Disco 4 with off road use?

[stabilio]

Not sure if I should post this here, the LR section or off road section but here goes.

I’ve done a few off road days in a new Defender which I’ve really enjoyed and do like a boxy 4x4, esp being semi rural.
I’ve had a disco 3 and 4 in the past as family cars but as prices have come down now the cars are getting older, I’m tempted with another now and realised there’s a very local quarry near that does off road days, but in your own car.

Just wondered if anyone else does this while also using the car as a semi daily and if it’s worth doing financially as a hobby?
IE: will it wreck an already older car even though the discos are pretty capable.
It’s a cheap, fun day out but and wouldn’t do anything extreme as don’t want to trash the car.

[FtypeRmeister]

Sounds like a great way of having fun!
What you describe feels like using a fast daily driver for track days. As long as it is engineered to do this - like a 1990s/naughtiest GT3 for track days you should be fine. Just budget for a substantial increase in consumables- brake pads, bushes, tyres etc. Discovery 4 is a well regarded off reader - so you should have a great time!

[Summit_Detailing]

It's what they were designed to do!...enjoy

[Rowe]

It's definitely what they're designed to do. But personally, for a pay and play day, I'd be buying a cheap D3 or D2 which I didn't care about getting wrecked/flooded - as opposed to having a nice D4 which I still wanted to use as a daily.

[Snow and Rocks]

Entirely possible to enjoy without ruining a Disco 4 but it is tempting to try more and more extreme stuff - the risk is probably more to wrecking bodywork than mechanical* but take it easy and you'll be fine.

• usual endless aging Land Rover issues aside

[ClaphamGT3]

Tyre and - to an extent - wheel choice will be important. Lots of D4s run low profile road tyres on fragile alloys which will be no good at all for off roading

[Snow and Rocks]

Yep, definitely budget for a set of the smallest wheels that will fit and some decent tyres instead of the blingy oversized nonsense that LR fit. A friend has recently bought a new Defender and it's on 22s as standard from the factory!