Brian S

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I have a Discovery ES Premium for sale.














These pictures were taken this weekend and a liberal ammount of tyre dressing was used to bring all the black bits back.

This is not show truck, its seen a few green lanes and there are age related marks and scratches on the body, but I think she scrubs up well when you stand back.

Good points:

solid boot floor and sills.
The only rust that might need sorting if you want to is the front inner wings, but they are not too bad.
Electric sunroofs and seats all working.
fairly new 2" lift springs and dampers
General Grabber 31" AT's on black modular rims.
Has been given a recent full service including diff oils, gearbox oil and transfer box fluid
Gearbox replaced with an Ashcroft refurbished box.
All UJ's greased regularly.
Long MOT and Tax.
Full Cream Leather interior.
7 seats.
Aftermarket head unit and uprated speakers.
Recent Cambelt change.
New swivel ball, and CV last year.


It Drives great, my wife does 80 miles a day for work and loves it which is part of the reason I need to sell it.

1. We didn't get the weather to make it worth keeping this year.
2. Its costing to much in fuel as a daily runner for us.
3. I've not had one running so well before and I hate selling cars with problems so now is a great time to move on.

Bad Points, Now this is something you need to know, it probably wont ever make a difference on vehicles like this where engines are swapped regularly but it important.

This is 2 Landrovers.

I had my old one which was mechanically sound and I spent a lot of time and money keeping it that way, that one had 148'000 miles on.

The trouble was the boot floor was gone which I stripped out and brought all the panels for, but my friend who is a welding god got very busy in his day job so it stayed without a floor or rear seats for months.

I then purchased a sound Premium model to use as a daily.

The origional one had a dodgy Auto box, kept holding in first when cold, so I brought an Ashcroft box off a friend who brought it for a project he abandoned.

Then the new Premium Model decided to kill its box shortly after buying it.

Origional plan was to fit Ashcroft box into new Landy, but complications getting the old one out led to the body to come off the chassis.

Shortly after the other floorless disco decided the gearbox was finished as well.

As the mechanicals were perfect and looked after on the old one it was decided to put the gearbox in that and drop the solid body onto that. The chassis is solid as well by the way.

I kept the R Reg Premium reg, but unfortunately the 200'000 milage on the clocks stayed as well.

I havn't informed the DVLA as I was told they might issue a Q plate so if anybody questions the engine number it has been changed like so many have.

The chassis number doesn't match but I dont know why anybody would ever check that. I just want to be honest and not sell this to anybody without the full facts.

I still have both log books which can be passed to the new owner and signed over. I still even have the old rolling chassis.

Now the painfull part.

I want £2'500 just because it is a good one and they are getting rare.

I'm not in a hurry to sell, the missus is gonna be upset as it is.

PM Me if you want to arrange a viewing.

Thank you.
 
Cheers mate.

This one is pretty sorted and won't need anything doing to it for a while.
 
Might still have it by then. ;)

Havnt advertised it anywhere else, after using it recently I know I will regret selling it as it's just so nice to drive.

But I am missing out on what it's all about owning these. I won't go off road in it any more, I don't want to damage it or start to cause unneeded mechanical issues, so it just a nice car basically I can carry the bikes in and tow my trailer, or the large car trailer.

I will get a cheaper, basic one I can fit my snorkel back onto and my extended arches and go out and play in again.
 
Is this still for sale? I'm thinking about abandoning the rebuild of the defender I'm halfway through and making the move to a discovery.

Thanks,
Ben
 
In my Honesty policy a few little things have arisen over the time its been used daily.

The intrerior light drivers door switch stopped working, the wire broke off the switch and I can't reach it to attatch a new spade connector, all other doors work.

The car has developed a pull to the right under hard braking. I have checked the calipers and they are fine, a refurbed set were fitted 12 months ago. I think it may be a worn trailing arm bush and will be inspecting this weekend.

The Air con is all there but needs a regas after the body swap.

I cant think of any other issues for now.

Thank you. :)
 
ok thanks, im interested to see the 'wood look'. i know you arent rushing to sell, so is there is a rough date of when you want it gone?

cheers
 
I havnt cleaned the inside for over a month and as I live near the country and use the landy for going shooting it's desperately in need of a spring clean which it will get this weekend.

Never the less I have taken the pics shown in its worse light but I will post some more after it's scrubbed out this weekend.







Spotted a bit of surface rust round the drain hole



Others look ok though.













These have been done before but I recently repainted with Hammerite to protect them









 
Decided to take the interior out this weekend to check the floors for rot and remove the foam from under the carpets.

Was expecting a bit of crust and wasn't dissappointed but it was not too bad at all.

Found some surface rust on the edge of the boot floor which I treated with cure rust and blue Hammerite. I then covered it in roof flashing which is sticky tar on one side and silver backed so keeps out the moisture.

The foam in the boot is dry and complete so I have put it back for summer but can easily remove it in the winter.
The floor behind the front seats is totally rust free.
The passenger footwell had a bit of light surface rust which was treated with rust cure and Hammerite. The drivers was the same.

I left out the foam from the front footwells.

The carpets for a wet vac and all traces of dirt was removed.

Now it is a nice place to be again.







Passenger footwell



Drivers footwell









 
This is still for sale.
Had another service last month and went through the mot with extra low emmisions as usual.
Fixed the pulling, it was front wheel bearing and the interior light swith on the drivers door fixed so has all it's annoying bells and buzzers back. Lol
 
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An absolute beauty in my view. I got an '95 Disco ES and love it. True it is a bit thirsty, but on my trips to Morocco have passed Land Cruisers, Patrol's and the like on the steep hills :) Mine has 200,000 miles on the clock and just fitted a new auto gearbox - tempted to get this one as well, but the wife would not be happy. Good luck selling :)
 

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