Ive decided to take the plunge and purchase my first land rover. It is a 98 discovery I LSE with 107,000 miles. I took it out and drove it yesterday, was a good test drive. Everything seemed to work exept the A/C. When I got back I asked the guy about it. He said he took it to his mechanic and his guy connected the compressor directly to the battery to test it and the A/C worked fine then, then put it back to normal wiring routing. Is there something between the connection of the A/C compressor and the power source that would cause it not to come on? A/C relay maybe or is that to easy.

Other thing I ran into was that when I first started the truck the rear windows would not roll down. Once the truck ran for about 5 min. I tried again and they worked fine for the rest of the drive. Is this a common issue? Thanks in advance, I will pick this truck up tomorrow and will get some pictures taken of it.

 

The AC sounds like a fuse or a relay, start there.
Make sure the electric fans come on with the ac.

The rearwindows yes its normal a easy fix,
there was a link about 3 weeks ago that has everything lined out
to fix it.

 

good to hear, im picking the truck up later and will try and get these issues sorted out quickly. Thanks

 

The a/c is controlled by the ECU, if the freon is low, it won't start, if the a/c pressure swith is bad it won't start.
Could also be a bad control unit.
As for your brakes, that is long and complecated and may not be an expensive repair.
Send me your tele number and a good time for me to call you and we can go over all of this.
Mike