D3 reliability woes

[noddy]

Who else in NSW read yesterday's Drive section in the Sydney Morning Herald??

In short, Drive did a review of the D3 (V8), X5 (3.0p), Prado (V6p), Towrag (V6), Paj (V6).

X5 won....while being barely acceptable off-road they believe no-one else has come close to matching its on-road performance/dynamics.

D3....air suspension **** itself 200km from civilisation and dropped to its bump stops Sorry, but in a brand new $81,000 motor car that is unacceptable. They do not believe the hole in the air line was as a result of a stone (would not matter if it was). Eventually, even turning a blind eye to the D3's reliability issue (putting it down to an early batch of pre-production vehicles) it only came equal second with the Prado. They thought it was excessively heavy and had poor fuel consumption on the test. (I think it was a bit of mismatch having a V8 Disco versus all V6 vehicles, but where was the V6 Disco?).

The only other thing was the V-dubbs power steering failed, which provided a relaibility companion for the D3.

LR need to develop some smart marketing campaigns to change these embedded perceptions around Landy reliability...

[hiline]

same old same old ops: ops:

need to get their act together

one of these days or years maybe :? :?

[noddy]

It was the LR dealer in Morwell who diagnosed and fixed the air line.

Will be interesting to see whether Morwell is one of the dealers on the 'hit-list' and whether they can get a reprieve?

Who would be the next largest dealer to Morwell?

[hiline]

wouldn't have a clue sorry noddy

but carn't be many left now

[one_iota]

I read it and wept.

The review was luke warm at best.

But Motoring Journos have families to feed and Newspapers have to sell newsprint. So a shock horror story will help.

I bet LRA's response will be conspicuous by its absence.

[Redback]

The first of any new vehicle is always prone to problems.

[hiline]

but land rover seem to be the worst at it ops: ops:

[Redback]

Someone is always the best at something :roll: just a shame LR is the best at this. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

[hiline]

you would think the way the world is with all the technology

this would be better

[Redback]

Yep had time to perfect things i feel, going the same way as pommie motorbikes will they never learn [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]