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Post by rodge on Dec 30, 2017 13:54:16 GMT
My brother in law works for the AA and had a call a number of weeks ago. He arrived and saw a brand new RR Sport with 176km on the clock, refusing to move. He tried everything to get it started and couldn’t, so had to bring it and the driver home. The driver told him it was the first RR he’s bought and had driven a Selection of Lexus models for years. A friend had convinced him to buy the RR. The issue was the engine cut off had been activated in the RR and they couldn’t deactivate it at the side of the road. The customer wasn’t impressed with it as he had been left stranded on the side of the road. I suppose when you’ve been with the same brand for years, things like this don’t help you change over.
Oh, it was also the first time he had bought a car as he was sponsored by Lexus and Toyota during his playing career.
The customer? Brian O’Driscoll.
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Post by johnc on Dec 30, 2017 14:06:10 GMT
These kinds of problem are exactly what gave JLR its reputation for unreliability - smallish issues which make the car unusable. Reliability is so good on so many vehicles nowadays that any hint of a problem like this leaves a long term bad taste.
Must have been nice to get free transport to use for so many years - you might have expected Lexus to cut him a deal he couldn't refuse to ease him into ownership.
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Post by humphreythepug on Dec 30, 2017 14:20:35 GMT
May have a bad reputation for reliability, however people still buy them!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2017 17:54:14 GMT
Cunts mostly.
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Post by johnc on Dec 31, 2017 8:22:59 GMT
May have a bad reputation for reliability, however people still buy them! One of my car dealer clients won't touch RR's or Discos with more than about 80,000 miles - he reckons they all need major gearbox work over that mileage and he has been bitten too many times. If you are happy (mad) paying £1,000/mth then they make sense as a new 3 year PCP deal.
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Post by alf on Jan 2, 2018 14:50:29 GMT
BOD was one of the commentators for the Lions tour, which seemed pretty heavily Land Rover sponsored - maybe someone bent his ear then!
It amazes me that Land Rover / Range Rover languish with Alfa at the very bottom of the reliability stakes (the very bottom if cost to repair is considered) and yet no-one seems to care. Discoveries - fairly new ones owned by fairly wealthy people - have to be by far the most common first-person breakdown tales Mrs ALF and myself come across.
My concern - now I know I like them - is that Jaguar seem to be joining LR/RR, and not maintaining their much better position, in big reliability surveys now...
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Post by Martin on Jan 2, 2018 16:34:11 GMT
The reliability concerns out me off buying something from JLR, even small niggles would annoy the hell out of me let alone anything more serious. I often think that a FF RR would be a good option for the luxury/comfort side of the garage, enough to go and have a proper look at one a few weeks ago and I was pretty tempted to have a serious look at a fairly well priced 2017 MY (improved nav/tech) Autobiography I found last week, but I don’t think I could risk it.
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