Thread: Disco 3 or Toyota Prado

Originally Posted by roamer

Hi newlandy

All the awards are great and deserved,
but they are won by new cars over a few days of testing, then handed back
There is no consideration as to longevity, running/maintenance costs or relieablity (time in workshop)

Would be good to see a long term award on the same cars after say, 50k,100k and 150k, other wise awards mean zip to the used car market.

Just a point Allianz extended warranty on a D4 is around $3500, same policy LC $1600, gota make ya wonder.

Cheers Ken

Hi Ken,

I think with Allianz Insurance it's a case of shopping around as well, I recently got a quote through a dealer for the two year extended cover on a HSV Grange I was looking at.

The quote came back at $2900, which is LR pricing and when you consider that there is bugger all that goes wrong on them in comparison to a 4x4 it just makes you wonder.

cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

Hi Ken,

I think with Allianz Insurance it's a case of shopping around as well, I recently got a quote through a dealer for the two year extended cover on a HSV Grange I was looking at.

The quote came back at $2900, which is LR pricing and when you consider that there is bugger all that goes wrong on them in comparison to a 4x4 it just makes you wonder.

cheers,
Terry

Yeah Terry it does pay to shop around,
those prices are from Allianz grading scales
I actually got LR for $2780, so would guess LC would be cheaper as well just used that as a starting point comparison

Cheers Ken

Makes me think you got ripped of Roamer!!!

We paid $1750 for extended warranty on Dads Landy!

Originally Posted by ozscott

Does make you wonder Ken. Insurers are very savvy at estimating risk... That's what there whole financial existence is based on. So whatever way you cut it they estimate that in those extra couple of years the LR is going to cost them considerably more than the Toyota. And it won't be parts prices on parts they both need like gearboxes etc because Toyota isn't cheap on parts but it could allow for air suspension that the toyo doesn't have.

Cheers

Insurers are also savvy on price Pointing!!

They will charge what ever the market will bear.

Originally Posted by Tombie

Makes me think you got ripped of Roamer!!!

We paid $1750 for extended warranty on Dads Landy!

Tombie finding that mighty hard to believe,
Is it Allianz extended new car warranty ? only avalible thru brokers
or maybe Alliance in which case you wasted your money

Cheers Ken

Originally Posted by roamer

Tombie finding that mighty hard to believe,
Is it Allianz extended new car warranty ? only avalible thru brokers
or maybe Alliance in which case you wasted your money

Cheers Ken

Old man took out via Solitaire motors the first time and then Extended it again for a second time.

It is the LR Alliance warranty.

Mind you - he also only paid $59k for his D3 brand new SE, Optioned up!
He drives a pretty hard bargain!

I had the pleasure (?) of driving a Prado up a pretty gnarly track (McFarlanes Flat Tk in the Snowies) a couple of weeks back. The guy was at the bottom after reversing back down and was frankly too bloody scared to have another go. His family weren't too keen either. His problem was that he really had no choice as to whether to go up or not since he was midway along the track, what was behind him was just as bad.

I offered to have him follow my line up but he really was scared! He told me candidly that he had never done any REAL 4wding before..... this is not a track for the faint hearted.

He asked me if I could get it up there for him. I said I would, but only if he sat in the passenger seat and watched. Anyway, I sat there and pushed buttons, turned on the KDSS..... he didn't know what it was!

Anyway, slowly she climbed but my God, it didn't do it easily, even with the KDSS the lack of wheel travel made the vehicle feel very unstable. But it DID get up.

I got back into my D2 (yes, he decided to come along for the ride) and simply walked up the same hill. I was happy..... he was simply staggered that a vehicle worth roughly 1/4 the value of his could do this stuff so easily, and in more comfort!

Seen plenty of D3's do similar work to this in the past and they do it easily, without banging and crashing.

I know which I'd be buying!

Oh, he followed me for a while after this, got a bit of confidence back and did a reasonable job of it.

Originally Posted by wardy1

I had the pleasure (?) of driving a Prado up a pretty gnarly track (McFarlanes Flat Tk in the Snowies) a couple of weeks back. The guy was at the bottom after reversing back down and was frankly too bloody scared to have another go. His family weren't too keen either. His problem was that he really had no choice as to whether to go up or not since he was midway along the track, what was behind him was just as bad.

I offered to have him follow my line up but he really was scared! He told me candidly that he had never done any REAL 4wding before..... this is not a track for the faint hearted.

He asked me if I could get it up there for him. I said I would, but only if he sat in the passenger seat and watched. Anyway, I sat there and pushed buttons, turned on the KDSS..... he didn't know what it was!

Anyway, slowly she climbed but my God, it didn't do it easily, even with the KDSS the lack of wheel travel made the vehicle feel very unstable. But it DID get up.

I got back into my D2 (yes, he decided to come along for the ride) and simply walked up the same hill. I was happy..... he was simply staggered that a vehicle worth roughly 1/4 the value of his could do this stuff so easily, and in more comfort!

Seen plenty of D3's do similar work to this in the past and they do it easily, without banging and crashing.

I know which I'd be buying!

Oh, he followed me for a while after this, got a bit of confidence back and did a reasonable job of it.

I think the cost of your car is irrelevant...as the D2 would probably have been considered expensive when new.

Simple fact is.....you just have a better car.....