I got offered a Land Rover Discovery II, 2000 model for a good price. Any experience with these, thoughts, warnings? It's loaded out and runs well, but I don't know and thought some of you may have some ideas.

 

Pat would be a good person to ask, he work at a LR dealer. Hopefully he'll see your post.

 

From what I understand these things have alot of electrical problems and always need some kind of work.

 

PM patman. He'll let you know.

 

Way to expensive to work on, and they have problems with the rear end.

 

My brother and sister in law had lots of problems with theirs. Turned into a money pit - always something wrong and very expensive to fix and maintain. He was very happy to be rid of it.

 

unless it's free i'd pass

my friend has a 95, nothing but problems. and it is/was driven about 4 miles a day to school and back for his sister and every stupid little thing would break. right now it's not drivable due to something screwed up in the front axle (doesn't have time to tear into it), door handles have all been replaced at least once since i've known him (2 years), moon roof is broken in the open position and the "bolt" to close it stripped the minute he put a wrench on it, rusted out beyond belief for a 16 year old vehicle and it's always been in the south. you can buy the disco 1's for under 2k easily now around here, i'm sure it's only a matter of time until the disco 2's are the same price. parts aren't cheap, and finding used locally has been a pain, finally found a junk yard that has 2 sitting there so it's become a little easier now.

but after saying all of that he won't sell the POS for some reason. a very weird vehicle to be attached to IMO.

 

My nephew paid $2000 for one last fall and it's the worst POS he's ever owned.

 

I had a friend with that year model that had a few troubles. My family has had 4 land rovers since 07 and only 1 problem happened.

 

depends on mileage and what has been broken and been replaced so far

 

I would walk away!!! The "original land rovers" were pretty good but anything else I would leave well alone!!!

 

My buddy had one. Just like everyone else has said it was a total POS.

Defenders are better from what I have been told. And they are pretty damn sweet!

 

Yeah, those Defenders look like a CJ5 on steroids!

 

Before I bought my F150 in December of last year I was looking at a Discovery II. The 03- 05's. The 02 and older I heard about a lot of problems that they had and the expense of fixing them was extremly high. Unless you want it for a project, I would pass.

Yeah, The defender's are sweet! Freakin expensive to buy though even the early 90's.