed off.
Underneath is pretty clean. Definitely no rust like on a typical Buffalo truck.
Driver's side rear trim piece is cracked, he said that he would need to replace that. In the engine bay, the cover over the windshield wiper fluid was missing. He said that it will get replaced on Monday.
There are a few minor blemishes in the paint here and there. Overall, not bad (IMHO) for a 7 year old truck.
Interior wise, the truck was in good shape. Some wear on the leather, but no rips. The climate control was in celsuis, not farenheit. So that would need to get switched.
Diff lock engaged, but when I went to disengage it, the light on the dash didn't go out. The guy said to disengage it, and then back up. This fixed it, the dash light went out. Is this normal?
The other thing I noticed was that every know and then the oil light came on and went off. Not sure what that was, but he said they did and oil change on it. Perhaps they didn't put enough in?
He said that he would give me a call next week once they got it back from Land Rover. I asked him to have LR pull a service history since he will have the truck there. So hopefully that will show how well it was serviced.
The truck rode nice, no rattles and felt very solid.
Seems like it might have an oil leak from somewhere. The valve cover on the passenger side seems like it might have been "cleaned" up. But several of the cross bars underneath the truck looked "wiped" off. I touched them with my finger, and some oil rubbed off.
Underneath is pretty clean. Definitely no rust like on a typical Buffalo truck.
Driver's side rear trim piece is cracked, he said that he would need to replace that. In the engine bay, the cover over the windshield wiper fluid was missing. He said that it will get replaced on Monday.
There are a few minor blemishes in the paint here and there. Overall, not bad (IMHO) for a 7 year old truck.
Interior wise, the truck was in good shape. Some wear on the leather, but no rips. The climate control was in celsuis, not farenheit. So that would need to get switched.
Diff lock engaged, but when I went to disengage it, the light on the dash didn't go out. The guy said to disengage it, and then back up. This fixed it, the dash light went out. Is this normal?
The other thing I noticed was that every know and then the oil light came on and went off. Not sure what that was, but he said they did and oil change on it. Perhaps they didn't put enough in?
He said that he would give me a call next week once they got it back from Land Rover. I asked him to have LR pull a service history since he will have the truck there. So hopefully that will show how well it was serviced.
The truck rode nice, no rattles and felt very solid.
#7
On a Land Rover, really?
Yes
Do a search for '03 (and sometimes '04) oil pump failures due to dowels being misaligned.
It is a Land Rover, wait until you take it off-road
It is a Land Rover, wait until you take it off-road
#8
The other thing I noticed was that every know and then the oil light came on and went off. Not sure what that was, but he said they did and oil change on it. Perhaps they didn't put enough in?
#9
Agree 1000%...if it were me I'd walk away right now...from the problems it has it doesn't sound like it's been well taken care of...oil light flickers on Discos scare the crap out of me.
#10