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- Chillyphil
- Member Since: 07 Jul 2025
- Location: Paignton
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 654
Cheers Phil
The only thing I'm not looking forward to is redoing the auto stop/start CCF edit with the IID tool after the Bling Barge's brain surgery... and hoping Park's don't mess with my settings too much. I think the approach puddle lights with the logo are on the underside of the mirrors though so my blue door card LED's will probably be safe...
I'll tell them to leave the stop/start CCF edit well alone though if I can. Apart from that...all that remains is to make a blood sacrifice to the Norse weather gods to guarantee the ferries won't be cancelled and the roads to the far north will be free of snowdrifts.
If this software update breaks the Bling Barge, I'm blaming Wolfpack and Beno2 for talking me into it...
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- Darras
- Member Since: 16 May 2020
- Location: Inverness
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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I decided on the trip down because of the Bling Barge and it's service history, especially dealership service history.
The last recorded dealer service was in 2021 although I've got indy garage paperwork with every receipt for servicing, parts and repairs every year until I bought it...it's quite comprehensive. It was certainly well maintained and looked after with money spent on it when it needed it, albeit not through a Land Rover dealership...which isn't necessarily a bad thing.
The dealer servicing doesn't interest me, most dealership 'technicians' are just plugging the car into a computer and ticking boxes on a check list rather than getting their hands dirty. It's more the software updates that the car has more than likely missed out on since 2021 rather than the security update itself...I certainly have no need for that up here.
I had a choice of three LR dealers between Aberdeen and Inverness. Parks in Aberdeen itself, Pentland Land Rover at Elgin and Parks again at Inverness...I only chose Parks at Inverness because of my travel plans and the timings...it's on the way home and we can stop at the retail park for a bit of shopping before heading up to Thurso for the overnight at the Premier Inn and turning up at Scrabster for the morning ferry back to Stromness on Friday.
Parks in Inverness just won the coin toss is all...even they suggested Aberdeen or Elgin when I told them where I was coming in from...but, the 14.00 wait in booking time for the update process suited my road trip plans perfectly
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- Darras
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- T4fty
- Member Since: 14 May 2025
- Location: Liverpool
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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