I am interested in a neighbor's 2006 discovery. The truck has been parked in her driveway for the last 10 years without being started. What do I need to do to see if it is worth buying without causing any damage before I try to start the engine? Thanks in advance for your advice.

 

Check that all the oil hasn't leaked out That gas may or may not fire off well if it's that old.

 

make sure the coolant is full. personally i would pull the plugs and squirt a little oil into each cylinder -- they may well have rusted if it has been sitting that long. then rotate it a couple of times using a breaker bar on the crank pulley just to get things moving.

 

a 2006 would be an LR3 not a D2.

but all the advice given all ready is good regardless.

 

 

Yeah, the OP doesn't say where he is. If he's outside North America an '06 would be called a Discovery, but it would be 3rd gen. At any rate if it's an '06 this is not the best forum for the question, although the basics of what to do when trying to start a vehicle that has been sitting are the same.

When I was in my late teens and working on a farm, the farmer's son and I got an old John Deere Model A tractor running that had been sitting for years. I think we changed the oil, emptied the gas tank and carb, refilled with fresh gas, checked the (two) spark plugs and the air filter and fired it up. The old Johnny Popper ran like a champ!

 

 

That has to have low miles...what happened to it?