CDL was there up through 2001. Easiest way to connect it is to install the lever from a D1. I've had an '01 for 18 years and dealt with head gaskets, air bags, 3 amigos, front drive shaft... but over 180k miles on and off road it always got me home, never once actually "broke down" or stranded me anywhere.

Head gaskets, only real major issue and inevitable around 90k miles

I love my 03 D2. Sometimes i wish i could take better care of it, but it is expensive and im not rich. Watch videos, work on it myself if i can. But when its happy and cruzing, its so rad!

Budget $2500 per year for maintenance and repairs, or plan on spending lots of your free time fixing it yourself. Things don’t break once and are good forever after. For example, the valve cover gaskets leak and may need replacement every six years or so @ $600-$900 a pop. And many parts are not cheap. Very fun to drive, but not cheap.

Check those chassis legs. Starting to find them rotten. Make sure head gaskets have been addressed and the driveshaft has been updated with serviceable Ujoints.

Good information. Been looking for something interesting to get me to work in the winter. Between D2 and FJ Cruiser, these seem to be the better deals in my area but are almost eerily cheap lol

I have 04 D2. Love it.

What we have here in Australia that the U.S. market never got that the TD5 engine which was a five cylinder turbo-diesel. That engine is awesome compared to the 4.0 and 4.6 Ford petrol engines.

@AddictedMotors

2 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@darkstarmobile

2 ай бұрын

@@AddictedMotors What baffles me is this: We use diesel for nearly everything here in Aus, and we don’t have the “brown clouds” that existed in the U.S. while I was there. As a motor mechanic, I have noticed that diesels here burn significantly cleaner than most petrol engines. It makes me wonder how the auto manufacturers are tuning diesels for the U.S. market. Then again, you also have ULSD fuel, which creates its own problems in terms of operation. Honestly, a clean diesel revolution is needed in the U.S. Automotive market.

@Ickie71

Ай бұрын

yeah we got them here in the Uk too

Had a d1 and 3 td5 d2's and on my latest manual disco ive replaced the chassis for galvanised and overhauled everything for braided lines and used australian polybushes in everything. Suspension is all updated but standard ride height and ive rebuilt the ace system. At a glance it looks like a complete rat and I haven't done any body work and shined it up because I didn't want to make it attractive to thieves LOL. To me the D2 handles so much better around corners than the D1 and keeping the ace system going is expensive but worth it. That little 2.5 diesel engine is going close to 200,000 miles and will keep going strong as long as it's maintained, but then that's easy compared to some of the rubbish that's being built nowadays. I've had plenty of cars and trucks that have been amazing to drive or look at but my discovery is the most useful tool that I can rely on time after time. Great video 👍

Disco IIs; almost all of them have overheated and blown an engine in the last 20 years because the engine tooling at Land Rover was ancient by this time and those blocks were sloppy. The good ones were put in P38s. They also lack of inline fuel filter, thinner chassis steel, plastic diff plugs, for a while they removed the diff lock linkage…. Later ones had oil coolers removed (on an engine block that was cast sloppily on ancient machinery from the factory). Swivel balls removed…Etc etc LR did a LOT of cheaping out/“weight reduction” “mpg raisers” on these. The BMW engineers got in there and did a lot lot lot of hacking in areas that are not immediately apparent because D1s and D2s look mostly the same. D2 bodies don’t rust to shit like D1s though. And those door handles make more sense. A d2 body on a D1 frame is something a few people have actually tried. Thing is; if it’s running today someone in the past has replaced the block with a d1 block or has otherwise addressed it’s fatal engine flaw. (Or it was one of the 10 that came out of the factory good). So… go for it… if it’s still going today someone else has dealt with the big issues. Beware though, only trust them if they have a crap load of miles. The most frightening thing is one of those Bring A Trailer 03, 04 trucks with “only” 45k miles$$$. People think that’s good. It’s not. It’s terrifying. Only trust a D2 if it has at least 150k miles.

@AddictedMotors

6 ай бұрын

Nailed it.

@alejandrosalinas2225

6 ай бұрын

Facts.. I recently bought an ‘03 with 180k miles.. i have addressed the oil leaks it had at that mileage, dropped in a 180 degree thermostat and it is a good daily driver.. but it took lots of time and effort to get it right

@madgearcharlie

5 ай бұрын

I bought an 03 D2 with 70k miles

@RetroMotiveAdventures

4 ай бұрын

About to buy one tomorrow at 166k miles head gaskets done and full service records two owner 04!!! Excited to finally have a sorted one to build. I had an 03 as a first car and loved it but I was the 7th owner and it lived a rough life. Can't wait to get one that's clean.

@RichGallant

4 ай бұрын

Boy this is a hate post, overheating does not blow engines - it can but only if you are idiot you can do that to iron block too. The engine tooling story is a myth, it was old for certain. Inline fuel filter does no matter the fuel filter is on the pump in the tank OIl coolers were removed as a cost savings,but it does not have a huge impact on engine temps Swivel balls to CV joints is irrelevant to anything And replacing block if it is still running is complete BS - Some 03's had bad front cover doweling that required an engine under warranty they have long been replaced At 20+ years frame rot can be a problem just like every other full frame 4x4 I get it you hate these trucks and their engines but stop spewing mis-information Rover V8's are routinely used as race engines in the UK, turbo's and super charged.

Love ours. Very simple motor. Replaced hg,ps pump,thermostat, and brakes. But that was an 03 i put a 4L in. Very reliably. Got an 04 i plan to run till it dies. Then,,,,prob going to buy a 4runner. But simple maintenance goea a long ways.

