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jimbg



Member Since: 29 Jan 2013
Location: By the River Dart
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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Orkney Grey

Does it om my Discovery 5 Thumbs Up 2023 P440e SE Dynamic on order -cancelled

2022 HSE Dynamic P400e

2017 Discovery 3.0 HSE Silicon Silver Nimbus interior and a few extra toys SOLD

2013 HSE Black, Orkney Grey, Ebony Seats and Ivory Interior SOLD

2006 HSE

Plus a few other cars inbetween!

Post #567806 Sun Oct 28 2018 4:24pm
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0310



Member Since: 28 Jul 2015
Location: A long way NW in the UK
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Good point will check mine next time its started.

Started this morning and the clock had updated automatically. 2018 MY19 HSE Dynamic, Santorini, Ebony/Ivory, Sliding pano, Adaptive cruise, Black wheels. Arrived 3rd September 2018
2015 MY16 HSE Dynamic, Santorini, ebony/cirrus, sliding pano, cameras, black wheels - Arrived 1 October 2015

Post #567807 Sun Oct 28 2018 4:25pm
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Tim in Scotland



Member Since: 30 May 2005
Location: Driving along in my automobile
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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

While my Mini is in having a problem with charge measuring investigated and a software upgrade I have a 2018 Mini Cooper S 3 door hatch as a loaner............. the clock was still showing BST at 0830 UTC yesterday morning when I dropped my car off so not all Mini’s have automatic clock resetting for DST/ changes of time zone. The Cooper S might be a fun car it has unbearably hard suspension and the rear seats are a total waste of time/ space, there’s no way I could live with one as my daily driver. Fuel consumption is excellent though - 18 mile run home including 2 miles stop start town driving and the mpg is in the high 50’s from it’s 1.5ltr 3 cylinder turbo engine - still,doesn’t accelerate as well as my car which is heavier and has the same petrol engine but with an extra 85hp from the electric motor in the boot that drives the rear wheels. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #567962 Wed Oct 31 2018 9:56am
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PIG88



Member Since: 23 May 2018
Location: North of Watford
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United Kingdom 

We rented a Mini Cooper in France last week and I wondered if it would automatically update the time on Sunday morning. It didn’t but I scrolled through the dash menu and found an option for automatic time setting (which was off). The car was great fun to drive but, as you say, not much room for luggage or people in the back! Current: 2020 P400e HSE Dynamic

Gone: 2016 SDV6 HSE
2012 SDV6 SE

Post #567963 Wed Oct 31 2018 10:26am
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HughN



Member Since: 10 Sep 2017
Location: Near Llanybydder
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Wales 

It only needs GPS and some means of determining position/time-zone (err, GPS?) or pick it up from RDS (as my Saab used to do about 10 years ago).

Anyone who spends £70K on a car probably has a little man to do it for them. Laughing

Post #567971 Wed Oct 31 2018 2:12pm
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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

My Freelander1 from 2001 could do it but it did have the then £1800 optional Philips satnav - I think I was about the only person who ever specced the factory system back then, I even had it removed from the car when I part-ex’dfor an L322 FFRR that had Satbav as standard fit in 2003 and it could also do the clock changes IIRC. The Parrott Asteroid system in my 1996 Defender also managed to do the clock change and I don’t have the Santa’s connected up in that, it uses the RDS instead. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #567982 Wed Oct 31 2018 5:12pm
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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

Don’t laugh............

