Member Since: 10 Mar 2008
Location: Chester/Wrexham
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At last - I can contribute to the "MY Discovery 3"
After what seemed a lifetime I picked my D3 up today.
After finally finding a good dealer I agreed to purchase the day before the budget. The story goes
Mr Darling tries and fails to put me off D3
Dealer keeps price despite RFL increase (think they'd guessed anyway but nice gesture)
Want to swap my plate over.....enter DVLA
wait
wait
Finally came back last Friday so should be able to deliver to me this week
Trailer booked until Mon-Weds so earliest Thur. My work commitments prevents delivery Thurs-next week
BUT off today
Agree to collect from dealer today when we spoke this morning
Dealer 2-3 hours drive away which is a bit of a pain (and I've got the kids with me today! SWMBO at work) so off we go.
Handover great
The best news though is its a 3 hour drive home
I'll put the forum sticker on tomorrow!
Hopefully the fun starts here. Thanks for all help on the forum before I purchased.
Permagrin .... now I understand!ALTERNATIVES...............No alternatives for off-road capability.
If you want Surrey plush, go for a Range Rover. If you want Manchester bling it's the Range Rover Sport. But if it's a seven-seat, go anywhere 4x4, it's time to Disco.
(Daily Telegraph 08/08/09)
7th Apr 2008 10:01 pm
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Blimey! Not everyone has the news of their new arrival personally approved by "da boss". I know it's not considered "kind" to say no these days, but no. Just no, ok? And if it's not ok, still no.
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Re DVLA and private plates, I put the number on retention when I know I'm changing, get the car with an additional set of plates for the private no. but delivered with the original number. Then as soon as the new V5 arrives (been only a few day last couple of times) off down the local VRO & do the swap. No waiting for DVLA in Swansea to pull their head out of their and I have a set of plates to go back on the car when I slap that number on retention to change that car. That's the plan anyway and seems to work with a lot less messing around than the dealer handling the paperwork.
8th Apr 2008 3:17 pm
shellshock
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DSL, TBH the salesman was vv good and did everything to sort retention etc. I have the original plates for this one so I will do exactly the same as you suggest when I come to change next time thanks
Still ALTERNATIVES...............No alternatives for off-road capability.
If you want Surrey plush, go for a Range Rover. If you want Manchester bling it's the Range Rover Sport. But if it's a seven-seat, go anywhere 4x4, it's time to Disco.
(Daily Telegraph 08/08/09)
8th Apr 2008 8:29 pm
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Congratulations... my Permagrin is still unmovable over two weeks after buying mine.
Enjoy it.
10th Apr 2008 5:44 am
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(think they'd guessed anyway but nice gesture)
and I have a set of plates to go back on the car when I slap that number on retention to change that car. That's the plan anyway and seems to work with a lot less messing around than the dealer handling the paperwork. 
