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downgrading from a td5 to a 300??

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Range Rover Blues:
Yes the auto is the ZF 4 speed with lock up.  Personaly I prefer the older fully mechanical TDi, less to go wrong and have you seen the price of injectors for the Electronic TDi :shock:

Depending what you are towing I reckon either auto or manual ahould be fine with a bit of a tweak.

tjsj:
At the moment I'm leaning towards a manual XS or ES spec 300tdi. Hopefully under £3,000 if possible with roughly 100,000 miles on the clock, is this about right to aim for? How much do you think a 69,000 mile 2000, X reg Silver Discovery TD5 manual is worth? Its a GS spec but its the milenium edition so basically is the XS spec, half leather half alcantara, air con, ABS etc.

muddyjames:
I have a 1995 300tdi auto disco and when I first got it I wasnt impressed about towing with it at all. But an air filter replacement and oil and fuel filter change and it has changed the car big time and now I actually like it for towing.

Down side is that you cant keep hold of the gear you want but kick down earlier on a hill than you would in a manual and I achieve about the same speed by the top of the hill. I did a test with mine and a heavy box trailer up a steep hill and then a few weeks later I was apassenger in a 200tdi manual towing the same box trailer by co-incidence. Both went up the same speed, which suprised me as mine felt slow but obviously wasnt.

As for reversing a trailer. I spent all day going backwards down a tow path 0.7 miles at a time to pick up logs with a large trailer and in mine it was an absoute dodle to do. Stick in low box and it chugs back on it's own. If it had been a manaul I think the clutch would have been burnt out.

And to top it off, you wont regret an auto in a traffic jam :lol:

Would I buy another auto though? Depends what would come up but probably, yes I would look harder for an auto than a manual.

Oh and I am converting mine to veg oil :D

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