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If you only want it for towing duties, don't rule out the 4.0 V8 petrol.

Much cheaper to buy initially than a 300Tdi/Td5 diesel. Petrol around 8p per litre cheaper than diesel at the pumps. Depending on your mileage you may be surprised at what little difference there will be in overall running costs.

There were issues with some V8's whereby they lost coolant, typically through cracked cylinders, but I've seen some examples for sale with in excess of 140k miles. Some V8 Discos have had their blocks converted using 'top-hat' liners that apparently have resolved the problem.

I drove one about a year ago, '52 plate with 56k on the clock. Smooth as silk and punchy too (in comparison to a 23 yr old Defender anyway!). Dealer wouldn't budge on price (on the front for £5995 as I recall) pretty good all round condition but decided not to buy it at the time.

My previous td5 manual was remapped de egr de cat over size intercooler. pulled our avondale no prob. with the van on the back calculated brim to brim it returned 33.4 mpg.V8 discovery average 14 mpg

Calculated brim to brim thats the figure it came out with. standard spec manual  Consumption/Emissions
mpg (combined): 30.1
mpg (urban): 24.6
mpg (extra urban): 34.4
CO2 emissions: 262
mine was tweaked

Quote: Originally posted by ad210358 on 24/4/2012

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I had a TD5 manual, remapped, Air Suspension, never a problem with stability, the air suspension was a boon, didn't matter how the rear was loaded it always towed level. I had it for six years, had a gear box under warranty. Apart from a DMF nothing else went wrong. MPG was 30 around town and 27 towing, after the remap it was more or less put in top and leave it there, towed down to Geneva and apart from rest breaks never took it out of top until Bourg en Bresse, probably the most comfortable driving position iv'e had.

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I had a Range Rover 3.5 auto, mainly for off road fun and green laning, amazing car. Very capable off road-only mods were chunky tyres and diff and steering guards.

On road so comfortable and smooth, thirsty yes! Solo brilliant-and they sound awesome!

Parts cheap enough,easy to take apart, I did a bit of welding on it but it was really a hobby toy! Only sold it as I was'nt using it enough to justify costs of tax insurance etc.

Towing I found the four speed auto wanted to go into top quickly then it bogged down on gradients, then changing down it was revving its head off!

We had a Frontera diesel manual at the time which actually towed better.( probably had as much torque as the V8!)

I would love a current generation RR as they have much better autoboxes, TDV8 would be the choice or maybe a Disco 4!

I would have a 110 but SWMBO says no, but Freelander 2 is like a baby RR!

We now have the Sorento which seems to be the replacement for earlier Discos-LR have certainly gone upmarket.

Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 27/4/2012

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Quote: Originally posted by ad210358 on 24/4/2012

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I had a TD5 manual, remapped, Air Suspension, never a problem with stability, the air suspension was a boon, didn't matter how the rear was loaded it always towed level. I had it for six years, had a gear box under warranty. Apart from a DMF nothing else went wrong. MPG was 30 around town and 27 towing, after the remap it was more or less put in top and leave it there, towed down to Geneva and apart from rest breaks never took it out of top until Bourg en Bresse, probably the most comfortable driving position iv'e had.

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Where did you get your remap done? Did it affect your insurance?

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