No More Landrover in Newcastle

[Wortho]

Alto is closeing down it's Newcastle operation, all will be finnished up in march.
Does'nt that suck.

[Rangier Rover]

Alto is closeing down it's Newcastle operation, all will be finnished up in march.
Does'nt that suck. :eek::eek: No chance of my wife having a Rangie sport now:( Basic service and parts no drama out here but the ECU faults can be:eek:

[BMKal]

Get used to it fellas.

With the exception of Albany so far, EVERY LR dealership outside the metro area in WA has already been closed down, and the distances that many of us over have to travel to the nearest dealership is a little greater then Newcastle to Sydney.

Just another sign of LandRover's dedicated customer support.

[Scouse]

There will be another dealer opening in Newcastle soon. Not too sure on details yet but plans are underway.

[Lotz-A-Landies]

There will be another dealer opening in Newcastle soon. Not too sure on details yet but plans are underway.Perhaps they could impress on someone like Owen Rumble of Modern Motors that they may wish to sell Land Rover!

(After Land Rover dumped Modern Motors after 55 years of loyal Land Rover dealership.)

[101RRS]

:eek::eek: No chance of my wife having a Rangie sport now:( Basic service and parts no drama out here but the ECU faults can be:eek:

Most good diesel service centres can read the codes.

Garry

[dullbird]

Most good diesel service centres can read the codes.

Garry


they need to have landrover specific software to read landrover codes.....not all landrover codes are generic

[dmdigital]

Well if another dealer is taking on Land Rover all well and good. Otherwise its just another in the long line of closures.

Wait for Toyota to start winding back on dealerships.

[long stroke]

I heard on the radio yesterday, that a Land rover service centre (not shore if it's a dealer ship or not) has just opened in coffs harbour;)

TIM.

[Sleepy]

:mad::mad::mad:

To the tune of Chicago - If You Leave Me Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0TEa-Aa4sU)


Another dealership closed, takin’ way their big parts store too
Ohhhhhhh Land Rover please don't go.
And if you leave me now, who’s gonna look after my car for me
Ohhhhhhh Land Rover please don't go

Ohhhhhhh I just want you stay

Land Rover Dealers are hard enough to find
And now my clutch it slips today
We’ve come to learn you’re not so very kind
Now I’ll have to drive all daayyyyyyyy

When Toyota comes we'll both regret
Things we’ll have to drive

My loyalty won’t always be so blind
why did you move so far away?
You’ve gone too far and now I’m in a bind
The clutch won’t last the daayyyyyyyy

When Hyundai comes and we'll both regret
Things we’ll have to drive

If you leave me now who’s gonna provide my parts for me
Ohhhhhhh Land Rover please don't go


Ohhhhhhh Cause I just got to have one in my drive

Ohhhhhhh Land Rover please don't go


:D:D:D

[rick130]

hmm, even if another dealership opens in Newy, how many dealers are actually outside of NSW ?
Dubbo, Port and......??
(NSW=Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong. The rest of the state doesn't exist, does it :rolleyes: )

[Stuck]

Perhaps they could impress on someone like Owen Rumble of Modern Motors that they may wish to sell Land Rover!

(After Land Rover dumped Modern Motors after 55 years of loyal Land Rover dealership.)
Modern Motors were awesome with their parts. As for Alto, Good riddance, I bought my D2 2nd hand from them and their after sales / warranty service was absolutely deplorable. After I'd had the car for about 6 weeks, one saturday morning it started misfiring (oil in harness) so I rang Alto,
"Sorry mate, our workshop doesn't open saturdays, ring NRMA"
"I'm not in NRMA"
"Just get it here the best way you can then"
"can I speak to your sales manager ?"
"I am the sales manager"
"No problems, I'll drive it in and you just ignore the fact that towing is covered under warranty, I'll see you when I get there"
When I got there I stood in the showroom for about 10 minutes and they weren't busy but finally a salesman, that I knew from when I was workshop 2ic at a non LR dealership, came out to see me. He put the car in the workshop for me but was a bit vague when I asked him about his boss. The total lack of urgency in getting the car back to me was prominent and after 2 weeks my missus went to pick it up , she got about 300 yards up the road and it started misfiring again so she took it straight back. When I rang my service advisor I couldn't get a straight answer about their repair methods so I asked to speak to the service manager then the advisor hung up on me so I rang the switchboard and asked for the service manager and lo and behold my service advisor was in the SM's office when I was put through.
That was just the start of about 4 months of complete and utter bullshirt and mismanagement. 4 month warranty period because I had to "remind" them that the clock stops ticking when they have posession of the car.
The mob I used to work for pushed me to cut quite a few corners but I would have been keelhauled for the stuff they tried to pull off.
Apologies for the rant but some stories just have to be told.

Bring back the Rumbles,
Anthony.

[George130]

Land Rover in Canberra is now owned by the Nissan people.

[CaverD3]

I got good service from Alto in Sydney. :D
But when I had the D2 I had problems when they closed the Brookvale workshop.:mad:

[Scouse]

Modern Motors were awesome with their parts. As for Alto, Good riddance, ........

........Apologies for the rant but some stories just have to be told.

But apart from all that, Altos were OK ?

[Stuck]

But apart from all that, Altos were OK ?

If I had to walk my dog past Alto's, I'd cross the road so as not to expose him to their nature strip, but then again I'd probably walk him past there and kick his backside if he crapped any where else but there.

[Scouse]

I take that as a 'no' then.

[lokka]

If I had to walk my dog past Alto's, I'd cross the road so as not to expose him to their nature strip, but then again I'd probably walk him past there and kick his backside if he crapped any where else but there.

Dont blame ya one bit they sure know how to stuff people round and had a good habbit of palming work off to another so called LR expert here in newy for more shoddy workman ship tho i think the latter have pulled there heads in and smartend there act about bloody time ....

Bring back Rumbels i say :cool::cool::cool: