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Dave Widgery

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Hi
I have a Disco TDI300 auto that I am intending to scrap at the end March as it wont pass it's CT (French MOT) but have started to get a loud clunking on tick over, from searching on the internet sounds like it is the Flexplate causing the problem. I have no intention of repairing it, but if I keep using it will it fail catastrophically, I was hoping to be able to get several loads of building materiel's before I get rid of it, but I don't want it to fail climbing up our small road to the house with 2 1/2 tons of trailer and gravel on the back.

I understand that if it fails I probably wont be able to start it, but is it going to but it it likely to go bang and stop me totally?

Any comments welcome.

Dave
 
Can't help you about the flex plate, but do you know who you are going to sell it to for scrap, or are you going to do it yourself?
In any case depending on where you are in the Hérault there is a good Landrover guy possibly not too far from you, a dutch guy called Rob who has a place in Labastide-Rouairoux, see http://www.auto-essentiel.com/home/1
He has shedloads of bits for early Disco 1s and 2s and he helped me out with an axle and two doors. He's always looking for cars. He may even be able to fix it for you for not too much money.
Best of luck anyway!:)
 
there was an issue with sudden loss of drive with 300 tdi autos caused by the flex plate cracking around the securing bolts,from experience if flex plate has started cracking you havent that long before it goes completely
 
This is one that I bought with a cracked flex plate
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Dave Widgery said:
Hi
I have a Disco TDI300 auto that I am intending to scrap at the end March as it wont pass it's CT (French MOT) but have started to get a loud clunking on tick over, from searching on the internet sounds like it is the Flexplate causing the problem. I have no intention of repairing it, but if I keep using it will it fail catastrophically, I was hoping to be able to get several loads of building materiel's before I get rid of it, but I don't want it to fail climbing up our small road to the house with 2 1/2 tons of trailer and gravel on the back.

I understand that if it fails I probably wont be able to start it, but is it going to but it it likely to go bang and stop me totally?

Any comments welcome.

Dave
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Stanleysteamer said:
Can't help you about the flex plate, but do you know who you are going to sell it to for scrap, or are you going to do it yourself?
In any case depending on where you are in the Hérault there is a good Landrover guy possibly not too far from you, a dutch guy called Rob who has a place in Labastide-Rouairoux, see http://www.auto-essentiel.com/home/1
He has shedloads of bits for early Disco 1s and 2s and he helped me out with an axle and two doors. He's always looking for cars. He may even be able to fix it for you for not too much money.
Best of luck anyway!:)
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Hi thanks for the reply.

Yes I do know rob, in fact I was there last week before this latest noise started, to get a price from him, he has given me a price but is not really very interested, he has lots of parts at the moment, also the auto and it has fly by wire throttle/fuel pump makes it not so interesting for him, he is having trouble finding anyone that is prepared to take the body shells for scrap, he already has many stacked around his place.
But that is probably where it will end up.

Dave
 
Dave Widgery said:
Hi thanks for the reply.

Yes I do know rob, in fact I was there last week before this latest noise started, to get a price from him, he has given me a price but is not really very interested, he has lots of parts at the moment, also the auto and it has fly by wire throttle/fuel pump makes it not so interesting for him, he is having trouble finding anyone that is prepared to take the body shells for scrap, he already has many stacked around his place.
But that is probably where it will end up.

Dave
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Small world! We live just inside the Tarn in the Montagne Noire, near Mazamet. Will be over there hopefully from the beginning of April.
Really get on well with Rob and Pascal. Nice people.
Maybe we should have a beer sometime? Can always PM each other.:)
 
Hi, Yes maybe, although it sounds like I live about the same distance as you from Rob but in the other direction, apart from taking my wife to Castres for Hospital appointments, I don't get that direction very often, probably less after the disco goes as I won't need to visit Rob either as I have no need to get another heavy duty 4X4, I have a Rav4 as an everyday vehicle which is fine for the odd bit of off roading on the piste.

Dave
 
Dave Widgery said:
Hi, Yes maybe, although it sounds like I live about the same distance as you from Rob but in the other direction, apart from taking my wife to Castres for Hospital appointments, I don't get that direction very often, probably less after the disco goes as I won't need to visit Rob either as I have no need to get another heavy duty 4X4, I have a Rav4 as an everyday vehicle which is fine for the odd bit of off roading on the piste.

Dave
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Hi,
yes maybe, as we often venture into the Minervois wine tasting and buying, also to the canal. If you use the D118 to get from your place to Castres you will pass the turn off to our village, the one just before Hautpoul, on the steep north-facing descent to Mazamet.
We can PM closer to the time.
(And we don't hold the Rav4 against you!)
Cheers!
 
