A recon should be a complete dis-assemble then strip and clean every part, then decide whether that part needs replacing or its good enough to be re fitted. Sounds to me like he just refitted old parts because he couldn't get them/couldn't be arsed/didn't know what he was doing.

i'd just go back and say 'oi, its doing it again. this time fix it properly and by the way i'm not paying' worked for me when a guy did a bad job on a steering box last year. £900 is steep, and now its doing it again? i'd be rather rude to him

146k at the moment

2500 rpm? bloody hell my disco only ever hits that in top gear.

****in yeahhhh it werent the head gasket, it was a couple of tiny splits in the heater hoses, sorted now and its holding water ok.

aye its my only car. do about 20k miles a year in it lots on mud but most of it is on tarmac obviously.

Well today I dropped my disco off at my mechanics to have the head gasket done :(

Ah balls, so if the mounts have gone then I suppose its cut off and weld new ones on? Or could I just weld some thick washers in place on the outside of the bracket or something? At least if it s the rod its just a trip to a breaker and a few quid. Cheers,

Thanks for the replys guys, car is 100% standard suspension wise. Steering damper is brand new (fitted the day after I did the bushes). Yeah put back on the right way (had a look under me old mans disco before I put it back:)) Good point about the brackets Paul D, I'll have a ganders at them...

Alright guys, after some advice Replaced my panhard rod bushes about 3 months ago, bad steering and a bad judder when going over bumps at speed. The set I put in there 3 months ago were knackered by the start of this month so I put some new polybushes. So the new poly bushes have been in...

The way I did mine was with heat mate, only applies the torch to the 'barrel' that the plug is screwed into for about 20seconds and it come undone first go after that.

Yeah I thought it was split early/late as well but I reackon my late 97 tdi has the 81l tank as the most I can get in it is 83l (with filling the spout up as well). Another random landy thing maybe? Like they used what was in at the time :)

Yeah your mates talking out of his backside, no other way to say it :) Your disco will be 4x4 all the time, with power always going to both props, but the power will go 'the easiest way'. So if one of your front or real wheels spins then all the power will go to that wheel. When you engage...

oh i forgot to say - if you only just got it then check/adjust the tappets. amazing how many home mechanics don't do this, my old mans tdi was crappy when he bought it but 3 hours after i got it home i'd done the tappets with filters and oil and it transformed it.

At least you know its injector related now (well you can be reasonably sure). by the way....223 quid? Is that an EDC injector or something... 300tdi injectors are £72 from mm4x4.

aye agreed with biglad, also clean out the sedimenter. just a word of warning - if you want to go down the performance road, why you would in a disco i dont know but hey, make sure the engine is in good condition, thats a fairly early 300tdi so its probably done some good miles? if you just...

was looking at richards chassis and it says; We do not make 88" coil chassis, Range Rover or Discovery yet. Yet eh? Could be some hope in that, mate of mine got a tdi 90 galv chassis off them and it was spot on.

I took the weather shield off the door - looked at how complicated it was then put the trim backon and now I live with it....damn i'm lazy.

Got this problem on my tdi disco at the moment, discovered after a long drive down the m5 one night, a lorry i passed flashed me when I pulled infront of him, thought nothing more of it. Then i stopped at the garage and looked at the back of the motor - it was feckin drenched in oil. Worth...

No changes? As is your doing the same speed? In which case yes there is a problem, check your linkage, give it a spray of wd40 to free it up. If its not your linkage then you got a problem :)