Month: April 2019

After having the Discovery three days, we came out from a restaurant and it wouldn’t start on the first two tries. It turned over very slowly and if I kept the starter engaged it finally fired up. Felt like a dead battery. Drove home, connected the ScanGauge and saw the alternator was putting out around 13.8 amps (alternator OK). Quick look at the battery and it looked pretty old, so trip to the local parts store for a new gel type battery, install, clean up and tighten all connectors……same problem. Must be the starter right?

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Great question……….because it’s cool.  That’s probably not a good enough reason.  Well, here was how I got to this decision.

We decided that to take full advantage of our recent move to Denver, we needed a 4X4 SUV.  My last SUV was a 1998 Grand Cherokee Ltd that we bought new and sold in 2005.  That was a capable and no fuss vehicle, well suited to shuttling around our young family during the worst that Milwaukee winters could throw at us.

This time, I wanted something more interesting that I could work on.  So why this 2004 Discovery SE?  Here goes….

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