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Location: Romiley
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Bye Bye Buck Blue D3
In a similar vein to DiscoStu's Bye Bye Black Betty thread, this is the Bye Bye to my Buckingham Blue Disco thread...
I finally caved in this week and chose the "Hand It Back" LR Freedom option on the Blue D3 and placed my name on a MY08 Zermatt Silver Auto SE.
Took the Buck Blue one out for a last photp shoot fully loaded last week - best of the shots
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Best car I've ever owned - and one that I've enjoyed enjoyed myself the most in (errr except an old Ford Cortina Estate in a carpark with a girlfriend at Alderley Edge but thats another story )
Have had a very busy day stripping down the Blue Beastie...
Private plate off first
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Then light guards, bright vent (followed by a good scrub in and around engine compartment - amazing how much Salisbury mud came out )
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Followed by Rack and Ladder
And finally wheels - bottled it and went down to the local garage and had a mechanic mate swap them all over using his big trolley jack and airgun
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And so down to GS Stockport to sign some paperwork and check out the replacement... 8)
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I've started removing the bramble rash - will get rid of rest tomorrow and final swapover should happen Thursday/Friday next week...Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
24th Jan 2009 8:26 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
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She's been a good un
So, we all get to say farewell at The Romper on Monday evening. New beastie looks nice too 8)
24th Jan 2009 8:57 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
You do if I can get back from bl**dy Sunderland in time.
Blue one is muchhhhhhh quieter now without the rack and back on Pirelli's Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
24th Jan 2009 9:11 pm
lafona00
Member Since: 30 Nov 2007
Location: Dubai
Posts: 808
Hello,
Just a daft question but:
1 - Do you need to give back in the same dealer that you took it from?
2 - Did they mind about the dirty engine? mud? and the holes that you had to do for the drining lamps?
3 - Would that be an issue if I put some driving lamps and then took it off?
Thanks in advanceArno
No more LR... but a Toyo
Disco 3 XS Auto - MY2008 - Leather, heated seats.
Def 90 - 1993
24th Jan 2009 9:41 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
Posts: 13710
Not daft questions at all - answers:
1. Dealer isn't taking it - BCA on behalf of LR Finance are taking it away
2. It'll be reasonable under the bonnet when it goes back - and yes, so I'm leaving the A-Bar on it (though probably NOT the lamps)
3. Only if you drilled holes - someone on here has 'non-destructively' mounted their driving lamps on their grillSteve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
24th Jan 2009 9:59 pm
simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
Posts: 18296
Nice one Steve
Don't forget to forget not forget to swap the space saver for a full size alloy - who cares the style is wrong.
24th Jan 2009 10:40 pm
ronp
Member Since: 29 Nov 2006
Location: North Yorkshire
Posts: 15214
Yet another member of the silver club
nice one I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
Red wine has muddled my brain... has he got to forget or not to forget
Nothing wrong with being in the silver club!! Not as long as you remember EXACTLY where you've parked it!As you slide down the banister of life
may no splinters point your way
Disco XXV
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY16
Discovery Sport HSE Lux MY17
Evoque HSE Dynamic MY16 (Gone)
RRS2 Autobiography Dynamic MY14 (Lovely car but preferred the Disco!)
Disco 3 Tdv6 HSE MY05 (owned for 11 years and now gone)
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24th Jan 2009 10:54 pm
DiscoStu
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AVE wrote:
Red wine has muddled my brain... has he got to forget or not to forget
I don't know... Red wine addled mine too.
He will know what I mean.
24th Jan 2009 10:58 pm
SN
Member Since: 03 Jan 2006
Location: Romiley
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I have NO idea what you were going on about simon....
I have a space saver on the Blue one - I didn't check on the Silver one today Steve N | 21MY Defender | 08MY Discovery 3 (history) | 06MY Discovery 3 (ancient history)
24th Jan 2009 11:02 pm
simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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Ah, so you did know what I meant... just you lucked out on the 1st one
24th Jan 2009 11:07 pm
Neil Pettersen
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Silver one looks link a spacesaver Steve.
I think you can see a full size wheel at that angle.
PS There would be far less water thrown up on roads if more
vehicles in the UK had rear flaps.
I also fitted front ones to keep the doors cleaner.
24th Jan 2009 11:49 pm
character
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hey sn, is the replacement on a 57 plate then
25th Jan 2009 12:02 am
SN
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Disco 3 XS Auto - MY2008 - Leather, heated seats.
Def 90 - 1993 
Red wine addled mine too.
