Good luck with your 2003 L322, my mate has just almost given away his 2003 L322 rust bucket with unreliable electronics. Should have stuck with the P38.
Zero Germans will do that to an automotive. Most German automotives from that age are equally rotten.That's interesting, not the first time I've heard of later (ie post P38a) LR products being prone to corrosion
That's just lack of maintenance. The Golden Girl is now 16yrs old and is booked in to get rear arches dealt with by body shop, because there is a couple of inches of corrosion showing. Admittedly it's the second time in my ownership she has gone in BUT if those 'rotten' ones had been looked after properly, they wouldn't be rotten.
You jest! My 18 year ol P38 has no rust and has needed no body work maintenance. It's not just the body that rusts, the brake pipes let go on my mates L322 during the MOT brake test.
On the L322? No sub frames on the P38.
yes sorry should have put L322, it looked like LR had not painted the frames and the were just rusting through
"not perfect" is a bit of an understatement IMO judging by the problems on my mates one and others I have come across. I'd sooner have the Defender he has bought to replace it.I admit the L322 is not perfect and yes the brake pipes are a BIG issue, which is due to a design stupidity, but my comment was in response to
"biketeacherdave said: ↑
Most early l322s you see on the bay have rotten rear arches",
not brake pipes.
Just like every other vehicle on the road, some will end up rust buckets, some will not. There is where a vehicle spends most of it's life to take into consideration. Mine, sits almost in the sea, some, in the UK , are lucky to never go closer than the 70 miles , which we are supposedly never further from the sea. Yet others are lucky enough to live in a drier, warmer climate, even further from the sea.
I still say too many are stuck in the mode of the L322 being a 'new ' RR , when it is not. There are also those who just love to hate, so will shout from rooftops how bad the L322 is. Once the L405 joins our merry band on LZ, with owners weeping at it's faults, there will be those who come out hating it too, because it's 'new' or because it's not a "insert model here".
Personally I like most LR products, from Series I to Velar, with the exception of the Evoque, and I'm just happy to see people trying to keep them on the road as they age. Even(especially) if they have to fight rust/ corrosion and all other issues, to do so.
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