Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
Picked up my Seat Leon "loaner" this afternoon. It's a good car, but not really comparable to the Landmark.
I still can't think of a better replacement for the D4, so I'll almost certainly be getting another.
I did briefly consider compromising on practicality and getting a FFRR, but I'd want an EU6 diesel and that would be too pricey.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
6th Mar 2017 7:14 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73082
Deffo written off?
6th Mar 2017 7:17 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
Awaiting 100% confirmation tomorrow.
I'm in the habit of getting a new D4 every year though. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
6th Mar 2017 7:20 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73082
If you feel like slumming it I've got a 06s I can swap with you. Once you've got the new one.
6th Mar 2017 7:24 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
Most kind of you Del. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
6th Mar 2017 7:28 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73082
6th Mar 2017 7:41 pm
discovery1953
Member Since: 07 Jan 2014
Location: Westbrook, Wilts.
Posts: 1165
LT
We live in a old Bath stone quarry.
Where abouts is that (just the geologist coming out in me) ?
6th Mar 2017 7:46 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
On the south edge of Bath. Home of Bath stone. Still quarrying around the corner from where I live.2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
6th Mar 2017 8:00 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73082
d53, no going round to look for fossils in the D4.
6th Mar 2017 8:03 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
The only fossil in my D4 is me!
A frustrating day today, due to the fact that on Sunday JLR Accident Management told me that as long as I could provided the insurance details of my neighbour, they'd provide me with a D4 or FFRR as a loan car. As my NFU policy provides only a "normal" car as a loaner, I instructed JLR to remove my D4 from the scene and take it to the LR main dealer that I now use.
On Monday, as I suspected, JLR refused me a loan car due to the uncertainty of liability. Fair enough. However, NFU had also got involved at this stage and appointed a company to recover my vehicle, which of course had already been recovered. There's more to this, but to cut a very long story short, one that I had to to sort out all of this morning., the D4 was eventually tracked down to the Bristol HQ of the recovery company that took it on Sunday.
The good news is that I was able to go there and strip out the extras that I'd added such as RLD protector, hatch bag, sump guard etc. In the panic to get it away from the land slide, that was and still is highly unstable and as the ns glass was out and thus it wasn't secure, I only had time to take out all the loose belongings that I lug about.
So it's not yet been assessed. I took a friend who has been in the motor trade repairing, selling cars and parts and servicing them all his adult life. He did think that due to the amount that would have to be payed out if it was a total loss, there was a chance that it would be repaired, but that was very much dependant on if it was possible to both buy and replace roof sections. Something he and I simply didn't know.
Tomorrow it should be collected and taken to the depot of the company that NFU contract to assess damage and hopefully I'll get the answer before the end of the week.
So I'm still in limbo.
I'm not even going to start to tell you about the fiasco of my neighbours insurance company. I'd probably burst a blood vessel. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
7th Mar 2017 8:06 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14391
Please, please tell. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
7th Mar 2017 8:12 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
One day I will. Aside from the potential to burst open all major arteries, due to potential litigation, it's best I don't elaborate yet.
All I'll say is that my local Councillor and Bath council have put a lot of time and effort in to this. Despite this, nowt has happened yet and we still have tons of masonry and soil balanced precariously above the back of our house. Another heavy downpour could well shift it. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
7th Mar 2017 8:30 pm
mz mini
Member Since: 02 Jul 2014
Location: Sunny Devon
Posts: 1759
Not good LT really feel for you, one gets the feeling that its a no win situation wrong very wrong Land Rover 90 - deceased
Discovery 3 - deceased
Discovery 4 2013
Mini Cooper S 1964 Mk1 - International Rally winner red & white
Mini Cooper s 1964 Mk1 - Road Rally champion green & white
Mini Cooper S 1971 Mk3 - original and unrestored
Porsche 911 997
Porsche Boxster 3.4S
VW Polo 1.2
Citroen Xsara Picasso - shed/run around
7th Mar 2017 9:32 pm
Skynet
Member Since: 23 Jul 2014
Location: Melksham, Wiltshire
Posts: 868
Chucking down again in the region, hope that another landslip doesn't occur for you Dave
D3 2006 HSE, Cairns Blue - gone
D4 2016 SE, White
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
D4 will not be assessed until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest, more likely Friday or even Monday though.
Having seen it in the daylight yesterday, the glass roof is cracked, the top of the tail gate is dented (no big deal) but the roof panel behind this is dented and of course there's a tear, plus other dents in roof panel that runs above the top of the n/s doors. The rear n/s door and entire n/s rearmost panel is toast.
A fair bit of interior trim on the N/S has been smashed up.
I don't really want it back. 2006 D3 HSE (Original & still the best)-GONE
2010 D4 HSE (A bit bling)-GONE
2014 D4 HSE (Almost too bling)-GONE
2015 D4 HSE (A heated what?)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Written Off)-GONE
2016 D4 Landmark (Surely the last!) PD1881 rims-GONE
2017 FFRR SDV8 Autobiography (now semi-retired)
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