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How Do I? Is my Disco Dead? Please Help

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Petronelli

In Third Gear
Hi there,
I'm new, so apologies if I've posted in the wrong forum or anything, I'm trying to get a feel for the site, & hoping some of you may be able to help me with some advice.

Took my Disco for it's MOT, It failed horribly, only got about half way through the test, before the tester ran out of space & said he'd had enough!

Here's a list, see what you think. I'm off to the local Landrover specialist today. Whilst they will almost certainly charge allot of money if it's worth doing, I'd like the advice of a Landy shop. They must see this sort of thing all the time. The place where we get our MOT's done, is a great place, they're very friendly...... but they are not Landy specialists you know. They might not be used to such a mess & just think, it's f***ed, throw it away. I don't think (maybe I'm kidding myself) that a Landy specialist will have the same view, I hope they'll say, "Yeah, see it all the time, it can be saved"! I love my Disco!!!!!!!


Any advice mush appreciated.

List:
Reason(s) for refusal to issue Certificate.

Offside Rear Seat belt fluffed or frayed which has clearly weakened the webbing (5.1.B.2b)

Nearside Rear Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.1.B.6)

Offside Rear Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.1.B.6)

Offside Rear Upper Seat belt anchorage prescribed area is excessively corroded (5.1.B.6)

Offside Drivers door cannot be opened from inside the vehicle (6.2.1b)

Front Registration plate insecure (6.3.1b)

Nearside Front Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.3)

Nearside Lower Body or chassis has excessive corrosion, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.3)

Body insecure and dangerous to other road users (6.1.2b)

Offside Intermediate drop arm insecure (2.2.B.1a) **DANGEROUS**
Lower Steering column universal joint has excessive play (2.1.4)

Front Power steering pump leaking from a failed component (2.3.1b)

Offside Front Anti-roll bar linkage has excessive play in a pin/bush (2.4.G.3)

Nearside Rear Body or chassis has an unsatisfactory modification, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.3)

Offside Rear Body has a sharp edge caused by damage (6.1.4)

Nearside Body or chassis has an unsatisfactory modification, seriously affecting its strength within 30cm of the body mountings (6.1.3)
**DANGEROUS**
Advisory Notice issued
Advise front and rear reg plate slightly deteriorated.
Battery insecure

Still awake?????
Ciao.
 
Scrap it. Did you drive it away from the station?? Know some one with a similar fail sheet and the garage phoned the plod. who intercepted him on the way home and did him for driving a dangerous vehicle.
 
redhand said:
Scrap it. Did you drive it away from the station?? Know some one with a similar fail sheet and the garage phoned the plod. who intercepted him on the way home and did him for driving a dangerous vehicle.
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Oh, Not quite the enthusiastic reply I was hoping for, but sometimes the truth hurts! Yes drove it home, just as well as I may need to break it now......

Thanks for the reply.
 
You'll get 250-500 for the engine and ancilliaries, chuck in the gearboxes and the axles for another few hundred. Things might not turn out too bad mate. You could always weld a handle onto the remaining bits of body and use it for a giant sieve! ;)
 
have a look on ebay for another thats had the engine removed but still has test on it, drop in your engine and box and tada new disco
 
Swingletree said:
You'll get 250-500 for the engine and ancilliaries, chuck in the gearboxes and the axles for another few hundred. Things might not turn out too bad mate. You could always weld a handle onto the remaining bits of body and use it for a giant sieve! ;)
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Erm think you need to check the price of disco bits at the moment you'll struggle to get £30/£40 for an axle and a gear box will go for around £50. You can buy a complete disco for £250/£300 so why would anyone pay £500 for an engine??

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/__disc...esQ5fCarPartsQ5fSMQQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em301
http://shop.ebay.co.uk/items/_W0QQL...270.l1311&_odkw=discovery+rear+axle&_osacat=0
http://motors.shop.ebay.co.uk/items...9801QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQ_sopZ1QQ_scZ1

Stick a few of those in your watched items and see what they go for!!:eek:
 
As above it's scrap :(.

Whilst none of the above jobs are not 'doable' by an enthuisiastic amateur, it would take many a weekend of swapping oily things, welding repair patches, getting paint all over yer overalls during which time you would rapidly lose the will to live.
The other option is to take it to your local landy garage and sit down, before asking for a quote for repairs. Again you could be lucky, but with a list of jobs that length the labour charges would probably scare you before they start adding the cost of (second hand) parts.
 
