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- Dazz360
- Member Since: 07 Aug 2025
- Location: Walsall
- Posts: 15
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- Narpy
- Member Since: 30 Apr 2025
- Location: Stockport
- Posts: 88
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 267
Hey Dazz, welcome to the dark side mate
As Narpy said...you'll have to fork out for a new set of bars, practically nothing accessory wise from the D3/D4 cross fits onto the D5....
I really don't like the roofbar fitting system on the D5, I spent an hour standing on a box trying to line up the pins on the clamps with those little locating holes in the roof rails...probably why I've never taken the bars off again
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- Narpy
- Member Since: 30 Apr 2025
- Location: Stockport
- Posts: 88
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- Dazz360
- Member Since: 07 Aug 2025
- Location: Walsall
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thanks guys , I remember narpy from the D3 site
I’ve still got my d3 but it’s not starting at the moment got a thread running
Had the car a week or so ago and it’s a lovely interior, drives nice and with abit of poke when you press not like the delayed reaction on the D3
Anyway I’m sure I’ve got some clamp kind bars from my wife’s old kuga I’ll have a look at them
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 267
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- Dazz360
- Member Since: 07 Aug 2025
- Location: Walsall
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Still working on it today, I’m just about to start and put this pump on that I can hear the solenoid clicking
It’s getting to the stage of if I should keep throwing money at it
Last month was a new air pump, coolant , gearbox oil and filter and now I’ve done the lpfp and the possibility of a new Hpfp pump
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 267
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I had to create an account on the D3/D4 forum to drop Martin a PM last week as this forum went down with an SSL error...
Since I posted on there on the D5-L462 thread (to get the 3 post requirement to PM Martin), I've been kinda viewed as a strange and exotic pet with a couple of D3/D4 regulars like Moo, AustinJMJ or Garry Stuart asking me all sorts of questions about the D5. It's been kinda fun
It's been nice for me too as a former D4 owner trawling through posts from folk with spanners taking their D3's and D4's to bits...a bit of nostalgia. It'll be nice when a few more folks start to do all that stuff on here with their D5's posting up threads with pics and asking/giving advice etc.
There's a few of us on this D5 forum who'll take spanners to the beasts, Narpy, me and a couple of others so it's always nice when someone else turns up who won't mind taking a D5 to bits when it needs it...every little bit helps
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- terryall
- Member Since: 03 Apr 2019
- Location: Whitstable
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- Dazz360
- Member Since: 07 Aug 2025
- Location: Walsall
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I won’t mind taking a spanner or 3 to this beast but it more needs must that affording to pay someone else to fix it for me 😂
I’ve already got the workshop manual on a thumb drive
If anyone needs it I do t know how to send it other that a hard copy to another thumb drive
Also I’ve just tried a standard set of clamping roof bars and they’re about 50mm small to reach from one to another so they fitted a ford kuga (SWMBO ) old motor
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
- Posts: 267
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I was lucky that a nice chap from this forum who had shifted his D5 on had a set for sale really cheap...I love bargain garage sale stuff
I would have had his roofrack as well but I'm a bit geographically challenged up here in the frozen north, it would have been an expedition to go pick it up. The roof bars were easy and cheap enough to ship up via courier though...
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- Narpy
- Member Since: 30 Apr 2025
- Location: Stockport
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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Good grief...viral torch fetish buying, that's pretty awesome...if a bit creepy and cultish
I bought a £20 fancy rechargeable torch on Amazon because I'm too lazy to get the stepladder out and put a £1.50 bulb in the light above my back door
We don't have any street lights up here on our rock, the nearest ones are 35 miles away in Kirkwall on the main island...In summer, it doesn't get dark at all so it's not an issue. However, in the winter with only 4 or 5 hours of daylight, it's pretty dark so everyone has a cupboard in the kitchen full of torches and batteries...helps during the persistent power cuts too as you blunder your way across the yard in freezing rain to start the genny up.
Spring and autumn equinoxes...we get nature's light pollution to save everyone's torch batteries
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- Narpy
- Member Since: 30 Apr 2025
- Location: Stockport
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- Mole HD
- Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
- Location: Orkney Islands
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Ooo, sold!
Definitely a bloke thing though...put shiny buttons, flashing lights or pics of boobs on it and chaps will just get the wallets out
As for the subtleties of torch buying...After 2 years of the yard being a black hole in winter, Mrs Mole has taken to leaving the stepladder out with that £1.50 light bulb gaffer taped to them
Edit:
I just got a shout through from the living room. Mrs Mole had been on Amazon perusing duvet covers or something equally uninteresting, so she spotted the snazzy torch purchase...
I blamed it on you...
Last edited by Mole HD on 18th Aug 2025 12:18 pm. Edited 4 times in total
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