I want to set fire to the bloody thing right now.
Failed mot on suspension got that fixed excess of £50 not bad.

However had an advisory about a leak at rear. So now it's back in for that £375.
So far the warranty has covered me for the EGR valves (first month of ownership) and little else.

The car is slowly turning my once positive view of Land Rover to negative.

I love the car but love doesn't pay for anything! 10 months in and £1800 down from unexpected repairs. I'd tell anyone thinking of buying to swerve!

Rant over.

crookedm wrote:

I love the car but love doesn't pay for anything! 10 months in and £1800 down from unexpected repairs. I'd tell anyone thinking of buying to swerve!

Rant over.

10 months in and ONLY £1800 down! Wish mine was as cheap to run!!!

Purchased March 2010 (its a 2003 4,4V8) for £11500 with a £2500 trade in on a 'P' reg P38, anyway, gearbox was leaking oil so the dealer had the box reconditioned at a place in Reading. Wife collected the car (I'm working in Paris), 3 months later reverse gear goes so car back to the gearbox place in Reading where they say the valve block is cracked, so repaired under their warranty.
First major service comes up at T.H.White in Swindon, and guess what, the car hasnt been serviced properly for 2 years, so its into us for £2000 for brakes, discs, brake pipes, suspension bushes etc, etc.

We go for a long weekend to Cornwall in it, everything great until 10 miles from home when it goes into limp home mode. Off to another transmission place in Westbury (a decent one!) where the 'recon' on the gearbox could have been (or probably had been) done by a blind chimpanzee! Problem was the radiator was blocked on the bottom 6 rows (common fault), so causing a gearbox overheat, triggering the limp home mode. Total cost (including new Torque Converter and a proper gearbox rebuild, plus radiators), a shade of £4000.

As of this week (£500 for seat wiring repair and glovebox latch), we're up to around £18,500 (this does include its normal service charges) over 3 years!

Do you have any idea how much the EGR work would have cost? Mine might be playing up  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

£4K in gearbox repairs alone over 3 years here.....

no probs here in the last 3,5 years of ownership - just normal servicing .....  All my spelling errorz are belong to me!

2023 FFRR L460
2021 AM new Vantage

Just to balance out a bit.....

Had mine for 2 years, serviced it myself So cost me service items + Battery + Injector recon + FSR (I would guess less than £400 for the time I had it) I must have been lucky

alanm_3 wrote:

Do you have any idea how much the EGR work would have cost? Mine might be playing up

my cars previous owner had that gearbox overheat error, it had the trans rad changed, and then the gearbox reconned, and still did it. turned out to be the transmision fluid feed and return pipes. one had blocked/collapsed internally. sorted now. been driving fine in my ownership. it was one of my ticks on perchase list. -get one with recon gearbox. however had he gone to a specialist they might have diagnosed the blocked pipe. -earlier. i have replaced one trans pipe before on a classic, it was about 100 quid!

crookedm wrote:

alanm_3 wrote:

Do you have any idea how much the EGR work would have cost? Mine might be playing up

Main Dealer would have been £3200.

Gulp!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Bet that was a jaw dropper Al ……

Surely you get the rest of the engine for that price!!

Just a bit!
Euro car parts show them for around £200 each, so they must be a b t to fit!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey

Still looking forward to my next one tho'..... I like to think that with my constant playing around with bits and pieces that I keep on top of potential problems, but realistically, and I will never admit this, I have probably just been lucky.  Previously..
Vogue SE TD6
Defender 90 2.4
Defender 110 TD5
Vogue 3.5 EFI

I will be corrected but I'm sure the price was down to the amount of them and the labour

There's only 2, so that makes £400, which leaves £2,800 for labour? Even by LR standards, that's a lot!  Got - 2017 SDV8 Autobiography in Loire Blue
Had- 2008 TDV8 Vogue SE in Java black
Had - 2007 S/C in Stornoway Grey