Dave Widgery said:
Hi
I have a Disco TDI300 auto that I am intending to scrap at the end March as it wont pass it's CT (French MOT) but have started to get a loud clunking on tick over, from searching on the internet sounds like it is the Flexplate causing the problem. I have no intention of repairing it, but if I keep using it will it fail catastrophically, I was hoping to be able to get several loads of building materiel's before I get rid of it, but I don't want it to fail climbing up our small road to the house with 2 1/2 tons of trailer and gravel on the back.

I understand that if it fails I probably wont be able to start it, but is it going to but it it likely to go bang and stop me totally?

Any comments welcome.

Dave
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Hi, if you do end up scrapping the car I would be interested in the headlights, I drive down to Greece every year for the summer and back to the UK for the winter and although I can buy a new pair of left hand drive headlights here in the UK, the cheapest I have found is £80.00. I would rather find a used/cheaper pair if I can.
 
DiscoRay said:
Hi, if you do end up scrapping the car I would be interested in the headlights, I drive down to Greece every year for the summer and back to the UK for the winter and although I can buy a new pair of left hand drive headlights here in the UK, the cheapest I have found is £80.00. I would rather find a used/cheaper pair if I can.
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Hi Sorry but I cannot help you there, I used it mainly for a local utility vehicle and hardly used it at night, it always managed to pass the French CT with stickers on the lights so I didn't ever change them from UK RHD ones.

Dave
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Hi,
yes maybe, as we often venture into the Minervois wine tasting and buying, also to the canal. If you use the D118 to get from your place to Castres you will pass the turn off to our village, the one just before Hautpoul, on the steep north-facing descent to Mazamet.
We can PM closer to the time.
(And we don't hold the Rav4 against you!)
Cheers!
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Hi
Yes I know where you mean, if I go to Carcassonne ( do a few airport pickups for friends ) I tend to go via Mazamet, it looks further on the map than taking the St Pons Narbone road but it is much faster, and a few years ago they were doing major work on the main road and diverted us from Mazamet through Hautpoul, I am the other side of St Pons direction Bedarieux.
 
