Are they really that Unreliable??

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natas

natas

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Ive been doing lots of reading on the Land Rovers.
Everyone says they are horribly unreliable.

J D Powers rate them as one of the worst for reliability.
Ratings | J.D. Power

If this is true then why are they so popular?
Why do they keep going and going?
Why are they all over the world?

What exactly is being unreliable, engine, electrical......?

Ahh but look at the performance rating from J D Powers.
Ratings | J.D. Power

I guess I will soon find out, I cant wait to get mine.
 
Properly maintained they are reliable as any other vehicle.

My wifes megane cannot wade through water, plug through mud, endure carrying horrendous weight of tools, conquer vastly difficult terrain.

We ask a lot from our land rovers coping with different loads and terrains.
The main point being they can achieve what every other vehicle can, yet a landy will take you further again, carry more, endure more.

Its not a car.
Its an engineering marvel.
 
ive got three landies from the sixties up to the late ninetys there all fine service them well and there do you ok, as with any car but when landrovers do go wrong there simple to fix and parts are cheap im 18 and never want a car again!!:D
 
I've had a few issues with my TD5 in the time that I've had it. In the same time period my Vauxhall astra has had more problems and also has cost me more to keep running.

Many problems with landrovers are because of lack of maintenance. I've never had any of my landys fail to get me home under their own steam.
 
i could think of cars that are less reliable than landys...alfa romeo...volkswagen...renault...fiat! if you talk to different mechanics/people they will all tell you different stories about which cars are the worse to buy and sometimes with cars you just buy a lemmon (new or second hand) thats the only one of that model/make that things go wrong on!
 
My family & friends tried their hardest to dissuade me from getting a Landy (now on my 2nd) stating they were agricultural, very unreliable and basicly british cr@p, just as well I'm extremely stubborn once my mind is made as it's the best motor I've owned. Yes I've had issue's with them, but they were due to lack of maintenance from previous owners:doh:

I doubt I'll ever want to drive another brand of car as the abuse the Landy take's is amazing and provided it's maintained regularly & correctly then they are fantastic machines that will outlast and outrun (albeit a bit slower) any other car.

Be warned owning a Landy can become an addictive passion...
 
i am on my fisrt landy, and in the short time i have had it, i think i've done lots more than any other vehicle in the timescale...but most is due to the previous owner letting the servicing and other routine things slip, ask anybody what they love/like about them they just get under your skin, you can't describe what it is until you have owned one :)
 
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the problem for these surveys they are based around "customer satisfaction" amnd if you spend the price on a new landy you dont want to be messing around with it - thats a basic contradiction with normal landy ownership - your perminantly ****ing about with em.
saying that though, more recent surveys have put landrover MUCH higher - I read one a couple of months ago and the new disco was in the top ten.
also it tends to be small irritating stuff that goes wrong - not so much engine failure as doors not shutting tidy
 
Landies are ****e as cars. They are expesnive to buy new and unreliable.If you want a motor that you dont want to get ya hands dirty on buy a ford focus.British build qulaity is shocking. British engineering (at least in the early models) is astunding, simple but effective.For example to defender is an improvement on the series, but the series didnt really change much and neither has the defeder in a very long time.Then look at the RR Classic, they change the amount of doors and the dash and thats about it in 30 years. I only fixed me series with a sledge hammer and big adjustable spanner. Then the offroad ability straight out of the box is seconbd to none.But encap crash ratings are shocking. The sales pitch of a volvo sales man is gonna be alot different to a landy sales man
 
Also, dont forget most of the problems are rust related....
this doesnt happen in other countries, making them even more reliable??

my uncle has a 1992 200tdi disco back in Portugal has **** loads of miles, doesnt have a spot of rust and never had any problems with it...
 
ive never had a rust problem, just **** loads of other ones, although i fixed most of mine me self which adds to the appeal
 
natas said:
What is propper maintenance for an 11 year old vehicle?

How often do you service yours?

Thanks.
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Mine is almost 16 years old, every six months it gets a 12,000 mile or one year service and every year it gets stuff done that is normally done every three years.
 
natas said:
What is propper maintenance for an 11 year old vehicle?

How often do you service yours?

Thanks.
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Depends on engine and use.The v8 want an oil change evry 5-6k.If you use ya motor offroad going through mud, water, ****e then you could do an air filter in a day.I check my oils after wading and check me coolant at least once a week.
 
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