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dan288
Member Since: 26 May 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 302
  
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Hello everyone. I left D3 ownership in 2013 due to parting out my 55reg for a brand new focus st 🙄. Since then many cars have been and gone, even an old pajero. My wife bought herself a Evoque a few months back and so giving me an itch I needed to scratch. So I started looking for D3 or an extremely cheap d4. A fee weeks of searching and losing out to people getting in before me. I only had a budget of 5k really. And expected to find a not so great one for 4 to 5k. I looked (virtually) at a good 10 or 20. Some had lots of bits done. Some had belts done Some had suspension faults. I was about to try and start narrowing a few down to a short list especially as living in Essex and most being up north or Cornwall didn't fancy dragging the wife back and forth across the country. The morning of my list making a took one final look on auto trader and sorted by most recent and saw avery shiny d3 with D4 front end. Mmmmmm net photo. Oooo stormer alloys.... Next photo oooooo SE so no sun roof worries. Next photo, hold on Iv seen that reg. I rushed out to the wife's office in the summer house slipping all over the frost on the decking. She couldn't belive it. It was the car we bought our youngest home from the hospital😪🙂.... I know and it still has the D4 lights on the back. We were both so happy.
So I bought it.
The end.
Turns out the ford dealership moved it to a used car place that suited this better literally 7 miles away. And the nice chap I bought it from got it from there who lives 40 odd miles away. So I was it's 2nd and now 5 owner.
In its life away has had a few works done. The side steps rotted away, scuffs on the front and rear bumper. Kids slime tipped on the carpet and a cracks on the dash.
He did add a button for cold starts. Has done the RR screen change, which is not very bright😔 and put a westbo thingy switch inside but I'm sure he said it's not wired to the FBH. I have yet to open the bonnet to see if the wiring loom is there. Oh and the arm rest pivet bolt cover is still missing from 9 years ago. So if anyone has one floating around in black.😉.
And some side steps. And a new steering wheel and a parcel shelf is missing.
Glad to be back amongst the wealth of knowledge even though an awful lot of it goes over my head, such as sorting the brightness out on the screen and fitting what should be an easy rear camera to the rear and plugging in a fakir lead.
Anyway glad to have my old car back and glad to be back on here. Mods:
LR Chrome mirrors
De-tangoed,
LED rings in front lights,
Hids4u all external leds,
Rears removed,
D4 rear lights with hids4u reverse led,
Clear repeaters,
Side steps,
Mud guards,
Roof Rails - removed,
D4 Modded Grill,
20" stormers with grabbers,
EGR blanked and removed
Next: remap - BAS? Bluefin?
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 20th Jan 2022 9:08 am |
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Hardware
Member Since: 28 Jun 2016
Location: Hiding under the M60
Posts: 13018
 
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Sorry, you should know the score ... no pics, didn't happen. 
Welcome back ! .
Dean
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2011 D4 XS - OBD port protection, RLD spare wheel protector, All LED interiors lights, Timed Climate enabled, iiD tool paired.
2011 D4 Landmark - Stolen from same dealer before I paid for it
2011 D4 GS - Stolen whilst at dealer  ... All LED interiors lights, DRLs, Spare Wheel protector.
1996 300Tdi - Eaten by tin worms
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| 20th Jan 2022 9:50 am |
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Stevepd
Member Since: 06 Mar 2018
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 392
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What a story  visiting from www.rrsport.co.uk
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| 20th Jan 2022 10:09 am |
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ianm27
Member Since: 02 Jun 2016
Location: Hertfordshire
Posts: 2154
 
