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    Any experience with 19" Michelin Tour HP?

    Thanks cperez. Anyone else out there that has a newer set of WR G3s who can comment on road noise? The Nokians would be the easy choice, but I want to make sure the car is as quiet as can be on the dry roads at freeway speeds. I guess Discount Tire has a pretty liberal return policy, so if I'm...
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    Disco 5 hit with the ugly stick

    Yeah, tell that to Porsche. I mean you can hardly tell a 911 from year to year to year...LOL As Porsche has shown year over year, great design is timeless.
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    Disco 5 hit with the ugly stick

    God, I hope this is a mule for the drivetrain only?
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    Any experience with 19" Michelin Tour HP?

    Hi all, Need to ditch the factory contis on the wife's LR4. Although it doesn't see snow duty that much in Seattle as we usually take the burb to the mountains, I'd like to find a tire that give her decent traction when we get an occasional dusting. My main concerns are wet weather and noise...
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    Recommendations for non dealer Land Rover service in Seattle?

    It was Bellevue. Yeah, the Cabin Air filter is something i'd normally do myself, but can't imagine it knocking much off. I can get it for around $40, but I'm sure they'd simply knock off the parts and still charge the same labor. Oh well. And dealer's wonder why there are over 200,000...
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    Recommendations for non dealer Land Rover service in Seattle?

    Hi all, Wondering if there are any Seattle area folks who service their Land Rover at an Indie shop they'd recommend? We have a 2015 LR4 with 20k miles. Dealer's telling us it's $573 for 24 month service which includes an LOF, Cabin Air Filter and various other checks. See list below(assuming...
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    Looking at the LR4 for a family hauler

    Bought ours site unseen from LA VW dealer with 7,000 miles on it. Flew in, drove it home to Seattle through Napa Valley of course! Great experience. I had a business trip in Cali, uber dropped me off at the dealership and I picked my wife up in San Fran at the airport. Make an adventure out of...
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    Looking at the LR4 for a family hauler

    I don't think you'll have to worry about the eco stop. Ours never worked and after one repair attempt, I decided it was a really stupid feature and neglected to have them try again.
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    Looking at the LR4 for a family hauler

    We have three kids. Two in boosters and on in a britax. I removed the middle seat in the second row. The two booster kids sit in the back and the little goose rides behind the drivers seat in a big britax. We never need to fold the seat up to get into the 3rd row as the kids just walk right...
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    2010 vs. 2015 LR4

    Had the issue on our 2015. Here is how to fix it. Mix up some two stage epoxy and put it on the contact points where the old adhesive use to be. use a stick or screw driver or whatever to hold it in place until the two stage epoxy sets. It will never come off. I did this on one side and...
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    LR4 v. New Disco

    tried to get in the 3rd row on the new Disco. Well, that didn't work well. I never did get in. Seamed like a crazy combination of buttons and levers and the latency on the button push to something happening left one wondering if it even worked at all. Who designed that, Willie Wonka? The...
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    I give up...

    wow. that's pretty silly. I can remember when I worked for an auto manufacturer and one of their "projects" was putting a washing machine in the back of the van. Stupid, yes, but not in comparison to this. LOL
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    How is your new D5?

    yeah, too bad VW mucked up the VW Touareg. I have a chance to ride in one for a few different times and I can tell you, it is one of the nicest diesels I've ridden it. And b4 the haters tell me they aren't available for retain, yeah, I know, I wasn't riding around in a retail unit.
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    Lessons from a dead battery and where you hang your keys

    fair. thanks. I should also note that our car is equipped with lojack as well. Not sure if that makes a difference. And yes, it could have just been BS and it was just a bad battery, who knows. Given that the car electronics came on including the screens for the RES, when the keys were stored...
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    LR5 Release Updates?

    they've made quite a mess of getting into the 3rd row as well. I saw one a bit ago in LA. Unfortunately, you can't remove the middle seat in the 2nd row like I did with our 2015. For the second row, the right side and middle are one seat, so if you have 3 kids all in seats, you are totally...
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    Lessons from a dead battery and where you hang your keys

    We have a loaded LUX too with Rear Seat Entertainment. With our previous key location inside the door, when you opened the door to the LR4, the RSE system would go on, now it doesn't with the new key location. Maybe other people don't have the same options either. We have that fridge in the...
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    Lessons from a dead battery and where you hang your keys

    what year is your rig? Wife's is a 2015.
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    Lessons from a dead battery and where you hang your keys

    Hi all, wanted to post my lesson on where my wife hangs her keys to her LR4. The other day, we had a no start situation. Car is driven about 5k a year (wife's island car). I put it on the charger and we took my rig, and when I got home, it started right up. I took it to the dealership and they...
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    LR5 Release Updates?

    worse yet, It appears that you cannot remove the middle seat in the second row like I did with our 15. Bummer of a kid carrier. It is so much easier having the 5 and 7 year old just walk through the now removed middle seat.
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    Showoff Your LR4

    Looks like we need to republish the Ten Commandments of Land Rover Ownership https://lr3tips.wordpress.com/2007/02/03/ten-commandments-of-land-rover-ownership/
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    Gotta love LR service charges - Brake flush

    Let's just agree to disagree on this one. A couple of points to make: 1) The preferred natural state is equilibrium. The brake fluid will mix, otherwise you wouldn't add new brake fluid to old brake fluid as you'd have a system with multiple states. 2) Pull out your fluid mechanics...
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    Gotta love LR service charges - Brake flush

    They gave me this same BS about flushing the system on my porsche. So, you know what I did, I bought the OEM brake fluid and took a turkey baster and pulled fluid out of the reservoir and replaced it with new fluid. I did this once a month until the new fluid was empty. Never had any issues...
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    Big Big Issue with my 2012 LR4!!

    George, That's new information. The vehicle is NOT under manufacturer's warranty. I'd tread lightly in this scenario. Why, because you have absolutely no proof and no way of getting proof. This is a "he said, he said" scenario. in cased like this, if it were to be adjudicated, you'd very...
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    Big Big Issue with my 2012 LR4!!

    OKay, whoa down everyone. Let's get more details. First, is this vehicle still under manufacturer's warranty? What was it, 4/50,000 for this rig? Having worked for an OEM, I can promise you this is not getting paid for by JLR if it was a dealer issue. Engine replacements under warranty go...
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    low coolant in 2015 LUX

    quick update. Dealer pressure tested the system and no leaks. They said it was just barely below the sensor and likely a trapped air bubble in the system that worked its way out causing a perceived drop in fluid. So, they topped it off. As an added bonus the Service Advisor that I worked with...

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