Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23369
Damn I’ve been rumbled. My secret is out. 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
24th Dec 2019 11:07 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 13912
Beno2 wrote:
Hi Dundonian
Your lucky to own a very good but controversial alternative design LR most of these would secretly love to own one.
The D5 is DEFIANTLY a car I will never own because in my eye it’s pig ugly, less practical and not a replacement for the D3/4. Others will and do have different views.
My D4 is the last LR I can see my self owning. 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
24th Dec 2019 11:52 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934
On an ever-spinning wheel of less practical cars? 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
25th Dec 2019 12:09 am
Beno2
Member Since: 18 Apr 2009
Location: SE
Posts: 987
Quote:
The D5 is DEFIANTLY a car I will never own because in my eye it’s pig ugly, less practical and not a replacement for the D3/4. Others will and do have different views.
Quote:
My D4 is the last LR I can see my self owning.
You secretly do D3 HSE
25th Dec 2019 12:15 am
mse
Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 2702
It is funny when you hear this, the 2 soon to be 3 d5s we have had, no one has come up short to the d4's - i never owned a d3 but have had multiple of every other disco and every one improves, the d5 is the bestMike
26th Dec 2019 11:55 am
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7438
I suppose it must depend what appealed on the D4. To me, the very first time I sat in an drove a ‘4, it was perfect in every way. It took another 3 or 4 years to be able to buy my first one and (apart from my right knee often finding a sharp edge on the drivers door), it was everything I’d hoped for. To me, the ‘5 took everything that I liked about the ‘4 and either made it worse, or completely ruined it. Personally, it was the single biggest catastrophic step backwards since selling a Citroen XM estate and contract hiring a new Citroen C5 estate in 2002
I accept that happy ‘5 drivers must have very different priorities, likes and needs to me.2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: FL2 as a second car
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
26th Dec 2019 1:58 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934
Man who drove Citreon preaching to D5 owners 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
26th Dec 2019 2:19 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23369
Oi, I had a BX19RD (non turbo) once.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
26th Dec 2019 2:26 pm
RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13107
This is the new Brexit thread - "you're wrong", "no, you're wrong"...
Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
26th Dec 2019 2:33 pm
mse
Member Since: 27 Jun 2005
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 2702
To give you an idea of the uses my D5 has, it does work, which is motorway and city driving doing about 25k a year.
It then works on the farm, so whatever that needs it does, including off roading
linked to that it then also tows, admittedly this one has only done a bit of towing as ive got lazy - the other d5 moves some big trailers with all sorts on it.
I think mine lives the design brief, i cant think of something it doesnt do and is just a better package and place to be than the d4 - yes that was a nice car, i wouldnt be against another, but its not as good as the d5 and the d5 has soo many more features to make it a nicer place to be.Mike
26th Dec 2019 2:36 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934
LT wrote:
Oi, I had a BX19RD (non turbo) once.
I sense a pattern emerging 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
26th Dec 2019 2:37 pm
Red Merle
Member Since: 30 Aug 2014
Location: Liskeard
Posts: 7438
DG wrote:
Man who drove Citreon preaching to D5 owners
Don’t knock the XM, especially in 2.5 TD guise A massively underrated and misunderstood car, especially if load carrying was a top priority, that wasn’t even equalled until the D4 arrived 2011 - 2015: 3 x FL2
2015 - 2017: 2 x D4
2017 to date: FFRR SDV8
2023 to date: FL2 as a second car
2021 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200
2022 to date: Hinckley built ‘14 Triumph Trophy 1200 & sidecar!
(One of only two known to exist in the world!)
26th Dec 2019 3:26 pm
sailormike
Member Since: 04 Apr 2007
Location: Norfolk
Posts: 165
+1 for the XM. Had a couple of trips to Brittany in the late 90s with a mate in his towing a Drascombe Coaster sailing boat. 80+mph on the autoroutes. Smooth and comfortable. If you put more wine in the back the hydraulic self levelling suspension increased pressure to compensate, this then feed into the brakes increasing servo assistance. Ps the trailer wheels never went in the water and he had them balanced as well.Disco 4
Burstner motorhome
BMW 225e (only 1/2 way to electric)
26th Dec 2019 3:42 pm
LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23369
DG wrote:
LT wrote:
Oi, I had a BX19RD (non turbo) once.
I sense a pattern emerging
D3, D4’s then SDV8 FFRR. You’re right. Although RM had FL2’s instead of a D3.
Everything is a compromise to some degree or another after a D4, but I’m managing okay. Spent most of the day off road today and despite being shod with 255-55-20 Pirelli Verde AS the FFRR managed very well. Much better than expected.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
26th Dec 2019 7:13 pm
Paul J.
Member Since: 09 Dec 2005
Location: Leafy Cheshire
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