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Gazellio
 


Member Since: 08 Jan 2011
Location: Chilterns
Posts: 4130

United Kingdom 2009 Discovery 4 TDV6 SE Auto Indus SilverDiscovery 4

No real concern just see the 6/7th seats as kids seats and as it was the wife & her crowd I was looking for a way to ban them from using it to drive to Deal & back... Rolling with laughter
  
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Discoveringcomfort
 


Member Since: 16 Sep 2015
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 637

England 2005 Discovery 3 4.4 V8 HSE Auto Zambezi SilverDiscovery 3

It's the reason I bought a D3 in the first place, I will not drive MPV crap.

I have LR products for off roading and did not want a 4x4 for road work as I don't tow at the moment (this might change though) but this seemed the nicest 7 seater and it works in the office car park!
 Series 1 V8
Series 2 Hibrid V8
Discovery 3 HSE V8 
 
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jetmech
 


Member Since: 22 Feb 2016
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 264

United Kingdom 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual Stornoway GreyDiscovery 3

We have used the third row 3 or 4 times this year, once was during a 600 mile run across France. I wanted 7 seats to save having to use 2 cars on the rare occassion that we go out as a family. There are 6 of us . The children are grown up, mid to late teens and early twenties. We are all short Censored 's so the third row isn't too uncomfortable.
The only feature that I wish the D3 had is a forward folding front passenger seat-back. The load area is just too short for 2.4m timber etc.
We have had a couple of older MPV's, Espace and 806, removing and storing the seats when not needed was a pain, but the space in a stripped out car was great.
 Simon.
2008MY Dicovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual 
 
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lynalldiscovery
 


Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274

United Kingdom 2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 Metropolis LE Auto Bonatti GreyDiscovery 3

Once in two years
  
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rdw d3
 


Member Since: 16 Dec 2015
Location: Kent
Posts: 33

England 

- at least one is always up - couldn't be doing with an MPV

rdw
  
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dadof7kids
 


Member Since: 23 Aug 2011
Location: sunny Doncaster
Posts: 1303

England 2014 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE Lux Auto Firenze RedDiscovery 4

Gazellio @ Prestige Cars wrote:
Anybody risked a longish journey loaded with 7 adults?


Yorkshire to Cornwall 6 hours towing tintent fully loaded Thumbs Up
  
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Landie71
 


Member Since: 23 Oct 2012
Location: Worksop, Nottinghamshire
Posts: 1019

United Kingdom 2014 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 XXV LE Auto Causeway GreyDiscovery 4

On longer runs we tend to use the two middle row outer seats & one of the rear ones to split the kids up a bit - eldest can get very fractious very quickly so it's worth the minute needed to move my work stuff to one side of the boot & put a seat up for him. Keeps everyone calmer & therefore safer.
  
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1967jester
 


Member Since: 05 May 2010
Location: Usually in the North East though I have been known to travel
Posts: 4465

England 2015 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 HSE Lux Auto Fuji WhiteDiscovery 4

Daily use of one of the third row seats in SWMBO's, occasional use in mine as I try to avoid having the kids/crumbs in mine
 Paul.

06 Java Black HSE - gone
12 Baltic Blue HSE - gone
15 Fuji HSE Lux
Club Biscuits, mmmm nice!
Traxide/Luna hybrid & Yellow top
Some Prospeed bits
+ some other stuff
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tayaste
 


Member Since: 15 May 2013
Location: Chester
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United Kingdom 2008 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Stornoway GreyDiscovery 3

There's that much crap in my boot it's easier taking two cars if more seats required Laughing
   
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EMcC
 


Member Since: 10 Jul 2015
Location: Wiltshire
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England 2015 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 SE Tech Auto Aintree GreenDiscovery 4

Never used mine in twelve years, with four vehicles changed every three years.
Load liner fitted on receipt of Vehicle and only removed on sale of vehicle.
I wished there was an option for the D4 of five or seven seats, I'd plump for the five every time.
  
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DSL
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Member Since: 11 May 2006
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Ukraine 

Me too, never used mine in 10 1/2 years. For the D3 they've been under a bed for 7 1/2 of those years and a load deck fitted instead. Thumbs Up
   
Post #17297216th Nov 2016 9:36 am
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tom13
 


Member Since: 11 Apr 2014
Location: Warszawa, Poland
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Poland 2007 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Tonga GreenDiscovery 3

jetmech wrote:
We have used the third row 3 or 4 times this year, once was during a 600 mile run across France. I wanted 7 seats to save having to use 2 cars on the rare occassion that we go out as a family. There are 6 of us . The children are grown up, mid to late teens and early twenties. We are all short Censored 's so the third row isn't too uncomfortable.
The only feature that I wish the D3 had is a forward folding front passenger seat-back. The load area is just too short for 2.4m timber etc.
We have had a couple of older MPV's, Espace and 806, removing and storing the seats when not needed was a pain, but the space in a stripped out car was great.


I am happy that I have got possibility to use the third row Thumbs Up (but I use it twice a year during our holidays).
The whole year rear space is used for our labs Dog Dog .
And yes... very often when we are staying in our cottage in the mountains it is necessary to use disco as a truck - also to load longer timber Rolling with laughter
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D3 MY07 HSE automatic TDV6 Tonga Green * All on the board (2 labs) * FFRR Mod 
 
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UtilityGuy
 


Member Since: 26 Mar 2016
Location: Northampton
Posts: 343

United Kingdom 2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Java BlackDiscovery 3

Ive used my 3rd row a lot, it was a extra reason why i went for a Discovery over a Range Rover,
  
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overmuchogrande
 


Member Since: 06 Aug 2012
Location: Lancashire
Posts: 78

2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Auto Santorini BlackDiscovery 3

I use my third row seat every other weekend or so taking various family members and their hideous offspring on days out.. I have a dog guard behind the second row and whilst it is a bit of a pain to get out and in, now I have got the knack of it, it only takes a couple of minutes.

Sometimes I just fold down the middle seats and let the little darlings just clamber through into the back seats rather than removing the dog guard.

Only issue I have now is that one of the handles on the release lever has come off and no amount of superglue or araldite holds it together so I cunningly crafted a piece of string!

Someone asked about doing long runs with people in the third row, have done a 2000 mile European trip with 6 people and for that we used the 2 outer middle row seats, folded the middle seat back down. The 2 people in the third row were 5ft 10 and 5 ft 8 and they never had any problems comfort wise but their only gripe was their seats were not heated
  
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J77
 


Member Since: 03 Mar 2008
Location: Fife
Posts: 6261

Scotland 

Use mine at Christmas, saves taking two cars but for the rest of the year they are folded away and replaced with the dogs bed.
 23.5MY Defender 90 X-Dynamic SE D250 MHEV Pangea Green  
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