Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Originally Posted by Tombie

All done body on. Adelaide dealer didn’t it for me after we negotiated a price (sub $800)

I seem to remember PCB telling me that just about everything can be done with the body on.

Alaska was rewarded with a new tool roll today. I made it myself using 500gsm canvas and pics from a website. Total cost was $100, saving me $230... nice. Plus my version is long enough to fit the LR fan belt tools.



Yorktown™ Quick Detach Tool Roll - A247

Drove mine...

926km. No problems except tearing a Skippy to pieces.
Bloody thing is spread out all along the underside of the vehicle.

Left Whyalla at 8:15am, across to Pirie and collect a couple of bike parts, then down to Adelaide via Balaklava and Gawler to collect some finished pieces from the Powder Coaters and dropped the other parts off.

Head south of Adelaide and fix a couple of things on Mums place before heading back north, stopping to collect some timber and have a coffee before heading home.

Into the driveway at 23:59

It poured and blew its guts out most of the driving, the D4 did it with ease.

Originally Posted by John_D4

Alaska was rewarded with a new tool roll today. I made it myself using 500gsm canvas and pics from a website. Total cost was $100, saving me $230... nice. Plus my version is long enough to fit the LR fan belt tools.

Thats well thought out and organised.

In 8 yrs of having mine and doing all sorts of trips all over the countryside,including two desert crossings,both ways,all i take is a bag of Fridgies tools,and a Multimeter and jumper leads.

Never had to use them on my vehicle,i have used them on other vehicles,and on the last trip, used them to fix the gas cooker.

I just hope Murphy isn't listening.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Changed fuel filter. Car in normal height because couldn’t be bothered raising it with my dodgy compressor and just lay on ground under car in carport. Still surprisingly good access and easy job with only a 10mm socket needed for belly pan and heat cover (>MY07). 30 minutes done and dusted. Nothing spilt. One of the best DIY jobs for common rail problem avoidance.

Did the same job today - only to discover the water sensor had not been refitted at some stage from a prior service. Grrrr....certainly pays to do your own servicing if you can.

Originally Posted by scarry

Thats well thought out and organised.

In 8 yrs of having mine and doing all sorts of trips all over the countryside,including two desert crossings,both ways,all i take is a bag of Fridgies tools,and a Multimeter and jumper leads.

Never had to use them on my vehicle,i have used them on other vehicles,and on the last trip, used them to fix the gas cooker.

I just hope Murphy isn't listening.

I used to own a D2 TD5 so I used to have quite a good comprehensive tool kit. Alaska deserves a better organised tool kit than the D2. I do need a multimeter for the car kit though. I’m hoping that I’ll never need to use the tool kit on Alaska

Originally Posted by DiscoDB

Did the same job today - only to discover the water sensor had not been refitted at some stage from a prior service. Grrrr....certainly pays to do your own servicing if you can.

I found the same when I did my filter. My vehicle had been serviced by a local independent ‘specialist’ when the previous owner had it. That’s not the first bit of crap work I’ve found that the ‘specialist’ had done either

Originally Posted by kelvo

I found the same when I did my filter. My vehicle had been serviced by a local independent ‘specialist’ when the previous owner had it. That’s not the first bit of crap work I’ve found that the ‘specialist’ had done either

And another one (both the filter and crap work). I have a brand new filter assembly waiting to go in when I'm next in there. It was cheaper to order the whole thing than just the bottom duva.