Member Since: 27 Dec 2009
Location: Liverpool
Posts: 6551
Great story and photos D4 MY15 SE TECH
D3 gone but never forgotten.
9th Mar 2015 10:18 pm
Hairy Dan
Member Since: 19 Jan 2011
Location: Co. Durham
Posts: 12319
A nice way to tell your story Cheers Ian
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9th Mar 2015 10:26 pm
Alan B
Member Since: 12 Feb 2013
Location: Fife
Posts: 6528
Here's to the next 10 years
D3 57 xs Stornaway grey
D2 02 commercial silver gone but a great servant and won't be forgotten
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9th Mar 2015 10:35 pm
DG Site Moderator
Member Since: 12 Dec 2005
Location: The Gaff
Posts: 50934
Lovely ...clear to see it's played a big role in your family life 21 year LR veteran > D2 GS 2003 > D3 S 2006 > D3 HSE 2009 > D4 HSE 2013 > D4 HSE 2015 > D5 HSE 2018 > DS HSE R-Dynamic P300e 2021
9th Mar 2015 10:43 pm
armalites
Member Since: 17 Aug 2013
Location: Herefordshire
Posts: 1918
Some cracking pictures and a great story told by them.
They really can do everything, my wife always pats ours and says "well done car" every time she gets back from a long drive. IID PRO
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9th Mar 2015 11:26 pm
Gareth Site Moderator
Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26701
Excellent story! Just goes to show how versatile the D3 is as a family car.
I wish I'd kept my first D3 - it would have been 10 yrs 4mnths now. However, it would be getting on for 300k miles now.
9th Mar 2015 11:30 pm
ruben D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
Posts: 2384
great pictures and great family story... that certainly reminds me of my own story
thanks!! lost in translation!
9th Mar 2015 11:39 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: Wiltshire
Posts: 13908
Thanks. She really has been great and just supported us as a family and business in the things we do and need to do.
She has 170k on the clock and never misses a beat. I have a great Indie that are staffed with proper mechanics who know their way around cars and keep her well fettled. She is showing her age but always scrubs up well after a wash and brush.
I hope LR keep to the spirit of the Discovery as the do it all car. It rides like a limo, is both a minibus and a van, hauls loads like a truck and munches miles like nothing else. Whatever I need it to do it does and does it well whilst keeping my family safe.
I plan to keep her, my eldest daughter is 15 this year so I suspect I will hand it on to her in a few years time when she is driving, but what do I replace her with? I really hope the new D5 lives up to the Discovery heritage, I can't see myself in a FFRR or XC90. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
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9th Mar 2015 11:47 pm
ruben D3 Decade
Member Since: 26 Sep 2006
Location: ASTURIAS
Posts: 2384
yes, the D5 will come sure.... but I think the D3, more than the D4 sorry by its originality and time, will be forever a unique car, although one modern car, a car from another era...and unrepeatable!!lost in translation!
9th Mar 2015 11:58 pm
Ceekay
Member Since: 17 May 2009
Location: Bury
Posts: 2057
Great post mine is 9 yrs old now and I have had her 6 and a half years and although she causes me the odd trouble and I throw way too much money at her I do love the old girl who is also known as the bus D4 HSE Lux MY16 Club Waitomo
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10th Mar 2015 12:26 am
Woolmeister
Member Since: 26 Mar 2007
Location: Chandler's Ford
Posts: 3457
Great story, Moo.
This - to me - is what Land Rover ownership is all about. It just gets on with whatever you throw at it from one day to the next. No complaints, wherever you go.
Mine will have been part of our family for 8 years on the 27th March this year. Also just cruised through the MOT with no bother.
Thanks for sharing.
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2019 Škoda Kodiaq 2.0 Tdi 190 DSG Sportline in Quartz Grey. Excellent vehicle. Gone.
2017 Discovery Sport HSE Auto in Carpathian Grey and Ebony Leather. Modern JLR Junk. Gone.
2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 S Manual in Zermatt Silver with Ebony Cloth (143k) Gone, but now patrolling the Asia section of the West Midlands Safari Park!
As has been said, a great thread, and a great demonstration of excellent D3 reliability.
I can confirm that I found no fault codes of any concern on Moo's D3 too.
Next 10 years...Why not make it the next 20? Current: Discovery 3 06MY (55 reg) HSE Auto Zambezi Silver Allisport Fast Road Intercooler, V8 Brakes, Silicone IC Hoses, EGRs Blanked, Remapped, De-Cat pipe, FBHIC
Freelander 2 2007 HSE Manual Tambora Flame
Previous: FL2 56 reg SE Manual Black (written off )
Disco 3 06 reg B7S Manual Rimini Red
Disco 2 TD5 Y reg ES Manual Blue - Chipped
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10th Mar 2015 10:03 am
MarkOne
Member Since: 23 Jul 2011
Location: County Antrim
Posts: 3345
Excellent post great pics, with having 4 kids we couldn't be without ours.
10th Mar 2015 10:04 am
mark the spark
Member Since: 22 Jun 2011
Location: southampton
Posts: 2477
one of the best posts ive viewed for some time great story great photos
the disco is the best most versitile family car on the planet bar none
if you think youve loaded it before wait till you do the first few uni run with your girls !!MY05 SE D3 Manual my first LR what a car
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