Immensely competent in all environments from serious off roading and towing to motorways and country lanes. Handsome looks. Roomy, classy full seven-seater
Heavy and not very fuel efficient. Still suffering quality problems and demoted from four to three stars because of them.
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FUEL ECONOMY
30.1–30.7
OFFICIAL MPG
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REAL MPG
90%
OF OFFICIAL MPG
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INSURANCE
13–16
GROUPS
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ROAD TAX
L–M
VED BANDS
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MOT RESULTS
58.6%
AVG. PASS RATE
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| CARS FOR SALE | USED DISCOVERY 3 PRICES |
Introduction
Latest updated 2-4-2012: Electromechanical parking brake actuator failure is common. An E-clip retaining a powerful spring (in the over-torque clutch assembly) is mounted into a thin plastic hollow shaft, with resulting failure allowing the spring to press against the housing and cause terminal damage to the gears. The material is too soft and the groove too near the end. Made in steel, brass of phosphor-bronze, this item would be robust. Made in plastic it must fail with the repeated hammering intrinsic to any operation of the over-torque slip-drive. If the system "screams" LR's standard dealer instructions are to try to merely adjust the the brakes at the shoe/drum interface, unaware that the "screaming" noise from the actuator box results from the friction between terminally damaged gear-wheels and the gear-box housing. In fact many Discovery 3 owners have had this problem, as can be seen by the number of posts on the forum at www.disco3.co.uk
Introduction:
3rd generation, now all steel Discovery on sale UK from late 2004.
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