New Discovery Commercial announced today

[milkloss]

Total (bad) joke. I have loved my Landrovers over the years from Series 1 to the unstoppable 300 tdi, but how anyone could seriously spend 40 to 50 grand on a thing like that amazes me.
A friend bought an 06 Disco 3 last year, apparently his recent life's ambition, and now the glowplugs have gone and he has been quoted ridiculous prices to repair it, as more often than not the old glowplug breaks up on removal and half of it lands up on the piston, so you have to take the head off. Also you have to take the body off the chassis to do a proper repair.
With so many cheaper pickups about, or even the Sang Sung Musso Rexton (probably spelt wrong) with a unlimited mileage 5 years warranty why would anyone bother?

Seems to be some suggestion pickups are designed to only last 15 years but these things made by LR are no different. 10 years and then they want recycled if they get that old. The amount of money it takes to repair some of the common faults is awesome.

 

[smcapstick]

Apparently, 111hp is 'unstoppable'.

 

[ollandroverman]

Seems to be some suggestion pickups are designed to only last 15 years but these things made by LR are no different. 10 years and then they want recycled if they get that old. The amount of money it takes to repair some of the common faults is awesome.

Larger bills are not Land Rover's exclusive territory. Within my family there is a Shogun that needed £7000 of gearbox surgery, and my Bro bought a 3 year old low milage Skoda Octavia because he wanted reliability almost above anything else. It had 3 major brakedowns within one year of ownership and cost him thousands and thousands. With hints of another issue that he could I'll afford, he traded for a brand new car on finance and under warranty.

 

[smcapstick]

Larger bills are not Land Rover's exclusive territory. Within my family there is a Shogun that needed £7000 of gearbox surgery, and my Bro bought a 3 year old low milage Skoda Octavia because he wanted reliability almost above anything else. It had 3 major brakedowns within one year of ownership and cost him thousands and thousands. With hints of another issue that he could I'll afford, he traded for a brand new car on finance and under warranty.

Nothing is reliable or unreliable any more (to a greater or lesser degree). Most cars are about the same.

It's residual values the dictate whether something is worth keeping going or not. A 10-year old Vauxhall Zafira? No. A 10 year old Range Rover Vogue? Yes.

 

[milkloss]

Residuals want to be pretty good if you have to stuff a new lump in it for 10k!

 

[smcapstick]

Residuals want to be pretty good if you have to stuff a new lump in it for 10k!

...but you don't have to, do you? It's optional.

You could always bin it and get another. 0% over five years is pretty easy per month.

 

[Chips]

Residuals want to be pretty good if you have to stuff a new lump in it for 10k!

Recon engine fitted to disco 3 starts from just over 3k , I know cos I took the gamble to repair mine , the bill probably come to around 3k so could of gone either way and not made a difference .
Where LR come into their own is the mass of very knowledgeable indy mechanics around for £30/hr and the mass of aftermarket parts , coupled with good residuals once you have let the intial couple of owners take the big hit .
My 160,000 mile disco 3 hse snapped the cam belt tensioner mount and I had to take the desicion whether to bother repairing , bearing in mind it's probably only worth £5k once repaired and given the repair was 3k and there would no doubt be quite a good scrap value to it , it probably would have been just as cheap to scrap it , but then I couldn't think of anything that I could run for the money that I would be as comfortable or as capable . I bought it seven years ago for £12k , so has lost about £1k per year , and with this last bill has cost about £5k in repairs over that time , so it's costing me around £2k to run and is more comfortable than any brand new pick up on the market and probably most luxury cars that don't have air springs, give it a wash and it still looks pretty respectable to use for personal use . The depreciation alone on a new cart sprung double cab would be greater than my total costs , and plus there's the added thrill or driving around never knowing when it's going to go bang next ! Oh and never use the the handbrake , it's just there for MOT tests and nothing else .
If however it was not for the indy mechanics you would need to be a millionaire to run one !

 

[ollie989898]

...because the Rexton is a bit undesirable.

You could say that. No one boasts they have herpes on their face. Rexton is similar. Sounds like a disease. An exotic one.

 

[icanshootwell]

Electricians builders and plumbers love em

I must live in a remote part of Britain, cause i never seen a electrician or plumber in one of those, vans are the choice around here.

 

[James]

I must live in a remote part of Britain, cause i never seen a electrician or plumber in one of those, vans are the choice around here.

Our plumber gets a new transit every three years likes his holidays too.

 

[Paddington]

The programme about the new Bentley Bentayga showed a London plumber driving around in one. Wonder what he charges per hour ?

 

[icanshootwell]

Our plumber gets a new transit every three years likes his holidays too.

I know, makes us look silly, i would love to pay myself £150 day.

 

[Yale]

Can’t see many proper farmers buying one when you can have choice of double cab pick ups for half the price.

 

[How much]

The programme about the new Bentley Bentayga showed a London plumber driving around in one. Wonder what he charges per hour ?

I wondered that, ive seen him on loads of programs but he would not be top of my list to ring if i lived in central london and wanted a plumber.

this is them http://www.pimlicoplumbers.com/

cant be on with that Number plate , its a toss up which is the worse for looks that Rexon on the new disco , its telling that the photos of the commercial don't clearly show the number plate , as other have said it made sense with a spare wheel on the boot but not without.

 

[Robt]

The reasons we run three disco 4 commercials
Comfort ( some of us do 50k per year)
Safety ( some of us do 50k per year )
Towing, we don’t do a lot but when we do it’s very safe
Security, we can have £100k’s worth of kit in car and it’s secure unlike a pickup canopy.
Cost, we contract hire and they are pretty much same per month as high spec pickup due to high mileage but high resale value.
Choice, we all like them.
Personally I’d love a disco 5 commercial but unfortunate I need more than two seats so will have to go elsewhere. I will miss it like hel though

 

[Farmertomwilko]

What options are there though, the disco 5 seems very steep when you can get two Nissan Navara Tekna's for the price of a base model, but pickups won't match the refinement. New shogun due in 2019 but I can't think of any other refined commercial 4x4's?

 

[Chips]

Just checked prices on the LR website and the commercial is actually 3k more expensive than one with seats , so while you might get the VAT back you won't be saving 20% over a normal one , especially as you could get half the VAT back on a normal one if you were to but it on business lease

 

[Lincsman]

Its like the Ford escort combi estate, remove seats, block out glass and pretend its a van, not even the decency to remove the rear side doors. Only Landrover would dare (and getaway with it) charge more for less!

 

[Robt]

It will sell in bucket loads. How many pickups only have 1 at most two people in? Mine can be caked in mud and full of tools and laptops. Two hours with a pressure washer and remove all the gear. It then becomes the perfect transport for a romantic candle lit supper for two...... ok mine has seats so technically it’s 5..... god I will cry like a baby the day it goes back! 150,000 miles and it’ll clean up like a new one.. I do love Autoglym....
Edit , just remembered my 12 plate was £36500 to buy( we didn’t ) after three years and 150,000 it sold for £22,500... that’s some cheap motoring in comfort and style . We really must buy them next time! CH price over three years with non maintained £24k ... so Landrover did well. Three disco 4,s repairs in total, mine had a electric connector fail, one had a new battery , the other an engine. The three we have now, nothing has failed and they all have 80-100k on them.

 

[storming]

At last. Why it take so long.
Current D4 getting high in miles was struggling to find anything else that would replace it.

S