Thread: Highest Km D3/D4 with no major problems ?

Hiya Chris
same same had two toyotas. Never again. Hopefully the land rover is a good choice. Had ours a week done 600kms and loving it.
Looking forward to hearing some good stories.
Cheers
steve

Me is the same Chris. Had three cruisers and now travelled 75K in the D4.
Minor hicups at the start (pre-patch) but going strong and loving it.
I too had the choice between the LC200 and the D4.
I do know a bloke who bought his at around the same time as me (Dec 2009) and he has covered around 200K with no problems.
Cheers, Craig

Gday...

I have 2006 D3 TDV6 SE Auto - now 108,000km with no problems of note.

I travel full-time towing a 23ft 2600kg van. In the past two years I have met at least a dozen other D3/4 owners. None have had any major problems and were happy with their Landy.

About three weeks ago, I met a couple who have been travelling around OZ for 5 years and have a 2005 S D3 TDV6 Auto. They have down 320,000km and have no problems other than the winding mechanism for spare wheel which they replaced with a non-standard arrangement. He was very happy with his Landy.

I guess it is all about how you drive it, how you service it and how you use it.

My D3 is certainly the best 4x4 onroad I have driven, the best and most stable tow vehicle I have ever owned and a great 4x4 when I have done any offroad

Cheers
John

This will take a lot of beating:

Look at this odometer:;DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - Character has an announcement to make...........

That is 400,335 Miles = 644,276 km!!!

On Original Turbo, replaced Compressor.
Same engine and he uses Caltex Magnatec. ( not the same oil here in Aus)

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

I do know a bloke who bought his at around the same time as me (Dec 2009) and he has covered around 200K with no problems

Just got off the phone to this bloke that I mentioned, and yes he has just clocked over 200,000Klm's with no problems.

He is on the road most of the time, some weeks up to 4,000Klm's for the week. He was looking at updating (same D4 3.0Lt SE) but can't justify the change over seeing as though his is going so well.

BTW: He has covered 85K on his Pirelli ATR 19" and claims he still has between 5,000 - 10,000Klm's left before he has to replace them.

My thoughts on high Klm vehicles is that the engines will do more problem free Klm's providing they are not stop / starting all the time, nor having short runs. Look at how many Klm's taxi's go for.

Cheers, Craig

Originally Posted by ~Rich~

This will take a lot of beating:

Look at this odometer:;DISCO3.CO.UK - View topic - Character has an announcement to make...........

That is 400,335 Miles = 644,276 km!!!

On Original Turbo, replaced Compressor.
Same engine and he uses Caltex Magnatec. ( not the same oil here in Aus)

And that was in April, it'll be over 450,000 miles by now.

55 plate means 2005/6 vehicle, for those that don't know the UK plating system.

I have friends with TDV6 RRS's and D3's back in the UK with over 150,000 miles on them with no real problems. Just serviced on time and crucially, if something is showing signs of causing issues then that item is dealt with rather than left to fester. Mate had a misfire on his TDV6 RRS 3 months ago so had James French investigate it, turned out to be a duff injector. Changed that and all is well again. That car's an 06 with (last time I saw it) 165,000 miles on the clock.

Everyone's heard of lemons and with the internet, you generally hear more of the lemons than the good ones. So much so that if you believed everything you read about the unreliabilty of *insert any make of car here* you'd never buy one. My own motto is look after the car and it'll look after you. Certainly worked for me with my LR vehicles anyway.

I wouldn't say mine was terrilbly high compared to ones in the 200K km range. Mine had close to 150K km at the time I just sold it. I never had one major failure resulting in me being left standing on the side of the road stranded however I had early teething issues that were always identified and fixed promptly. Some faults took a second go but when you consider I bought a very early D3 (2005) and that was at the time the D3 was released around the world so you would expect early teething issue on a new and complex vehicle.

This time around I have waited before buying the D4 to let minor bugs get ironed out.

Chris

Simply put the D3 is the best vehicle I have ever owned and I have owned some quite reasonable bits of gear in the past.

cheers,
Terry