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discoteca
Member Since: 08 Mar 2010
Location: Warwickshire
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Hi completely new to the site but looks really good. I wonder if some of you experienced D3 owners can help?
I'm currently test driving some D3s mostly 4-5 year old 50-60k miles, TDV6s, looking for a prospective purchase.
Having never owned a LR before what would you say are the most important items to check before purchase?
Are there any well known commonly reocurring faults that I should look out for?
Thank you all in advance for your help - hopefully within a couple of weeks I will be an owner and can consider myself a part of the site 'proper'!
Alistair
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 8th Mar 2010 8:56 am |
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tanters
Member Since: 24 Oct 2007
Location: Oireland
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discoteca wrote:
Are there any well known commonly reocurring faults that I should look out for?
Unfortunately this is why this forum is so popular 
Good service history essential. Plenty of bits and pieces have had 'fixes' issued by LR so if buying from an LR garage they should be able to list whats been done and what needs to be done if any. Ideally you should be trying to buy something with some warranty time left just in case.
Otherwise, its a wise choice you are making  A happy childhood ... is the worst possible preparation for life.
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| 8th Mar 2010 9:04 am |
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sarumlight
Member Since: 06 Nov 2008
Location: Off the Plain
Posts: 1592
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My advice would be don't get put off by what you read on here - nobody posts "just owned my D3 for a year, drove 20,000 miles and nothing broke..."
Either buy from a main dealer or a garage with a good reputation for sorting out problems (there's plenty of feedback on here) or I'd contact forum member 10forcash who is an independent and very expert D3 mechanic based at Derby. I'm not sure what he would charge to do an inspection but it could end up saving you a lot.
http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/member179.html (use the email button to contact him!)
Good luck, and welcome!
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| 8th Mar 2010 9:51 am |
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oldsalt
Member Since: 15 Dec 2009
Location: Melbourne
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Hi discoteca,
welcome to the best place for LR info, get one with a good service history and check with the garage that did the work (if possible) - you WILL love driving a D3 - they are a VERY capable on & off road vehicle, I bought mine with 97K on the clock and a great service history - and so far it's been brilliant - change oil regularly - don't drive it like it's a Ferrari and you'll have no troubles.....go for it !!!!! - and don't forget to post some pictures.
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| 8th Mar 2010 10:28 am |
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grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
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I think you should go and buy Toyota apparently they never brake .....
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| 8th Mar 2010 10:40 am |
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Bushwanderer
Member Since: 27 Nov 2007
Location: Northern Rivers, NSW, Australia
Posts: 2050
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Welcome discoteca!
Here in Oz we use kilometres, so I suspect that oldsalt meant 97k km (60k miles). Nevertheless, some D3s on here have done 4x that distance (and more) and are still going strong.
Best Wishes,
Peter The Bearded Dragon
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| 8th Mar 2010 11:54 pm |
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Getafix
Member Since: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Melbourne
Posts: 229
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Quote:don't drive it like it's a Ferrari and you'll have no troubles
What    8)
Thats what I have been doing wrong... <*(((<<
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| 9th Mar 2010 4:48 am |
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