Billaboard
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I had a couple of 110's and then, when my clutch knee went, an auto Disco 1. The D1 had virtually no maintenance and ended up being like driving naked under Niagara Falls when it rained, but ran brilliantly until it caught fire while the chassis was being welded.
To continue to be able to tow our 3-ton boat, against my better judgement, I bought a Grand Cherokee that had been OK before being left parked for a year. It has some good points - eg attractive looks, galvanised body, comfortable, goes like a rocket and some bad eg hopeless on corners and roundabouts and the killers - in low range the transmission is locked fore and aft so it can't be driven in low on a tarmac/rough ground mix, plus every garage round here just shakes their head and sends me away.
The local main agents don't even have the diagnostics or tools to work on it. The dreadful Merc engine has had to have the traditional black death operated on and the bodywork hacked for injector access. The people that did that don't want me back, but it will be a bargain for someone in an area where a good indy Jeep specialist operates. I'm too old to poke about under cars any more and have little cash left after the Jeep.
SWMBO expressed horror and wouldn't go in my D1, but likes the comfort of the Jeep, so I'm looking for a D2 or D3 or something Japanese that doesn't rust. I've asked a question about low range on the D2 and 3 in the Disco section.
Sorry about the long post.
I had a couple of 110's and then, when my clutch knee went, an auto Disco 1. The D1 had virtually no maintenance and ended up being like driving naked under Niagara Falls when it rained, but ran brilliantly until it caught fire while the chassis was being welded.
To continue to be able to tow our 3-ton boat, against my better judgement, I bought a Grand Cherokee that had been OK before being left parked for a year. It has some good points - eg attractive looks, galvanised body, comfortable, goes like a rocket and some bad eg hopeless on corners and roundabouts and the killers - in low range the transmission is locked fore and aft so it can't be driven in low on a tarmac/rough ground mix, plus every garage round here just shakes their head and sends me away.
The local main agents don't even have the diagnostics or tools to work on it. The dreadful Merc engine has had to have the traditional black death operated on and the bodywork hacked for injector access. The people that did that don't want me back, but it will be a bargain for someone in an area where a good indy Jeep specialist operates. I'm too old to poke about under cars any more and have little cash left after the Jeep.
SWMBO expressed horror and wouldn't go in my D1, but likes the comfort of the Jeep, so I'm looking for a D2 or D3 or something Japanese that doesn't rust. I've asked a question about low range on the D2 and 3 in the Disco section.
Sorry about the long post.