Reply With QuoteThey don't have a great reputation. Dreadful brakes, dreadful reliability issues. Great when they are going, but troubled. There is a facebook group just on Iveco problems.Originally Posted by CraigE
Swaggie
More likely that the owners don't want to get their pretty and pretty expensive toy scratched than any problems with the capabilities of the vehicle.
Yanks certainly do take them off road into very harsh conditions. In the snow belt they get hard use all winter. In my last three trips to the USA I saw one real Land Rover, a Series III 88" in Reno. There are Range Rovers aplenty as they are sold into the city luxury market. Land Rovers are not highly thought of there being regarded as too small, too slow, underpowered, too low for the snow belt and like Australia, too few dealers and almost no back
up.
For those not familiar with the ex-urban areas in the snow states, just about everybody has a big pickup with high clearance, huge tyres just for getting into town when the roads have not yet been ploughed. Low vehicles will belly out on the snow. Many folk have a "winter car" usually a big old yank sedan or wagon that can rust out from the road salt and slide into snow banks on icy roads whilst the good car stays home in the garage.
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Master
SubscriberThey don't have a great reputation. Dreadful brakes, dreadful reliability issues. Great when they are going, but troubled. There is a facebook group just on Iveco problems.
Master
i visited 2 4WD.com stores here in southern los angeles today looking for anything interesting for the D3.
Found very little, but I did ask the guys behind the counter about the RAM.
I just mentioned that a mate was looking at a RAM to tow his motorhome, and what did they think.
Every one of them said it was a waste of money citing reliablility and servicing as the problems. A couple of them even said they don't like working on them, but they have no choice as they are customers cars.
All, except one, said to go with an F250 or F350 - the odd one out suggested a Toyota Tundra.
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Swaggie
I know Iveco is a conglomerate of International Harvester, Fiat, and some others. Is the Iveco Daily a Fiat product?
If so, avoid them. Fiat make good diesel engines, good farm tractors, used to make good earthmoving equipment, but make crap cars and trucks.
When I was a car dealer we used to say that the only good thing about a Fiat was that they were slightly better than a Renault.
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TopicToaster
SubscriberLol. And Land Rover has such an amazing reputation for reliability? Let’s not throw stones at our glass house lol.
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Wizard
I owned both Chevy and Fords in the states. I'd never EVER own a Dodge. Several friends owned them and needless to say, their ownership was brief. My first choice would be the Ford. Chevy aren't that brilliant either.... (This coming from almost 30 years experience towing boats, landscaping trailers, and Bobcats on almost a daily basis). My old PSD didn't even know that my Bobcat was on the back.
Master
SubscriberFair point, but there do seem to be very serious issues with these Iveco 4x4's. It is worth looking at the facebook entries.
For what it is worth I have been driving Land Rovers for five decades. I will accept parts wearing and needing replacement but I will not stand for vehicles that don't get me home. Only once has a Land Rover failed to get me home - the crank position sensor on my Disco 2 packed up and the vehicle was trucked home - then sold.
I have also had Jaguars, Saabs, Volvos, a Mercedes - NONE were as reliable as the Land Rovers.
Now I am about to buy a 6x6 Perentie....that will be interesting!!
Master
SubscriberCheck out Goinbushes post about two-thirds down.
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OldBushie
SupporterTo be completely honest the lowly old Hilux is by far a more reliable vehicle than a landrover from the same year of manufacture But if we wanted to drive a basic, ordinary, uncomfortable 4WD with NO Soul we wouldn't own a Landrover now would we ?
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ChatterBox
SubscriberFPT Iveco Diesel engines are highly regarded in boats for reliability, clean exhaust and low fuel burn.
Pretty sure the 2.7 is a Peugeot engine............
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