Hi, my name's Brian I'm 25 and I live in a small village called Pencoed which is just outside of Bridgend in South Wales.

I drive a very clean 1996 LandRover Discovery 300tdi which I bought last summer. I'd have liked a good 90 or 110 but the girlfriend turned her nose up at those so the Discovery was a compromise. Despite that I'm very happy with it and in a way it was probably for the best that I ended up with the Discovery because I use it for travel to work and it's much nicer to live with on a day to day basis.

I haven't really done much off roading with the LandRover, you have to be more careful with a vehicle which you're using as every day transport because it's no good damaging it and then having to take it off the road for a week to get the problem sorted out - it's just not going to work. I am interested in some mild off roading such as green laning and am considering some improvements to the vehicle which will allow me to do that.

I also tow a caravan with the Discovery and that was part of the reason for buying it. My Dad always owned LandRovers so I've naturally always liked them as well (it seems to run in families doesn't it) but it was the need for a vehicle capable of towing our caravan that gave me the excuse to buy one.

With regard to maintenance I'm no expert. My current experience has all come from the things I've learned myself (which usually involved finding out the hard way) and I learn new things as I go along.

I hope I can be a positive contribution to this forum.

Brian

 

Welcome to this forum.. and hope you ahve lots of fun with the Disco...

In time you can always buy another more basic older land rover to do all the other things you want.

 

Yeah that's the basic idea, although there's no way I can afford another LandRover at the moment - I bought my first house last year and until the payments start getting a little easier on that I'm going to just stick with the Discovery, which isn't a problem anyway really.

I wouldn't mind getting myself a decent 90 at some point in the future.

Brian

 

Depends what you want to do with a 90, if you just want a vehicle for off roading then a Series 3 is a cheaper buy, quite a few now with more modern engines fitted, and they can get to almost as many places.

We have our 90 as it is our second car, (when I get it working again, bearing gone in the transfer box gear, and that can happen to any vehicle.) and we have used it to travel around europe and my wife likes using it for christmas shopping. When she has the head on tussle for a parking space, she always wins with the Landie. (Might be the battered state that it is in helps.. )

One of the users on the other forum I use also has a second hand old Rangie, old version are cheap now and he uses that for off roading, keeping his Disco for his everyday transport

 

The old Series III LandRovers are indeed cheaper (although they can still command quite good prices) and I suppose they're good vehicles to gain some mechanical experience on because there's always going to be something that needs doing on them!

I don't like the engine range in the old Series vehicles though, I think they're a little underpowered. I suppose you could put a TDI engine in one, but that's way above my skill level.

Brian

 

True, my ex boss has a series 3 with the 2.5 turbo, the one before the TDI's, he bought it like that and as far as maintence goes it is used everyday as a work vehicle for all to use and only needs the normal services.