I've just found out it's for the air conditioning, but I don't have it anymore so it's redundant!

Hi guys. I've just got the 2002 Disco 2 TD5 body back on the chassis after months of welding the chassis and replacing parts in my spare time. At the front of the body coming from behind the OS headlight there is a wiring harness that I've...

You will regret only doing a section, cut it all off & do it properly. There is more prep than welding.

Just a heads up guys so you don’t get a nasty surprise but if your sills are rotted, check the centre/rear body mount just before the body arches up to the rear seats, if that’s rotted then you’ll most likely have to replace the corner of the...

Fair enough. When I did our 300tdi with box, I didn't find it that bad, I started the arc on the heavy box, and worked the puddle up to dissolve the body's thin metal with the molten metal from the weld pool. So I wasn't playing the arc onto the...

Well that's what I did with my 3 door but it turned into an absolute nightmare trying to weld thin stuff onto the heavy box section. Also this vehicle spends 90% of its life on tarmac so no real need for jacking off the sills.

Honestly I don’t think it’s done anything to the chassis heat wise as all copper cables are intact, even the abs sensor cable at the site of the fire start, the aluminium rear quarters are melted but that’s only 650c, if copper cables are all...

I’ve had a look at the chassis cause been doing a bit of sweeping of glass etc. The rear is/will be fbar’d, all the coating has burned off from where the floor arches up for rear seats, body undercoating from there backwards is also burnt away...

That is a really horrible thing to see😥. Yes you were lucky more damage wasnt done, and is a warning to others. So when the dust settles you can think clearly. So you could claim on insurance and just forget it, start again another day. All the...

I've had another look at the pics and agree it doesn't actually look disastrously bad. electrical bits under the dash seem to have only had smoke on them, which shouldn't hurt, much! There is a company that offers kits you can convert a Disco...

I think you should buy a couple of these ... https://www.budget-fire.co.uk/product/5kg-co2-fire-extinguisher https://www.screwfix.com/c/safety-workwear/fire-extinguishers/cat850454?fireextinguishertype=co2 Or if (like me), there is no...

I've bought several write offs back from the insurers. They ask scrap value which is naff all. I then repaired them and ran them until it wasn't worth it. Scrap value on yours would be pretty well nix as they would have to pay a scrap yard to...

Yea I’ve decided I’m probably just going to remove anything on value off the body that is salvageable, get rid of the body check over the chassis backend that the fire was at and rear axle. If all seems ok then I’ll just wheel the chassis, engine...

Jeepers that's bad, devastating. Nothing to say that could make you feel any better. Gutted for you.

Sorry for your loss, but you're lucky it didn't spread to the house. I think buy back from the insurance, won't be much, when they see what's left. Fingers crossed, you find another one soon.

Honestly I don’t know, I’d had thought you’d pay back what they paid you for the write off so you’d be at net zero. Not sure as first write off tbh. I don’t want to test it then find out I can’t buy it back and i’m a lot worse off. No the...

Helluva loss but at least you and any of your family weren’t hurt. That would have been a disaster. Hope you get sorted out there.

Cheers, I’ll be better when I’m sat in a working disco 2 TD5 LOL! Yea I’m good and the family, only was car and garage stuff so very lucky really. I do have contents insurance for the house so I’m thinking they will cover the stuff lost but...

It is fully insured, comp too but the cash value they’ll pay is around 2.2k and I obviously can’t strip a lot of anything off that has had all the new parts, front axle for example. That’s if they’ll actually cover it and not put it under...

Absolute Agony, hope you feel better soon, have to try and find some positives out of this at the end of the day it can be replaced you can’t. There may be more salvageable parts other than just the front end. House insurance might cover other...

OK, I'm going to dare to say it. Isn't insurance involved?

Sorry for your loss😞 Thankfully it did not spread to the house! Kev

Man I feel for you. :(:(:(:(:(:(

pics here if you’re interested! piccy/post link

strip off the bits you can as you may need them for the new one you will buy

Alright Guys, If you read my introduce me post, this is the burnt out D2… All my fault. I had a lapse in what I normally would do, I left a dirty greasy rag on the rear drivers axle and it caught fire from a bit of glue that was on fire from...

One of us….one of us….

what price you looking for?

ignore me, just saw it was last year. -.-

Alright, Names Luke, 35, lincolnshire and I’ve got a discovery 2 td5. Bought it sept 2023, was in a poor state and falsely lead to believe it wasn’t as bad as it was. Had no recourse so just cracked on to get it a fresh MOT, roll around 1.5...