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Originally Posted by blackrangie

2020 Land Rover Defender to go mainstream - motoring.com.au

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This is also quite an interesting comment.

“You win those reputations back over a long period. We’ve engineered it to a level of durability that none of our other cars have had.

Originally Posted by blackrangie

This is also quite an interesting comment.
“You win those reputations back over a long period. We’ve engineered it to a level of durability that none of our other cars have had.

famous last words. Put their money where their mouth is and make the warranty match the Koreans.

Any Bets on how long till the first recall.

Originally Posted by goingbush

famous last words. Put their money where their mouth is and make the warranty match the Koreans.

Any Bets on how long till the first recall.

2 weeks

Yep. Agree absolutely. Talk is cheap. 7 years as part of the intro even for those that sign up in the first 6m of the release but otherwise 5 years and 150,000 otherwise it's all just the same old jibba jabba.

Cheers

PS. If Mitsubishi can do 7 years for Triton LR can do it if Defender is seriously that reliable. If it's all just talk then they won't.
PPS. If a car company ever needed to put it's money where it's mouth is on reliability it's LR.

PPPS. No one is tougher on Land Rover than LR fans

Originally Posted by goingbush

famous last words. Put their money where their mouth is and make the warranty match the Koreans.

Any Bets on how long till the first recall.

Interesting though their latest generation of vehicles seem to match in reality those words and if they are stepping it up for the new defender which by all evedince seen so far they seem to be, great.

If its anything like Toyota they will have more than a few recalls, hopefully the new over the air update system (if the defender gets it) will handle most software related updates like updating your phone.

It's not software that worries me it's major components that drive the vehicle. Those that out of warranty cause major financial heartache. Ie good old fashioned analogue problems in a digital world. Ie the area where LR has form.

Cheers

Originally Posted by ozscott

Yep. Agree absolutely. Talk is cheap. 7 years as part of the intro even for those that sign up in the first 6m of the release but otherwise 5 years and 150,000 otherwise it's all just the same old jibba jabba.

Cheers

PS. If Mitsubishi can do 7 years for Triton LR can do it if Defender is seriously that reliable. If it's all just talk then they won't.
PPS. If a car company ever needed to put it's money where it's mouth is on reliability it's LR.

PPPS. No one is tougher on Land Rover than LR fans

Not a bad deal, send an email to JLRA for us

Considering current warranty is 3 years 100k extendable to 5 year 200k, the later being my pick, maybe we will end up with something in the middle.

Originally Posted by ozscott

It's not software that worries me it's major components that drive the vehicle. Those that out of warranty cause major financial heartache. Ie good old fashioned analogue problems in a digital world. Ie the area where LR has form.

Cheers

For sure and that's my point, with everything they have learnt, the form of current gen of vehicles and the testing they are putting into the new defender, major mechanicals would be unlikely but agree only time will tell.