Thread: dude bought a LEMON LANDCRUISER 200 series

Originally Posted by Fluids

Did you happen to look at the Links page ?

Landroverhell.com

Land Rover Discovery Review (Reviews) and Report, Land Rover Discovery Recall

Yup, looked at this before I bought my D4....yes I bought one. Have had a couple of ****y, annoying issues but the car has not stopped in 12 months, even after a seriously hard hit in an off road incident. It is a phenomenal car. After driving it, I'm unimpressed with just about everything I ride in now.

I trawled through the comments on that site and out of all the threads posted, there are more issues with **** customer service or ignorance than actual technical faults. How many D3, D4s and RRS are on the road? I haven't owned a single car (and there have been a lot) that hasn't had issues and 80% of the time the service departments that I dealt with needed 'attitude re-calibrations'. Fortunately I have never owned a 'Lemon'....but we know every brand has them!

Interesting that a lot of the complaints are in foriegn lands.

Interesting that there are faults recorded here that not a single owner on the ALRO have reported. Why is that?

Once again the JD Powers type stats rate a mention....same stats that would record the service warning constantly coming on after 6 months. The manual doesn't mention it but it's a LR money spinner for the non mandatory 'health check'. BS?...yes...but an issue?...no! Same stats that record a run of broken light fittings or squeaky suspension rubbers....annoying?...yes, stop me buying an awesome vehicle?....no chance!

I wonder how much of the same crap is on the Toyo sites......as much as it makes me smile....

Cheers,

Kev.

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Originally Posted by rijidij

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That's a cracker....

Originally Posted by rijidij

Now with optional engine lubrication.

Originally Posted by rijidij

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Oil, it's a leaking

Toymota!!

Toyota Tech Bulletin 678.98

Oils aint oils!

Are these people serious? They are using 500 mls of oil in 1000 k's and they call that oil consumption! Obviously they were not driving in the 50's and 60's when a pint to 1000 miles was considered quite normal consumption for an engine in good condition. Most owners would not have been at all concerned about a quart in 1000 miles. Normal oil change interval then was 1000 miles for most cars and no-one worried about oil consumption if you did not have to add oil between changes. Do you remember servos having racks of pint and quart oil bottles out on the driveway next to the pumps?

I particularly liked the comment about it being Toyota's fault that he lost his two remotes!