Disco 3 and me

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I'm only up the road, no rain here tonight!
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Borderline hail here chief.

Good job i didn't whip sunroof out...(motor kaput-probably).
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CLINT wrote: Sun Apr 26, 2020 10:09 am Why would you do this to yourself???
I got mine cheap (trade in price) and every time I think "it's really buggered I ought to bail out and get something else" I find there's nothing I could get for the money that appeals even remotely as much.

Even allowing for the warning light bingo and random faults, it is a nice drive. It is also by some margin the car in which (in normal times) I get the least shit off other road users. Even tailgaters can be amusing - those gits in an Audi/BMW who are on your bumper even though there's nowhere to go. A good boot of the loud pedal at the appropriate time fills their cabin with diesel fumes. This might also work for having to use full power to pass a cyclist who you have been stuck behind for 10 miles because he prefers the narrow busy road to the wide purpose built cycle path provided - I couldn't comment on that at all of course.

I don't even want a newer one because they are even more trouble, only available in auto (mine is manual) and eye-wateringly expensive.
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I really like other people's Land and Range Rovers, lovely things to drive but I have heard so many tales of woe it has really put me off them.
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CLINT wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 10:06 am I really like other people's Land and Range Rovers, lovely things to drive but I have heard so many tales of woe it has really put me off them.
I'd say mine has been pretty good on the whole (but I won't or it'll shit itself expensively).
I mean it's not a Honda, but what is? Oh yeah, Ms Rebel's Honda.
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Mine's manual - and genuinely never found anything that does it all in the same way.

Fronter's not big enough. landcruiser seems to be gold.

No idea - so will replace turbo and do belts....:-D
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red5 wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2020 1:53 pm Mine's manual - and genuinely never found anything that does it all in the same way.

Fronter's not big enough. landcruiser seems to be gold.

No idea - so will replace turbo and do belts....:-D
What's it like to drive compared to earlier Discos?
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World apart - literally.
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Drives like a car - in no way meaning it to be a soft-roader. Comfortable, capable - wife loves it. She liked the D2's previously but this she's sold on.
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Do you notice the extra weight, and what's the ride like on rough roads & tracks?
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1998 Disco 4.0 V8 (manual)
1994 Vauxhall Calibra 3.0 V6

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1986 Honda CBX750F
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1990 Yamaha XJ900F

Tax & MOT-exempt, woohoo!

1982 Suzuki GSX1100SZ Katana
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