https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-60229619

not sure what model though ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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Don’t recognise the wheels, but I’m pretty sure they that’s some sort of furniture…..


Edit…. Pretty sure it was a Velour…..

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Velar.

Velar/Velour. Evoque/Ewok etc…

Report on Local Welsh news said it was 3 years old and seven weeks out of guarantee, but only just been serviced at Land Rover dealers.
Mike. G reg 2.5VM Vogue Portofino red 1991- 1999
V reg 2.5td P38 Rioja red 1999- 2006
53 reg td6 Vogue Oslo blue 2006- 2015
11 reg 4.4 TdV8 Vogue SE. Baltic blue 2015- date.
https://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic56162...tty+affair

@Stan,
Sorry hadn't realized you'd beat me to the story. Would be interesting to know what sort of 'Range Rover' it was that spontaneously combusted though. It's one of my 'bugbears' that there are four different models of 'Range Rover' (according to JLR), the FFRR...the RRS...the BabyRR...and the (as Jeremy Clarkson would call it) 'Veloouurr', but they are totally different machines! It's the one thing that gets my goat about JLR now, they've taken a unique brand name (Range Rover) and 'bastardised' it in the name of marketing.
Mind you, with all the Chinese components in these cars nowadays, we might as well stant calling them 'Wind Rangers'!

Landrover customer service was poor.....shock NOT

Don’t set me off… Land Rover is the make, Range Rover is the model and Vogue etc is the trim level….

But no… folk still refer to it as a Vogue…

A Range Rover Sport isn’t a Range Rover, it’s a Range Rover Sport….3 words… always together… as 3.

But we all know this… I’m not elitist, I don’t dislike them, look good in the right colour… just that you can’t mix them up.

Yes, JLR have not helped by trying to jump on the branding…

Where is the Range Rover saloon anyway… the Road Rover or whatever it was supposed to be?

Sorry Stan, gone off topic and had a rant… not normally me 🤣

 2011 Range Rover Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8

Previous cars :
2003 Range Rover Vogue TD6
1999 Discovery Td5 ES
1995 BMW M5 3.8 6 speed
1992 Range Rover 3.9 Efi Vogue
1992 BMW M5 3.8
1988 BMW 735i SE
1989 Ford Sierra XR4x4 2.9i
1981 Ford Fiesta Supersport

Gsxr1250dave wrote:

Landrover customer service was poor.....shock NOT

Don't think that's the case here...it's the media hyping up something to make 'NEWS HEADLINES', until an investigation has been conducted and the facts uncovered, it's all a case of unwarranted speculation. AND of course, it makes for a good juicy news story!!
I love the driver's (I'm not sexist so I won't mention it was a person of the opposite gender to mine, LOL!) statement that the message on the dash read...'OK TO DRIVE BUT WITH CAUTION'.
JLR must be pandering to the politically correct brigade when even the dash messages have to be so 'Circumspect'.
I'm just waiting for my dashboard to light up with...
'ARE YOU WEALTHY ENOUGH TO OWN OR DRIVE ONE OF OUR PRESTIGE...(IF NOTORIOUSLY UNRELIABLE AND PRONE TO SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST) PRODUCTS? IF NOT, PULL OVER, HAND THE KEYS TO A RESPECTABLE PERSON, EXIT THIS VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY AND ORDER YOURSELF AN UBER!'

I'm glad that nobody was hurt in this incident but I do wonder what the woman expected JLR to do, especially without the cause of the fire being known.

Like everyone else who drives a car, her insurance will cover her for fire so she will have made a claim with them already, and her household insurers too.

An unfortunate circumstance but seemingly accidental. I do become frustrated these days at the "it's not my fault so therefore someone else is to blame" culture that now seems to pervade everything in life. 2021 D350 Fifty Edition - Carpathian Grey
2017 4.4 SDV8 Autobiography (2021-2024) - Santorini Black
2012 4.4 TDV8 Westminster (2016-2021) - Santorini Black

Looking at the remains of the car l doubt a definitive cause of the fire will ever be determined. Interestingly a diesel car would never have gone on fire like that.

"When she called her Land Rover dealer the day after, she said "his eyes nearly popped out of his head"."

Do JLR dealer use Zoom for receiving calls ?  Paul,
2001 Discovery 2 TD5, 211,000 miles & climbing
2006 FFRR TDV8 Vogue 151,000 miles & now sold
Member of Midland (Land) Rover Owners Club, www.mroc.co.uk

northernmonkeyjones wrote:

I’m pretty sure they that’s some sort of furniture…..

@Rob99 +1
I despair at the media hyping up such stories
"I could have been killed" - yes if you'd sat there for 25 mins while it burned
"my son told me to get out" - I'd have sussed that one myself
"Land Rover dealer wont accept responsibilty" Why would they?

I'm glad no one got hurt, but it wasn't a real Range Rover  Encourage alternative fuels, use all the petrol!
2012 Range Rover Vogue 4.4 TDV8
2006 Mercedes GL420 CDI
2006 Porsche Cayenne Turbo S
2006 Jeep Commander 3.0 CDI with GDE HOT Tune
1997 Nissan Patrol 4.2 GRSE
1995 Vauxhall Monterey Diamond 3.2 v6
1994 Range Rover 4.2 LSE Beluga Black, Softdash, Brooklands Body Kit - Loved it!
1993 Range Rover 4.2 LSE ended up converted to 300tdi