P38 Diesel or Disco TD5??

[LandRoger]

Going to change my 90 before winter comes thinking in terms of a P38 Rangie Diesel or Disco TD5, both have their plus and downsides   what do people think ? anyone !.would like to hear from people who own the vehicals mentioned.

[zebidee]

Going to change my 90 before winter comes thinking in terms of a P38 Rangie Diesel or Disco TD5, both have their plus and downsides   what do people think ? anyone !.would like to hear from people who own the vehicals mentioned.

I mis-read that and was definitely going to recommend you go for the P51 Mustang over the Disco TD5.

;)

[LandRoger]

Going to change my 90 before winter comes thinking in terms of a P38 Rangie Diesel or Disco TD5, both have their plus and downsides   what do people think ? anyone !.would like to hear from people who own the vehicals mentioned.

I mis-read that and was definitely going to recommend you go for the P51 Mustang over the Disco TD5.

;)

If it had 4WD might be an option(lol) all that poke in the snow/ice would have to brush up on my driving skills methinks,

[dxmedia]

I didn't think that the p51 had any wheel drive.

I also don't think snow would be an issue. Just go above the cloud.

[piggysteve]

I had the same choice and went for the P38. As you say both have plus and minus points but touch wood it's been fine. If you get one disconnect the arial lead for the central locking and invest in a synchmate. Mine has a Chip from Rimmer Bros and returns mid twenties to the gallon. It's good off road as well

[LandRoger]

I didn't think that the p51 had any wheel drive.

I also don't think snow would be an issue. Just go above the cloud.
[
/q uote]    You threw me there as we were talking motors i assumed that a P51 Mustang was a Ford muscle car (lol),no  think i would rather a Rangie cant think of anything Yank made that i would want,

[LandRoger]

I had the same choice and went for the P38. As you say both have plus and minus points but touch wood it's been fine. If you get one disconnect the arial lead for the central locking and invest in a synchmate. Mine has a Chip from Rimmer Bros and returns mid twenties to the gallon. It's good off road as well

Excuse my ignorance but what is a synchmate??, have you had any hot starting problems ? think there is something to help cure the problem but again dont know what its called,

[piggysteve]

Mines fine hotstarting, you can get a kit to fool the pump into putting extra diesel in when starting hot. The synchmate resynchs the key fob to the BECM, sometimes the link gets lost mines done it twice in 3 years

[James.Harwood]

P38a (nice 6 cylinder BMW engine that isn't commonrail injection) over TD5 (nasty commonrail thing).  However see my post on the buyers guide for the P38 in range rover technical.

[lambert]

We had a yd5 disco commercial prior to the 90 and it wad hateful .no guts couldn't pull the skin off a pudding. Even worse with a big trailer on. Oh and it needed lr assist 6 times in 5 months, so it went back to the stealer and we got my 90 from an indie and it is proper bo.