Not a good top 10 to dominate

[DiscoHasBeen]

So why the hell, in this day and age, can't LR put out a dependable vehicle? Most other manufacturers do but it seems the British, and Europeans, just haven't figured it out. My neighbor had a Volvo and it may have been even worse than LR. Anyway, like I said not a good list to dominate.

Five Of The 10 Slowest-Selling Used Vehicles In U.S. Are Land Rovers | Carscoops

The slowest-selling used vehicle in the U.S. is the Land Rover Discovery

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[ukoffroad]

We have owned four Volvo’s with no real issues over the last fifteen years. LR however, not so much. Love them both for different reasons. Current new LR line up is not really interesting.

 

[bri]

Never owned a Rover that was not dependable.

 

[Howski]

I’ve been real happy with my wife’s 15’ XC60 Volvo. Got it about 4 years ago with 15k miles. Up to 65k now trouble free. Like much more than the Disco Sport loner she got one time...

 

[discostew]

Never owned a Rover that was not dependable.

I agree totally. When I came from General Motors in the late 90's I noticed that right away. GM trucks and cars always got towed in for fuel pumps, ignition modules, ball joints breaking. Lots of towed in shit. Land Rover's drive themselves in with climate screens blanked out, lights on and what have you. But they drive in. So what does dependable mean?

Volvo as a car company has it figured out. I dispatch to 5 Volvo guys. Those cars don't stay for weeks on end with some kind of electrical gremlin, or some part with an ETA that's like 9 weeks out. Biggest problem I see Volvos having now are the 3.2's are getting pistons for oil consumption. And something going on with the sunroof. But that being said it's a small # of vehicles that need that shit. To me Volvo is just boring as hell.

 

[pdxrovermech]

over 20 years and none of my rovers has ever left me stranded. I think people who buy European cars new know when its time to trade up before all the expensive repairs start coming. Then the people buying them secondary blow their load just purchasing the vehicle and never have anything left for maintenance, so they get driven into the ground.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

over 20 years and none of my rovers has ever left me stranded. I think people who buy European cars new know when its time to trade up before all the expensive repairs start coming. Then the people buying them secondary blow their load just purchasing the vehicle and never have anything left for maintenance, so they get driven into the ground.

We bought our DII at the end of '00. Found it on the lot eight months old and with around 15K on the ODO. Over the course of the next couple of years I can't tell you how many times that truck left my house on the back of a flat bed. About the same time I found this place. Back when it received more post in one day than it does in a couple of weeks now it seems. Back then the posters seemed a lot more honest about the brand. Two comments have stuck with me. "There's two types of LR owners, those who can afford repairs and those who can do them themselves" and when someone was really having problems "yours must have rolled of the assembly line on a Friday afternoon". That's why when ours finally overheated and blew up I dumped it. I thought a lot about putting an engine in it because we loved to drive it, but there was the whole facing reality thing. I couldn't afford to put 4k into it only to have something else go wrong. Now that all said in a couple of years I just might buy another Disco, but this time it will be with the understanding of what I'm getting myself into potentially. But I have to get the kid out of college first. Have had to make myself stay out of the For Sale section.

 

[discostew]

A Disco2 is a very unreliable vehicle. But it's more BMW than Land Rover. You did not have a good tech working on your truck. And what makes it worse is once that shitty tech worked on your truck and never fixed it for you, nobody else wanted to work on it. Probably partially because they hated him because he sucked.
In a perfect world your truck would have been fixed right and you wouldn't have had such a bad experience.

 

[Harv]

I got my S2A 26 years ago. I avoided the "newer" LR's for years because of their reliability reputation. Also, when they're quite new, the price tag is high. After following LR forums for years I finally clued in that if you are willing to learn how to maintain them yourself, and keep on top of the maintenance, they're really very well built and last a long time. And at 20 years old you can buy a pretty good one for pretty cheap.

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Can't tell you how close I came to pulling the trigger on this one.

2003 Top Hat Disco

This is a Great deal! 2003 Land Rover Discovery (Top Hat Engine) VIN SALTL16473A804856 Mileage 80,291 We have a beautiful 2003 Land Rover Discovery with very low miles! Truck has been meticulously cared for over the years! Every service has been completed! Two years ago we replaced the engine...

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[discostew]

Dude, why would you buy another Disco2?

 

[DiscoHasBeen]

Dude, why would you buy another Disco2?

Because I loved our Disco. Not a fan of the look of the 3/4 and want nothing to do with air suspension. I guess the right DI would work also. As long as it has the TopHat engine I can deal with the other shit.

 

[discostew]

D1 is the way. They are so different. It's a totally different vehicle.