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- R333 BEE
- Member Since: 24 May 2025
- Location: wirral
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 68
I hear you on that one. I was briefly tempted to fit my Latitude Pioneer roof tent onto the D5 that I used on both the D2 and the D4 and heading off rough camping in the highlands for a long weekend... but haven't yet because even opening and shutting the boot a dozen times or leaving the boot open during a normal off-road camping trip would likely flatten the battery...nevermind running external lights etc. Bar spending the money and effort to off-road mod the D5 by wiring in an extra leisure battery and switchgear to run the awning/roof tent lights and other related gubbins, I can't see a way around it.
So, without modification or using overcrowded public campsites with caravan/camper power sockets to plug my CTEK charger into, I'd probably have to tow a trailer full of spare batteries around for proper off-piste rough camping in the D5...I really should have kept hold of my 2015 D4 just to use for the occasional trip into the wilds if nothing else.
I had spent a fair bit of effort on making the D4 rude and uncivilised by modding it with an onboard ARB air compressor, snorkel, front winch, external spare wheel mount, tree sliders, stainless underbody plates and tons of other off-roady bits and bobs over the years, but I was eventually persuaded into selling it privately after being offered seriously silly money as a cash sale by a weekend green laner with more disposable income than common sense.
He originally turned up with the intention of buying my even more rude 2002 TD5 D2 with it's very loud straight through centre box and cat deleted stainless side exit exhaust. I think the throaty roar it bellowed when I fired it up frightened him over to the other side of the workshop where the D4 was parked
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love my D5 and have never regretted buying it. It's still a Land Rover at it's big heart and as such, has proven itself to be extremely capable off-road and workhorsing around the farm...but just sometimes, I feel somehow 'limited' as a long time Discovery fan-boy owner by the D5's urbanised school-run civility.
Give me a couple of years with it and a few more readily available after market off-roady type bits and it'll probably end up as rude and uncivilised as my D4
Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
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