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- Disco3newbie
- Member Since: 23 Jan 2025
- Location: Borders
- Posts: 7
Another new D5 owner
Thought I'd better come and say Hi since the old D4 seems to have morphed into a D5. Been on the D3 forum for years and I'm sure this one will be just as useful.
Quite liking the fact that the fuel gauge doesn't appear to drop as you watch it...well perhaps more slowly than the previous D3 and D4
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- Dicky1961
- Member Since: 14 Jul 2025
- Location: South Yorkshire
- Posts: 14
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Great looking motor, enjoy
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 837
A lovely thing indeed, welcome to the dark side mate
...but, but...you've gone and got the tyres dirty! Go and wash it at once!
Same score as on the D3-D4 forum...if you have any burning questions or find some handy tips to share, fire away...
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- 747_JK
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2018
- Location: England
- Posts: 484
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Re: Another new D5 owner
Looks really nice - the perfect D5 colour too!
Welcome to the forum.
MY23.5 D5 3.0 MHEV Metropolitan Edition – Santorini Black – Ebony Windsor Leather – 21” Style 5025 gloss black wheels – 21” full size spare tyre – Black roof rails – Black side mouldings - Williams Ceramic Coat. [Gone: D5 HSE @ 50,795miles: (now LH68 BYW)] -
- Dazz360
- Member Since: 07 Aug 2025
- Location: Walsall
- Posts: 206
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Hi mate I’m sure we will be help each other out as usual
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- Disco3newbie
- Member Since: 23 Jan 2025
- Location: Borders
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@Dazz360 Nice colour.....just needs a little bit of mud for contrast
@Mole - as ex D1/D3/D4 - I expect them to be muddy....may take time to learn the rules of the 'Dark Side'
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 837
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Disco3newbie wrote:
@Dazz360 Nice colour.....just needs a little bit of mud for contrast
@Mole - as ex D1/D3/D4 - I expect them to be muddy....may take time to learn the rules of the 'Dark Side'
I made the horrible mistake of buying a white one. Unlike my old grey D2 and the equally grey D4 which I had to make muddy on purpose, this one is a pure muck magnet all on it's own...it gets itself muddy even if I just walk past it with my wellies on
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 837
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double post...damned phone
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- alex08
- Member Since: 21 Sep 2016
- Location: Glasgow - or Skye - or Newcastle
- Posts: 24
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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- alex08
- Member Since: 21 Sep 2016
- Location: Glasgow - or Skye - or Newcastle
- Posts: 24
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Photo
AH - have worked out the new photo system
. Different from Disco3! Car at Kintail a few weeks back. Might post a picture of the squashed one if there is an appropriate thread. All I can say is the majority of the passenger safety features worked. Except the door locks....... 
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 837
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These were taken not too far from Kintail...one of our fave routes when heading off for a bit of wild camping on the old Russian rig a few years ago.
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- alex08
- Member Since: 21 Sep 2016
- Location: Glasgow - or Skye - or Newcastle
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 19 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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It's about as capable as a Land Rover off-road too... being 2WD, it has a driven wheel on the sidecar...and a mechanical reverse gear. It can carry 250Kg of camping kit plus the pair of us with no effort either.
I took the machine gun mount off the sidecar and replaced it with a swivel spotlight for Mrs Mole to play with, I thought she'd do less damage with that instead of an MG42.
I used to go via Uig for the ferry when we lived up on South Uist, it was always a nice drive up from the Kyle (before and after the bridge was there) and heading up around the edge of the Black Cuillins. We always stopped off at Broadford for a cuppa on the way up.
Skye is a beautiful island and one of my favourite places on the planet. The odd thing about living in Orkney after so many years spent in the outer Hebrides...there's no Gaelic spoken at all...it's all very Norse and full of bloody Vikings, I still find that strange.
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- alex08
- Member Since: 21 Sep 2016
- Location: Glasgow - or Skye - or Newcastle
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We have a house with a norse name populated with gaelic speakers
Apparently Uig is a historically Norse settlement. (Bay)
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