Series 3 and disco 1 owner to say hi

Just a note to say hello.
I'm relitivly new to the landy scene, only having had my S3 since last august. Unfortunatly she has been off the road most of that time.. waiting for odds and ends to be done.
I've also just got my hands on a Disco 1, 2ltr mpi (lpg converted).. It's a good all round workhorse and covers the road duties my S3 hates!
Downside to the new truck is that my missus thinks I should sell the S3 as in her words "you dont need two landies"... hmmm.. maybe if I have three that will kill off that idea. lol.
Anyway.. its good to find the forum.. James

:welcome2: to the wonderful world of landys i have an S3 as a daily drive and of course you need 2 landys, i'm hoping to get a disco to give the s3 a bit of a rest

i always thought no one would be dumb enough to buy an MPI disco :crazy:

ah well theres always one

:welcome2: offcourse you need two landys more the better i say,

greedy bastid :welcome: btw

V8_Disco said:

i always thought no one would be dumb enough to buy an MPI disco :crazy:

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Insanity is like diarrhoea.. it runs in your genes (sorry bad joke).

At 500 quid for a fully mot'd, taxed mpi.. with little rust and with fully working lpg kit was too cheap to turn down.. And besides after the Series III it doesn't feel as slow as you would imagine! And I'm getting about 24mpg on gas at 59p a litre.. So thats about the same as 48mpg on desiel @ the current 120 a litre!

So.. why do people think Mpi's are so darn bad? Or am I missing something...

Elefantman said:

So.. why do people think Mpi's are so darn bad? Or am I missing something...

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im sure if you search on here you will find many threads on the MPI

V8_Disco said:

im sure if you search on here you will find many threads on the MPI

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I've done the search.. and the concensus seems to be they are slow/underpowered (skin off rice pudding etc).. But is that really all of it?

I'm more worried that I might have a ticking time bomb reliability wise... I can live with slow (otherwise I wouldn't have spent the last year driving a Series 3 2.25 petrol).. oh and if I want fast I have my bikes.. even off road (My cagiva's a full on Paris Dakar bike).
:d J

okay.. figure the post is nothing without a piccy or two of my beloved landies (well the S3 is certainly on par with the missus with regards to love)

The Series:



The much debated "lump of ****e" MPi (with a case of gas):



J

Thas' illegal that nummer plate.

Unless you don't want people cloning it.........though they're more likely to clone Gordon Brown than they are an MPI!

thats a damn fine S3