Discovery 4 Front Bumper Cover

Front Bumper Cover for the Discovery 4: a front bumper cover in primer.

Panels for vehicles that get used: Defender door frames, wings, bulkhead sections and floor panels, and the aluminium and steel panels for the later vehicles. Defender panels are mostly aluminium on steel frames, and the steel frame is almost always the part that has rotted. The Discovery 4 is the Discovery 3 made better, but the 3.0 V6 diesel carries a crankshaft failure risk that every owner ought to know about.

Specification and fitment

• Fits: Discovery 4, chassis code L319
• Engine: 3.0 TDV6 and SDV6 diesel, 5.0 V8
• Production dates: 2009 to 2016
• Quality: OE Supplier or Premium Aftermarket
• Part number: cross referenced to the factory part number for your VIN and confirmed before dispatch, because supersessions on these vehicles are frequent and one printed number would be wrong for somebody
• The failure this addresses: accident damage
• Labour time: about 2 hours plus paint
• Coding: a calibration or adaptation routine is required afterwards with a dealer level diagnostic system; a generic code reader cannot do it
• Also needed: parking sensor brackets
• Torque: not applicable
• Weight: about 9 kg
• Warranty: one year or 12,000 miles, whichever comes first

What arrives

• Bumper cover

Fitting

Labour guide: about 2 hours plus paint. Land Rover changes specification mid production, often by VIN rather than by model year, so send the VIN or the registration with the order and we confirm the part against the build data before anything leaves. It takes two minutes and it is the difference between a part that fits and a return. We are an independent Land Rover specialist and parts supplier. We are not Land Rover or Jaguar Land Rover and are not appointed by them; the model names are their trademarks and are used here to describe fitment. Everything we sell is chosen for vehicles that actually get used: towed with, loaded, driven through water and parked in fields, rather than for the brochure.

Which version to buy

OE Supplier is made by the firm that supplies the factory, in its own box rather than a dealer box. Same part, same line, typically 30 to 40 per cent cheaper than the dealer. Premium Aftermarket is a well regarded aftermarket maker that is not the original supplier. Generally good, and we say where the differences are.