Dave Widgery said:
Hi
Yes I know where you mean, if I go to Carcassonne ( do a few airport pickups for friends ) I tend to go via Mazamet, it looks further on the map than taking the St Pons Narbone road but it is much faster, and a few years ago they were doing major work on the main road and diverted us from Mazamet through Hautpoul, I am the other side of St Pons direction Bedarieux.
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Hi
Right! In fact, when you were using, or trying to use, the D118, they sent you up what we all call the "Route des Usines", which winds up alongside a river, or large stream, then, just after Hautpoul, they diverted you through Labrespy, our village, though you would not have passed our house as we live up a side road. (You can't drive through Hautpoul as it is a medieval village whose "roads" are too steep and narrow to drive cars along. You can drive to it in two directions, but not through it.) This is where the new mayor has put up a new suspension footbridge to get the tourists in, which has worked. Good thing as Mazamet needs all the money it can get in. And I never thought I would say that tourists were a good thing, but Mazamet hovers on the edge of having less than the 10,000 inhabitants needed to make it financially OK. So yes, we know the area you live in quite well and have bought wine from quite a few vineyards down your way.
We wish more of our friends could get flights into Carcassonne! So much closer than Toulouse! But they live near the wrong airports.
We don't mix much with Brits in France. They form a bit of a clique round our way, but we have Dutch friends as well as French. Although in Labrespy you are a foreigner if you come from Mazamet, and all you have to do, even if you are born in Labrespy, is marry someone from outside the village, to get a hard time! Our friends from Paris suffer as much as we do! But that is not really a lot, and we have some great friends in the village. They all look after our place the 6 months we are not there, they finish off the poly tunnel's produce and then tidy it up for us, they prune our roses and generally keep an eye out.
We go to Lamalou-les-Bains every year on our way to Faugeres where two of our favourite Chateaux have been selling us wine for decades now.
I am supposed to be part of LZIR along with quite a few other Landy owners in France. And have helped one person stuck up a "green lane" with a three way conversation with a garage as, although Dutch, his French isn't too hot.
Think we've gone a bit off topic here! But I don't care and it is your thread!
Cheers!
Stan
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Hi
Right! In fact, when you were using, or trying to use, the D118, they sent you up what we all call the "Route des Usines", which winds up alongside a river, or large stream, then, just after Hautpoul, they diverted you through Labrespy, our village, though you would not have passed our house as we live up a side road. (You can't drive through Hautpoul as it is a medieval village whose "roads" are too steep and narrow to drive cars along. You can drive to it in two directions, but not through it.) This is where the new mayor has put up a new suspension footbridge to get the tourists in, which has worked. Good thing as Mazamet needs all the money it can get in. And I never thought I would say that tourists were a good thing, but Mazamet hovers on the edge of having less than the 10,000 inhabitants needed to make it financially OK. So yes, we know the area you live in quite well and have bought wine from quite a few vineyards down your way.
We wish more of our friends could get flights into Carcassonne! So much closer than Toulouse! But they live near the wrong airports.
We don't mix much with Brits in France. They form a bit of a clique round our way, but we have Dutch friends as well as French. Although in Labrespy you are a foreigner if you come from Mazamet, and all you have to do, even if you are born in Labrespy, is marry someone from outside the village, to get a hard time! Our friends from Paris suffer as much as we do! But that is not really a lot, and we have some great friends in the village. They all look after our place the 6 months we are not there, they finish off the poly tunnel's produce and then tidy it up for us, they prune our roses and generally keep an eye out.
We go to Lamalou-les-Bains every year on our way to Faugeres where two of our favourite Chateaux have been selling us wine for decades now.
I am supposed to be part of LZIR along with quite a few other Landy owners in France. And have helped one person stuck up a "green lane" with a three way conversation with a garage as, although Dutch, his French isn't too hot.
Think we've gone a bit off topic here! But I don't care and it is your thread!
Cheers!
Stan
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Your right, I will message you.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Hi
Right! In fact, when you were using, or trying to use, the D118, they sent you up what we all call the "Route des Usines", which winds up alongside a river, or large stream, then, just after Hautpoul, they diverted you through Labrespy, our village, though you would not have passed our house as we live up a side road. (You can't drive through Hautpoul as it is a medieval village whose "roads" are too steep and narrow to drive cars along. You can drive to it in two directions, but not through it.) This is where the new mayor has put up a new suspension footbridge to get the tourists in, which has worked. Good thing as Mazamet needs all the money it can get in. And I never thought I would say that tourists were a good thing, but Mazamet hovers on the edge of having less than the 10,000 inhabitants needed to make it financially OK. So yes, we know the area you live in quite well and have bought wine from quite a few vineyards down your way.
We wish more of our friends could get flights into Carcassonne! So much closer than Toulouse! But they live near the wrong airports.
We don't mix much with Brits in France. They form a bit of a clique round our way, but we have Dutch friends as well as French. Although in Labrespy you are a foreigner if you come from Mazamet, and all you have to do, even if you are born in Labrespy, is marry someone from outside the village, to get a hard time! Our friends from Paris suffer as much as we do! But that is not really a lot, and we have some great friends in the village. They all look after our place the 6 months we are not there, they finish off the poly tunnel's produce and then tidy it up for us, they prune our roses and generally keep an eye out.
We go to Lamalou-les-Bains every year on our way to Faugeres where two of our favourite Chateaux have been selling us wine for decades now.
I am supposed to be part of LZIR along with quite a few other Landy owners in France. And have helped one person stuck up a "green lane" with a three way conversation with a garage as, although Dutch, his French isn't too hot.
Think we've gone a bit off topic here! But I don't care and it is your thread!
Cheers!
Stan
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So...East Dorset is on Fronce?
That explains why i couldn't understand a word the old 'born and bred' Dorset guy was saying who lived next door to my mate in Lower Bockhampton
 
yfo866 said:
So...East Dorset is on Fronce?
That explains why i couldn't understand a word the old 'born and bred' Dorset guy was saying who lived next door to my mate in Lower Bockhampton
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180 days in France, rest in uk. each year.
Will see if this is still poss after Borisexit.
(post #13 explains all this)
 
discool said:
We’ll i’m not wrong am I ? YOU are off topic. You have been a member long enough to learn the Forum protocol, but then perhaps not.
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My attitude is that if the OP is happy to chat then I am happy to oblige. He is new to the forum so maybe you had better give him a little lesson, meanwhile I will take the slapped wrist and carry on, but I did mention that we were getting off topic and also the possibility of messaging. So there we go!
(I'm not the only person who goes off topic, so if you are going to have a pop at me fine, just load your pop gun cos there are loads of others for you to pop at!!) No offence intended to all those who read a thread and expect it to rigidly stick to exactly that topic.:oops::oops::oops:
 
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