Went to Boulogne for a couple of bottles of wine...
...and came back with 600.
I'm sure I didn't leave it in access mode when I parked...
The Disco handled it all with ease. A little 'imprecise' in corners, and if I stuck at 90 for too long the cooling fan kicked in and became very noisy, but other than that it was a day of care free motoring.
Is there anything this car can't do brilliantly?
15th Apr 2007 5:12 pm
wiggs
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Nice
But i think you could have got a few more in there G4 Gone ...but not forgotten
15th Apr 2007 5:21 pm
DiscoStu
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What vintage is the washer fluid? Was that a dry or wet yea r?Did you think I would leave you crying,
When there's room in my D3 for 7,
Climb in here Joe we'll soon be flying,
I can go just as fast with 7.
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bcb U missed a space for more vino, the front passanger seat!!! I'm sure Mrs BCB would not have minded getting public transport back, it would have been for a good cause!
I used to do an annual booze run to France but gave it up for the sake of my liver. Unfortunately it now gets regular doses of Spar plonk as there is never anything good in the cellar!
16th Apr 2007 12:38 pm
bkehoe
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bcb, do you think you got enough to last till the sand driving trip in May?IE - 05 D3 TDV6 HSE - Zambezi Silver
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16th Apr 2007 12:58 pm
DiscoDunc
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Verry good...
But what a waste of Roof Space !!
Exactly how many boxes of wine can you get in a D3. I was thinking of going over in the summer.
perhaps we should arrange a D3 booze cruise !!Duncan
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There are 96 cases of wine (and 7 bottles of malt whisky) in the picture, three layers of cases across the whole load space. Had I not had a passenger with me (not mrs bcb, no such person exists!), I might have loaded up the front seat with another 10 cases of wine, and now I know just how well the car handled the weight, I wouldn't have worried much about making it 4 cases deep across the whole load space. That would be about 140 cases or 840 bottles in total.
Bear in mind though, that this would weigh nearly a tonne, and puts you well over the maximum gross weight in the handbook. If this breaks your suspension, gets you in trouble with the traffic police, or with customs, or causes a divorce, please don't blame me
Oh, and you might want to research what 42psi is in 'foreign'. The French air pumps only know about bars.
bkehoe: I didn't know about the sand driving trip until I got back from France... I'm not sure I could have combined the trips anyway, as my co-conspiritor was in dire straits (down to his last bottle of red). I guess I'll just have to make May my beer run
16th Apr 2007 7:56 pm
WOODY179
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Re: How many bottles can you get in a D3
bobbycrispbox wrote:
Oh, and you might want to research what 42psi is in 'foreign'. The French air pumps only know about bars.
IIRC this information is displayed in PSI and bars on a sticker on the inside of the drivers door just below the lock.1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
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1996 Discovery 1 300TDI ES Biarritz Blue, sold
1999 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Rioja Red, sold
2002 Discovery 2 TD5 ES Buckingham Blue, sold
2005 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Adriatic Blue, sold
2006 Discovery 3 TDV6 HSE Zambezi Silver, sold
2011 Discovery 4 SDV6 HSE Nara Bronze, sold
2016 Volvo XC60 D5 AWD Lux Nav Twilight Bronze, sold
2020 Range Rover Evoque P250 First Edition, Nolita grey, sold
2023 Range Rover Evoque P300e Autobiography, Carpathian grey
16th Apr 2007 10:00 pm
ronp
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Re: How many bottles can you get in a D3
bobbycrispbox wrote:
...and 7 bottles of malt whisky
Now cut out all 'this Wine stuff'!!
The Important questions are:-
Why only 7 bottles of Malt?
What type was it?
[notice 'past tense' - assuming it has all gone]
hic I was a normal heterosexual chap, but in these new woke awakenings I now identify as a Wardrobe.
You got me there, that was a mistake. The malts will be history before I've made a dent in the wine mountain Just as well I'm going back at the beginning of May! I picked up:
Tamnavulin
Lagavulin
Highland Park
Glenkinchie
and a Dufftown that, against all the odds, was a real bargain at the train terminal at Calais. A couple of those were duplicated, for the co-driver.
So a reasonable tour of Scotland in that lot? Highland, Lowland, Islay and 2 Speysides.
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