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  • Greyboy
    Member Since: 11 May 2025
    Location: Reading
    Posts: 1
    United Kingdom 

    Looking for used buying advice

    Hi

    I’m new to the forum and am about to buy my first Disco 5 after owning an RRS, which we love but we need a more practical car for two dogs.

    I am looking at two used discos and would welcome thoughts and opinions on which one to go for.

    2018 (18 ) HSE 3.0 TDV6 in Santorini Black - cream leather interior
    2019 (69) Landmark 3.0 SD6 in Indus Silver with black pack - black leather interior

    Both have low and similar mileage for their age - the 2019 is £5000 more and is 18 months newer.

    Interested in opinions on engine and trim level comparison and thoughts on desirability.

    Thank you in advance!!
  • Mole HD
    Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
    Location: Orkney Islands
    Posts: 52
    Scotland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Fuji White

    Personally, I'd go with the black leather trim on the '19 plate Landmark, especially if it has the black roof lining to go with it...as a farmer, the cream bare-bum coloured leather seats were never practical...Being a landmark model, it *should* have all the end of line (pre 2020 facelift) optional extras fitted as well.

    Besides that, there's not much to pick from between those 2 apart from the price and the age so it's mostly down to personal preferences. Perhaps compare the service and MOT history's if that interests you (check for any fails and advisories on the MOT history)... as I mentioned, I'd prefer the Indus silver with the black pack...but that's just my own personal aesthetics.

    Coming from a Carpathian grey '15 plate SDV6 HSE D4, I went for my '17 plate TD6 HSE D5 since it ticked all my boxes with mileage, trim and equipment levels I was looking for (it has practically every factory fitted optional package available at the time except for an electrically deployable towhook)...had a good service history and clean MOT's throughout and especially having the black roof lining, black leather, side steps...and my wife demanded a centre cubby box cooler since we had one in the D4 Laughing

    I was torn between 3 possibles at the time, all similar price and mileage, all located in deepest Englandshire which meant either a very long trip to view and buy or a remote sales process which isn't for the faint of heart... a pair of very nice '18 plate SDV6 HSE Lux's, one Indus silver, one Carpathian grey and the Fuji white '17 plate TD6 HSE that won out in the end...the deciding factors being that I have a mild dislike of full digital dashboards (mine has analogue speedo and tacho) and I really didn't need rear seat entertainment...

    The final decider, the dealer was extremely patient with my demands for detailed live video walkarounds during the remote sales process, stuck a fresh MOT on it and agreed to deliver it from the Midlands to Aberdeen free of charge. Can't ask for more than that...



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  • JBFUK
    Member Since: 25 Apr 2022
    Location: South East
    Posts: 67
    United Kingdom 

    Get insurance quotes, you may find the older one is significantly more difficult to insure due to the cut-off for retrofitting of security improvements.
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