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Further to the midlife crisis thread.
Im looking at snatching an itch, that will swallow up bikes and tow the caravan with ease. Also 10 year old me would be disgusted in me for being able to afford one and not buying one.
Looking at buying a Landrover Discovery.
Either one of the last 4s or an early Disco5
Any major pitfalls to watch out for.
Yes i know it will drink fuel and will probably break at somepoint.
That said the 2 folk i know who have D4s and D5s seem to think they are far more reliable than everybody thinks they are.
Cheers
Had a '16 D4 commercial for 5 years. Bought with 30k on the clock, now on 130k.
Had no more issues than any other car. MAF sensor, handbrake module and a split coolant hose is the full list.
Keep on top of servicing and make sure the belts are done at 107k or before
However, the cranks CAN snap with no warning and nothing you can do to prevent it other than keep the oil good, which still isn't a guarantee.
Had a D5 for a while, but it was the facelift with the D300 Ingenium engine, which was lovely. Early ones have the same SDV6 as the D5.
The D4 is better off road and had more kudos than the D5. Surprisingly it tows better too. Towing a big caravan, the backdraft from passing LGV's would sway the D5 more than the D4.The D5 is a nicer place to sit, albeit it loses some of the classic land rover 'command' driving position
The D4 is certainly more ‘Land Rover’ feeling in that it’s boxier, chunkier lookkng and the interior space at the rear is more square.
A mate who carries lots of kit for work swapped from a D4 to a D5 last year and says he regrets it.
The main thing with second hand Land Rovers is that you have absolutely no idea whether you will get a good one or one that will bankrupt you. There’s no way of telling and even a fully historied, perfect looking car can be a can of worms.
The saying is something like “A £10k Land Rover isn’t a £10k car, it’s a down payment on a £20k one…”
I saw an article at the weekend saying that Spare parts from Land Rover are a nightmare at the moment, so bad that they have completely run out of courtesy cars. Something like they are setting up a single global parts warehouse in the UK and they have 80 lorries waiting to unload which means tens of thousands of parts not in or stuck in the system, so dealers have a massive backlog of cars needing parts which are clogging up dealer forecourts. One assumes it will get better eventually!
Can't remember where the article was as it came up in my Google news feed.
Edit: isn't Google clever - https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/report-10000-jaguar-land-rover-cars-stuck-waiting-parts#:~:text=JLR%20workshops%20are%20at%20a,UK%20are%20waiting%20for%20parts.
Can't comment on the Discovery (except to say I'd probably go for a 4) but we had a Discovery Sport for nearly 4 years and it never caused us any problems. Probably the favourite out of all the cars I've had tbh.
Even if it doesn't break down, check out the servicing costs. I think my dad spent more maintaining his D4 than our Santa Fe (2 ton, 200hp boring caravan dragging vehicle) cost to buy.
Our eldest is the Workshop Manager (and Head Mechanic) at a LR Specialist.
His comment when my OH was fancying an RR Sport, "get it on lease and give it back at the end of the lease".
She'd already had two LR's from new, and both failed (torque-converter at 120k after injectors at 100k and then the turbo in the next one at 80k). Both were fully serviced, to spec.
Note, no one who works there runs a LR, just the owners wife.