Thread: Discovery 3 Lemon - Landrover Australia

yep... every second hand car I have bought has needed some work, people sell when they start having issues - and no they havent all been land rovers... the issues left for you were mostly minor, and by the sounds of it you have paid hardly anything to resolve them.

Now that you have it back up to good service I would give it another chance and seek out a well reviewed land rover mechanic for future servicing.

In my experience the more expensive the car the more that goes wrong with it and the more expensive it is to keep on the road. This goes for BMW, both cars and motor bikes, VW, Landrover, which are the ones I have experience with, and other brands that I have observed.

I sold a 2007 VW Multivan TDI that I purchased new ($85000), to buy the second hand 2010 D4 that I now have. The VW was by far the most troublesome car I have ever had in over 40 years of driving, both during the warranty period and after it. When I sold it I took $2500 of the negotiated price because it needed a new DPF at 110,000km and the guy that was buying it was very good and didn't haggle on the price. This was despite paying more than $3000 in the previous 6 months for an engine management problem that had the car permanently in limp home mode and finally turned out to be leaking turbo gaskets, new door trim for $900 because the interior door handle failed and many other faults including a new auto transmission at 105,000km, for which I paid for the cost of fitting but VW paid for the transmission (it was 5,000km outside the warranty).

I couldn't even list here the serious and major faults in my 2006 BMW K1200 GT motorbike that I had to get fixed under warranty, one of which tried to kill me and took BMW over 3 months to redesign to come up with a fix since it was a world wide problem. This was on a $34000 motorbike.

I wouldn't knock LR too hard from my experience.

Bob

Vw has very well documented reliability issues. BMW has their share for sure but vw takes the cake. Lr are ok. If you want reliability pretty much guaranteed by a high end Honda, and unfortunately Honda don't make a genuine 4wd.

Cheers

My BIL has just bought a 2009 D4D Prado.
The injectors had to be replaced at 110,000km
They were not replaced under warranty & cost $5000 to replace.

I recently sold a 2012 Prado & can tell you that on Prado Point they are having just as many problems with less support from Toyota.

These Prado are no where near the technology of a D3 2.7 let alone a D4 3.0I think they are up to the 4th incarnation of injectors and they are still having problems.

I have a mate with a 2009 200 series that had his passenger window winder fail while still under 3 years & 100,000km and Toyota made him pay for it saying it was a were & tear item.

I can tell you from personal experience that a 2012 Prado with all of the ARB fruit does not drive anywhere near as well as a D4 despite being very close in price.

Cheers

I was speaking to a Toyota mechanic and quizzed him re the 200 series V8 diesels oil appetite - he put it down to just a vehicle characteristic not a fault!
Oh what a feeling.

Originally Posted by BobD

In my experience the more expensive the car the more that goes wrong with it and the more expensive it is to keep on the road. This goes for BMW, both cars and motor bikes, VW, Landrover, which are the ones I have experience with, and other brands that I have observed.

I sold a 2007 VW Multivan TDI that I purchased new ($85000), to buy the second hand 2010 D4 that I now have. The VW was by far the most troublesome car I have ever had in over 40 years of driving, both during the warranty period and after it. When I sold it I took $2500 of the negotiated price because it needed a new DPF at 110,000km and the guy that was buying it was very good and didn't haggle on the price. This was despite paying more than $3000 in the previous 6 months for an engine management problem that had the car permanently in limp home mode and finally turned out to be leaking turbo gaskets, new door trim for $900 because the interior door handle failed and many other faults including a new auto transmission at 105,000km, for which I paid for the cost of fitting but VW paid for the transmission (it was 5,000km outside the warranty).

I couldn't even list here the serious and major faults in my 2006 BMW K1200 GT motorbike that I had to get fixed under warranty, one of which tried to kill me and took BMW over 3 months to redesign to come up with a fix since it was a world wide problem. This was on a $34000 motorbike.

I wouldn't knock LR too hard from my experience.

Bob

BMW K100rs saved my life at least once. story needed on your K1200 GT

Maintance is important. buyer beware is not advice to be taken lightly.

Having a high KM Disco suites me. Paying to keep it reliable and bring me home is fine by me. Being stuck is not. Fix or forget it. Gosh I miss my bike Now were can we put bike yarns to keep this thread on track?

Originally Posted by weakestlink

BMW K100rs saved my life at least once. story needed on your K1200 GT

Maintance is important. buyer beware is not advice to be taken lightly.

Having a high KM Disco suites me. Paying to keep it reliable and bring me home is fine by me. Being stuck is not. Fix or forget it. Gosh I miss my bike Now were can we put bike yarns to keep this thread on track?

Weakestlink, I will have to PM you with the info since it is off thread and not very interesting to most LR drivers!! FYI, I now have a K1600GT, which is great but also has its funny quirks. Burns oil like a 200 series at only 5,000km, however. Another known world wide problem.

Bob

I have had bugger all cars really..
last one was a navara d40.. Few problems with it too..
previously i had a 75 series cruiser.. had it for 10 years. Replaced a radiator and a speedo cable. Thats it.. It was 6yr old when i bought it. Back then i was doing a fair bit of hunting so it saw some a bit of country as well.
Missus had a little suzuki liana. Bought it new and not one thing went wrong with it.. Great little car.. Sold the both of them to get a family car (nissan)
Moved and stopped hunting.. have family fly to us now so went a 7 seat wagon.

Have had other second hand vehicles before all of this, and they were even low cost to maintain and things rarely went wrong.

Seems we are in the workshop every couple of months with the Discovery 3.

Seems reliability has gone out the window with all new vehicles.