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Wow - that is some coincidence
Hope the car is as good as you remember it
And as Dean said ....... no pics........ Uncle Ray's spare wheel protector
Limo Tint
Blackvue front & rear dashcam
Cruise control switch pack
Bodsy's remote for FBH
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| 20th Jan 2022 12:26 pm |
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dan288
Member Since: 26 May 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 302
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Seems to be about the same. Feels like renting a home out for 10 years and finding that it's not your home anymore. Need to sort out the niggling issues.seems a bit more responsive pulling away than before. Nice to have the 4x4 screen now too. Mods:
LR Chrome mirrors
De-tangoed,
LED rings in front lights,
Hids4u all external leds,
Rears removed,
D4 rear lights with hids4u reverse led,
Clear repeaters,
Side steps,
Mud guards,
Roof Rails - removed,
D4 Modded Grill,
20" stormers with grabbers,
EGR blanked and removed
Next: remap - BAS? Bluefin?
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| 20th Jan 2022 9:26 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14390
 
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I'd love to get my Old Bus back. I've tried but no luck 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
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| 20th Jan 2022 9:56 pm |
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dan288
Member Since: 26 May 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 302
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Once a year I checked the gov website to see if it was still taxed and MOTed. But never thought I be in the market for one and on the day I was about to stop searching and shortlist. Coincidence is amazing. Can't wait to wash, clay bar , polish and wax this weekend Mods:
LR Chrome mirrors
De-tangoed,
LED rings in front lights,
Hids4u all external leds,
Rears removed,
D4 rear lights with hids4u reverse led,
Clear repeaters,
Side steps,
Mud guards,
Roof Rails - removed,
D4 Modded Grill,
20" stormers with grabbers,
EGR blanked and removed
Next: remap - BAS? Bluefin?
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| 21st Jan 2022 12:38 am |
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Oswiperus
D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1599
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I have a good solid genuine set of side steps from my D4 that have been taking up space in my workshop, You can have them for a donation to the forum if you want them. I'm near Chelmsford.
Can't beat a 55 plate D3 SE, that's why I cant part with mine. 13 years and counting! Stu
2016 D4 Landmark current
2022 Defender D300 SE Gone
D4 2014 XS Commercial - Gone
D4 2016 hse lux montalcino red - Gone
D3 2005 se java black - current
D3 2005 base manual - gone
D2 1999 TD5 E white - current
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| 21st Jan 2022 10:08 am |
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dan288
Member Since: 26 May 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 302
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Wow, that sounds like a bargain of a life time. Anything else needing a new home? Mud guards etc? Also would you mind giving me a hint to an appropriate donation amount? Mods:
LR Chrome mirrors
De-tangoed,
LED rings in front lights,
Hids4u all external leds,
Rears removed,
D4 rear lights with hids4u reverse led,
Clear repeaters,
Side steps,
Mud guards,
Roof Rails - removed,
D4 Modded Grill,
20" stormers with grabbers,
EGR blanked and removed
Next: remap - BAS? Bluefin?
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| 21st Jan 2022 11:53 am |
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LT
Member Since: 31 Dec 2005
Location: South West
Posts: 23826
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Great story. 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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| 21st Jan 2022 11:59 am |
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Oswiperus
D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
Posts: 1599
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dan288 wrote:Wow, that sounds like a bargain of a life time. Anything else needing a new home? Mud guards etc? Also would you mind giving me a hint to an appropriate donation amount?
I hadn’t given it much thought £10/£20ish that sort of thing.
I think they were only on for about 3years and undamaged, paint flaking off underneath a bit but solid.
Drop me a PM if you’re interested. Stu
2016 D4 Landmark current
2022 Defender D300 SE Gone
D4 2014 XS Commercial - Gone
D4 2016 hse lux montalcino red - Gone
D3 2005 se java black - current
D3 2005 base manual - gone
D2 1999 TD5 E white - current
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| 21st Jan 2022 5:10 pm |
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dan288
Member Since: 26 May 2012
Location: Essex
Posts: 302
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Ta Mods:
LR Chrome mirrors
De-tangoed,
LED rings in front lights,
Hids4u all external leds,
Rears removed,
D4 rear lights with hids4u reverse led,
Clear repeaters,
Side steps,
Mud guards,
Roof Rails - removed,
D4 Modded Grill,
20" stormers with grabbers,
EGR blanked and removed
Next: remap - BAS? Bluefin?
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| 21st Jan 2022 5:46 pm |
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