Member Since: 29 Mar 2010
Location: London
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Breaking my 2005 Discovery 3 HSE
Hi hope someone can help I need some advise. I have my old d3 sitting at a garage. cam belt went and decided not to fix it, high mileage. ( the engine has not been put back together) I am thinking of taking parts off it and selling them on eBay. Apart from the obvious bits
seats, lights etc. What should I take off to try to recoup some money from it?
Thanks in advance
Ps I’ve got a socket set and some spanner’s
24th May 2018 8:19 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Take off everything you can. A few hours willl have the easy fruit off, but lots and lots of meat still on the bones. Lots of demand out there, often for parts where you’ve thought “wonder if that will sell?”, I can hear the vultures stretching their wings from here.
I got all this off in several hours in the cold of a Norwegian garage yard, with just a socket set and a leatherman. I ran out of time, energy and space in my D4 at about 1:20am (24/24 daylight) and headed home 2,200 miles away. You’ll have more time and able to do things carefully and properly.
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I didn’t get many parts from under the bonnet, and as you can see wheel arches, A bar, bumpers, etc, etc, etc. Plus I had to cut stuff out, more car & time could be taken. I also didn’t get the steering wheel, airbag and clockspring as I had no way to make the tool, easily done with a standard wire coat hanger. I didn’t even go under the car (no axle stands or decent jack) so no propshafts, compressor, diffs and the like. Plus she’d just had the gearbox reconned 4,000 miles ago, that would have sold in a heartbeat.
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24th May 2018 8:27 am
tank65
Member Since: 29 Mar 2010
Location: London
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Thanks for your help how do I get air bag and the door trim off without damaging them
I’m enjoying this what other bits should I remove.
Thanks again
24th May 2018 6:41 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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There was a how-to recently on door cards, will have a search. Airbag is really easy with a bent bit of metal, will also search for.
Re what to take out, you’d be amazed what you can recover. I ended up with mine looking like this internally but I’d run out of space in the D4.
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With time and space you’d be able to take out all that I did, plus seats, dash, airbags, basically anything that can be unplugged easily. Remember these things just clipped in during manufacture, they just unclip to remove. If the bits I was after didn’t unplug I just cut the cables with the seatbelt cutter on my leatherman, I wasn’t recovering the loom so didn’t worry about it. I actually found it thereputic as had settled into the “it’s just a car” mentality after she drove her last.
24th May 2018 6:49 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Airbag removal thread, many similar. Search function here and YouTube are your friends.
PS You have an HSE so a lot more toys than my S, so lots of saleable extras like the satnav system, screen, etc. Plus you could recover all the ECUs under the bonnet. Basically aim to just leave a body shell. Just careful of you kill the electrics (I did by removing all the fuses) then closing the lower tailgate, I couldn’t get it open again. Lucking I managed to get the rear lights out with that closed.
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24th May 2018 6:52 pm
LT
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Del, did you sell the original seat covers that you had?
Tank-Good luck with the strip down. Well worth it if you have the time & patience. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
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24th May 2018 6:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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No, they are still available.
Interested?
Re time and patience, plus lots of help and support here. This is truely a font of knowledge. When I was stripping in Sortland I was able to ask “how the do I get this off?” and I had answers almost immediately.
24th May 2018 7:00 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Oh, and sage advice from SWMBO, who as CinC logistics, start collecting boxes, Jiffy bags, bubble wrap and other packing stuff like you are obsessed. To those peeps that received car parts from Dark Bluie in wine or Nespresso boxes, I apologise for the disappointment.
And shipping for me was almost exclusively Hermes. You won’t be able to do “collection from ******** only” if you want to sell stuff. Their rates have gone up a bit since I did it as bands changed but good for tracking and prices.
24th May 2018 7:08 pm
tank65
Member Since: 29 Mar 2010
Location: London
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Thanks for all your help one last problem. I have no power on the car. how did you get the back lights off with the boot closed?
28th May 2018 6:09 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Can you get the rear tailgate up? If so you can easily take the lights out. If upper bit is closed you could take the lower tailgate trim off (brute force) and release the upper tailgate that way. I stupidly shut the lower tailgate when all the leckies had been stripped out to get a better angle on something, thought I’d lost the rear lights but some knowledgable soul here pointed out that I could still get the lights out, just needs a screwdriver.
Behind the lower tailgate trim is a subwoofer and the tailgate release latch. Trim as shown in middle of last pic above.
28th May 2018 6:14 pm
DannyDisco3HSE
Member Since: 06 Jan 2015
Location: Manchester
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Hi, what colour is your disco ? do you have the fuel flap (including the closing catch / push release catch) ? if you do how much please and where are you ? thanks Danny
21st Aug 2018 11:07 pm
bellx4
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Great photos - I’m sure this is just like how a Haynes manual is written!
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do I get this off?” and I had answers almost immediately. 
