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- Narpy
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- Wolfpack
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- Narpy
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- JonM
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- BBDisco5
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Welcome Ian, wondered where you had been hiding
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- Narpy
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- zig
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- Narpy
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Hi Zig, yeah I was a regular contributor over there for quite some time back in the day.
The jury is still out regarding the D5. It has so many features I’m kinda bamboozled by it all at the moment, there’s features on that thing that I’m confident I’ll never need nor use but it’s mostly user error that’s causing me uncertainty, I simply don’t know what I’m doing. For example, I’ve had a mare today with the cruise control. Damn thing keeps starting something called “Lim” and won’t set cruise speed and I’ve also noticed this lane positioning feature is terrible. Dash goes red on one side and I’m not sure it attempts to steer back by itself. Frightened the bejeezus out of me but again I think it’s just user error and getting familiar with these features.
Lane assist, so far, not impressed.
Cruise control, so far, not impressed.
Tyre pressure monitoring, so far, not impressed.
Start stop, If I had my way, I’d rip it out, throw it in a skip and never miss it. Utterly useless feature. How do I permanently turn this off?
If there was a handbook, I’d read it and get a better understanding but being a bloke I think I’d rather learn through messing with it.
Gonna be fitting roof bars + rails and using the existing trims so watch out for a How-To regarding reusing the old trims that you’re supposed to throw away and spend the value of a small property buying replacements. Not happening. I’ve got a reputation as a tight northern bar steward to maintain and will not be throwing anything out that can be reused. -
- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 87
Welcome to the dark side mate
Looks like you've pressed the speed limiter (LIM) instead of the cruise control. Cruise control works fine on the dual carriageways or motorways and you activate/deactivate it by just pressing the button on the steering wheel.
Your 2019 posh-boy Disco is a bit newer than mine so there's a few differences in the steering wheel button placement and as far as I know...options and settings....so I'll try to avoid adding any confusing info.
As for Lane keep assist...fine if you like that sorta thing... but it was the first thing I disabled (along with all the other driver aids) after I picked the car up. You can access the settings from the centre dash 'driver assistance' settings. You access that menu from the steering wheel options selector.
The stop/start...just get into the habit of pressing the button on the bottom right of the centre panel every time you start up. It's become an automatic thing with me, even though I know how to physically disable it....but that's getting into mucking about with your car territory that I'm uncomfortable with sharing on a general owners forum.
There is a LR customisation place that'll reprogram the ECU to always remember if it's been set to off or not...but it'll cost you £100 just to have that little option added. I'll add the link below anyway as they do other (mostly expensive) customisation options that may be of interest to someone with more disposable income than common sense...
https://www.lr-chip.co.uk/car/discovery-5-...activation
TPMS is fine...it's only there to let you know if any of the tyres drop below 30psi, otherwise, you shouldn't notice it.
Apart from the obvious stuff...and having come over from a D4 myself...most of it isn't that complicated once you get a handle on where the bits and bobs are and what they do.
Bar the electronic menu stuff and a few more options on the centre screen, it's not really that different from the D4. Just press some buttons and see what lights up...and upgrade your Gap IID tool to the G4 version if you have one. It's handy on the D5
Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
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