Lucindale Field Day(s)

[jplambs]

At the Lucindale field day in south east S.A. today. And... Wait for it... There was a Landrover stand. :D It was the dealer from over in Millicent, they had two defenders, one was a 130 single cab with a tray for $48,000 and the other was a dual cab 110 (the dealer's own car) with prices starting from $51,000.

Angus MacDonald is the dealer, I've only dealt with him once (he gave me the radio code for my 300tdi for free), but he seems like a good bloke. I asked him how the defenders were selling and he said that he's sold three 110 tray backs to date this year. Not bad for a small town with a toyoda dealer as well. Seems like there might be a few around that I can buy in about 5 years.;)

Oh, I should mention that they had a Disco and a number of Freelanders there as well.

[jplambs]

Just wondering after talking to the dealer at the field days yesterday, is there any way of finding out from Land Rover how many defenders they have sold in 09/10?

[Sandtoyz]

That's where I bought my Defender from (over 10 years ago now!).
Angus is a great bloke, and he loves Land Rovers.

I suspect now the Defender range has expanded again he will sell more tray back utes to the farmers again too!

Oh and there was a Rangie Sport there too!

[d@rk51d3]

Broke down in the Rangie at Beachport years ago. Got towed to Millicent and needed a new starter motor, and they didn't want to know me.:(

Ended up going to a private guy around the corner who was a rover mech from the old days.

A few of the local guys here with Deefers, always take them to Millicent for a decent service though.

[jplambs]

Whoops, didn't actually notice it was a Rangie, to tell you the truth once I saw the dual cab 110 I wasn't paying all that much attention to the other vehicles. Even my mother said she finally understood why I was so fanatical about landy's when she saw that. Where abouts in the south east are you located?

[Windaroo]

Son, whilst living in Mt Gambier had similar experience with them. Weren't interested in servicing his 110 or getting parts for it. Only interested in selling their Fords or a new Land Rover. Not helpful at all

[UncleHo]

G'day Folks :)

This can be the problem with lots of Dealers/Stealers, a good enthusiastic sales department manager, and a poor quality service manager who is not interested in even trying, I was originally tought that you can buy a vehicle/parts from anywhere, but if you sell service, the customer will keep returning, and if you are good at it, when service/parts are needed, the customer thinks of a person's name and phone No before the company name :D

cheers

[jplambs]

G'day Folks :)

This can be the problem with lots of Dealers/Stealers, a good enthusiastic sales department manager, and a poor quality service manager who is not interested in even trying, I was originally tought that you can buy a vehicle/parts from anywhere, but if you sell service, the customer will keep returning, and if you are good at it, when service/parts are needed, the customer thinks of a person's name and phone No before the company name :D

cheers

Agreed, so far with this dealer though I have found them to be very good across the board. I am currently getting a few prices for things from their parts man, he has always been pretty helpful even to the extent of giving me parts numbers and blow-up maps of parts when he knew I wasn't going to be buying from them. And as I mentioned earlier they gave me the code when they were supposed to charge for it. I'll have to see how it goes as time progress'.