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Well took the wife and daughter to Ikea at Lakeside Came back fully loaded two double beds two double matresses plus loads of other stuf. D4 was jam packed to the roof but performed very well. Overall it returned 33.8 mpg real brim to brim running at a steady 70mph on the motoway, well impressed as always MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
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19th Nov 2013 2:03 pm
kathk
Member Since: 06 Jul 2013
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Got her nice and clean.
Not going to do it again. The car is just too much surface to polish by hand. That's way too much like real work for my tastes. But Christmas is coming up so I'll have an excuse to get a polishing machine
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21st Nov 2013 8:10 am
Paul White
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Russell wrote:
Well took the wife and daughter to Ikea at Lakeside Came back fully loaded two double beds two double matresses plus loads of other stuf. D4 was jam packed to the roof but performed very well. Overall it returned 33.8 mpg real brim to brim running at a steady 70mph on the motoway, well impressed as always
I would love to know how you get 33.8mpg in your car! Is that the mpg showing on the lieometer, or as calculated with an app? The most I have ever got driving for 400+ miles on a motorway is 30.3mpg.
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21st Nov 2013 5:12 pm
MHP
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Paul, I know my dad use's an app to calculate it but I don't know if that figure is from it or not 2009 Discovery 3 HSE - Gone
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21st Nov 2013 7:02 pm
mrobbie
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Fitted side steps and mud flaps. Roof rails can wait for another day.
Now looks more rugged 8)
24th Nov 2013 3:09 pm
Russell
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Paul
that was brim to brim filling at start and finish of journey and calculating from the fuel used and the mileage covered, I do record the figures with an app and it is the best I have ever done. Must say that the on board reading was from memory about 3mpg optomistic.MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
24th Nov 2013 3:21 pm
RRR207
Member Since: 12 Oct 2011
Location: Bristol
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Drove it!
To most this must be the least exciting/interesting post on the site today or maybe longer? To me it was exciting as I haven't seen my car in over 2mths so getting to take it out for a run was great.
Now just to get used to the fact that I'm not going to see it again until August next year Nick
2010 D4 ....... now gone and replaced with a 05RRV Autobiography
Took it for its first service, wished I hadn't, serious implications for the future
29th Nov 2013 12:13 am
Hairy Dan
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Sounds ominous Cheers Ian
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29th Nov 2013 7:43 am
Hairy Dan
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Well another weekend and some more green lanes, started the day off at Blanchland and made our way up through Slayley forest and then some lanes around Langley and finished up in Weardale
A couple of photos from today
Cheers Ian
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1st Dec 2013 11:23 pm
promitheus
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Nice shots there Ian!
What rubber are you on?
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2nd Dec 2013 8:36 am
euangibson
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Nice pics Ian "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool,than to speak out and remove all doubt" ?.....what rubbish...
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2nd Dec 2013 8:49 am
Hairy Dan
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Thanks promitheus, I'm running GG AT's 255/55/19's, really happy with them
Thanks Euan Cheers Ian
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2nd Dec 2013 1:01 pm
MHP
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Spent the day travelling around North Yorkshire today taking in some green lanes along the way, very wet day under foot and a touch of snow on the higher ground. Just the 2 of us out today, me in the D4 and George in his rather special Defender 110
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Came back fully loaded two double beds two double matresses plus loads of other stuf. D4 was jam packed to the roof but performed very well. Overall it returned 33.8 mpg real brim to brim running at a steady 70mph on the motoway, well impressed as always 
