What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Sitting down last night contemplating the spectacular surroundings my wife said "why don't you have a look at the dashcam and see if you can get some more detail". So I did, and pinpointed the location of the incident. Today we back-tracked ~65Km and there on the side of the road surrounded by duck down (the foxes probably did a job on the carcass last night) was the pretty much undamaged escutcheon, so I'm very pleased. The bit that broke off the headlight washer isn't structural and once I picked all the duck feathers out from around it I think I got off lightly.

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Originally Posted by BradC

Sitting down last night contemplating the spectacular surroundings my wife said "why don't you have a look at the dashcam and see if you can get some more detail". So I did, and pinpointed the location of the incident. Today we back-tracked ~65Km and there on the side of the road surrounded by duck down (the foxes probably did a job on the carcass last night) was the pretty much undamaged escutcheon, so I'm very pleased. The bit that broke off the headlight washer isn't structural and once I picked all the duck feathers out from around it I think I got off lightly.

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Good to hear you ducked serious damage.

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Originally Posted by Narangga

Good to hear you ducked serious damage.

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Yeah, I was worried about the size of the bill.

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Originally Posted by BradC

Yeah, I was worried about the size of the bill.

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Oh my .....

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Originally Posted by BradC

Yeah, I was worried about the size of the bill.

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[wink11]

Actually I had to re-read your original post a couple of times as I mis-read bastard as bustard! :angel:

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Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

New one ordered on AliExpress, along with passenger door actuator and the damn top radiator hose which had chaffed again, despite the cover being trimmed. I think the engine moves around more than it used to. Time to trim more of the cover.

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That's odd.
I've never had to trim my cover (208,000 k)

Installed a Camping Mode Switch that intercepts the Door Ajar signal from the Rear Right Hand Door. This allows me to open doors when camping without setting off the pre-ignition program.
The switch is just a latching switch that is normally set to "On" so that the door operates normally. When switched to "Off", it sends a "Rear RH Door Ajar" signal to the Body Control Module so that the opening of any door does not set off the pre-ignition cycle.
The wire to intercept is PLG (Pink with a Light Green trace).
The graphic on the switch is meant to represent a tent!

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Originally Posted by DieselLSE

Installed a Camping Mode Switch that intercepts the Door Ajar signal from the Rear Right Hand Door. This allows me to open doors when camping without setting off the pre-ignition program.
The switch is just a latching switch that is normally set to "On" so that the door operates normally. When switched to "Off", it sends a "Rear RH Door Ajar" signal to the Body Control Module so that the opening of any door does not set off the pre-ignition cycle.
The wire to intercept is PLG (Pink with a Light Green trace).
The graphic on the switch is meant to represent a tent!

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Not sure if it’s just me and Tapatalk, but your pics are broken. Could you post them again please?

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Originally Posted by John_D4

Not sure if it’s just me and Tapatalk, but your pics are broken. Could you post them again please?

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Just refresh your browser. I reloaded them with the exif corrected.

Just finishing 5 night’s swagging out of car between Exmouth and Carnarvon. Of an afternoon with engine off every door gets opened a minimum of 10-20 times looking for clothing food water toothbrush hairbrush phone etc so I’ve given up on worrying on power up. Turn cabin light fully off and it starts every morning even after listening to half a game of footy on AM. (No second battery as we are a primitive ice family). Tailgate stays open most of the time depending wind / sand / flies.

Major stretch of soft beach sand this morning Oyster Bridge to Coral Bay at full power setting and needle stayed half so declaring cooling system fully commissioned!