Yea it is financed but honestly i dont care if I loose money on the sale (6 thousand left). Actually since I have had the thing its cost in repairs and payments a little over 450 a month. If you ask me that is crazy money for an old car with 90k on her. Funny thing is I just had a heated windshield put in last month and it doesnt work either. If you dont care about costs and how much time she spends in the shop then the truck sure is nice........

 

i bought my first land rover a 95 disco 1 with 40k on it for 7995 back in 02. had to get a loan out on it.... with the loan and full coverage insurance and gas it was a KILLER each month! the D2 i have now i bought with cash, got the cheapest insurance and i stay on top of the maintenance....

i used splicer parts and instead of risking me rebuilding it i had taken it out and brought it to a drive line specialist. $100 in labor and i'm confident in it.

 

Yea I was thinking of doing the work myself but just too busy. The shop I took her to was going to send her off to a driveline shop to have the work done. Well today they called and said the problem was not fixed and they were sending the car to a driveline shop to fix it. I asked how the driveline shop didn't find the problem the first time and they said they actually didn't send it out. They supposedly have a mechanic who use to work for Land Rover back in the day and they wanted to save me money so they tried to fix it themselves. I also asked what they did to fix it the first time, he said their mechanic "rotated the ball and fixed it". So they reassured me they would send it to a driveline shop this time but she wont be done today. Cant wait to see what they are going to charge for this ****...... There should be a forum for people to bitch about their Land Rovers.

 

if the mechanic is @ fault they should cover the cost of repair

 

They just called and said it would be an extra 100$ to rebuild this driveshaft. Total cost of 375.00$. Great.

 

I just rebuild my front drive shaft my self, cost me around $80 and is been there for around 3000 miles and looks just fine!!!! with 3 greaseble u-joints and new center ball....

 

That's what pisses me off about this stuff. Dang it!!!

 

It seems so hit or miss. Someone can use the same parts and have no problems for thousands of miles while someone else has trouble right away.

Irma! I shake my fist at you! Why are you acting like, like...like ME dammit!?!?

 

Unlikely they would make good on it since she provided the parts. It can be very difficult on a propshaft failure if it's defective part or poor wormanship.

Annie Mae, I use Neapco parts when when I rebuild propshafts and the last one I did for mine has about 70k miles or so on it so far. But I inspect the parts carefully, inspect the propshaft, mark it before taking it apart, and am careful to properly lube the u-joints before assembly like you're supposed to.

All the DII front propshafts are the same with the exception some are slightly longer.
If you go forward with getting rid of your Discovery, I'd seriously consider selling it yourself. It's very unusual to get more on a trade in than you would selling it. Of course, some dealers will give you more, then make up for it on the new car sale one way or another.

Base, I have no idea what you're saying the people have told you. None of it makes sense. What bearing are they talking about?

 

Base - You took this in for the driveshaft and they are charging you $375? That is BS. If you had taken it to a driveline shop it would have been about $200.

I attempted to change mine out myself, but I could not get the center ball out. I broke 2 slide hammers and my vice trying. I took the pieces to a driveline shop and they removed the center ball (needed to torch it out), rebuilt it, balanced it and painted it for $60.

You shouldn't have to pay for their supposed Land Rover mechanic and his failure.