Thread: My New MY12 Defender 90 is broken already!

Originally Posted by isuzurover

So landrover is still not doing up bolts properly???

Lucky they don't or you knockers would have nothing to whinge about. Pat

Originally Posted by PAT303

Lucky they don't or you knockers would have nothing to whinge about. Pat

Thats GOLD!!

Originally Posted by PAT303

Lucky they don't or you knockers would have nothing to whinge about. Pat

Unlike you and Dullbird (et al.), I am not a POM, so don't require things to complain about.

So - let me get this straight - you think it is fine that LR sell vehicles with hoses not tightened correctly, t-case/handbrake bolts loose, extra nuts/bolts floating round in the roof, etc, etc... ????

Interesting....

No different to any other manufacturer,I had my TDCi serviced last week and the bloke who does it said better than 3 out of 5 Tojo/Nissans have the uni's in back to front so the nipples can't be greased,the same number have no grease in the drive shafts from new,no oil in diffs/gearbox's,loose wheels,loose suspension mounts,electrics that don't work etc etc,but it's easier to pick on LR. Pat

Ahhh Yers, I had a brand new Telstra Ford Courier and it had no hose clamp at all on the turbo inlet. Sometime after the first service (they did not twig) the hose must have fell off and I put up with the noise for a while until I stopped & lifted the bonnet to find I could see straight into the turbo !!!

Another time . long long time ago I had a Brand New Telecom Mitsubishi Express L300 (Worst vehicle I EVER had) and was on the Romsey Lancefield road when the oil light came on & momentarily after the engine started rattling.

Found No Sump plug & no oil . No mobile phone in those days either.
got a variety of old spark plugs & a gallon tin of used sump oil from a farmer & forced a spark plug into the hole with a shifter & poured in the sump oil. Made it another 100klm home, engine was replaced shortly after. What a POS that was.

Another Telstra colleague had a pitman arm break off a brand hew Hiace van .

Far as I can tell things like this are not specifically a LandRover problem,
In fact I have never had a Landrover let me down , (something that I could not fix on the side of the road anyway) But I have had to walk & get Towed exclusively in Japanese cars !!!!

Not to mention our company's brand new fleet of Patrols and Navarras that spend more time back at Nissan than at work...

Running joke is that we should have bought double the number so that we would have at least half of them at work at the same time!

Originally Posted by PAT303

No different to any other manufacturer,I had my TDCi serviced last week and the bloke who does it said better than 3 out of 5 Tojo/Nissans have the uni's in back to front so the nipples can't be greased,the same number have no grease in the drive shafts from new,no oil in diffs/gearbox's,loose wheels,loose suspension mounts,electrics that don't work etc etc,but it's easier to pick on LR. Pat

My none Land rover ute, 20+ thousand km's, four months 1 week, two services totaling $520, not one problem.

You do the math

Originally Posted by dobbo

My none Land rover ute, 20+ thousand km's, four months 1 week, two services totaling $520, not one problem.

You do the math

20,000km/$520.00 = $0.026/km

2010 110 Defender, 60,000km's, 6 services totaling $0.00, one door rubber replaced under warranty, so:

60,000km/$0.00 = $0.00/km

Cheers,