2003 Land Rover Discovery Td5 Es, 5 Seater from UK and Ireland - Comments

Very Bad and virtually obsolete Sat Nav System made radio system non operational, was fixed by dealer after lots of inconvenience only to have the problem re occur on 3 occasions and 3 more trips to the dealer.

Sometimes just doesn't start, as if its immobilised, give it a few minutes and it will go.

Thought there was something seriously wrong with the auto box as the engine is always revving the nuts out of its self, dealer told us 'It's just how they are'.

Very comfortable and very beautiful looking vehicle.

Hideous driving experience purely agricultural compared to the new one.

Steering has terrible lock and busy car parks are a no go.

Gutless TD5 engine and auto box are a terrible match. The gearing seems all wrong. The engine is forever red lining when not even pushed hard and gear changes are long, drawn out, jerky processes.

Don’t Go for the Sat Nav system as is it purely just lifted out of a BMW from when they owned land rover and its completely un-ergonomic and outdated. Also causes the cd player / radio to not turn on, at regular intervals even after being fixed repeatedly. which is a pain because the cd player system is one of the best bits of a discovery because it hides the incredible engine and road noise in the cabin.

If your Disco is so bad, should you not have given it a blue unhappy smiley then?

Disagree with your comments regarding the TD5 and auto box combination. My TD5 auto keeps the revs between 2000 and 2500 in normal driving i.e. in the engine's optimum operating range and only goes up to 3000 rpm if I'm pushing it or 4000rpm on kickdown.

This is a 2.3 tonne car with about 130bhp on tap and the aerodynamics of a house brick! Trying to drive it like a boy racer is not going to work, especially with an auto box.

My experience is that it behaves perfectly adequately in normal driving and is particularly good on longer motorway journeys cruising at ~65mph, which also gives fuel consumption over 30mpg even when fully laden.

The reason Land Rover suffered such a huge quality drop in the late 90's and early '00's is because unfortunately Ford bought them out and cheaped them up something wicked.