Thread: Land Rover Engineer Requires Info

Thanks for all your comments and PMs, they are very helpful. I will get around to replying to them all in turn, just give me a few days to clear my inbox.

I would really like some more comments on Terrain Response on the newer vehicles, let me know what you think about it's function.

Cheers

Loz

Originally Posted by ORC1

Thanks for all your comments and PMs, they are very helpful. I will get around to replying to them all in turn, just give me a few days to clear my inbox.

I would really like some more comments on Terrain Response on the newer vehicles, let me know what you think about it's function.

Cheers

Loz

As a LandRover technician he only wants to hear about the new fandangled gagets that work , not all the other faults they have and cant be bothered or interested to fix

Originally Posted by rangieman

As a LandRover technician he only wants to hear about the new fandangled gagets that work , not all the other faults they have and cant be bothered or interested to fix

You never know, may be Land Rover is going to start building the County/Isuzu again for the AURLO members with Truetrac front & back

Originally Posted by Chucaro

You never know, may be Land Rover is going to start building the County/Isuzu again for the AURLO members with Truetrac front & back

and sell all of ten,,,,

Terrain response seems to generally be pretty well liked.

The only thing I would change would be the ability to lock the diffs manualy, and for the hill decent control to either have a slower speed, or be set to a much lower speed.

Originally Posted by rangieman

As a LandRover technician he only wants to hear about the new fandangled gagets that work , not all the other faults they have and cant be bothered or interested to fix

This couldn't be further from the truth, I am interested in all your issues but as you can hopefully appreciate I can't do much about the marketing situations. I would like your comments to continue as they are very useful, but obviously your comments on the newer vehicles will give me more ammo!!

Cheers

Loz

It's a pity the best 4WD is let down by

1. Salesmen who really have no interest (see http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-ch...lers-evil.html)
2. Lack of dealers (see http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-ch...ealers-go.html) (now down to about 35 for the whole country - see Land Rover AU - Locate A Dealer )
3. Build quality (see http://www.aulro.com/afvb/general-ch...otor-show.html)

You start to get the idea why LR isn't selling well in Australia. Toyota probably sell more of one model 4WD in a month than LR in total in a year.

For sales figures for 2007, see http://www.autonews.net.au/static/vf...007dec/suv.pdf (substitute appropriate period in the URL for other months/years.

Originally Posted by p38arover

It's a pity the best 4WD is let down by

1. Salesmen who really have no interest (see Land Rover Dealers are evil!)
2. Lack of dealers (see Where did all the NSW dealers go?) (now down to about 35 for the whole country - see Land Rover AU - Locate A Dealer )
3. Build quality (see Defender at Brisbane Motor Show)

You start to get the idea why LR isn't selling well in Australia. Toyota probably sell more of one model 4WD in a month than LR in total in a year.

For sales figures for 2007, see http://www.autonews.net.au/static/vf...007dec/suv.pdf (substitute appropriate period in the URL for other months/years.

If Landrover is serious about manufacturing a serious off road or even touring vehicle, they must design it so that emergency repairs and maintenance are not dependent on dealers, unless a dealer network can be maintained in all markets.

Rover was able to do this in the 1940's (although certainly in Australia they had a far better dealer network then), and although the vehicles are necessarily far more complex than they were then, this does not necessarily make the task more difficult, as there are tools available now that were not available even a only few years ago (e.g. real on board diagnostics for example).

John