Sell it or part it?

[jskibo]

So we have a 2001 Disco II SE7 with 108000 on it now. Bought it in SoCal when we lived there 2 years ago, now its in Grand Rapids.

Head gaskets went on it around 95000. Had valve job done at the same time as the gaskets were done. Radiator had a leak last year so I had a new one put in.

Three amigos pop up now and again but never stay lit more than a cycle.

I let it sit for 3 months while I was waiting to get a replacement title from California, just started driving it again a few weeks ago with new Michigan tags and title.

CEL came on, code is P0305 Misfire in cyl 5. Reset it and it came back within a day. Kind of thinking its time to move on and we are looking at a couple other SUV's now.

Worth selling the Disco, or just parting it out now? Not really interested in putting any more into this have spent about 11k in the past 2 years.

Any thoughts?

 

[LRflip]

Just sell it...

if you're at this point, the last thing you want is a lingering dead truck sitting in your driveway.

Unless you have more time on your hands than you know what to do with, you'll save yourself a huge headache by just selling the damn thing at market value.

 

[JohnB]

If you can't replace a spark plug wire or at least try to find your mis-fire I doubt you could make a dime parting it out.

 

[jskibo]

If you can't replace a spark plug wire or at least try to find your mis-fire I doubt you could make a dime parting it out.

Having a bad day or are you just a tool all the time?

 

[discostew]

I remember back in that time that #5 plug wire always went bad. To the point that I was asking reps what the F&*$% is up with the #5 wire. I know your frustrated at this point but just suck it up and reach back there and replace just that wire. Make sure you have no spark coming out of that wire but I would almost bet that the wire took a shit. If you have secondary air injection its going to be a bit of a bitch. but if not you can get back there without taking the plenum off. Im telling you the #5 spark plug wire always failed. Dont quit now brother,fix the damn thing.

 

[jskibo]

Better to get a set of magnacores or something and do them all now or just the one?

Yep, have the SAI, wonder if one of the kids hands will work better....

 

[SGaynor]

You could likely fix the 3 amigos by doing the re-wire, and just replace the wires (~$45 shipped from Kingsborne) and plugs ~$20 in Champion coppers.

Honestly, it sounds like it just needs some TLC (read a tune up, and fluids), but you've lost the love and don't want to work on it. Sell it for $2000 and buy a Corrolla.

Don't part out a truck that just needs a tune up. And John is right - if you don't want to put the effort into making it run, you won't put in the effort to part it out enough to make money.

 

[discostew]

You seem frustrated with the truck. See if you have any spark coming out that wire. If not just stick the bandaid on the problem for now with just one wire. See how the truck does for a while and know that it will need a whole set someday. My friend comes to your area a lot to take his wife home. I can ask him if hes interested in stuffing that wire for you. He's a Land Rover Master Tech and could give you a real good Idea what your up against.

 

[DarylJ]

Having a bad day or are you just a tool all the time?

Toughen up a bit. You're asking for free advice.

You truck has a misfire, something that will take a few minutes to diagnose. You're suggesting parting it, which takes over a hundred hours to do properly, and that's if you have the storage, work space, and tools ready to go. And you'll end up making damn near minimum wage or less for your time if you don't damn well know what you are doing. Just packing and shipping is a major time sink, not to mention the rest of what is required to profitably part a vehicle. Especially a one-off.

Maybe you don't know what it takes to part a vehicle. If that's the case, you should ask rather than suggesting it's a possible solution.

Basically your question doesn't make any sense, and you're being called on it. Maybe you should take a step back and figure out what you really want to get out of this.

 

[Agent]

You could likely fix the 3 amigos by doing the re-wire, and just replace the wires (~$45 shipped from Kingsborne) and plugs ~$20 in Champion coppers.

Honestly, it sounds like it just needs some TLC (read a tune up, and fluids), but you've lost the love and don't want to work on it. Sell it for $2000 and buy a Corrolla.

Don't part out a truck that just needs a tune up. And John is right - if you don't want to put the effort into making it run, you won't put in the effort to part it out enough to make money.

I've been frustrated as hell with my truck many times, but in the end, patching it up is a hell of a lot cheaper than a car payment. Besides that, I'm a stubborn bastard figure that if I kept it running for 12 year of long hours, busted knuckles and countless expletives I might as well keep on keeping on. I'm just going to keep patching it up and its goning to take a major accident or fire for me to get rid of it.

SGaynor is right on. The ABS modulator rewire is easy and fixed my intermittent 3 Amigos issues. Check that #5 wire and if it were me, I'd replace them as a group.

 

[bigcheif]

Do'nt give up! take some time,and replace some needed tune up parts. if you have any proplems,we will help ya out. there is good people here who do like to help others.

 

[jskibo]

Bought some spark plugs and a CPO BMW X5 4.8.

Will fix whatever the misfire happens to be then it'll be on autotrader.

As far as parting it, I was referring to selling off some easy to strip pieces that would pay more than the couple hundred bucks driving it to the junkyard would. Just don't have time for this fun with six kids and a two career family.

 

[flyor]

Ho much? As is where is.

 

[jskibo]

Grand rapids, MI

Will figure out a price once I figure out the misfire

 

[jskibo]

Replaced the number five plug. Had some light soot on it but nothing wrong with it. Still throwing the code. Guess wire is next, coil pack if that fails. Not today though, may just have someone do it....

 

[singingcamel]

The truth hurts, and he's just being up front.. Your asking for our advise .

Having a bad day or are you just a tool all the time?

 

[jskibo]

The truth hurts, and he's just being up front.. Your asking for our advise .

It must, he is a tool....

 

[discostew]

Toughen up a bit. You're asking for free advice.

You truck has a misfire, something that will take a few minutes to diagnose. You're suggesting parting it, which takes over a hundred hours to do properly, and that's if you have the storage, work space, and tools ready to go. And you'll end up making damn near minimum wage or less for your time if you don't damn well know what you are doing. Just packing and shipping is a major time sink, not to mention the rest of what is required to profitably part a vehicle. Especially a one-off.

Maybe you don't know what it takes to part a vehicle. If that's the case, you should ask rather than suggesting it's a possible solution.

Basically your question doesn't make any sense, and you're being called on it. Maybe you should take a step back and figure out what you really want to get out of this.

His question makes perfect sense to me. Hes on Discoweb , if he feels like your a tool he can say that. Why would it take 100 hours tto part it out ? I think I could put one together in less time than that.

 

[DarylJ]

Why would it take 100 hours tto part it out ? I think I could put one together in less time than that.

If you think "parting a vehicle" means disassembling it and that's all, I can see where you might be confused.

Profitably parting a vehicle (disassembly, cleaning, photographing, posting, packing, shipping, disposing of the leftovers) will easily take 100 hours. I'm not talking about stripping a few bits and selling them and bringing in a wrecker to take the rest away. I'm talking about actually parting something completely and getting real money for the parts. It's a real job. It pays very little (by the hour) if you don't know what you are doing.

 

[discostew]

Ya I think he just wants it gone, I bet hes got a real job. I admit I'm not a pro at parting shit out. But I have sold off shit till the phone stops ringing and then sold whats left for scrap.