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• Remove plastic collar from towbar

• Thanks Jon, I love a man who knows what he's talking about...a great help to me as well if I ever get around to taking mine off
Mole HD Replies: 7 Views: 229 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 6th Apr 2025 8:15 pm Subject: Remove plastic collar from towbar

• Remove plastic collar from towbar

• According to the user manual...it seems you just pull that plastic collar thing off then stow it in the foam rack in the boot...It might just be needing some 'minor persuasion' with some WD40 and a bi ...
Mole HD Replies: 7 Views: 229 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 6th Apr 2025 5:51 pm Subject: Remove plastic collar from towbar

• Remove plastic collar from towbar

• I must admit... to my shame...I honestly don't know, even though I've got a removable tow hook exactly the same as that one that's been permanently attached since I bought the D5...
Mole HD Replies: 7 Views: 229 Forum:Tip and Tricks Posted: 6th Apr 2025 5:17 pm Subject: Remove plastic collar from towbar

• LR insurance

• It can be nice...sometimes.
  
  Usually, it looks more like this
  
  https://disco5.co.uk/gallery/13231/normal_5KasJdX~0.jpg
Mole HD Replies: 8 Views: 235 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 6th Apr 2025 5:01 pm Subject: LR insurance

• LR insurance

• Aye, cheap car insurance is one of the benefits of living on a small, isolated rock in the north sea with zero crime...that and MOT exemption... as long as you don't use the car off island.
  
  I alwa ...
Mole HD Replies: 8 Views: 235 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 6th Apr 2025 4:35 pm Subject: LR insurance

• LR insurance

• I've been lucky in having a magic postcode (and being old)...most of the sensible quotes from the mainstream brokers/ insurers when I renewed mine in February were well south of £500 fully comp, some ...
Mole HD Replies: 8 Views: 235 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 6th Apr 2025 2:51 pm Subject: LR insurance

• How to set Parking Sensors to always be on

• Many thanks for that, I'll set them up later...I'm knee deep in cleaning a silage pit at the moment...not the most pleasant of environments
Mole HD Replies: 7 Views: 362 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 4th Apr 2025 2:16 pm Subject: How to set Parking Sensors to always be on

• How to set Parking Sensors to always be on

• Strangely enough, I'm still trying to work out how to do that on my '17 HSE since I have to keep turning the front ones on from the centre screen...it's annoying
  
  
  So...activate the sensors then ...
Mole HD Replies: 7 Views: 362 Forum:Faults and Fixes Posted: 2nd Apr 2025 4:20 pm Subject: How to set Parking Sensors to always be on

• Engine Failure?

• Yup Zig, it's on the top of the fuel tank and a pain to replace...it's not that difficult technically since the pump is only held in the tank by a metal locking ring, there's a couple of electrical co ...
Mole HD Replies: 14 Views: 1233 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 30th Mar 2025 11:53 pm Subject: Engine Failure?

• Engine Failure?

• From what you've mentioned...I'd suspect the fuel timing belt, or rather the noisy pulley/tensioner you described has seized or dropped possibly (at a stretch) causing the belt to jump a tooth after t ...
Mole HD Replies: 14 Views: 1233 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 30th Mar 2025 6:42 pm Subject: Engine Failure?

• 3,300-mile European road trip complete & love this car!!

• Awesome read and a great road trip. Last time I did anything like that was on the Harley loaded for bear with the missus on the back.
  
  We travelled down through Germany to Austria, across the Alps ...
Mole HD Replies: 6 Views: 1421 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 30th Mar 2025 5:12 pm Subject: 3,300-mile European road trip complete & love this car!!

• Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• Nothing too drastic...since there isn't a huge range of after market clip on accessories compared to what's available for the D1's to D4's. None of these bits are particularly expensive and take aroun ...
Mole HD Replies: 0 Views: 181 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 16th Mar 2025 6:24 pm Subject: Anyone else added pointless blingy bits yet?

• ODBII Scanners

• Yup, I upgraded my IID tool from the G3 version I used with the D4 to the latest G4 version on the GAP website. The upgrade cost around £100 compared to the G4 retailing at £550.
  
  The new G4 IID ...
Mole HD Replies: 4 Views: 2053 Forum:My Discovery 5 Posted: 16th Mar 2025 6:16 pm Subject: ODBII Scanners

• Effective mud guards

• The rubbish OEM not-so-much-mudflaps certainly don't help when the roads are as bad as they are up here this winter. Besides the endless rain mixed in with spring tides flooding everywhere and my fiel ...
Mole HD Replies: 4 Views: 870 Forum:General Posted: 16th Mar 2025 4:10 pm Subject: Effective mud guards

• Very slow infotainment boot.

• Aye, go for it. A belated return to the land of the wee free's
  
  I couldn't go back to mainland living now...way too busy and hectic, even out in the sticks. We spent a couple of weeks at my ...
Mole HD Replies: 16 Views: 8340 Forum:In Car Technology Posted: 13th Mar 2025 10:35 pm Subject: Very slow infotainment boot.