Hey guys! So I’ve been trying to find something that fits and oddly specific list of wants in a vehicle and i think a Disco ii fits that bill very well. (Except maybe the reliability part, but hoping you all change my mind &#128517 i came across this listing today and I’m seriously thinking about buying this. It would be my everyday driver and i would be losing my super reliable Camry, so I’m pretty nervous but really excited bc these look so fun. It’s a 2001 SE with 150k on it. I’m going to look at it tomorrow let me know about any big gotchas i should look for! Thanks in advance!!

 

What no. Keep the Camry and buy this. You are going to get all kinds of comments about this but listen. You will sink boat loads of money into it as a daily driver..fuel cost for one and unforeseen problems. It’s a DII so there WILL BE PROBLEMS!

How far do you drive to and fro? If you are driving 5 miles a day and you never take trips, maybe. Otherwise, keep the Camry as your daily.

Beautiful truck! Good luck.

 

Yeah yeah yeah, you are right. I just got to convince the wife that I need 2 cars lol.

 

She will not enjoy the money spent on repairs. We (Land Rover enthusiast) all have two cars if that helps. Negotiate the price down as much as you can’t hat will help.

 

Well at the very least is has or has had sunroof leaks on both ends, it does not look well cared for to me

These are great trucks but and can be a daily driver but they are brutal on gas 25 gal tank and maybe 250-300 mile range on 91 octane.

@stillruns Is right keep the Camry, the Disco will have issues it is 20 years old. Some have a few issues some have tons.

But I have a few simple questions I ask about any used vehicle and provide if I sell one

• How often is the oil changed
• Have the transfer case & Diffs been serviced (4x4 only)
• Any codes
• Can I hook a code reader up after a test drive <- if the answer to this is no walk away
• Has it had any cooling issues - this it critical overheat really hurts these trucks

If you are going to go look at this or any vehicle make sure the seller does not start it and warm it up you want to hear it start dead cold. And start it yourself, check every dash light before actually starting.

 

Nice looking Disco. California vehicle should have no rust. I agree with the above, you need two vehicles. Take your wife on the test drive. She will fall in love with it and you will have to buy it.

 

I also thought it looked like some leaking around the sunroofs. With all that said, if I was to purchase this as a fun toy, Do you think $5k is resonable for something like this? KBB puts it at like $2,500 but I know its never really right with 10+ year old cars

 

I'll tell you the same thing I tell everyone else when they ask me how I like my Disco:

"I love it...as a second vehicle."

I like to fix it, which is nice because there is always something not quite right with it, and if it is well and truly broken I'm not relying on it to get to and from work. Gas costs a fortune, which again, I'm OK with precisely because it's not a daily driver. Let me tell you, right now I'm feeling both of those things because my wife's car is in the shop so she is taking my Subaru and I'm dailying the Disco for the time being, right after I reconnect the battery every morning because I have an excess power draw I can't quite track down. So, in short, keep the Camry, save up to get a Disco as a second vehicle. My wife was not entirely too fond of it at first, but now she loves it

 

While prices of these are rising, I think closer to 4 is fair, but I wouldn't touch it if the seller doesn't have service history. It's a 20 year old Land Rover: stuff has broken during his ownership.

Poke your head under the back and look at the frame rails on either side of the fuel tank for rust. Listen for a clacking noise from the engine once it's up to temperature (slipped cylinder liner). Make sure the coolant and oil (pull the dipstick) are both clear and not milky. Walk if it has these.

Reduce your offer if it has dash lights. Make sure you have like $500 in the budget when you buy it to do the fluids (engine oil, transfer case, both diffs, power steering, and maybe the trans and the coolant if you want to be thorough). Keep a few hundred tucked away for if something breaks. Make it $1000-1500 if you don't plan to do the work yourself.

Most importantly: keep the Camry.

 

It does not look like a bad truck but the devil is in the details. Discos can look great until you take a closer look. Get the carfax if other records are not available. This will at least provide some history to where it lived and what was done to it. For example if its in Cali now but spent 10 years in Michigan, that would be a rust flag. As for price, apparently they are going up. I know when I was on the hunt this summer good ones were not easy to find. I looked at a lot of lower mileage really bad Discos before finding a high mileage (175k) nice one. Based on what I see that could be a 4K truck or less. Depends on the above and how it drives, etc.

Edit add - Yes, keep the Camry