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Enzian

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Aye Up All,

Recent Discovery 1 V8i auto owner here. :)

I’m in the process of putting together a tools/consumables/spares pack to carry around in the truck to cater for the most likely failures on a 20 years old vehicle. (Who laughed age is irrelevant on a LR?!!! lol).
I’d like to be able to keep/get mobile under my own steam whenever possible before having to resort to ‘the men in orange’.

I’ve searched the site and only come across a post relating to a tdi, although the drive belt, wheel bearing, prop UJs advice is mostly relevant within the same series.

So What sort of V8i auto specific items should I carry?

Off the top of my head/posts I’ve read here, I’m thinking fuses and relays (particularly fuel pump relay as it appears this is a non-standard type). I’d hate to have to be trailered home on a weekend for the sake of the availability of a commonly failing item that I could carry.

I’m not thinking deep, workshop/outback repair, more roadside/camp site repair items. (That stated I did once fix a broken half shaft on a Morris Marina pick up on a camp site in Bavaria much to the amazement of the locals lolol).

Come to think of it, considering the ethos which I have already come across on this site about LR owners helping each other out I think I’d feel bad if I wasn’t able to help for the lack of an easily carried item.

I appreciate that there is a degree of ‘where do you stop?’ - for example who carries a spare water pump?
Even if a new one has been replaced in the near past?
But I’m betting that there is an individual/collective wealth of experience across this community which can fairly comprehensively nail my question.

So although I’m asking for V8i specific items it might also include other marque-common items.

Regards
 
Spares to carry with V8 specifically, well anything under the bonnet plus a few electrical bits under the dash that’s where the difference is, plus of course the fuel filter and pump.

My small tool box only carries a king lead, as the original is still fitted and an ignition amplifier, plus a bit of wire and some fuses and some bulbs, so that it for spares.
 
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discool said:
Spares to carry with V8 specifically, well anything under the bonnet plus a few electrical bits under the dash that’s where the difference is, plus of course the fuel filter and pump.

My small tool box only carries a king lead, as the original is still fitted and an ignition amplifier, plus a bit of wire and some fuses and some bulbs, so that it for spares.
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What no gaffer tape, no nuts and bolts, no jubilee clips, no spare serpentine belt, no fluids? (The two paniers in the back of my TD5 are full of tools and spares!)
 
Both above make sense.

If the car is well maintained you shouldn’t need big major items.

Lots of little bits that can do many jobs. It’s difficult without knowing where you are going and how far from help you maybe. I used to carry a little homemade hose clamp. (Only used it once but would have been stranded without)
I once had to bodge up a top hose with a bit of another hose and chrome exhaust tip with a few jubilee clips.
( that was about 10years ago it’s still on that jeep:))
It’s surprising what you can do with lots of little bits:) clamps,tape,wire. A belt has to be on the list for sure. If nothing else to get you somewhere safe/bits available place.
A good one of those suitcase type toolboxes (wouldn’t go a long distance without my Halfords 1). Usually have enough tools to get you by.
It’s a bit opened ended and difficult to name all the right things. We all carry different. It can often be a Heath Robinson moment.

Join the AA or some other:)

Sorry if that might sound like waffle:eek:
J
 
Aye Up, just got back in.

Thanks for the replies - I appreciate that the question is a bit subjective but having owned a Fiat Panda Cross for the past 10 years without a single fault in that time (Until recently - turbo waste gate actuator seized) and only servicing to do and consumables to replace - discs/exhaust/fluids etc, I haven’t had to do ANY pukka repair to my own motor for a long time. (Why can’t we in the UK build vehicles like that?). So I’ve only been carrying a small iPad sized case with ‘tools’ in it and a few odds and sods as some of you have identified Stanley - jubilees/tape/belt etc - none of which I have ever used I might add!

The disco however might be a different kettle of fish with reference to many posts on here re sudden breakdowns, so I’m just trying to get back into the swing of it. Having previously been stationed in Germany for many years (ago), owning British vehicles and travelling back and forth meant carrying some spares simply due to their limited availability/loss of leave time.

I can see the point Marjon re if your vehicle is well maintained (and you’ve owned it a while) you should have a reasonably good idea of what might fail. I’m at the outset with the Disco so it might be a while before I reach that stage.

