Mark Pilkington wrote:
>>Marin Wrote. Of all the newer Land Rover vehicles I saw on the trip, the
one I
would most like to have was the most popular version in the Dales- a D90
pickup
with these really nice aluminum canopies over the bed with external bracing
ribs on the canopy. Very handy looking vehicle,
that. The same style canopy is used on D110 pickups, too.
>Re: The TD5, I think you had a bad tranny in that Disco. The TD5 is a
great
engine. I am just about to buy a 2002 Defender 110 TD5 Station Wagon. The
top
that you see everywhere in England is called an Ifor Williams top. They
look
like crinkled aluminum foil with ribs over the top. They are made for most
pick-ups.
It didn't feel like the transmission was the problem, but that the engine
was
sort of cutting in and out momentarily when the accelerator was in
"neutral."
As to the TD5's reputation, I've had no experience with the engine but this
one, but of the several Land Rover owners and operators I talked to about
the TD5, all of them said the engine has a very bad reliability record. My
friend with the hire vehicle company who supplied us with our Discovery said
that he and his mechanics have found the TD5 to be a real disappointment,
but
fortunately he rarely keeps a vehicle in his fleet for more than six months,
so he's
rid of them before the engines start giving problems. The Commercial
Discovery
we had was an exception as it had been in his fleet for exactly one year.
In fact,
the tax disk expired the day before we turned it in, and it was being traded
out of
the fleet a few hours after we were done with it. But he was not at all
impressed with
the TD5, and said that while it's performance was better than the Tdi it
replaced,
its reliability is very bad. Don't know this for a fact myself, I'm only
repeating what
I was told during the two weeks we were over there.
As to the canopy, we're probably talking about the same thing, but the
body of the top didn't look like crinkled aluminum foil, but seemed very
smooth with a dull aluminum finish. The strengthening ribs are vertical-
higher than they are wide. I thought it was a very nice, functional design,
and it certainly looks very strong, although I have no way of knowing
if it really is. But they sure are popular among the farm set. Are they
expensive?
___________________________
C. Marin Faure
(original owner)
1973 Land Rover Series III-88
1991 Range Rover Vogue SE
Seattle
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