Man, as to the cylinder sleeve thing, I'm fully convinced now that most people just read something on the internet somewhere about that 1 disco that failed out of 100,000, and having been a recall, they latch on to it. I installed the inline thermostat kit (pure gold!! Just do it) and two days later it separated at the coupling off the lower rad hose (because I was stupid, 100% my fault, user error). Literally all the coolant pumped out onto the freeway, and the engine overheated to the point it shut itself off. I really thought that was it, time for a new engine. I waited till it fully cooled, fixed the hose, filled and burped and filled the coolant, stsrted it up, and been driving since. That was 5,000 miles ago. The thing is a straight up tank!!
Bro, you are speaking in riddles! it’s rock solid but it’s had a lot of problems. Only issue I’ve ever had was this, but then I had these three major issues.😂
This video brought me to your channel. I have a 2000 disco 2 and a LR3. Love the disco content. And I’ve experienced 90% of the stuff you talked about but I’m at 215,000 miles and used it as my daily along with a ranch vehicle in Texas for a summer. It always starts and doesn’t get stuck!
For the speedometer thing, plug an analyzer in to the obd-ii port, set it to read speed, and drive. Most times you'll find the speed is reading but the needle just isn't moving on the cluster. The problem is often actually in the cluster or connection, not in the sensors.
Disco 2's are still the best kept "secret" out there. Trailwise, they outperform almost every out there in its class. To get something that performs anywhere near as well as these do on the trail, someone would have to spend $30-50K or more.
I have a discovery 1 with the cute little 2.0L engine and at 200k miles had to do some pretty extensive engine work because a valve decided to do a little weight reduction and deleted a cunk of itself, running with 3 cylinders it still ran, relatively smoothly too! Oil control ring had gotten stuck and that cylinder was just chugging oil, combined with highway driving probably is what did that valve in. Literally all the problems I've had with the disco are related to it sitting in a field for a decade btw, doubt many cars would do better.
Regarding the wheel speed sensors not working for you, I had the same issue when I got my 04. Pulled the right rear sensor and noticed it was slightly bent, so I replaced it. Replacement worked for about 500ft and threw an ABS code again, and bent the sensor slightly. Ended up replacing the whole hub assembly which had a preinstalled sensor and it has been fine for 5k miles. Also had the same issue with they key! Some WD40 cleared out a bunch of gunk in the cylinder and now it works as it should.
That’s great to hear. Unfortunately I replaced both front hubs which came with the abs sensor. That didn’t help the problem and given I use this mainly as an off roader I think I’ll just roll with it as is
considering how expensive they were brand new they do have there problems had mine for 4 years now had a few problems still loving it.When my m and s lights were flashing and it going in to 3 gear it was a fault with the xyz switch may be something to look in to
Thanks! The XYZ switch has already been replaced. The truck sits up at our lake house and only gets fired up to off-road once a month or two. Low battery voltage will cause flashing M and S so just a few trips around the block and it’s good to go
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Yes very much so. Just get a obd2 reader that can read abs. I just clear my three amigos and I’m good. Every once in a while they come back but I just clear it. It works lol
Beautiful trucks just to many issues. I have a 2004 and going on the second engine block. So far so good, I just love them. It’s a love hate relationship 😁
Yup, 23 years and 200,000 miles I've done head gaskets, 3 Amigos, air bags, front drive shaft, wiper switch, throttle body heater, secondary air pump but never once stranded, it always got me home. Still using it as a daily driver, probably never going to sell it.
The cooling circuit is complete shit, and it is sluggish, but if you dont mind rebuilding the cooling and the slow uphill speeds, it really does just keep running. I love my LRD2. The only time i was stranded was when a bearing with 250,000 miles decided to crap out.
It’s dog slow but I never worry about that. I feel like that factory thermostat is the cause of so many problems. I know they are a common failure point
If it’s only 20 minutes, I would love to fix mine. Do you have a video, write up or link to the 20 minutes job fix? Everyone I have seen is very complicated and takes many hours to complete.
@@explorer8888 The fix is called the "Option B" fix. If you google search option b fix discovery 2 then you should get some good forum posts talking about it.
Bro, you are speaking in riddles! it’s rock solid but it’s had a lot of problems. Only issue I’ve ever had was this, but then I had these three major issues.😂
