jkp
Member Since: 17 Sep 2005
Location: Living among Bawbags
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Done my Level 1 today and was absolutely blown away with the capability of the D3 on road tyres.
Superb location and my Instructor was excellent. Explained absolutely everything prior to each section, the terrain control setting to be used, what it would be doing, what noises i'd hear, how the car would probably react.
Morning session based around the school, learning what the car can do and building up confidence to approaching climbs and decents. After a spot of lunch it was off up into the forests about 10 miles away. Some of the 'roads', you would not even think about walking on, but the ease that the D3 just showing was astounding.
The big finale....'The Dell'...I had a look at it from the bottom and thought, that's okay. We drove around and up to the top and done the risk assessment, where it went from ok to 'Holy F£k'. I've never had my baws tingle like that in a long time  As I lined the car up and approached it, my heart was beating out my chest. The confidence I built up all over the day, using cadence and HDC had me chortling all the way down. The back end was being kicked up due to potholes and I was bounced out the seat a couple of times, but holy batshit!!! What a machine and what a day
Another big bonus was I had the D3 all to myself today. A lot of driving time.
I'm really looking forward to Sunday and the Newbie day now.
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 21st Feb 2006 8:22 pm |
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Pelyma
Member Since: 06 Jan 2005
Location: Patching, Sussex
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Its great to hear first timers get this feeling. There is so much rubbish written about the D3 not being a proper LR. If off road ability on road rubber is that good, bring it on I say.
Until you have experienced it though you have only seen 50% of the car. Have fun at the next day with BN, it will be good and you will learn lots more. DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
DS3 TDV6 HSE- Silver with Alpaca (new one) Gone
D4 HSE Lux - Montalcino Red Gone
Porsche Cayenne V8 Diesel S
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| 21st Feb 2006 9:11 pm |
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BCP
Member Since: 25 May 2005
Location: East Scotland
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Thoroughly enjoyed Level 1 at Dunkeld last week. Does anyone know what level 2 includes?
BP
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| 22nd Feb 2006 1:34 pm |
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sflan
Member Since: 20 Feb 2006
Location: Watford
Posts: 5
 
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I saw your DVD install in your gallery, can you tell me did you take the live feed for the screens from the light in the middle? and how did you connect the audio?
I like the two screens as an alternative to the headrest types as you can get a bigger screen and they look simpler to install
Thanks Steve Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Silver/Black leather
100% better than ML270 that only lasted 7 months!
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| 22nd Feb 2006 8:39 pm |
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jkp
Member Since: 17 Sep 2005
Location: Living among Bawbags
Posts: 4528
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sflan,
I haven't a clue mate. I got it installed, so i'm blissfully unaware of where the wires are.
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| 22nd Feb 2006 8:52 pm |
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