Thanks for including my IG name in your pic!

 

Wow. Now I know why I can't get a hold of Erik over phone or email.

 

Its great fun, highly recommended!

The new one will have greatly improved angle of approach haha.

It surprised me just how brittle the bumper is, definitely did not take much. The trip was great fun, next adventure is the woods.

 

Replaced rotors and pads on the front today, added to my parts list as it looks like the passenger fog light is missing a few bolts and the trim is being held on with caulking as the tabs are all broken off.

Next on the list:

Getting my icarsoft LRII so I can trouble shoot the check engine light. Assuming it is an O2 sensor as there does not appear to be any engine issues.

Rear rotors and pads

check rear seals

start fluid swap in the diffs, tranny, transfer case, and grease all the bits.

 

Rolled 200,000 on the odometer today!

Bought it in January of 2016 with 165,000 on it and have had an amazing year using it as a daily driver and replacing worn out parts and maintaining it.

I think I'm going to do a write up as a new disco owner and what my first year of ownership looked like. I bet it's fairly typical of buying a 13 year old vehicle and what you have to do to keep it rolling. I definitely had Rover Fever when I bought mine but I'd also spent a few months reading this forum (and others) and went into it with my eyes wide open. And I didn't buy the first one I drove (which is key).

It's been a fun year and I would definitely do it again. Thanks to all on this forum for your postings. I only recently started posting but every repair, upgrade or replacement that I've made I did with knowledge from this forum on how to do it, or how to make it easier. This really is an amazing community and an amazing resource of rover knowledge!

 

Finished off the inline stat mod today. Ect reported temps are much lower and fluctuate less overall now.

I still have one scenario where the truck will continue to get warm though. When climbing any kind of grade for more than a couple of minutes temps start to rise and only come down if I pull over. I'm thinking it may be a transmission issue as my truck is heavy and the zf keeps me in too high of a gear due to my large tires that I run on the 18" wheels. So far I've eliminated the cooling system and head gaskets as sources of the problem. I might change the wheels out for a set of 16's and stock size tire that is on my parts truck next weekend to see if that solves the problem.

 

Have you tried down shifting manually, while going up hill? Yes, lugging an automactic trans will heat them up quickly, and in turn...heat up the radiator temps. So, not a bad place to start investigating. How many miles on your rig? If a trans gets unusually hot while under load, it's usually a sign the torque converter is going bad, and overheating from load.

Brian.

 

I'd love this thread. I had a Disco for a couple years, during which time it was our daily driver and only vehicle!

we still only have one vehicle (Volvo xc90), but I'm getting the rover fever. The LR3s don't have the same deep discounts as Discos, but at the same time, I'm hesitant to buy another disco, knowing the best I can do is 13 yo. If I do buy, I'm buying from a sunshine state and bringing it back to the Midwest

 

Not what i wanted to be doing, but no choice.

 

This does not look like a fun time.