can anybody tell me where the ski hatch is situated , would have thought in centre of rear seats but ?????????????/

Think you may have found another lengend aspect of the interior trim there.

As far as I know there is no ski hatch.

You could make one though, all you need is an axe, a chainsaw and some glue.  L319 D4 HSE

1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF

1982 Series 3 SWB

what exactly is a ski hatch?

A covered hole in the rear bench back, usually where the centre arm rest is so you can stow long loads inside - personnally I would rather keep wet skis outside on the roof! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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yes Tim, I agree with you, but maybe ok in your scotland, but in many places skis have been know to grow legs in the night, and go ski_ing by themselves.

I wouldn't want to leave them on the roof in big towns up here or anywhere esle either! Didn't realise that was why you wanted to know about the ski hatch. Would they still ski away from a locked ski rack or roof box? 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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tx Tim, but I was certain that in the rrs spec it stated that there was a ski hatch , useful not only for skis, but other long bits and pieces. Not sure that I would wont to leave a roof box on a car in London any more overnight,Think that the M5 and X5 gang would soon have it away. A friend of ours had her house broken into last week, they stole the keys to her Audi tt, and their Bmw 3 series, not been heard of since, !!!!

It did say there was one, but then there are other things in the specs that didn't actually make it onto the production line, like the 10 spoke alloys from the D3 that I have on my sport.............. paid the dealer extra for them and then 2 months after I take delivery the accessories catalogue was published and they have become a NO COST OPTION!

I paid extra for these alloys:


It was supposed to come with these alloys:-


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