Camping in the Disco: How I set up my Discovery 5 (L462) for camping.
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- In this video I take you on a tour of the Discovery 5 (D5) and how I have provisioned it for camping in. This trip wasn't a mad camping spree -- only a couple of days in the mountains, to be honest, but I did need to be able to make up a cot and take it down quickly to permit time for some off-roading at a Land Rover Expereince-like event organised by @Land Rover Kelowna at the @seven Half Diamond Ranch.
The camping set-up I use is very simple: a couple of mats, a box of camping stuff, a toolbox, and so on. What I do cover, though, is where to put your keys to avoid the battery running out, how to install a light to gain better viability at night, how to lock the car without setting off the proximity sensors, and so on.
This video hints at the experience day we had, which will be covered by it's own video sometime in the future. I am slowly modding the Intros and Outros, but I need more drone footage and I have just flown the drone into a tree! Urgh!
Feel free to comment below with useful and engaging debate; "It's a pretender not a defender" or "solid axles rule OK" comments will be deleted -- just sayin'.
The intro and outro are from: EEAAEA
Performed by: VVibeTrix (Johanna Ahola-Launonen, Maarit Laihonen, Matti Häyry, Mikaela Mansikkala, Satu Haiko)
Music: Matti Häyry
Lyrics: Matti Häyry
Arrangement: Matti Häyry, Mikaela Mansikkala, Lacce Väyrynen
Recording: Matti Häyry, Lacce Väyrynen
Studio engineering: Matti Häyry, Lacce Väyrynen
Producer: Lacce Väyrynen
Executive producer: Matti Häyry
Mastering: Kesthouse
With Permission from: (c) Matti Häyry and Polite Bystander Productions 2019
I'm camping in Korea. I was very inspired. I appreciate it🤩
That’s great! I hope you have a good trip and enjoy your discovery camping! I from Canada! ☺️🥰
When I sleep in the back of my LR3, similar space and setup as your D5, I take a piece of plywood that fits just in the back square section then when I lay the seats down flat I use the plywood as a support over that gap between the seats. This keeps my air mattress sinking in that area. Works great for me.
That’s a good idea. I have to pull the rear seats out, so I may develop something when I replace the seats with the floor. That’ll be a bit of a bigger job, though, as I’ll have to develop a frame for the cover too.
I've just bought a Land Rover Discovery 5 in Corris Grey. 2019 model. Whilst I drove my uncle's Defender 90 (pickup version with canvas canopy) towing a hay trailer back in the '80s (Wales), this will be first time to own a Land Rover. I'm really looking forward to it and just 30 minutes ago, the police came round to measure the designated parking space as here in Japan we need to provide proof of a parking space in order to register it. This video has given me a LOT of ideas! Thank you!
I am very glad to have helped! I wish you good luck with your disco 5 endeavours!
How did you end up in Japan from Wales and do you need a parking place to own a vehicle in Japan?
@@shedlock2000 Thank you!
I ended up in Japan back in 1991 through sheer luck. I only came for a year....that turned out to be 31 as of this year!
Yes, in Japan, we need to have proof of parking even for trailers which are registered in their own right. There are exceptions. My city (really, it's more like a county with lots of villages) has a population of less than 400,000 so the 'kei' compact class of vehicles are exempt, so my little cargo trailer didn't need to have proof of parking. Leisure vehicles (caravans, motorhomes and boat trailers) have a '800' classification and whilst they need proof of parking, it doesn't have to be within 2km of your home, but does need to be in what is known as a 'motorpool' but is really a parking facility with security. Japan is very strict with the registration of vehicles.
I have heard from others that Japan is quite bureaucratic when it comes to many things, I’m not surprised that it extends to vehicles. Do you have good parking for your D5? I’m assuming with being out of the city you may even have a garage? I know space is tight there.
What do you do for work in Japan, and how did you find the shift in culture?!
@@shedlock2000 Yes, I have a house and whilst the land isn't big at all, there is an in-built garage with a 3x3m door and is 6m in length and 4m wide. I also have a large space outside and a smaller space. Enough to park my Discovery, caravan and my small enclosed trailer (Trailer Europe - made in Hungary). So, I'm lucky. I'm still waiting for my caravan though. The pandemic and Ukraine war (Exchange rates add a couple million of yen to any leisure vehicle import right now) are delaying it. Funnily enough, the caravan I've ordered is a Bailey Discovery D4-2! So if it arrives, I'll have a double Discovery!