IMHO you would either get told its beyond economic repair or get quoted in the regon of £2K for repairs.
Our disco failed MOT test at a landy garage on inner and outer cills, front body mountings, rear body crossmember/mountings, quote for repairs was £1200 and the garage wanted a £1K deposit before they would even start the job!. When stripping the body off the chassis; the rear floor, the outer rear floors, the front footwells plus bottom of the A and B posts were all shot as well.
 
if you have the room, buy another disco and keep your one for spares, remove any good bits and put them in shed, sell / scrap whats left.


tezzer
 
Mate bought a disco the other day for the engine for about £250.. And it would have taken a lot less than your list to get it through an MOT.. I would sell it for parts and get another.
 
On a different line of thought what are people doing driving obvious deathtraps like these on the road. Doing a Gresham springs to mind :eek:.

If a vehicle is that corroded and the seatbelts are so obviously frayed/rotten as to fail an MOT, and the steering has been condemned Then there really is no excuse for having it on the road. Especially as in the OPs case, after the tester has marked it as been DANGEROUS, still driving it.:confused: :confused: :eek:
 
redhand said:
On a different line of thought what are people doing driving obvious deathtraps like these on the road. Doing a Gresham springs to mind :eek:.

If a vehicle is that corroded and the seatbelts are so obviously frayed/rotten as to fail an MOT, and the steering has been condemned Then there really is no excuse for having it on the road. Especially as in the OPs case, after the tester has marked it as been DANGEROUS, still driving it.:confused: :confused: :eek:
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I agree it shouldn't be on the road. Although driving back from the test centre as long as its close should be ok.. as long as the driver is carefull..

My ex rolled her car over on the dual before, and after a quick word her dad was allowed to drive it the half mile back home, minus windscreen, buckled wheels and no lights.

Certainly no passangers though.. Its a fine line and should be done on a case by case basis!

My opinion anyhow :)
 
redhand said:
On a different line of thought what are people doing driving obvious deathtraps like these on the road. Doing a Gresham springs to mind :eek:.

If a vehicle is that corroded and the seatbelts are so obviously frayed/rotten as to fail an MOT, and the steering has been condemned Then there really is no excuse for having it on the road. Especially as in the OPs case, after the tester has marked it as been DANGEROUS, still driving it.:confused: :confused: :eek:
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I'm not driving it on the road, I said I drove it back from the test centre, which is down the road, but you wouldn't know that would you.

Thanks everyone for your advice, I'm halfway to another one now, & will be breaking mine for parts.
Nathalie.
 
Petronelli said:
I'm not driving it on the road, I said I drove it back from the test centre, which is down the road, but you wouldn't know that would you.

Thanks everyone for your advice, I'm halfway to another one now, & will be breaking mine for parts.
Nathalie.
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So you drove it on the road then? after the MOT tester had informed you it was in a dangerous condition? of course all these faults only appeared the day of the test, and you weren't driving it around in that state before the MOT? For it to have got that bad you have obviously neglected to maintain the vehicle and carry out basic visual safety checks. Having a current MOT doesn't give people the right to drive deathtraps on the road. Had your steering failed on the way home and a fatal accident occurred. What would you reaction have been then? I'm sure gresham felt the same way you do. As he willfully drove his deathtrap around the roads of Lincolnshire.

People have a responsibility to their passengers and to the public at large to ensure that their vehicles are roadworthy and safe at all times. Not just the day of the MOT. I visit loads of 4x4 forums and the number of people who post on them with a list of potentially fatal faults, that they "need to fix before the mot next week" that they've happily put up with for weeks or months is staggering.
 
redhand said:
So you drove it on the road then? after the MOT tester had informed you it was in a dangerous condition? of course all these faults only appeared the day of the test, and you weren't driving it around in that state before the MOT? For it to have got that bad you have obviously neglected to maintain the vehicle and carry out basic visual safety checks. Having a current MOT doesn't give people the right to drive deathtraps on the road. Had your steering failed on the way home and a fatal accident occurred. What would you reaction have been then? I'm sure gresham felt the same way you do. As he willfully drove his deathtrap around the roads of Lincolnshire.

People have a responsibility to their passengers and to the public at large to ensure that their vehicles are roadworthy and safe at all times. Not just the day of the MOT. I visit loads of 4x4 forums and the number of people who post on them with a list of potentially fatal faults, that they "need to fix before the mot next week" that they've happily put up with for weeks or months is staggering.
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I'm leaving this site, thanks everyone for all your help, it was great information. I don't need to explain myself to Redhand, & as he clearly knows everything without hearing any of the facts, I probably don't need to as I suspect he already knows.............
 
It's sad you feel you have to leave just because someone was so heavy handed, it's a shame as you at least were willing to learn.... unlike some out there....
 
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