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Welcome to the support group. "Hi I'm (insert your name) and I'm a rover owner."
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clint70 (11-16-2015)
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welcome!
I've got a 2004 Discovery also and, despite the headaches I am going through at the moment (mostly due to a shoddy prior tech), I think they are great cars with a perfect driving position, good visibility, highly capable on and off road, and 2004 is the best of the bunch with the locking center diff and other improvements.
Just check the engine levels weekly, change the oil often, and read the guides on this site.
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If your coolant is orange, then you should either flush it outand go with some green coolant ( Peak seems to be a favorite here) or perform the service for the coolant and stick to a rigid cooling system service schedule. Most of us here would go with option A.
Ultra guage is one of your best friends and worse enemies. It's allows you to keep track of your coolant temps, voltage, and pending and current and a host of other ODB port information streams. Bad part is that is allows you to keep too close of an eye on everything. We spend to much time watching it and chasing every little fluctuation.
Driveshaft, make sure it is rebuilt with greaseable u joints and lube them up every 5k. Or don't and end up with a hole in the trans, and a destroyed exhaust..
Is that better Mr. Booth
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Sorry, was nursing a hangover.
If your coolant is orange, then you should either flush it outand go with some green coolant ( Peak seems to be a favorite here) or perform the service for the coolant and stick to a rigid cooling system service schedule. Most of us here would go with option A.
Ultra guage is one of your best friends and worse enemies. It's allows you to keep track of your coolant temps, voltage, and pending and current and a host of other ODB port information streams. Bad part is that is allows you to keep too close of an eye on everything. We spend to much time watching it and chasing every little fluctuation.
Driveshaft, make sure it is rebuilt with greaseable u joints and lube them up every 5k. Or don't and end up with a hole in the trans, and a destroyed exhaust..
Is that better Mr. Booth
If your coolant is orange, then you should either flush it outand go with some green coolant ( Peak seems to be a favorite here) or perform the service for the coolant and stick to a rigid cooling system service schedule. Most of us here would go with option A.
Ultra guage is one of your best friends and worse enemies. It's allows you to keep track of your coolant temps, voltage, and pending and current and a host of other ODB port information streams. Bad part is that is allows you to keep too close of an eye on everything. We spend to much time watching it and chasing every little fluctuation.
Driveshaft, make sure it is rebuilt with greaseable u joints and lube them up every 5k. Or don't and end up with a hole in the trans, and a destroyed exhaust..
Is that better Mr. Booth
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Thank you! I will let you know!
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Hi
I've got a 2004 Discovery also and, despite the headaches I am going through at the moment (mostly due to a shoddy prior tech), I think they are great cars with a perfect driving position, good visibility, highly capable on and off road, and 2004 is the best of the bunch with the locking center diff and other improvements.
Just check the engine levels weekly, change the oil often, and read the guides on this site.
I've got a 2004 Discovery also and, despite the headaches I am going through at the moment (mostly due to a shoddy prior tech), I think they are great cars with a perfect driving position, good visibility, highly capable on and off road, and 2004 is the best of the bunch with the locking center diff and other improvements.
Just check the engine levels weekly, change the oil often, and read the guides on this site.