Thread: More Landys unreliable myths in 4WD Action

My 110 has now carried me over half a million kilometres all over the country. The only times it has actually stopped me have been when I ran a tank out of fuel and had to bleed it. Only real manufacturing faults have been a split wheel, and a front radius arm came loose from the chassis due to a missing weld (which had lasted for 400,000km without trouble). Neither of these were show stoppers.

There have been plenty of minor problems, often things that you woould not expect on some other cars, but none of them have been major, and, of course, there has been a few major repairs due to the mileage, including a clutch and a gearbox overhaul. Also some significant panel repairs involving roos and trees, but you can't blame the vehicle for that.

I had no hesitation in driving to Perth and back a few years ago, and as expected, the only problems were two tyres and a chipped windscreen.

My forty-five year old 2a has had only one show stopper since I have had it - faulty coil that to my knowledge was twenty-five years old, and quite likely original. And I am planning a five hour drive each way to Sydney next week for the Expo without any qualms.

So my experience does not support any reliability issues.

John

Same here. Only thing that I've ever experienced that was close to a show stopper was when the gearbox on the old 2 door Rangie gave up the ghost.

But it still got me home (had one forward gear still working) and then to a workshop where I pulled it out and sent it off to Perth for a re-build. Cost a few dollars to fix it - but no more then others I knew who had similar problems with Toyotas at around the same time.

Other than that, I've had no problems at all with the Rangie and now three consecutive Disco's. The D2 is still in the family - and has recently need a new starter motor, but was still driveable .........

A lot of the content has certainly become bogan-friendly lately.

I enjoy reading reports from people that have had their LR's from new and can give "real-life" experiences as to how reliable (or not) the vehicles have been from day dot..... I'm assuming there's not too many people out there that keep their vehicles from new and have racked up over 500,000kms+ in their cars..... ??

The Disco I recently purchased has over 312,000kms on the clock but as to the vehicles history and how reliable it has or has not been is obviously unknown to me. From looking at the receipts, it's had some money spent on it in the past like a new injection pump, etc, but it still seems to have plenty of life left in it and I hoping to have a trouble-free time while I own it on the proviso that I do the usual servicing, etc...... hopefully.


Would be good to hear from some more LR owners that have racked up some major kms in their vehicles and can speak from 1st hand as to their reliability (or not).....

I bought a D1 in 2005 and drove it from 100000km to 180000km with no reliability problems. It was written off in an accident. I used the proceeds to buy another d1 with 170000km on the clock. It now has 255000km on it. Other than an auto tranny that failed prematurely most likley due to lack of servicing ( did it himself apparently) by previous owner ( he towed with it too) I have had no reliability issues just a few bits and pieces needing attention but you get that on a 16yo car.
I am very happy with the reliability of my D1's-and a lot of the kms are fully loaded outback and also many trips into the vic alps.

we picked up a Defender TD5 2005 from Perth which a mate bought. 170.000k on clock and we drove back to Sydney in 3 days with the to us unknown car without any issues beside a loose headlight relay which was fixed within 5 mins by us

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

A lot of the content has certainly become bogan-friendly lately.

On here too and especially on the FB Landy pages...

Originally Posted by Tombie

On here too and especially on the FB Landy pages...

Nup,just Land Rover owners who post nothing but negative comments about vehicles they don't own,drive or have any experience with,your first reply on this thread is a case in point. Pat