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  • gavsta
    Member Since: 25 Jan 2022
    Location: Hertfordshire
    Posts: 151
     

    Warranty Cost

    I'm trying to compare the costs of keeping my MY23.5 Metropolitan beyond 3-years vs changing it, and have learnt from friends experience (recent £12k claim), and this forum, that the official Land Rover Extended Warranty is a prudent cost of ownership.

    The anniversary isn't until the end of the year, however, I cannot get any idea of prices until 60 days prior to expiry of the manufacturer's warranty. That's too short a window to order a new car.

    Can anyone reveal what their bells-and-whistles warranty costs, please, especially if it's on a Discovery which is recently or soon to be 3-years old.
    17th Jun 2025 12:15 pm
  • SJT
    Member Since: 27 Jul 2023
    Location: somerset
    Posts: 13
    United Kingdom 

    Mine was £1,086 last year and £1,404 this year... MY21 @ 98k miles.. Includes full breakdown assist..

    SJT
    D300 HSE Commercial - Previously 90HT, D4, D4, D4, D2, D1 (3 door V8!)
    17th Jun 2025 2:21 pm
  • tonto2
    Member Since: 29 Feb 2024
    Location: uk
    Posts: 2
    United Kingdom 

    I paid £1236.00 for the full package on the 9th May, I have since sold the car and need to find out what I'll get back, should say 22 model car 24k miles
    18th Jun 2025 7:10 am
  • gavsta
    Member Since: 25 Jan 2022
    Location: Hertfordshire
    Posts: 151
     

    Thank you both. Very useful information.
    18th Jun 2025 8:10 am
  • Darras
    Member Since: 16 May 2020
    Location: Newcastle
    Posts: 792
    United Kingdom 

    Wouldn’t keep a LR beyond 3 years without one tbh, you shouldn’t need to take a warranty as a necessity, but there you are.

    My car is 6 years old, 50k miles and I’ve just paid out £1640 including roadside.

    I’ve had my moneys worth, including the original engine, it’s on number 3. That said, engine replacement shouldn’t happen as a matter of routine and doesn’t with other brands.

    I would buy another new car, but i don’t do the mileage and so long as the thing gets me about most of the time and has a large boot, I am happy.

    There a lot more worthwhile things I can think to spend the money on tbh rather than a driveway ornament.

    That said, I am an endangered species, a cash buyer, rather than the merry go round PCP customers, who never actually own the car.

    PCP was designed to flog vehicles to people who couldn’t necessarily afford one, nothing more. It’s basically a car rental, a marketing ploy, all imho obvs.
    18th Jun 2025 10:03 am
  • Mole HD
    Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
    Location: Orkney Islands
    Posts: 81
    Scotland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Fuji White

    Yup, I'm the same being a cash buyer... and accordingly, the bane of car dealerships since the sales rep doesn't get the finance kickback to add to his sales commission.

    I'm lucky in that I've never had to consider things like warranties or such since it was once my day job a long time ago fixing 4x4's as a mobile fitter for a large commercial 4x4 hire company...and now as a pensioner and semi-retired farmer, I have a fully equipped farm workshop to get my hands dirty in these days...So it's just the cost of parts for me to keep the D5 maintained... or fix it should it do the Land Rover thing and spontaneously explode into a pile of bits.

    Discos have always been my preferred daily driver....they're kinda fashionably acceptable farmer's cars when wearing the compulsory Barbour jacket and Royal Hunter green wellies for hanging around the car park at the cattle market...although most of my neigbours seem to drive leased Volvo XC90's these days Rolling Eyes

    I never fancied the leasing thing or buying new on finance, either personally or through the business since for me personally, it would take 90% of the fun out of the labour of love experience...and par for the course maintenance of a used Land Rover I owe nothing on, not because it serves a particular purpose or as a fashion over function statement... but just because I wanted another Land Rover to give me the excuse to keep the Land Rover baseball cap I've been wearing since 2006.

    The new Defenders are and never will be an option either...they just don't do it for me at all...

    I loved my D4 and the couple of D2's before it so the D5 seemed an almost evolutionary progression (skipped the D3 bit). If I'd bought a Volvo or a BMW X5...I'd have to ditch the scruffy old hat that my wife has been desperately trying to throw in the bin for the last 10 years Neutral

    After I persuaded myself in 2006 that I really didn't need another Harley, I bought a 4 year old TD5 D2 and became a Discovery fanboy instead. Since then, I tend to keep them for charging around rough camping off-road with a roof tent and working around the farm until they have more plates welded onto the chassis than original metal and weigh more than a Massey Fergusson tractor...

    Never had to patch or weld my 2015 D4 though, the chassis was still solid and original when I was persuaded to part with it in a cash sale to a green laner with more disposable income than common sense, he fell in love with all the rude off-road bits I had bolted onto it.

    Heaven knows what I'll do with an aluminium monocoque Chelsea tractor D5 with no ladder chassis to weld in a few year's time, I may have to rethink my strategy a bit with this one Laughing
    Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
    18th Jun 2025 2:28 pm
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