Mini,

I'll warn you that your engine is prone to exhaust valve stick. This turns on the check engine light. LR recommends premium fuel to minimize carbon deposits on the exhaust valves. The stick is caused by A basic engine design flaw and using premium alone will not guarantee no stick, but it helps.

The owners manual may say not to use additives. Since Ford has purchased LR they have included A additive for free services in A attempt to get the vehicles out of warranty before the valves stick. Ford sucks [sm=badbadbad.gif]

 

go ahead and say that about ford but realize that was a BMW motor in those discos. now the LR3s, Range Rovers and Freelanders use Jaguar motors and transmission, guess who owns Jaguar........if you guessed Ford, you guessed right


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ford had nothing to do with that motor since it is a BMW motor, once BMW's contract ran out with land rover, they brought the Jag motors, as used in new LR3s and RR, also the freelander has the same 2.5 and 3.0 as a jag x type 2.5 or 3.0 (same drive train also)

 

try buick.

 

 

I am running mid-grade in it. It runs just fine and gets good gas mileage (reasonably speaking). Thanks for the advice

 

The motor I have in my 03 discovery is a buick, call it a bmw if it makes you feel cooler, but it's a buick

 

How would I tell if my 99 discovery II is BMW? Also I was told that I shouldn't use low grade fuel because it makes the engineknock and it could destroy the engine. So I started using the higher octane and now the engine runs great. Problem I would liek to fix is that my engine is very loud. I have a HSE, ocassionaly you can hear the air sputs under neath the truck. I was told that is teh air supension. Pls keep in mind this is my first Land rover (my dream car). For all you Texans (Ut Fans) it's burnt Orange.

 

Your Discovery II is all-Rover, with the engine having it's origin going back to the Buick Skylark of the early 60's. GM sold the package to Rover, as they didn't think there was a big enough market for an all-alloy small V-8 in the US at the time. And GM was experiencing quality problems and escalating costs in manufacturing this engine.

The engine has gone through hundreds of design improvements over the years and Rover has used it in cars and trucks for a long time. In England the Rover V-8 is their "small block Chevy", and the aftermarket has produced components and even cylinder heads that allows ouput up to about 500 h.p.

Unfortunately--- these modified engines are quite expensive for the Land Rover market, and most of them find their way into specialized sports cars (like TVR) or race cars for track use only.

regards,
Geoman
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