Member Since: 11 Sep 2018
Location: Royal Deeside, in a cottage on a hill
Posts: 25
My D4: Is it wrong to love a car?
This thing is just SO good!
5th Feb 2019 8:45 pm
Andy Foster
Member Since: 27 Dec 2009
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 6551
Nice wheels 8)D4 MY15 SE TECH
D3 gone but never forgotten.
5th Feb 2019 8:47 pm
Ent
Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6488
NoClub Exped trailer
Club Timed Climate
Club Flappy paddle steering wheel
Club 300bhp
Club Prospeed test pilot/lab rat
Club National Luna Stella conditioner
5th Feb 2019 9:04 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
Location: Helsinki
Posts: 6753
Completely natural.
Just don’t end up in an abusive, high maintenance love-hate relationship
5th Feb 2019 9:16 pm
Dan_NL
Member Since: 19 Sep 2010
Location: world
Posts: 1213
We even give them names...
The D3 is the '..old lady..'
The F-Type is the 'Smurf'
and the BMW our 'backpack' ...
5th Feb 2019 11:11 pm
Iguana
Member Since: 14 Oct 2013
Location: 'Sunny' Zomerset
Posts: 9424
Ent wrote:
No
+1Iggy/Ieuan
Current LR =
2015 RR Sport Autobiography
&
1992 Land Rover Defender Camper
- Gone but not forgotten:
MY10 D4 GS
MY05 Disco 3 'S'
MY14 FL2 HSE manual in Blue
MY15 Disco 4 HSE Lux in Santorini Black
MY08 Disco 3 SE manual in Buck Blue
1960 Series 2 88" (No idea why I sold it!)
5th Feb 2019 11:31 pm
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
Posts: 2089
Not at all
More posts about the bad than the good on here nowadays and some with good reason but apart from the worry of the small chance of a catastrophic failure that lingers in the back of my mind there never seems to be a day that goes by when i dont drive my Disco and think what a fabulous motor D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
D3 HSE MY06 missing her still…
6th Feb 2019 10:19 am
stew 46
Member Since: 01 Dec 2011
Location: cornwall
Posts: 10147
All the time it’s giving you a great feeling when riding it and you don’t mind filling it up it’s very easy to love
But when it gets that your still filling it up and it’s lost that pleasure it’s given you for years and keeps binging and bonging at you for no reason it’s time to start looking around for a new younger model with a firmer ride
And for the Disco , I said I’d never have another !! But watch this space -------------------------------------------------
if you cant hold on dont let go , it ill come in handy for something even if you never use it.
D3 SE 05,
110 s wagon 300 tdi SOLD
h top transit
crew cab transit
transit connect
ausa dumper, muck truck .
peljob 2.5 digger
06 L 200 crew cab
2016 Disco 4 SE Tech
2019 Fiesta ST3
2021 GBS Zero
6th Feb 2019 11:02 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73082
I never really bonded with my D4. Yes it was nice, bit plusher than the D3 and obviously newer but was like wearing new brogues cf old trainers, I know which I prefer. Hence didn’t look back when sold the D4, it was just another car. I did look back when I had to abandon what was left of my D3 after she died. But she gave her last looking after me on yet another daft adventure thousands of miles from home. I miss her still.
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6th Feb 2019 11:21 am
dgardel
Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: Greater Venice
Posts: 2025
I love my Discovery 4 XXV
I love my Defender 90 PumaDiscovery 5 tdv6 HSE Corris Gray Outback Engineering Limited Edition IID Pro MV License
6th Feb 2019 1:29 pm
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
Posts: 2089
stew 46 wrote:
All the time it’s giving you a great feeling when riding it and you don’t mind filling it up it’s very easy to love
But when it gets that your still filling it up and it’s lost that pleasure it’s given you for years and keeps binging and bonging at you for no reason it’s time to start looking around for a new younger model with a firmer ride
And for the Disco , I said I’d never have another !! But watch this space
D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
D3 HSE MY06 missing her still…
6th Feb 2019 1:32 pm
nigel207
Member Since: 26 Mar 2009
Location: Nottinghamshire
Posts: 1359
2005 D3 SE - wanted to love it, but it was constantly going wrong so had to go after two and a half years.
2009 D4 HSE - loved it to bits even though it chewed into my wallet occasionally. Kept it for six and a bit years and only let it go because there was still some value in it.
2016 D4 Landmark - want to love it, but just no interest in it. The step backwards in quality has been totally surprising. Considering I love “detailing” our cars and cherish them, this one has been washed more by the dealer than me. Says it all.
No more JLR products for us.
6th Feb 2019 5:27 pm
TwoSheds
Member Since: 11 Sep 2018
Location: Royal Deeside, in a cottage on a hill
Posts: 25
Ceekay wrote:
...>> apart from the worry of the small chance of a catastrophic failure that lingers in the back of my mind there never seems to be a day that goes by when i dont drive my Disco and think what a fabulous motor
Yes! Almost as soon as I got it I started saving for that "catastrophic failure", and it's always at the back of my mind...
This is the first time that I have had a car that would be worth saving in the event of such a failure - in the past all of my motors have been the type that would simply get scrapped in that situation... In fact my last car was scrapped because the rear door lock broke!
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