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- Mole HD
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Thanks mate, got that Ancel BM200 on Amazon for the same price. Nice one
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- Mole HD
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Narpy wrote:
Another pointless non-blingy bit added today, my D5 now has a Bluetooth battery indicator fitted.
I strongly suspect the battery might be a bit past its best so I’ve fitted a Bluetooth battery indicator to it and hooked up my Ctek to give it a full charge.
The Bluetooth gadget sends battery condition info to your phone and was extremely useful on the D4 so I’m hoping it does the business on the D5 too. It gives you a percentage of battery charge condition as well as the exact voltage. They only cost around £20 from eBay, one end connects to positive on the battery with the other to ground. Highly recommended if you like to monitor your battery condition.
This is the phone app screenshot showing a fully charged battery.
Best thing I ever bought for my CTEK was a 13 pin charging adapter...plugs into the towbar socket. You can plug it in on a trickle charge and leave it overnight...just shove the charger under the car in a placcy bag
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- Narpy
- Member Since: 30 Apr 2025
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Interesting you should say that, my D5 has the deployable tow hitch but doesn’t appear to have the necessary electrical connection unless I’m looking in the wrong place.🤷🏻♂️
Odd it has the tow hitch but not the electrics.
I’ve concluded my battery is very probably in good order after it held charge perfectly overnight and still shows 100%. I will however, install a Ctek charging connector in the side panel that covers the battery compartment to ease connection. That should have reverse in covered.
But, I usually go nose in up to my garage door and can pass my charging cable under the door leaving the charger inside. However, although there’s jump start lugs under the bonnet, I’ve not found anywhere I can connect my permanently installed front Ctek hook up cable but I’m sure I’ll have it working soon enough. I used to have a Ctek connector with weather proof cover on my D4 but was thinking of modding the LR grill badge on the D5 to either unclip or hinge down to reveal a battery connection. -
- Wolfpack
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- Wolfpack
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- Mole HD
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It was you that put me onto the 13 pin CTEK adapter Wolfpack...best 30 quid I've spent in a long time
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- Narpy
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- Mole HD
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- Narpy
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- Mole HD
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Banished the last bit of horrible grey plastic from the D5 at last. Popped the front plastic bash plate off this afternoon and painted it with satin black chip resistant engine paint
Of course...I should have spent the time getting the pressure washer out and washing+waxing the car instead of faffing about painting bits of plastic, I've been threatening to wash it for the last 3 weeks and just somehow never got around to it
Old...
And new look...the freshly painted bit will look less obvious when I eventually get around to washing the rest of the car...or the bash plate gets covered in mud like it usually is
But keeping on topic with the theme of utterly pointless bling...how about personalised car fresheners?
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- Narpy
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Easy change,
Before:
After:
Looks wider with the black grill weirdly.
Black badges, bonnet lettering + lower vent trims next.
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- Narpy
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
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That front grille looks the biz mate
Painting calipers...hmm.
I had the calipers on the D4 sand blasted and powder coated red when I had my brakes apart once...
But painting....apart from being a proper pain to take the calipers off to clean and prep them for painting, there are some nice VHT coloured paints specifically for that these days, no idea how long it lasts before it chips or peels off and needs redone though.
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- Narpy
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Yeah, I’ve found plenty of heat resistant paint on eBay but can’t decide which colour to get or whether to even bother. I might dwell on this and see if I’m still eager to do it once all the other mods are complete.
I’m still not sure it’s a bit “raceboy” instead of a luxury vehicle thing. Jury’s out currently.
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- Mole HD
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Start worrying if you put a baseball cap on back to front and find a penchant for blaring house music in the car when you drive round Tesco's car park...
...but headbanging to a bit of Rush or ACDC at full volume when SWMBO has left you sitting in the car park is perfectly acceptable old people behaviour
Aye, I've kinda been the same with painting calipers. Even when I had them powder coated red on the D4 at one time, I was never sure if I liked them or not. Maybe on a Merc or BMW...but a Land Rover? Like you said, the jury is still out.
As a pensioner, I've got away with very loud Harley Davidsons, very long hair and dyeing my goatee red or purple for many years...it's only been the last couple of years I've kinda given up on the Billy Connolly beard dyeing thing and let it go back to the natural grey/white...
I'm getting old entirely ungracefully it seems...
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