I’m interested that you mention a fuel filter and a pump Discool, I might not have gone for those but can see the sense not just from a failure point but also a blockage situation - old tank; running low (its a V8 remember lolol).

Out of interest - is there an effective fault code reader for the late 90s Disco 1?
I’ve read a few threads on here and haven’t worked out whether -
there is;
there is with modifications; or
there might not be!

Enzian
 
Diagnostics? Big bucket to look in, but Nanocom seems favorite. Think it will do yours you need to look on black box solutions site.
Big money to tell you, you need to fix this or that (poo I left that in the garage) but might reset something to get you home/safe.

It’s always a bit of a lottery and fun in its own way, owning a LR product:)
 
Fuel filter is a service part and easy-ish to replace, fuel pump if it fails then it fails so a recovery home.
Based on my 21+ years with my disco other than the replace of service parts, plus batteries and tyres the only main replacements so far was the cat back exhaust and the multifunction unit which was a plug n play replacement.

The water pump bearing failed around a mile from home and weeks later the viscous coupling started knocking, pump replacement was a simple Saturday morning job to replace but took an hour to remove the old gasket from the block, the viscous coupling took around 30 minutes and the exhaust replacement to around 60 minutes.

The ‘spider’ failed finally on the open road, but a piece of wire got me home where it took an hour to install a permanent piece of wire into the engine bay, no trying to access the spider behind the dash for me.:)

And I do carry a roll of electrical tape in my little toolbox, my garage tool box is a big Stanley job with wheels :)
 
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Stanleysteamer said:
Looking at this one, I've got one, it cost £200 but can be got for less. The huge advantage is that they do all Land Rover /Range Rover products not just the one. And you get free updates. I'm pretty sure it covers tdi and V8. I use mine on my TD5 but I have yet to plug it into my V8 D1 and/or my tdi see https://www.scantool-direct.co.uk/foxwell-nt510-multi-system-scanner-land-rover-jaguar-version.html
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Not all but only Quote: Covers all current Land Rover Jaguar and Range Rover Models.
 
Aye Up,

Thanks for all that, plenty for me to look into then.

As Arnie said - “I’ll be back”. Lolol

Enzian
 
My TD5 is not "current" they stopped making 'em ages ago. Just bothered my asre to go out to my TD5, got the Foxwell out, and plugged it in. Covers Discovery from 1994 to 2015 including Discovery Sport. Also covers Defenders, Range Rovers, Freelanders, to say nothing of Jaguar. Could not be bothered to go any further than that. Of course there is nothing wrong with paying £400 for a machine that covers precisely ONE type of vehicle.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
My TD5 is not "current" they stopped making 'em ages ago. Just bothered my asre to go out to my TD5, got the Foxwell out, and plugged it in. Covers Discovery from 1994 to 2015 including Discovery Sport. Also covers Defenders, Range Rovers, Freelanders, to say nothing of Jaguar. Could not be bothered to go any further than that. Of course there is nothing wrong with paying £400 for a machine that covers precisely ONE type of vehicle.
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Ok perhaps the product manufacturer should a grip of English in their statement. I take “current” as present-day, present time.

Anyway back on topic, also in my small toolbox are spare tyre valve caps, as mine have been known to go missing.
 
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Aye Up All,

Amazing - on two counts:
1. Discool, I have just found a packet of brand new/old stock tyre valves (the actual inners that go into the stem) which I probably inherited from either my father or father-in-law potentially 20 years ago!

2. Stanley Steamer - I did a quick Goggle for the Foxwell and apart from throwing up several versions there was one sold by Amazong which resembled something phalic !!!!!!!
Please post which one it is that you have as I’m a bit worried now!! Lolol
 
Don’t forget tyre inner valves are no good without the old fashioned valve cap to replace them:) or a tool:eek:

These fancy new chrome ones are fancy not useful.

J
 
Aye Up,

Marjon, come to think of it I have one of those valve keys in my mountain bike tool box!

Aah yes Stanley, noted. Not cheap are they!

Thanks each.
 
Half the price of a nanocom or hawkeye and you can do so many more vehicles with it. Soon I will add my wife's Citroen C3 to it, for £40, which I think may well include all Citroen models, you can do up to 5 additions on one Foxwell. Cannot do that with the others.
 
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