That sounds fantastic! I’m glad that you have a bit of space there, I’ve seen life in the cities, and I can imagine it’s quite hard to park vehicles where space is tight!
The caravan sounds grand! I’ll look it up. The vans here are quite far behind, but I do like the inbuilt water systems in the North American vans.
I know you were frustrated by your defender but I always enjoyed your videos and took them as I think you meant them - to help others not to bash the vehicle. I know you are a Land Rover fan and I hope you love the D5! Keep making videos :)
Hi Paul,
I think some of my critics misunderstand my intentions. I’m a big green-oval groupie, and it was important to me that the defender would succeed.
When I pointed out the issues in the first place, I was easy going and matter-of-fact; but JLR didn’t seem to take them seriously. I had simply hoped they would repair them under warranty and move on - but they didn’t, and each time Finn went in, simple things were missed or JLR insisted on software updates rather than mechanical responses (that JLR Calgary techs couldn’t put stuff on correctly was entirely another matter)!
My frustration only grew when I saw that JLR weren’t actually treating the issues seriously and instead of investigating issues that others have world wide; they chose to ignore them or deny the faults existed. That, I think, was the worst of it - because I wanted JLR to fix the defender so that it was good - not bury the truth in denial and hope the problem went away with a gag order. The situation was very saddening all round.
The D5 isn’t perfect, in truth, the defender is a much better fit for my life and work, but the D5 does improve on those issues that I was having with the defender that JLR ignored or denied as being issues.
Thanks for your support! I appreciate knowing the some people understand what the purpose of my videos is about (celebration of Land Rovers and videos which help other to enjoy theirs as best they can).
@@shedlock2000 I do enjoy your video, excellent content and a genuine person make this a great channel.
☺️Thanks, Paul! That’s really lovely to hear! I’m glad you like them!
Question for you - battery drain related since you mentioned it. I had left my car unlocked yesterday with windows down for the pup. The vehicle was covered in a shade cloth. The car locked itself after sometime and shut the windows - any hotter of a day and this would kill the dog. So then I left a door open, and turned off the lights (I'm 99% sure I shut them off inside). After a while I got a beep saying 'start engine, battery low'. This vehicle is way too fancy for me and now I'm a little worried for camping out in the bush. If I cut the lights inside and have the back hatch popped open, I should be ok? Need to figure out the auto lock/windows mess next. Thanks!
I’m sorry the dog was put at risk! That’s very worrying.
So there’s a number of things here. Firstly, the vehicle shouldn’t close the windows on its own. Most vehicles have global close set up, so I suspect that you may have inadvertently done that by sitting on your key fob in just the wrong way. I have left the windows down for my dog for many hours without issues (or without them auto closing) - but there are regional differences programmed into the vehicle. You should call JLR to check what they have set up in your area (which, from your terminology, I’m assuming is Australia.
Secondly, the vehicle will never sleep properly while some doors or windows are open. This causes the modules to rotate through check protocols and this is partially responsible for draining the battery. However, as I mentioned, these vehicles are battery draining regardless of how you drive, and topping the battery up should become a monthly or bi-monthly routine. It doesn’t take much for the vehicle’s batter to drop below the warning level and prompt the battery warning - especially if some of its modules are not allowed to close down properly.
Take a look at some of my other videos. I do mention somewhere about camping in the defender, and it’s important to lock the vehicle with the key - not the door if you’re sleeping inside. Additionally, do not place the key near the steering wheel, as this maintains some of the modules in ‘awake’ mode and puts a drain on the battery.
Finally, check with your JKR shop about regional protocol for deadlocking. In Canada there is no such protocol, which permits the winding down of windows without the internal alarm sensors being activated (and going off with a dog in the car). I don’t know about your region, but in the uk, the deadlock feature needs to be de-activated if you want to be able to leave the windows down. The BCM’s functions are quite integrated and it can be challenging to know what systems are woken up to do alarm and integrity checks.
@@shedlock2000 Thank you! I will look at all of this now and use the key/keep it away from the door (maybe a Faraday pouch will help?) when sleeping inside. Anything that is set up is from the previous owner. I hate technology. This vehicle is overwhelming (like the stupid 2 beeps that took me MONTHS to figure out - red light camera). I'm in BC! I am going to try to figure out how to turn off the beeping for the sensors too. Drives me bat $hit when I'm parking. But I think a trip to the dealer is in my very near future.
