What's the difference between $30000 and a piece of crap?

What's the difference between $20,000, $10,000 in repairs, and a
steaming pile of crap? ........ Nothing if you own a Land Rover.
s on Friday the 20th of July 2007. I paid them $1800 and seconds later nearly drove "the steamer" into a car or
two when I left the lot. They must have put the break-system together incorrectly, since I had nearly no brakes. I turned it around and took it back to the Service Manager and said, as simply as I know how, "Can someone explain this to me? no brakes?".

He said, "let me check and went to pop-open the hood, but the it wouldn't open. The once "loose" hood latch was now broken. They
didn't feel the need or have the self-respect to tell me that fact.

After the ace-team looked over "the steamer" and were ready to let loose there best mechanic-speak I interrupted and said "It's simple. It needs a new hood latch, and the brakes fixed. I'm not paying for it since I brought it in here for electrical problems, and you tacked on the 'leaky master cylinder' (and a new battery) and gave me back a vehicle unsafe to drive.

I agreed to pay parts and them labor, and gave them a 10 days to fix it since I was going to Cisco Networkers Live in Anaheim.

Read on it get worse. They called to say the vehicle is ready, and "good news it's only $47 to fix. Turns out the power-assist brake
unit was not really needed, just a new rubber diaphragm behind the
master cylinder."

Today, July 31st 2007, I arrived to pick it up. And I think you can see why I wanted to test drive it. Even asked the Service Manager to come along. He declined ("shoot", I thought, "no brakes again.")

Before I left the lot onto the busy Texas access road all the lights and whistles went off on the dash board again. Remember that the owner's manual said that particular sequence of lights means "you've been had by Land Rover and we don't care." And also can mean, "Give me your money and get out of here."

I once again turned it around (after taking little video evidence) and asked to speak to the service manager. The coward refused to see me and spoke through the polite service desk girl who said "what ever is causing the electrical short you brought it in here for is still causing the problem. We don't know when we can fix it." I said "I'm not paying for anything else. And at this time I feel you have done unnecessary work, and I have been over-charged." She said, "I will have the coward call you."

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Land
• Rover
• Horrible
• Car
• Lemon
• Discovery
• II

[tabaristewart]

bad dash ground, body control module, ecu, faulty cluster, fuse...that bout all ur options there

[dreemail2]

you are exactly right ,of course. You must be an expert in this field. You also see how far down this list you are. It was the "bad dash ground". Too bad you were not the mechanic in the first place! What do you do?

[dreemail2]

@dreemail2 bloody brit. much be all jacked up on malt vinegar! :-) Stupid thing had a fauly fuse/braker buried under the dash. I sold teh (polished) turd. Good riddance.

[dreemail2]

@dreemail2 bloody brit. much be all jacked up on malt vinegar! :-) Stupid thing had a faulty fuse/breaker buried under the dash. I sold teh (polished) turd. Good riddance.

[dreemail2]

@dreemail2 bloody brit. much be all jacked up on malt vinegar! :-) Stupid thing had a faulty fuse/breaker buried under the dash. I sold teh (polished) turd. Good riddance.

[Watcher3223]

A British vehicle with electrical problems.

What else is new?

[ralphp1800]

nothing against land rover, but what did you expect when buying a discovery with 125000.

[MXmereceELgobKtolera]

LR is not a good brand. Once they get your $ u r SOL (shit out of luck!)

[syncmaster710n14]

Over the years i have lived in the UK and USA and bought land rovers in both countries but i must say that the American Dealers are shit, hear in the UK they are prity decant but over in the us they don't seam to care, maybe it is because they can just blame it on the British, i don't know, but if you are in the US i advise against buying a land rover if you think the dealer will help you. One final note is that I have a 1976 Land rover 88 with over 300,000 miles on the clock that runs a treat.

[NorkiddExo]

@63gstone Lol if you've ever restored a British car you'll know all about Lucus electrics quality "cough".

[3ggt3]

haha right when I thought what else could go wrong the gas light came on

[likeaboss882]

i had just watched the top gear where they take the suzuki , land rover and a toyota from the bolivian rain forest to the pacific coast on chile. and the land rover didnt have a single problem

[96roverp38]

Okay, first of all, if ur buying an old disco,only reason u wud buy one is 2 fix it up so dont complain u bloody idiot. i see that the steering wheel is on the left side. that means ur american. u bloody americans no nothin abuot land rovers

[63gstone]

I also have a 99 Disco I. The electrical system do have a bad rep. It is made by a company called LUCAS & from what I've heard they are not the best. Usually about 7-10 years is when the sensors start needing to be replaced. Remember to do the usual stuff like change plugs/wires, fuel filter, etc & it should last a while. They are well built but the electricals are very "iffy".