Thread: Reliability survey results - Don't read this!

Well I must be the biggest looser. My wife and I own a Land Rover D2, a VW Polo and a Suzuki 4wd Ute.
Ive also owned Leyland Marina. Which was the only car Ive made money on.

I know this is a while ago and we all hope that the methodology used has improved since.

About 15 years ago Choice used to rate something called Leyland (This 10 years after the brand had died in Australia) as some of the most reliable cars in Australia. At the same time ranking Jaguar at the bottom.

Think the survey said more about the kinds of cars driven by the readers than anything else.

Originally Posted by Zute

Well I must be the biggest looser. My wife and I own a Land Rover D2, a VW Polo and a Suzuki 4wd Ute.
Ive also owned Leyland Marina. Which was the only car Ive made money on.

I bought the last Polo from the very first batch brought into Oz,had it 10 years and it needed one window regulator over the whole decade.Very tough solid made little cars. Pat

Originally Posted by solmanic

I wonder how much this survey is skewed by dumb Americans thinking "hey, I bought a Land Rover so gosh darn it, I'm a gonna go off-road". Then they take the poor stock standard unit and park it upside down off a cliff or in a river and make a warranty claim "'cause the cigarette lighter stopped working".

Or the stupid broad who put the Winnebago onto cruise control, and went back into the kitchen to make herself a cup of coffee. Not so stupid...took the manufacturer to court and won a damages claim becuae there was no specific advice written or otherwise to the new owner, that cruise control could not steer or otherwise control the vehicle. Give us a break !!

Originally Posted by 3toes

I know this is a while ago and we all hope that the methodology used has improved since.

About 15 years ago Choice used to rate something called Leyland (This 10 years after the brand had died in Australia) as some of the most reliable cars in Australia. At the same time ranking Jaguar at the bottom.

Think the survey said more about the kinds of cars driven by the readers than anything else.

Hey my P76 is still going well at 36 years old and has been many places it shouldn't have...

bah should i be worrying as i have a disco II a td5 defender and a transit with the puma engine?

Didnt think so......

Steve

i know that land rover has a bad rep for being un reliable and im not just saying this because im on here but our defender is more reliable then most of our friends cars with similar age and kms actually we have pretty much only done maintance work on our 14 yr old car

The last few years of the new shape Golf have had a lot of reliability issues - its not just JD Power saying that it is Australian Motoring press, and driving organisations. They have had a host of electrical problems in particular. Only the GTI is still made in Germany, otherwise the Australian imports are from South Africa. Like look great, the door makes a great noise when shutting, they drive well and they are well priced...I took all that into account and then bought a new Accord Euro. I agree that JD has some issues, but the issues are applied to all manufacturers. So in that sense for LR to keep coming last is depressing.

Cheers