It seems BMW’s iT is on a similar level to JLR’s - the car went in because suddenly the maximum electric range indicated for a full charge dropped from 27 miles to 16 miles..... that is fixed but the software upgrade has introduced another bug, now I cannot set the car to charge in off peak periods and cannot set it to charge at on a Wednesday, Thursday or a Friday on the timed charge. Before it went in I could only set the time of the off peak periods and one other timed charging period. Worse still it doesn’t matter if I set it from the touch screen on the dash or from the app. A software update for the heating also was supposed to be applied but the service receptionist was really apologetic that after having the car for 3 days they couldn’t get the patch to transfer to the car........... so once BMW’s iT geeks have worked out why they will want the car back again.
So I have a drivable car and am delighted to be back in it, it has more range per charge than previously but the unasked for software upgrade hasn’t fixed what it was supposed to and has introduced more bugs into an unrelated system...........
thank goodness many years of iffy JLR iT updates has given me a bit of a sense of humour regarding hitec equipment “down” grades! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #568141 Fri Nov 02 2018 8:01pm
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HughN



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Perhaps you need to...

Tim in Scotland wrote:
...have the Santa’s connected up in that...


It's down to magic Elf dust! Very Happy

Post #568160 Sat Nov 03 2018 8:31am
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Tim in Scotland



Member Since: 30 May 2005
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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

The Countryman is back in the service bay, this time for the completion of the previous software update that wouldn’t take to the car and for a new more serious problem - the portable charger unit that plugs into the 13amp socket has taken to tripping my garage circuit breakers............. and when I tried it in the house just to make sure, it blew the domestic sockets fuse for the house! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #569277 Tue Nov 20 2018 10:07am
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Eaters



Member Since: 11 Apr 2016
Location: East Sussex
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United Kingdom 2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8 HSE Zermatt Silver

Oho. Lets not jump to any conclusions or comparisons with JLR yet. I am sure that even with this little glitch (!!??) it'll take a lot more than this to get to JLR's standards. Hope all ends up OK Tim. Robin
2008 Range Rover Sport TDV8
Gone:
Jaguar S-Type V8 4.2 Sport
MGZTT 190 2.5

Post #569290 Tue Nov 20 2018 12:48pm
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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

Hopefully I will know whether I have to collect the car soon or tomorrow. Tomorrow might be because the local buses don’t run to a timetable that suits the users........ 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #569294 Tue Nov 20 2018 2:31pm
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BKHK



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Location: Perth
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Bus? At least I had a semi permanent loan car from LR! I did 1/3 as many miles in loan cars as my own. Never mind, driving is so much fun again now.

Post #569300 Tue Nov 20 2018 3:19pm
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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

I didn’t want a loan car though, I have a perfectly good Defender 90 sitting on my drive to use and the 3 door hatch Cooper S I had as a loaner last time might have been a pocket rocket but it was incredibly uncomfortable and claustrophic. I would have liked to have had their John Cooper Works tricked up Countryman that was on the sales floor as a loaner though........ but it was t available 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #569309 Tue Nov 20 2018 5:26pm
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Tim in Scotland



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2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Stornoway Grey

Dealers phoned this afternoon 3pm to say that very sorry but they and Mini Technology simply cannot make the upgrade take to the car and after some investigation the files transferred to the dealer were found to be “corrupted” and they would like to keep the car for another day............. regarding the home charger unit “ it is dangerous to use so we have contacted BMW and Mini Tech for advice about what to do next” I was polite in my reply that as the car is only 5 months old and has only done 1850 miles I would have thought that the answer was obvious! So in the last month it has spent 8 days so far in the service bay because of a software update that won’t take. Not one of my Land Rover Products ever spent so many days off the road in a dealership it’s life - the Mini is fine to drive in petrol mode, it will self charge and can be plugged into a public charger and will charge, it just cannot be charged at home at the moment - oh and while it has this update problem I cannot heat the interior unless the car is plugged into the mains, not on the move - not so good these cold days although if it is really cold I can still revert to the heated seats for warmth! I still love the car but that is starting to wear off a bit Big Cry 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Post #569324 Tue Nov 20 2018 10:31pm
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RRSTDV8



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United Kingdom 2012 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Orkney Grey

So, an RRS SDV8 for you next then? Whistle Rolling with laughter 2012 SDV6 - it's missing a couple of cylinders
2008 TDV8 - it was a labour of love and is much missed

Post #569334 Wed Nov 21 2018 9:39am
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