Originally Posted by
AK83
I'm going to propose my own conspiracy theory here:
Just watched the latest vid from TFL re the Defender they bought.
LOL!
small problem very early, that got sorted by dealer, new problem immediately after the first problem got sorted.
My conspiracy theory is that the Japanese car industry and component manufacturers are in cahoots trying to destroy the reputation of all non Japanese car makers, aided by every Government around the globe.
It's a well known fact that all Japanese cars are indestructible, and that their electrical components made to outlive the Sun .. etc.
For sure LR will be using some(if not all) Japanese electronic components in their latest cars .. and if not the actual unit(ie. brains modules) then at least the individual components in the main unit will be Japanese made .
That is, resistors, capacitors, transistors .. etc. All the best come from Japan(supposedly).
So when a module breaks in a new vehicle, gets sorted a few days later and then immediately another module breaks ... it tends to point to one possible conclusion.
All the unbreakable Japanese components go into Japanese made vehicles, then the Japanese electronics component manufacturers selectively extract the bad components, set aside for the parts that will go into foreign vehicles.
No other possible reason why a vehicle that was so thoroughly tested, one example has had such issues from the get go(about 200klms).