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petergalileo:
Im afraid I am bowing out now due to the diesel price.  Ive had the 300TDi ES Disco for 2 years and its broke the bank.  Just bought a 2.0 mk2 mondeo ghia X and its already saved me £80 on the car insurance and is saving a load on fuel too !

The Disco will spend the next 5 months being repaired and tinkered with then shes going on eblag to make half its value.

My sincerest thanks go to

Gordon Brown a Prime Minister who nobody voted in
Alistair the little Darling, current chancellor who asks me to pay taxed the purchase of the car, taxes the use of it, taxes the fuel it runs on and the insurance it requires by law.
And finnaly OPEC, the greedy, selfish, **expletive deleted**, **expletive deleted**, **expletive deleted**, **expletive deleted**, **expletive deleted**, **expletive deleted**, wrotten money grabbing **expletive deleted**.

It does however pose an interesting and very "top gear" sort of question.  If you were driving down a muddy track and Gordon, Alistair and a key member of OPEC were laying in the way, would you put Diff lock on when you drive over them or not ?

If anyone would like to turn that into a poll then please feel free.  Im going to stop moaning now and go polish my mondeo  :'( but when the snows come due to the reversal of global warming due to everyone driving thier gee wizzes whos going to tow them out of the drifts ?

keefie:

You won't be happy with your Fix Or Repair Daily Mundayo..... You'll be back mark my words.  [-X

bambamjj:
Dont do it. had landrovers since i was 18 on and off Sold my last disco 3.9 V8 about 2 years ago  :'(, broke my heart at the time and bought peugeot 307SW.  within a month i was hankering after another landy, took 20 months to convince SWMBO to get another.  That was the longest time without one.  Will never be without a landy again.

wrecker:
ive been there and done,

had a 4x4,got fed up,

got a normall road car and hated it,1 month later i got my 1st landy,will never be with out a 4x4,even if im 21 and paying thro the nose,ill staying with it :twisted:

KingWolf:
I know exactly how you feel mate, I have a 40 mile round trip to work every day and the cost of running my Disco was just getting stupid and there was no way I was going to change my job as I love it so much. As a result I brought a little Clio to use for work and I'm saving £35 a week on fuel..!!! In 6 months I'll have saved enough on fuel alone to cover the purchase price of the car, the years road fund licence and over half of the extra insurance costs...!!!

However - I bloody hate having to use it..!!! It might be green but I miss driving my Landy sooooooooo much it hurts. But this is still a better option for me than to part with my beloved friend.

Mark.

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