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- Darras
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- ajac
- Member Since: 20 Jul 2025
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Not sure land rovers per se have had their day - just look at the amount on the roads. Your gripe is cost and lets be honest if you want to drive any ‘premium’ brand that will always come you way at some point.
What amazes me is just how brand loyalty persist in the face of sh*t customer service and big bills. The products, when they work, are fantastic and i for one am not yet ready to ged rid.
At present you are, in my opinion, in a small group but perhaps a growing group. Ask yourself however… will JLR actually care until it affects the bottom line?
I too don't lease, pcp or whatever (let be honest it’s just renting a car at the end of the day whilst you actually own f’all) and maybe when you’re not a renter its perhaps easier to switch brands whenever you like but many still don't. When I brought my D5 a few months ago I had sold a mint 405 but that was starting to creak. That was my 5th RR and 7th LR product. I looked that obligatory Volvos and BM’s - boring was the over-riding theme.
Sorry but I’m here for the long haul.
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- Wolfpack
- Member Since: 25 May 2019
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- robpenrose
- Member Since: 02 Jul 2016
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- 747_JK
- Member Since: 26 Jun 2018
- Location: England
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Why hang onto it? As it's a phenomenal car which I love to drive, looks awesome, isn't overly 'common' on the road, the family love to travel in it, and it's done a remarkable job of hauling all of our stuff on multiple trips across Europe, and plenty of gear for my business on video/photo-shoots and the like.
Would I hang on to an 8-year-old one? Nope, but then I wouldn't own an eight year old one. Was quite happy to keep my wife's Tiguan for eight years, but then the warranty was about £300 a year and the dealer one road away. It was German, bulletproof reliability, and I only did let it go when it started leaking fuel - it's first major fault.
I wouldn't own a Land Rover without OEM warranty. The longest I've ever kept one is five years and 90k, and ideally I swap them between 3-4 years, which these days is around 35-50k. To me, any old than 4/5 years and you risk too much trouble. Perhaps fine if you can do stuff yourself, but if you can't, nah, not for me.
A colleague moved on from LR to BMW 2 1/2 years ago, and regretted it ever since. They hate their car, and they wish they had mine. Even with the reliability woes they occasionally had, they far preferred the LR ownership experience, the drive, and the simplicity of operating it - the BM is far, far, far too complicated.
Oh, and LR Assist. Another massive reason to love my Landy. Quite simply a phenomenal service. I can't imagine another OEM having something as good as them, as it's never let me down.
Good luck with the brand you move onto next, and hope you get a belter of a motor which you can enjoy. And a nice forum to chat in too.
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- Darras
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- discus
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- ChrisJerman
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- Darras
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- Whippetman
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- Darras
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I know!
The first new engine I had took a couple of months to replace under LR warranty.
Just before they handed it back to me, they took it for a test drive, they discovered the drivers window electric motor was faulty - wasn’t before, subsequently replaced under LR named warranty and then that the front windscreen was leaking, wasn’t before again, but NOT covered under warranty.
They told me they’d have to charge me £150 to reseal it. I argued the case all the way the the Chief Executives office, who turned round and told me that they’d allowed me a curtesy car longer than they should have done for the new engine, so didn’t feel obliged to goodwill the cost.
I told them it was a known fault and what did it matter if they gave me a curtesy car for a longer period because the engine was on back order and it was a seperate issue. Anyway, they wouldn’t budge one bit, so I had to pay.
I mean £150 wouldn’t pay for the Chief Executives weekly tea and biscuits bill. I couldn’t believe it!
A Chief Exes office literally penny pinching over a known fault. At their manufacturing plant, they simply didn’t use enough sealant around the edges of the windscreen, so the water gets into the inside of the vehicle, what’s so difficult to understand about that and take responsible ownership of the problem.
It exemplified with what contempt they hold their customers. The only wonder is I’ve taken so long to eventually ditch their prestige car! I bet even Dacia customer services are better! 🙄
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