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20/8/2024 at 7:05am
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one does not by a landrover if you want security, cheap insurance or reliability! apart from the 4 months wait your story is exactly why anyone should/would avoid them.
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Everyone who buys a Land Rover believes they will be the lucky individual who buys the perfect example. The relaibility surveys don't lie, they are trash and have been for decades. I've numerous friends who have bought them in good faith and regretted it. One spent so long at the dealership being lied to he decided to take his laptop on every visit and work from there. Another suffered an oil leak at just 2 years old which meant major engine surgery.
However at 8 years old its harsh to blame a main dealer. Once any vehicle gets to 5 years old repairs are to be expected, at 8 years they are almost inevitable and by ten years major issues or an accident usually write vehicles off. My neighbour has a 20 year old Disco 2 and its a good job his day job is a HGV mechanic as he is spannering every weekend to keep it going. Last time he took it out the clutch failed.
JLR won't have warehouses full of your particular engine and it may be a recon unit anyway. Also check what you are getting. A new engine may just be that and all ancilliaries such as turbos, aircon, water pump, oil cooler, coolant system, power steering pump, alternator etc will be transferred from your old car.
If you want ten year reliability buy a Toyota, they are confident in their product and will warranty engines for ten years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes first.
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20/8/2024 at 2:20pm
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We had a LR defender for 9 years, a dealership vehicle, and had no trouble with it at all, maybe we were lucky. And we hammered it too, though didn't tow.
I was telling OH about the OP issue, he said that that engine was made by Ford.
Changed last year to a Toyota Yaris cross hybrid.
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4 months is quick, 6 months for a electronic handbrake.
Great looking cars but shocking reliability.
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My neighbour had similar problems last year when he exchanged his Range Rover for a new Land Rover. After a few weeks the ECU developed a fault and the dealer was unable to get a replacement. The dealer told him that JLR were building a new spares facility and in the meantime they had no access to spares. They said every main dealer in the country had vehicles waiting for spare parts, which appears to be true if you Google Land Rover spares.
Eventually after several months the dealer took his Land Rover back and gave him another brand new one.
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Can I ask what Land Rovers are difficult to insure? I have had my 1984 127 twin cab pickup for almost 15 years now and never had a problem insuring it. This is despite it being heavily modified and converted from a gutless 2.5 td to a 4.6 V8 from a Range Rover. I still only pay £275 per year including comprehensive commercial use. In terms of reliability it does seem that Land Rover have actually got worse since the 1980's and early 90's and although my Land Rover is on it's 3rd engine and 2nd gearbox, they were swapped through choice rather than necessity apart from the 2nd engine which suffered from poorly made cylinder liners. My 40 year old Land Rover still works for it's living, something that new Land Rovers seem ill suited to. I have in the past been unfortunate enough to have to go to official Land Rover dealers in the past for a few parts and services and I have to say that they have been far from excellent most of the time and that most small independent Land Rover specialists are far better, quicker and cheaper.
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Topic: Landrover
On Saturday 13th April 2024, my wife and I were travelling back from our daughters house in Stoke after seeing our grandchildren in our 2016 L/R Disco 4 which we have owned from new and despite 82000mls has its full L/R service history and is driven with care. We do tow and have a Coachman 520VIP.On this Saturday evening we were travelling through the M6 roadworks between J21A and J26 at a cruise control set speed of 50mph when suddenly the car juddered and started to slow down but we manged to coax it off at J23 - the A580 - and found a safe place just of the dual carriageway to stop.We finished up on a low loader with the car back at home- Saturday night at 2300+.Following many phone calls over the next week and with our son in law and his car trailer we ended up the following Saturday at the Landrover dealer where a few days later confirmed that the engine needed replacing.
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