On or around Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:51:26 -0000, "Nige"
<nigel.inceBUGGEROFF@btinternet.com> enlightened us thusly:
>Austin Shackles wrote:
>> Engine aside, what's the rest of the motor like to work on?
>>
>> I've a liking for old-fashioned things that you can bodge with bits
>> of wire and string. But then again, it might be that disco IIs are
>> in the bracket that we want to look at for replacing the '95 one with
>> a newer/lower mileage model.
>>
>> Disco I TDis only go up to about 98 or maybe early 99 anyway... so
>> increasingly, there will be fewer really tidy ones about.
>
>Think of it as a P38 with a nicer bum. it has a SERIOUS amount of the leccy stuff in it. Whilst my LSE
>has the same amount, the D2 bits & bats are newer & MUCH more expensive.
Is it actually the same system as the P38? erm... lessee (dredges through
forgettory) GEMS? or is it an updated one?
I've no real objection to electronics (mostly, the electronics themselves
are reliable - it's the connections between 'em that tend to give trouble
IME.
The real problem I have is things that turn around a tell me "dealer only
servicing". Although I gather that more of the independents are getting
testbook and/or Rovacom to be able to work on these.
one thing about the TD5, for exmaple: it's said (by some) that it needs
checking and retuning every X miles, which can "only" be done on testbook.
Is this true, either about the necessity or the doing?
--
Austin Shackles.
www.ddol-las.net my opinions are just that
"The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn, The swallow twittering
from the strawbuilt shed, The cock's shrill clarion, or the echoing
horn, No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed."
Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.