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My parents own a Dutch 'Stripped' Disco3 Commercial with an autobox. It has air suspension, aircon, radio/cd player, cruise control and electric windows. No navi, there's a small shelf where the screen would be.
Not all Dutch commercial D3's are stripped down versions.
I don't know if the D4 was ever sold stripped down, but they are available as commercial cars. I did a quick search on trading websites and I didn't find any stripped down cars. Of course this doesn't mean there are none.
D3s with a manual gearbox are pretty rare in The Netherlands and I've never seen a D4 with a manual, but then again I rarely take a good look at them when I see one.
If your set on having a manual you'll probably have more luck finding one in Belgium.
In case you want to look around on Dutch websites, we call our commercial cars ' grijs kenteken ' cars or just ' commercial '. Other then the international car trading sites people often use www.marktplaats.nl to advertise their cars.
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Did a quick search and found the '4x4 Suspension Handbook' by Trenton McGee:
http://books.google.nl/books/about/4x4_Suspension_Handbook.html?id=Aj08cY5wFoEC&redir_esc=y
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If you keep it on the street, I wouldn't mod it extensively. Maybe tune up the turbo and fuelpump, and get a roofrack an ladder if you're going to use it for trips and vacations.
When you're going to use it offroad: loose the front spoiler, get new tires and maybe a lift and sill protectors (like rocksliders)
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all disco II's had low range, it was the centre diff lock that not all came with.
You're right, don't know how i got it mixed up
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Are you sure the car has low range? Because I know of DiscoII's that were sold without low range.
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You might be able to find some here.
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They also do a Carbon Fibre version.
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Downloading right know.
Sounds interesting, worth the try
Thanks for the link!
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is this the sort of thing you're after?
4 door freelander dropped onto a 3.9v8 rangie chassis and air suspension fitted all round.
i quite like it, not too sure about the stupid bit airfilter - but the rest is ok.
I'm in love with this thing
Great idea. Looking forward to see more of your project, Mark
Disco "Commercial"
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The V6 diesel in the D4 should be much better than the one that was available for the D3, and it has a modern robotized autobox that will perform much better than the antique model they had in the D3.