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Are Range Rovers a pain to own?

lol @ Land Rover reliability. Plus, all those "lifestyle" vehicles will tank in value after a very short period of time.
 
Old ones were but I've never heard of problems with the new ones.

Luxury cars depreciate in value like that, it's normal.
 
JS80 said:
Is there a reason why it's $30k for a 2006? POS?
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More or less,
the rear diff on my old '96 range rover blew up on the highway after one of the bolts inside of it went lose and shot a hole thru the housing. (~140K on the car).

Also the car had a mysterious battery drain (maybe alarm? Couldn't figure it out) and it would drain the battery after sitting for a week.

Finally as far as DIYability, the little box to diagnose the various systems is about 1200 bucks.

I hear the new ones (BMW motors / Bosch electronics) are much better though. You're still looking at alike 13 mpg city though.
 
I have a friend who owns one. She loves it...buuuuuut....Something went wrong with it about 3 months ago (alternator? Starter? I don't remember) and it was almost 1000 dollars to repair. Now the brakes are going on it, and they're not that old. Plus I'm not sure but I think there's something up with her plugs, it idles WAY too rough
 
Yep very low relability.

SOME newwer ones, fancy Ford/Volvo, are ok. But just buy the Ford/Volvo version unless you just want the badge.
 
IHateMyJob2004 said:
No one buy these because of what it is. They buy it because they have more money than brains.
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I had a LR3 HSE for a year and a half. It was nice. Every time I went to the dealership they did tell me lots of stuff was being fixed under warranty. Very comfortable car to take on long trips. Nice interior and it’s off road capability made it very user friendly for people who do not know about rock crawling and such. Biggest benefit was women didn't mind offloading in it because of all the comforts it came with. I probably used the LR3 more for what it was capable of doing and less for the whole image thing.

Bottom line nice car, but if it's out of warranty have a nice sized cash reserve to pay for maintenance. Oh but don't listen to me, I have no brains or money anymore for that matter. 😛 Moral of the story LR3 was a bad financial choice for me. Nice car but a bit above what I should have had. hehe
 
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lol thanks guys i'll scratch off list.

Wife wants Volvo XC70 so I was entertaining the RR/RR Sport. I think I might wait until 2013 and get a used 2011 Cayenne.
 
Ronstang said:
Just remember, there is a reason that Ford dumped them.
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Because Ford ruined them. After they put Ford engines in them people stopped buying them because of the electric problems that occurred. At one point people were paying premiums for Range Rovers with the old engines because no one wanted the Ford engines.
 
MrMatt said:
I have a friend who owns one. She loves it...buuuuuut....Something went wrong with it about 3 months ago (alternator? Starter? I don't remember) and it was almost 1000 dollars to repair. Now the brakes are going on it, and they're not that old. Plus I'm not sure but I think there's something up with her plugs, it idles WAY too rough
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And what else is wrong with the car? 😛

Koing
 
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