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your temps are lower than mine. Did you use a 180 degree stat? Do you have a 4.6? Oil cooler?
(Enquiring minds need to know )
180* stat from summit, inline in a mez housing. Up top like every other inline mod. gonna clean that up later. 4.0 , no oil cooler, radiator has less than 10k on it.
Now that things have settled down a bit, getting some fluctuations. On startup, i get up to 194, then the thermostat opens and it plummets down to 175 (give or take.) gotta put the 1/8 inch hole in the thermo, it has a jiggle pin, put maybe another hole will help that.
Idle temp hasn't changed Still sits at 183. Driving temp does though, fluctuates between 177-186. 181 while cruising, down to 177 when off throttle, back up to 186 when stopped, idle down to 183.
to me, I'll take then 10 degree swing being inline as opposed to the 20 plus degree swing with the factory setup.
Other problems have risen. now i have noise from driveshaft.
I looked at 16 in 4 states over a three week period and you learn after the first four or five what to look for (real life as opposed to just reading about them in the forum). I settled on one that had higher mileage but I was able to source the service records up thru the last six months that it spent on the secondary market after being traded in by the last owner for a new Mercedes.
There are still good ones out there, you just have to look and be PATIENT. Hard to do when you have the fever but with some common sense and a little work on your part you can have an older daily driver with higher mileage.
I spent a lot of time doing preventative maintenance over the mods I want to do to it. I keep telling myself that once it's mechanically sound then I'll have fun with the other things. And I have to say that despite putting 35,000 miles on it over the past 12 months (I used to run the roads of Georgia as a part of my job) it's never once left me stranded.
Good luck finding one!
Thanks for detailing that. I had my 03 from 2013-2015. There were some hairy moments, but, like you, over 30,000+ miles, it never failed to start when I needed it to or take us where we needed to go. I've fixed Amigos, O2 sensors, and all of the fluids. So I think I have a pretty good idea about what to look for in a used disco. But at the end of the day, these machines are getting old, which is why I'm eyeing the LR3 instead.
And, perhaps most importantly, at the end of the day, we only need one car, and our XC90 is doing a good job.
Due to the Blizzard of 2017 here in Georgia , I needed heated seats in my 2001 Disco.
If you have the leather seats package on your Disco 2's, then you have heater units built into the seats and the connections are in the center console behind the window switches.
Thanks to @DiscoveryNomad on Instagram for showing that this can be done!
Before:
Where the heater connections are located:
All the connections:
Success! Both seats get very warm after a few minutes:
Last edited by JUKE179r; Jan 13, 2017 at 05:08 AM.
Due to the Blizzard of 2017 here in Georgia , I needed heated seats in my 2001 Disco.
If you have the leather seats package on your Disco 2's, then you have heater units built into the seats and the connections are in the center console behind the window switches.
Thanks to @DiscoveryNomad on Instagram for showing that this can be done!
I swapped the location of the rear and front windows when I had my console off. The fronts were at the bottom and now at the top of the console.
Due to the Blizzard of 2017 here in Georgia , I needed heated seats in my 2001 Disco.
If you have the leather seats package on your Disco 2's, then you have heater units built into the seats and the connections are in the center console behind the window switches.
Just because the switches light up, that doesn't mean the seats will get warm. The heater wires are notorious for breaking and there's no feedback loop to make the light go out if the circuit is broken.
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, I needed heated seats in my 2001 Disco.
