I love this post. I am stressing over my Disco II with 209000 miles. In the middle of doing the high mileage servicing.
I have always gone to the nearest oil change facility while owning her. It was fixed when it was broken or running bad.
Jump to last year. I read on the forum on my way to Denver that my front propshaft should have already bought the farm. Got it fixed in Denver ( that would have been a show stopper had it failed replace it if you haven't yet) I drive 60-80 miles a day unless we are traveling then 2-300 hundred a day.Not offroad serious but some good stuff. She has never failed. Working on the tranny next week or so with the good oil. She leaks a bit makes some noise but still kicks it every day. We are leaving on a road trip soon If it dies out there It will be sad. But i think it will keep going.
I did get the magnacore wires and good sparkplugs. I'm looking at 300K more optimistically now. Wife is even happy !
Thanks for the post I agree with many things you say. especially the leaks just keep topping it off.