I didn’t need a faraday cage when I camped in mine, but I did keep the key next to me when I slept in the back (I think I used to put it in the centre cubby box).
There are certainly a lot of options in these newer vehicles - the seatbelt chime used to annoy me (which could be fixed up to MY23), but the other bings and bongs didn’t irritate in the same way.
It always takes a bit to get used to new vehicles! Good luck with yours and I hope you have many great experiences!
Hopefully this new dealership also helps some of the seemingly consistent issues on the dealership side that persisted with Defender. Call me crazy, I think this discovery looks like a Louie to me.
Hmmm, Louie may be an option - you might be right! I’m leaning towards Danny…
I’m hoping so too. They were able to give an issue that Land Rover Vancouver were not (and charged two hours labour for when they only ran SOTA updates).
Im not sure exactly how good the techs are there, nor whether or not they should have been able to resolve Finn’s issues (mostly because the DAC and TPS issues are matters of concern for the TA dept in Blighty - and JLR Corporate allegedly did that without any success. I’ve a feeling that some of the issues in Finn would run very deep indeed and require much more involvement than a dealer in Canada may be able to. I think the issues are substantive and require deep programming and potential re-mapping. That is to say, I think there’s a limit to what a dealer would be able to push for, and long-time deep programming/mapping may not be something corporate would ratify.
Either way, I hope that the dealership looks after the D5 better for me.
Hi, what off road tyres are you using? And what's the difference would you say between these and the stock Pirellis? Cheers
Hi Daniel,
The tyres you see on the disco in this video are Cooper AT3 XLTs in a 265/60/20. They’re on the rims I took off my Defender when I traded it in. They’re not an off-road tyre, but they are an AT tyre (All Terrain). They’re a 265/60/20 and fit the disco perfectly on the Defender rims (which have a 41.5mm offset). There are a number of video on my channel about them; out of the box they’re quite good, but they’re not great in snow and ice (the older they got the worse they got too). I have swapped them this time round for the Nokian Outpost ATs, which are better in the snow and ice and about the same in mud and greasy clay (I haven’t tried them on shale yet).
The XLTs are different to the 4S the latter handling the snow and ice a bit better while the former improve on gravel road stability and wear - they’re also a bit chunkier.
Here in Lethbridge, we get a lot of shoulder season change in the weather and I don’t always get to change directly into my dedicated winters; accordingly, I wanted a tyre that had better shoulder season performance than the Cooper AT3 XLT. This may not be a need for you. The XLTs are an excellent tyre with lots of grip on and off road and with a massive wear rating (I noticed only 4/32 of wear over 45,000miles). However, that longevity comes at a price (hardness) which reduces snow and ice performance.
Anyway, take a look at the videos in the ‘tyre talk’ playlist - you’ll find a lot of info on the Coopers there and you’ll find a review of my recent Nokian’s too.
Past issues aside for a moment, but, isn't the Discovery interior volume a lot less than the new Defender? Therefore, keeps warmer or takes less body heat at -2*C?
I don’t know that the D5 is smaller than the Defender 110. The figures I have are 74.3cuft for the D5 and 68cuft for the Defender 110; luggage capacity is 40cuft for the D5 and 30cuft for the D5. However, I can’t speak to the whole volume for the vehicle - I don’t have those figures.
That the roof is lower may be related - the D5 may also have less glass (I can’t comment to that either); it may also be that the seats are higher off the ground. There may be many reasons. Because I don’t have the Defender now, I can’t really run proper tests to prove one way or the other. It’s be an interesting test, though.
@@shedlock2000 You have the numbers, Sir. It's been a couple years but I just recall being disappointed with the D5 interior space.
Coming from the D3/4 there was a significant reduction in space -from memory, the LR3/4 has ~90cuft of space, so the D5’s 75cuft is a significant drop from that.
I think the D5 loses on height; the LR3/4 was a much better body platform and the internal orientation was better too. I’m still surprised that the D5 was so badly treated in its development. As I mentioned to another commenter, fixing the arrangement inside and the overall styling outside would not have been difficult. I think Gerry was trying to be iconoclastic, but he failed miserably.