@AddictedMotors

4 ай бұрын

Lovely.

here's one for everybody....that stupid electrical gel that no one wants to mention. unless you live where the temps get below 32 degrees. get to drive in the snow... which these things love (with the right tires) with no dash anything... for about 5 minutes until the cabin heats up... always fun... no gas gauge or speedometer... but it's snow so... you can't being going but so fast and hopefully you know you got gas

I am looking at a disco 2 that has the three amigos. Does that Launch scan tool from the lr4 video read the abs codes? Or will I need something like the abs amigo as well?

@AddictedMotors

6 ай бұрын

It might. I haven’t tried since they’ve yet to present themselves on this truck.

@alexv8man

6 ай бұрын

I believe it does, I got rid of mine by using an icarsoft lr edition, similar to launch, do the shuttle valve wire bypass, keeps all functions of the pump but supplies power where it's meant to be where the board in the pump breaks

@pi.actual

3 ай бұрын

Yea, 90% of the time it's the circuit board. Not really a "circuit board" just two wire traces on a small epoxy sealed card embedded in the Wabco ABS that run to the shuttle vales. Simple $10 external wire bypass fixes it.

I’m after a Discovery 1 , D1 or 2. Found one tanks to KZread and went to São Paulo is on mint condition less than 3.1 k on the odometer hardest part is entering into agreement form one collector to another. But boy was still on plastics.

also for those that want to work on theses themselves super lock!!! lol... there is a device near the firewall in the engine compartment that will shut you down if it thinks you rolled over....these tend to malfunction or the harness will break... or in my case you take it off while working on the car and now you are screwed. in my case the battery was dead so I had to jump it and do the key thing

@AddictedMotors

26 күн бұрын

Fuel cutoff switch

I have a Disco 1 tdi200 manual, I hate the v8s and automatics, and the Disco 2 td5 with Spanish AMC head upgrade is good

The Discovery 2 is not unreliable today. They were when they were new - but now all the bad ones are selected out by time. They are *reliably* in need of routine maintenance specific to the truck. Every time I hear someone who bought one at 150k miles and had "nothing but problems" are really just confessing that they do not take care of something that everyone says you need to take care of. Anyone can check any D2 for nearly no money in 30 minutes of the driveway of the person they're buying it from: Coolant pressure check Plug and Cylinder check Frame and suspension inspection Oil sample for lab test Code reader Combined with a service history or a discount for not having one, these things can be found for cheap and be very reliable. 216k miles on mine! Tons of wrench time and love it all, never once left me stranded. I finally paid for a new engine at 210, she earned it, bearings had to go someday after all.

What tires are you running?

Found a great deal on one here in northern VA with 200k miles. Great exterior and interior. Low compression in cylinder 1. What do you think it could be? Is there a common issue?

@AddictedMotors

4 ай бұрын

Could be anything. Probably needs a motor. Or just run it.

@blck04gt

4 ай бұрын

@@AddictedMotors what do you mean by just run it? Thanks!

@AddictedMotors

4 ай бұрын

@@blck04gt if it’s cheap enough just drive it. Your not going to fix the low compression

@AddictedMotors

4 ай бұрын

The green 99’ ?

@blck04gt

4 ай бұрын

@@AddictedMotors yup, do you know something I don’t know? Lol

My d2 gas is pretty good. I drive to work about 30 minute full tunk of gas it last me 4 day to me is really good.

Im looking at a 2000 D2, no CDL. Want it to tow 5k or less and be able to drive on the beach. Soft sand and mud. It this going to heat up because no CDL? I had a AWD that did and woukd cut off till the transfer case was cool.

@AddictedMotors

2 ай бұрын

Sounds like you had a car with a CVT or viscous TC. This has neither.

@amyfreeze9772

2 ай бұрын

So these discos don't overheat?

@AddictedMotors

2 ай бұрын

@@amyfreeze9772 the diff?

Throttle body coolant hose looks bypassed, as it should be cause that’ll leak inevitably

I have a D2 2003 thats just sitting in my driveway because it needs a new engine :(

I have 2 units running well

Great for smuggling!

I had a LR2 and it’s a nightmare thinking about taking it off road. That thing was the most unreliable vehicle I’ve ever owned in my life!

I wouldn’t even consider one, considering you can get an LR3 for the same money now. Had one new and it went through a set of head gaskets and a motor replacement 😂

Love my D2. Would never consider a D3 , D4 or D5

13-18?!?!? What's your secret? lol

People saying it’s great are fake

@zachcurrie4258

9 күн бұрын

Id say 3k deep in cooling mods and some other changes its on par with land cruisers.

Worst car I owned money pit disco 2 bad gas mileage computer out abs out repairs coast crazy only 60’ooo miles looks great big waist of money

@matthewmarkert

3 ай бұрын

Anything that's still on the road now has already had anything replaced that could have gone wrong. At this point, all someone needs to do is know what the (very well known) issues are how to look for them. Anyone can check any D2 for nearly no money in 30 minutes of the driveway of the person they're buying it from: Coolant pressure check Plug and Cylinder check Frame and suspension inspection Oil sample for lab test Code reader Combined with a service history or a discount for not having one, these things can be found for cheap and very reliable. 216k miles on mine! I finally paid for a new engine at 210, she earned it, bearings had to go someday.

These are solid trucks ,but they are not drive and ignore. The youngest is 20 years old so you have 20 years of previous owner stuff to sort out. 20 year old Toyota, and Jeeps are just as bad.

@AddictedMotors

4 ай бұрын

This is what I’ve been telling people. They are old enough that we are now going to start seeing failures not seen before.

Not even a free one i would drive. Quality sucks.