Recent content by 48Crash

The usual explanation is excess play in the propshaft, although that's also pretty noisy. The manual gearbox can also be pretty reluctant (mine hates 2nd gear for some reason) but LR have yet to recognise that - or anything else much - as an 'official' fault. But as yer man says, stand your...

Ayyyyy ... good guess. Nope, currently a Lexus LS - the 'keep the vibrating seats on in case young Mr Grace has another heart attack' model. Even LR were willing to admit that the sort of customers that the Sport would attract weren't really the sort of customers that they wanted. And it's had...

Oh, we've spent more than that - you should see what the Big Cheese drives. Nissan have done well, but the cars are still pretty nasty; the interior's all plastic and silver, and the driving experience is numb. But they do keep going, so I can't relly criticise too much. The first Freely had...

I'd agree that if it all works, it'd be a very easy car to live with - so good for you. As for the stereo, there is apparently updated software that fixes the problem. The garage who dealt with that batch of problems denied that there was any problem with the original, but were willing to...

A few dealers have told me privately that they've had issues with their own cars, but no-one seems to have joined the dots yet. Most issues, like a number of mine, seem to be electrical - I know dealers are ... dealers, but still: I'd hoped for at least the same level of service that other...

I've had a td4 GS since January 2nd. From a letter to the dealer, the story so far: Both rear tyres broke up, delaminated and blew. The nearside front door lost all exterior trim and mirror The gearbox refused to engage 2nd gear, and 3rd became intermittent The automatic lights came on at...