Member Since: 18 May 2010
Location: Cornwall
Posts: 104
I've had a 200 Tdi disco as a main car/offroader which I ran from 100k when I bougt it to 275000k when I sold it.I then had a 110 which I kept for 12 months until I was able to afford the D3.
I bought it in August and have done 10k already with no problems as yet.
Like all things you can get good or bad.Personally I love the D3 and it has taken me 20 years of bloody hard work to afford one so it does get looked after,but it's my daily car after all.And willl be replaced by a D4 or the 110 replacement in 3 years time hopefully.I can't imagine driving anything other than Land Rover.
Once the warranty is up I will just take the chance and do without a warranty.Luckily my son in law is a mechanic.
The point I'm making is that whatever vehicle you have be it LR,Ford,Skoda even a Supercar you will always find someone with the same car who has a load of grief with it.
Phil.
21st Feb 2011 11:49 am
grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
Posts: 6268
well said Stoveman
proper intimidation is what we all after driving discos LOL
21st Feb 2011 12:47 pm
Daz968
Member Since: 21 Feb 2011
Location: Muscat, OMAN
Posts: 5
I had a Porsche 968 - why? Because it's a great car, I could afford to run it and I wanted one. I could have got a Nissan 350 but I didn't.
I treated myself to a new IWC watch - why? Because I can afford it and I wanted one. I could have bought a Timex / Tag / Omega but didn't.
Next week I shall be picking my V6 Petrol HSE - why? All of the above. I could have bought another Pajero but knew that every time an LR3 / LR4 drove by, I would say to myself "Why didn't I get a Land Rover".
...and when my little boy grows up he will have pictures of him and Daddy in a Land Rover, camping on the beach.
23rd Feb 2011 10:53 am
Will Hay
Member Since: 04 Oct 2010
Location: Beautiful Yorkshire
Posts: 613
I've just had a cheese salad sandwich with salad cream because I wanted one.
Oh, and I bought a packet of crisps too because I can afford it.
I didn't want to see my colleague sat at his desk eating a pack of pickled onion monster munch and be full of regret D3 incl. genuine glass windscreen, front bi-focal headlights, full width rear bumper, self levelling washer bottle contents and audible 'tick tock' indicator stalk
911 GT3 had one [never]
R8 V12 just gone [past me]
Piiss highest up a wall winner runner up 1979
23rd Feb 2011 1:42 pm
Daz968
Member Since: 21 Feb 2011
Location: Muscat, OMAN
Posts: 5
Will Hay wrote:
I've just had a cheese salad sandwich with salad cream because I wanted one.
Oh, and I bought a packet of crisps too because I can afford it.
I want a (decent) bacon sarny, but I can't afford it (out here).
23rd Feb 2011 1:48 pm
PaulP
Member Since: 04 May 2007
Location: Barcelona
Posts: 4317
Will Hay 2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE AutoBuckingham Blue 2007 Golf GT DSG
I notice the thread starter has'nt made one comment since the beginning,....is this the end ??????? (of his D3). East bound and down, loaded up and truckin......
23rd Feb 2011 3:47 pm
Bailey
Member Since: 18 Aug 2010
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 11
yes end of the discovery for me and end of almost non stop back and forth to dealer trying to sort faults.
Still have a range rover in family which has been very good - maybe just down to the fact that there are good and bad of every vehicle and i was unlucky with the disco 3.
Thanks anyway - site is a very good source of info.
23rd Feb 2011 7:03 pm
Ent
Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6485
That's a fair response there Bailey, glad to see you are still flying the LR flag Club Exped trailer
Club Timed Climate
Club Flappy paddle steering wheel
Club 300bhp
Club Prospeed test pilot/lab rat
Club National Luna Stella conditioner
23rd Feb 2011 7:09 pm
Will Hay
Member Since: 04 Oct 2010
Location: Beautiful Yorkshire
Posts: 613
There are good and bad sandwiches too, but I'm trying to move on from the crab paste, cucumber and marmalade fiasco of '83 D3 incl. genuine glass windscreen, front bi-focal headlights, full width rear bumper, self levelling washer bottle contents and audible 'tick tock' indicator stalk
911 GT3 had one [never]
R8 V12 just gone [past me]
Piiss highest up a wall winner runner up 1979
24th Feb 2011 2:35 pm
dick dastardly
Member Since: 29 May 2007
Location: wiggleigh bottom
Posts: 1112
Daz968 wrote:
Will Hay wrote:
I've just had a cheese salad sandwich with salad cream because I wanted one.
Oh, and I bought a packet of crisps too because I can afford it.
I want a (decent) bacon sarny, but I can't afford it (out here).
yer, i bet they cost an arm and a leg.....
or a hand..There's one wheel on my wagon, but i'm still rollin' along, it's the cherokee, they're after me, but I'm singing a happy song
24th Feb 2011 10:32 pm
nobbyclark
Member Since: 03 May 2005
Location: Perth, Scotland
Posts: 1268
If we're talking moneypits, try buying a former Scottish manse that needs "sympathetic restoration".
I've got one of those AND a D3.No longer a D3 owner but still subscribed to multiple threads!
25th Feb 2011 11:16 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 72799
Tell me about it re manse!! Not quite that big but Victorian and unmodernised! Now at painting stage, never again!
25th Feb 2011 11:20 am
Will Hay
Member Since: 04 Oct 2010
Location: Beautiful Yorkshire
Posts: 613
I once reached six foot high but could never match it so retired.
The last piissing contest I ever entered.D3 incl. genuine glass windscreen, front bi-focal headlights, full width rear bumper, self levelling washer bottle contents and audible 'tick tock' indicator stalk
911 GT3 had one [never]
R8 V12 just gone [past me]
Piiss highest up a wall winner runner up 1979
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oi bailey get orf my land 
