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Tail Gate Head Wounds
At what point will they have to re design the sharp pointy corners of the tail gate?
100? injurys 200?, 1000? or when posh spice disfigures herself and sues LR for £????mIn the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
6th Dec 2016 12:37 am
T2BTK
Member Since: 27 Aug 2014
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Ha, clearly I don't need a D5 as I can split my wife's head open perfectly well with the corner of the upper tailgate on our D4 without even trying
6th Dec 2016 1:00 am
Irwin
Member Since: 04 Aug 2015
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Is it different to the DS?
6th Dec 2016 1:26 am
PaulJC
Member Since: 07 Mar 2015
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We have Disco Sports at work, at 6'2" i've already bashed my head off every bit of the tailgate possible, me and that car are not friends...
6th Dec 2016 7:26 am
Bill Wright
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It wouldn't have taken much to have put a radius on those corners would it?Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
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6th Dec 2016 9:01 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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No danger with Posh Spice suing LR, even though she's almost 6' high. She'd never be seen anywhere near a Disco, she drives a Range Rover darling!
At the first public viewing at Les Comes all of us were ducking to avoid that poke yer eye out pointy bit. Deffo class action stuff from our colonial cousins for poked out eyes or dodgy backs from trying to avoid said eye poking out.
6th Dec 2016 9:06 am
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6th Dec 2016 9:12 am
Bill Wright
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I can see an after market plastic trim being designed for it. Never take life too seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
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6th Dec 2016 9:12 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Pelyma wrote:
So me and Al will be the only survivors
That's evolution for you.
6th Dec 2016 9:13 am
AndrewS Tarquin of the Desert
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They could radius the corner and re design the light lens to suit.In the Beginning there was nothing, which exploded.
6th Dec 2016 9:26 am
Red Merle
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Re: Tail Gate Head Wounds
AndrewS wrote:
At what point will they have to re design the sharp pointy corners of the tail gate?
100? injurys 200?, 1000? or when posh spice disfigures herself and sues LR for £????m
You can only imagine the litigation when this product hits the US market! This has the potential to kill.
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6th Dec 2016 9:26 am
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Done it a couple of times on my D4 - last time just last week
Most embarrassing one was at work whilst chatting to a mate - that was a real humdinger - lots of claret
6th Dec 2016 10:08 am
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I used to crack my nut on the tail gate if it didn't quite go up far enough. That was on a T5 VW. even though I knew it was there. Mantec sump guard.
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6th Dec 2016 10:14 am
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Luckily, my low garage roof means I can't open the D5 tailgate fully anyway !!! 2005 D3 HSE 2011 D4 Landmark 2016 D4 HSE Lux
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6th Dec 2016 10:31 am
caverD3
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DSL wrote:
Pelyma wrote:
So me and Al will be the only survivors
That's evolution for you.
That would be d-evolution. “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely gamesâ€
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This has the potential to kill.
even though I knew it was there. 
