Member Since: 04 Jul 2021
Location: Tipperary
Posts: 37
High milage vehicles problems..!
Hello all
So I'm in the market fir a Disco 3. After spending months reading this site I'm ready to bite the bullet.
Thing is, over here in Ireland they have intergalactic milage on them, the lowest ive found which is not stupid money is 140,000 miles.
Alot of them have in excess of 200,000 and still going.
I've been reluctant in buying a high milage car since I moved here (I'm originally from England) and there's no way I would touch a car with that kind of milage back home.
I even bought the car i have now in England and brought it back here.
But the thing is.....last year I managed to do 35,000miles in it. Ive put 60,000 on it in just over 2 years. And thats just commuting. That would have took me six years to do that in the UK traveling to work and back. And it hasn't missed a beat (thats it I've done it now)
It had brakes, tyres and quite a lot of oil.
So my question is would I be looking in to milage too much..?
A car im looking at has 220,000 on it, looks good loads of history. But is it too much.? What is too much..?
You can get pretty far where I live in a short space of time, there is no stop and starting at lights near me.
I've been reading about crank failures and although they look quite rare. I know it can happen at any moment but it seems like they happen way before 200,000 miles.
Has anybody on here been in excess of 200,000
Or more..? And what has happened to your vehicles.?
There was a disco over here for sale for €5000 recently...it sold.
It had 580,000kms on it....
That is what makes me believe these cars can go that far if they feel like it. Because that seems bonkers considering the horror stories you here about them..
12th Jan 2022 9:51 pm
Chris1573
Member Since: 12 Feb 2021
Location: Stroud
Posts: 196
140k as a starting point would worry me a bit, all down to maintenance and usage… what about buying one in the UK?
Can you do your own servicing and repairs ? That makes a big difference..
12th Jan 2022 10:03 pm
Down&Dirty
Member Since: 17 Aug 2012
Location: Somewhere out back
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Member Since: 22 Sep 2010
Location: Notts.
Posts: 8069
“Character” should be getting near 1,000,000 miles by now! No doubt he will be along shortly It can when others can't,
It will when others won't,
It goes where others don't.
12th Jan 2022 10:23 pm
Pete K
Member Since: 15 Jan 2016
Location: GL
Posts: 10360
160K seamed. To be a common breaking point
12th Jan 2022 10:32 pm
Joek0
Member Since: 04 Jul 2021
Location: Tipperary
Posts: 37
I could buy one in the UK, but you have to pay VRT to bring it in to the country, its a tax, they have introduced a NOX charge now also so I would say I would be looking at 6000 euro just to clear it, and have it on irish plates.
Also the discovery 3 is €1391 a year to tax if it has the seven seats. So that is also out of the question. They take the rear seats out and convert them in to a crew cab or two seater here to avoid the tax, so they become a commercial vehicle.
Yes I can do my own bits on it, im looking forward to it to be honest I would be pretty handy with most stuff.
That thread is mad over 800,000 miles is pure madness
That actually gives me some hope
12th Jan 2022 10:40 pm
Joek0
Member Since: 04 Jul 2021
Location: Tipperary
Posts: 37
Yeh I looked at the crank failures thread and they all seem to be pretty early compared to the high milage ones over here
12th Jan 2022 10:45 pm
Waylander11
Member Since: 21 Apr 2016
Location: Leicestershire
Posts: 519
Sold my D3 at 195000 miles on it to my brother a yr later and another 10,000 on it and he sold it on for a newer one , massive amount of history with it and always looked after would have had it back but the cretin didn’t tell me he was selling it
No problem with having a high miler so long as it’s been looked afterD3 in Buckingham blue now SWMBO's Mine D4 commercial
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12th Jan 2022 11:32 pm
DaveJLBI
Member Since: 07 Mar 2014
Location: Clare
Posts: 661
I bought a 2005 D3 HSE a number of years ago over here in Ireland, ran it for a few years taking it from 150k km to about 320k km (200k miles), it was a Dublin vehicle that had ferried kids around for the years before I got it. Kept it serviced and it was pretty much faultless, it had a busy life with me. Sold it in early 2018 for about €4.5k it had a lot of extras at that stage (D4 seats and door cards, fridge, lightbar) but was still a 7 seater. Was lucky to get into a D4 quite cheaply at the time. Prices now are very strong
13th Jan 2022 11:35 am
rrhool
Member Since: 28 Aug 2014
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 4399
Pete K wrote:
160K seamed. To be a common breaking point
I bought mine at 90k, it now has 150k. I can honestly say it drives as well as it ever has, but I do keep maintenance up without compromise. Hoping I haven't just jinxed it!Richard
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13th Jan 2022 11:40 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
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rrhool wrote:
I can honestly say it drives as well as it ever has
Don’t ever, ever, ever say that!!! I made that mistake, said that out loud and a mile or so down the road the engine packed up and she drove her last at 166k miles. They hear these things and act accordingly.
13th Jan 2022 1:36 pm
ianm27
Member Since: 02 Jun 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 2154
As others have said, high mileage isn't necessarily an issue IF it has been looked after and you can see the receipts for work spent on it. At that sort of mileage its not an issue if the work done was by a respectable well known independent mechanic, not a dealership.
If you find a good one they can go on and on and on as the mileage thread will testify.
I was going to say that I'm on 178,000 miles/280,000 km and she is going well but she is listening and as DSL said we never ever tempt fate Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
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13th Jan 2022 2:37 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
Hight mileage just means weird stuff will go wrong as it is way past its design life, or and this applies to any land rover, it just means you are fixing the same crap again!
13th Jan 2022 2:40 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72774
ianm27 wrote:
As others have said, high mileage isn't necessarily an issue IF it has been looked after and you can see the receipts for work spent on it.
Nor does it necessarily mean it won’t throw its toys completely out the pram, short of a new engine I’m not sure there is a preventative step to stop those little bearing shells rotating. Dark Bluie wanted for absolutely nothing, she went to the Norwegian scrapper with a gearbox that had been reconditioned only a few thousand miles before.
RIP (Rust-in-Pieces) old girl.
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13th Jan 2022 2:54 pm
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