SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
Posts: 4030
  
|
blowpipe wrote:Yes, EPB is chromed (along with loads of other trim, perhaps a bit too blinged up). I asked if the functionality had been updated to eliminate the well-known problem, but the LR lady didn't know that.
I'll bet she did know but was not about to tell you and whoever else was listening that it is the one part of the car that is still sh!t 
blowpipe wrote: interesting addition (unless I've missed something on my D3) is a cabin preheater for those cold mornings.
You not heard of, or seen the myriad of threads on here about Webasto timers then   I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 -
Last edited by SJR on 4th Jul 2009 10:24 pm. Edited 1 time in total
|
 4th Jul 2009 6:00 pm |
|
|
blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
Posts: 1111
|
Just done a search on Webasto but as I'm relatively new to the site and the car, I'm still none the wiser as there's a myriad of threads as you say! Can you help with a brief resume?
|
| 4th Jul 2009 10:21 pm |
|
|
SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
Posts: 4030
|
Most if not all UK supplied D3's are fitted with a FBH (Fuel Burning Heater), which runs on diesel and fires up when the engine is started from cold and the outside temp. is below 5 degrees.
It is possible to get a kit from Webasto to put a timer on the FBH so you can have it come on at a set time every day (if conditions necessitate) so that the car is up to temperature when you get into it - the benefit being engine is already warm and you can get hot air into the cabin staright away. It is also possible to fit a GSM module so you can control operation by mobile phone.
Is that brief enough I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 -
|
| 4th Jul 2009 10:29 pm |
|
|
blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
Posts: 1111
|
Brief but very informative! Many thanks. I take it this should go on the list for my first visit from TFC, sounds like an excellent mod.
|
| 4th Jul 2009 10:47 pm |
|
|
SJR
Member Since: 09 Aug 2006
Location: East Manchester
Posts: 4030
|
Yep
I think TFC is now doing this mod in his Sleep  I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
Buzz Aldrin (1930 -
|
| 4th Jul 2009 10:49 pm |
|
|
crews control
Member Since: 18 Mar 2007
Location: Dorset
Posts: 5011
  
|
I hope with all that stuff now placed on the steering wheel (looks like a PSP) the reliability of the 'clock spring' or cassette has improved a bit!
2005 D3 HSE
2011 D4 Landmark
2016 D4 HSE Lux
2017 Ford Tourneo VR46
Club Waitomo
|
| 4th Jul 2009 11:52 pm |
|
|
promitheus
Member Since: 04 Jul 2009
Location: Afidnes, Greece
Posts: 570
 
|
I went to LR to discuss my new order. They told me that there are no interior colour options (light and dark gray that is). I like the Stornway colour and ebony inside. TLO can you shed some light to this please. And if there is only one option does this look similar to the latest D3 dark gray?
|
| 6th Jul 2009 9:48 am |
|
|
chrisb
Member Since: 26 Jul 2007
Location: Hope Valley
Posts: 129
|
I too had a good fondle of the D4 yesterday at Goodwood 
Very nice it was to. I liked the cameras. Also liked the tow ball giude system that the LR guy told me about (Despite it not being fitted t that vehicle) whilst showing how to setup all the cameras.
I also noticed it was badged 3.0 on the back
|
| 6th Jul 2009 1:15 pm |
|
|
DaveM
Member Since: 05 Jan 2007
Location: UK
Posts: 378
|
I had a crawl over it 2!! nice motor but pretty 'blingy' also had a drive around their playground. V disapointed that it was only a D3 rather than a D4. but that was fun too!!
always enjoy Goodwood!!!
|
| 6th Jul 2009 1:36 pm |
|
|
ad15
Member Since: 14 Dec 2008
Location: up that tree
Posts: 4866
|
sod the d4, did anyone have a good look around sandra bullock? one wife.......livid
|
| 6th Jul 2009 2:09 pm |
|
|
zebadee
Member Since: 15 Feb 2006
Location: The Magic Roundabout
Posts: 1392
|
The D4 looks very nice indeed, but from the pictures, I too think that the ruggedness of the D3 is being lost. The line between the D4 & the RRS really is being blurred.
|
| 6th Jul 2009 4:01 pm |
|
|
blowpipe
Member Since: 07 May 2009
Location: lightwater
Posts: 1111
|
Was she at Goodwood? Must have been distracted by the D4 
Saw her interviewed by Jonathon Woss, what a genuinely pleasant and funny lady, a rarity in her profession......
|
| 6th Jul 2009 4:24 pm |
|
|
Very Annoyed
Member Since: 19 Nov 2005
Location: Up there, past the strange people and the sheep.
Posts: 3698
|
She was there on Saturday, her husband was there on Sunday. I was a guest of Cartier on Sunday and got some great pictures of Jenson, Peter Fonda on a bike and Jay Leno. Loving the power of the TDV8!
|
| 6th Jul 2009 6:14 pm |
|
|
