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  • gavsta
    Member Since: 25 Jan 2022
    Location: Hertfordshire
    Posts: 154
     

    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: 17
    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: 3
    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: 154
     

    Thank you both. Very useful information.
    18th Jun 2025 8:10 am
  • Darras
    Member Since: 16 May 2020
    Location: Newcastle
    Posts: 812
    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: 251
    Scotland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Fuji White

    Yup, a cash buyer here too... 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 since I bought my first one....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 farming 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, it would take 90% of the fun out of the labour of love experience...I genuinely enjoy the hands and spanners on bit of a used Land Rover I owe nothing on. I bought the D5 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 wearing my favourite Land Rover baseball cap I've had since 2006.

    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 that scruffy old LR cap my wife has been desperately trying to throw in the bin for the last 10 years Neutral

    After I persuaded myself back 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've used 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...

    Heaven knows what I'll do with this 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


    Last edited by Mole HD on 19th Jun 2025 4:49 pm. Edited 2 times in total
    Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
    18th Jun 2025 2:28 pm
  • Darras
    Member Since: 16 May 2020
    Location: Newcastle
    Posts: 812
    United Kingdom 

    The last couple of new cars, I discovered the joy of taking LR HP and getting a couple of grand off by way of finance contribution, then less than 24 hours later, phoning up Black Horse Finance, repaying/cancelling it, paying the grand sun of less than £5 interest! You still get to keep the finance contribution. Laughing

    The dealerships don’t like that cos if it’s done within 28 days of purchase, they end up forfeiting their cut, but hey yo, the deed is done and there is little they can do about it. Rolling with laughter
    19th Jun 2025 10:41 am
  • Wolfpack
    Member Since: 25 May 2019
    Location: Norfolk, UK
    Posts: 407
    United Kingdom 
    2017 Discovery Si6 HSE Corris Grey

    Yes I did exactly the same. They were not happy!

    But it did my Yorkshire Thrift Gland the world of good. Rolling with laughter
    19th Jun 2025 4:27 pm
  • Mole HD
    Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
    Location: Orkney Islands
    Posts: 251
    Scotland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Fuji White

    Good on the pair of you...a Scotsman and a Yorkshireman talking money tactics Bow down

    I heard from a mate who recently thought about financing a car with the same ideas...but seemingly, some financiers are now implementing an early settlement charge should you decide not to suffer their exorbitant interest rates and pay the finance agreement off within the first year...

    Shysters, the lot of them Neutral
    Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
    19th Jun 2025 4:34 pm
  • terryall
    Member Since: 03 Apr 2019
    Location: Whitstable
    Posts: 96
    United Kingdom 
    2019 Discovery SDV6 HSE Lux Indus Silver

    I’m paying £1527 as from last September including roadside assistance which is a laugh as that’s what it’s for in the first place. . As I understand it I am also covered in Europe but I don’t think that includes recovery to UK. 2019 and 60,000 miles.
    20th Jun 2025 6:34 am
  • Darras
    Member Since: 16 May 2020
    Location: Newcastle
    Posts: 812
    United Kingdom 

    Yes, I really must get rid of it before next May as next years premium will be coming up for £2k by my way of thinking and that’s my tipping point.

    I did think Volvo, now i am thinking Audi Q5 or 7.
    28th Jun 2025 12:54 pm
  • terryall
    Member Since: 03 Apr 2019
    Location: Whitstable
    Posts: 96
    United Kingdom 
    2019 Discovery SDV6 HSE Lux Indus Silver

    Just had my renewal through for Warranty plus Assist and its gone up to £1656 as from September.
    I was saying to my wife that LR’s are getting priced off the road after road tax, warranty new tyres and servicing I could buy a car for less! I’m seriously thinking about downsizing and moving on to another brand ( but I said that 7 land rovers ago).
    4th Aug 2025 3:50 pm
  • Darras
    Member Since: 16 May 2020
    Location: Newcastle
    Posts: 812
    United Kingdom 

    Yep, I agree.

    What with warranties, servicing and the rest of it, I think I’ll be down £4k minimum come next May.

    Not only that, but I recently asked Pentland LR in Elgin for a part exchange price and the sales manager came back with £11 k.

    Even WBAC and similar firms were offering over £14k. Accepting they will knock you down a bit, it would still be more than that.

    I told the man no thanks you and he came back with the “hopefully we can deal in the future”, so I let him have it telling him no way with such a derisory offer and at least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask.

    Bottom line is it will be gone between now and May and I don’t particularly care what I get so long as it’s not LR.
    6th Aug 2025 10:18 am
  • ajac
    Member Since: 20 Jul 2025
    Location: Shakespeare's County
    Posts: 24
    United Kingdom 
    2019 Discovery SDV6 HSE Loire Blue

    Such a range of warranty prices leads me to believe some bartering may be possible when the time comes.

    IMO it’s money well spent. Also just for fun had a quote for 3 years servicing and MOT insurance on my 40K MY19. £4200!! Yes that’s not a typo 4.2!!!
    6th Aug 2025 6:41 pm
  • Mole HD
    Member Since: 18 Nov 2024
    Location: Orkney Islands
    Posts: 251
    Scotland 
    2017 Discovery Td6 HSE Fuji White

    You could pay for a college course in car maintenance and buy a decent set of Snap-On tools for that price Shocked
    Atque in perpetuum, frater. Ave atque vale
    6th Aug 2025 6:46 pm
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