I used to own a Series 1 red 106 Rallye, back in the late 90s. It was a great little car Sorry tale, i sold it to my sister and she forgot to tax it so the local council towed it away and crushed it…😢 I still dream about that car….registration M184 BLB
Yeah, go in with your eyes open, and be prepared to get out your wallet. The guy who fixed our car (young lad) had nothing good to say about them. Main issues are electrical. They have two year old cars in their workshop with faulty wiring looms and you have to strip down the entire car to diagnose and (hopefully) fix. Lots of blown TDV6 engines too and a new one is £13k. In the end we were defeated by an ABS fault. Even the garage had no idea even after a £1300 bill. I also remember the MOT guy in Tewkesbury said that one minute his D3 was running fine (his wife also had horses) and the next minute it was ready to scrap. The same happened to Us. I should have sold it in lockdown when prices surged and it was still working fine…. The decision for JLR to go all electric given their dodgy wiring is the beginning of the end of the company IMO. Like.a lot of owners, we liked the car, but it was expensive to run and fix. If I could afford a new one with a warranty, I’d probably do it. But once the warranty is over, you need to be avid Christian and Vera watchers, install a two post lift in your garage, and be prepared to spend your free time on your hobby. But as a daily driver? Save up (100%) for the substantial repair bills and pray you buy a good one…
They seem to get more reliable as time goes on. Cracking engine - you only realise how good until you try a ‘normal’ one. Shame they didn’t beef it up a bit to deal with the heavy duty. A lot of owners don’t service their cars, they should have an 8k oil change jnterval rather than 16k. If you own a TDV6 you need one of those vacuum pumps, oil change is a 20 minute job.
Like I said in the video. Mixed feelings. It’s all relative I suppose. I would have liked to own the car under warranty in its first three years and have any issues fixed free of charge. I doubt anything would have needed fixing in that time. It’s definitely not a BMW X5, which is a road focussed car. The D4 chassis is what you’d expect from a proper off-road vehicle, it flexes. Scuttle shake over irregular roads, interior build quality was pretty average, although the touch point materials and seats were premium and lasted very well. Sound system and entertainment was amazingly good, air suspension was luxurious and the traction of the thing was immense. Our new car skids its wheels all over our hilly gravel driveway. The nearly three ton D4 was very light footed. My BMW leaves great big tyre smears all over the grass in comparison, you wouldn’t know the D4 had been there… It was great on long trips, sitting very high and with a squishy ride (accepting the scuttle shake). Kids watching DVDs in the back- not killing each other. So it was expensive and a lot of people suffer snapped crankshafts, which I wouldn’t wish on anyone. Would I buy a new Discovery or Range Rover? Yes, but I’d want to buy it new or nearly new with a warranty. Niggly faults like wiring can quickly become a nightmare. The bloke at the garage who fixes them had nothing good to say. Complete junk, he said. But I suppose he’s a bit like a doctor, he only sees the bad ones. Need to earn more money so I can get a new one….🤣 Modern diesel’s from VAG are no better they have all sorts of issues. Probably the BMW X5 3.0D is the one to go for. If they still make it, that is…
I used to own a Series 1 red 106 Rallye, back in the late 90s. It was a great little car
Sorry tale, i sold it to my sister and she forgot to tax it so the local council towed it away and crushed it…😢
I still dream about that car….registration M184 BLB
Good video. Thanks for the advice. Its a No No for me right now sadly. Maybe in a few years i will get one as a hobby car not as a primary one
Yeah, go in with your eyes open, and be prepared to get out your wallet. The guy who fixed our car (young lad) had nothing good to say about them. Main issues are electrical. They have two year old cars in their workshop with faulty wiring looms and you have to strip down the entire car to diagnose and (hopefully) fix. Lots of blown TDV6 engines too and a new one is £13k. In the end we were defeated by an ABS fault. Even the garage had no idea even after a £1300 bill.
I also remember the MOT guy in Tewkesbury said that one minute his D3 was running fine (his wife also had horses) and the next minute it was ready to scrap. The same happened to
Us. I should have sold it in lockdown when prices surged and it was still working fine….
The decision for JLR to go all electric given their dodgy wiring is the beginning of the end of the company IMO.
Like.a lot of owners, we liked the car, but it was expensive to run and fix. If I could afford a new one with a warranty, I’d probably do it. But once the warranty is over, you need to be avid Christian and Vera watchers, install a two post lift in your garage, and be prepared to spend your free time on your hobby. But as a daily driver? Save up (100%) for the substantial repair bills and pray you buy a good one…
IMO 2.7 V6TD over the 3.0 version. The SDV6 in the facelifted D4 was more reliable.
They seem to get more reliable as time goes on. Cracking engine - you only realise how good until you try a ‘normal’ one. Shame they didn’t beef it up a bit to deal with the heavy duty. A lot of owners don’t service their cars, they should have an 8k oil change jnterval rather than 16k. If you own a TDV6 you need one of those vacuum pumps, oil change is a 20 minute job.
I think you should buy a french car ! Citroën AX, Renault 5 or Peugeot 106😁 you will like those cars
I also owned a Renault Clio, another great car, when I lived in France back in 1999.
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Can you start a one hundred and fifty five thousand miles You would spend money on any car with black miles
Disco 4 biggest load of crap on the road
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Thanks for your feedback.
A lot of people would agree with you on that point.
Did you own one?
Was yours ?
Like I said in the video. Mixed feelings.
It’s all relative I suppose.
I would have liked to own the car under warranty in its first three years and have any issues fixed free of charge. I doubt anything would have needed fixing in that time.
It’s definitely not a BMW X5, which is a road focussed car. The D4 chassis is what you’d expect from a proper off-road vehicle, it flexes. Scuttle shake over irregular roads, interior build quality was pretty average, although the touch point materials and seats were premium and lasted very well.
Sound system and entertainment was amazingly good, air suspension was luxurious and the traction of the thing was immense. Our new car skids its wheels all over our hilly gravel driveway. The nearly three ton D4 was very light footed. My BMW leaves great big tyre smears all over the grass in comparison, you wouldn’t know the D4 had been there…
It was great on long trips, sitting very high and with a squishy ride (accepting the scuttle shake). Kids watching DVDs in the back- not killing each other.
So it was expensive and a lot of people suffer snapped crankshafts, which I wouldn’t wish on anyone.
Would I buy a new Discovery or Range Rover? Yes, but I’d want to buy it new or nearly new with a warranty. Niggly faults like wiring can quickly become a nightmare. The bloke at the garage who fixes them had nothing good to say. Complete junk, he said. But I suppose he’s a bit like a doctor, he only sees the bad ones.
Need to earn more money so I can get a new one….🤣
Modern diesel’s from VAG are no better they have all sorts of issues. Probably the BMW X5 3.0D is the one to go for. If they still make it, that is…
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