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My 55 HSE - It never fails to suprise me!!
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Riccarton Disco
 


Member Since: 24 Jan 2013
Location: Scottish Borders
Posts: 565

Scotland 2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Bonatti GreyDiscovery 3
My 55 HSE - It never fails to suprise me!!



I bought my 55 HSE as it was pre the silly road tax prices - my last one was £500+ I seem to remember. It had reasonably high mileage at 160K but I know that if looked after that's not a problem to these cars.

The owner told me how it had had many thousands recently spent on it and produced a list of things done. Very comprehensive and seemed like an honest chap.

That's where the fun begins but luckily I enjoy working on it Rolling with laughter The picture is of the rear diff drain plug. The oil was more like treacle!! The gearbox was supposed to have had a quick change filter fitted and the oil changed - NOPE!! Rolling with laughter The oil was so bad it wasn't funny and the TC really didn't like it!! I replaced the TC and with the gearbox out made sure all the oil was out for a complete drain / refill.

Apparently it needed the handbrake adjusting - NOPE Rolling with laughter The backplates had rotted away and the shoes had delaminated!!

The list goes on and on - not one single thing that was promised has been done!!

However, I bought it 18 months ago and it's still going strong despite the previous owner lying through his teeth. It's been owned by someone on here before the previous chap - in the North East.

I've just about rebuilt the entire car and it's done 15k since I bought it - it's only used for towing duties so can be off road when I'm working on it.

Jobs still to be done - new glow plugs - they're all fubar'd and a new drivers seat as it has a split and there is a wiring fault to the airbag in the back rest.

I'll run it 'til it drops and then go for a D4 SDV6 as a long term keeper Thumbs Up  
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DSL
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Not mine, wrong colour and mine was stripped & scrapped. Whistle Whistle   
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Sea Raider
 


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Nor mine, I think. Hopefully the scrapper should still be sitting on the drive 70 miles away but then I've not checked since lockdown. Mr. Green  
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