My local garage lent me a 60 plate 4.4 tdv8 that another customer had for sale. It lasted precisely 15 miles before stranding me for 7 hours! I know it was just one of those things, could have happened next week, last week, whenever but it does rather put you off!
In the 13 months I've had it my 4.2 supercharged petrol hasn't stranded me anywhere , I wouldn't have a diesel , they just aren't suited to stop start traffic and short trips where they don't get hot enough to burn the soot away.
I really like the discovery 4 but they don't do it with a petrol engine in the UK and the V6 diesel with its body off for many jobs and crank snapping problems really puts me off.
I was so close to buying a 12 plate disco 4 from a woman in Scotland it all sounded fantastic , she'd spent thousands on it fixing things that weren't broken
I was in , right up to the point she told me she was getting a company car so had parked it up , now that could well have been don't drive it because something might explode but with the reputation they have I couldn't risk there being a big problem on the horizon so somebody told her to get rid.
If they did a petrol disco 4 I'd definitely buy one