[V8] Range Rover & 4x4's

[justin.bowers at comcast.net]

I can say from personal experience that the Range Rover we previously owned was absolutely the worst vehicle that we ever owned from a reliability stand point!  It spent a lot of time at the shop - which my mechanic told me wasn't unusual.  In fact, he was a former service manager for the local Land Rover dealer for years before venturing out on his own.  The funny thing is he specialized in Land Rover and Lexus - he said the Land Rovers were always in for a wide array of problems, while the Lexus customers where normally only there for routine/scheduled maintenance...his advice to me was to sell the Range Rover and buy a Lexus (even though it would cost him lost money from repairs!)  :)

I owned a 98 Range Rover 4.0 SE from 45k miles up to 98k miles.  My general thoughts were that it was a fun car (when it ran), but the overall build quality was low as was the materials used on the interior.  As a point of reference, the leather on the drivers seat started looking worn and shabby at around 55k miles - in comparison to my 90 V8q with over 200k miles whose driver seat still looks like new.  The Range Rover also leaked oil like crazy.  The dealer told me it was virtually impossible to ever get it to stop as new leaks just seem to happen.  Perhaps the new model is better from a reliability stand point, but I'll never know as that was my first and last Range Rover ever!

Hope that helps.

Justin
01 S8q
90 V8q


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Paul Jager <pjager at telus.net>
> 4 kids, with the occassional extra. So we have to seat 7 in one vehicle, 5
> in a second vehicle.
> 
> At present I use the Audi V8 as a winter car & Porsche 928GTS for the
> summer.
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> Of Audi Sport
> Sent: January 1, 2007 6:59 PM
> To: V8 at audifans.com
> Subject: Re: [V8] Range Rover & 4x4's
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> How many kids do you have?
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> Dan
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> > Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:49:09 -0800> From: pjager at telus.net> To:
> v8 at audifans.com> Subject: Re: [V8] Range Rover & 4x4's> > > Looking at the
> Range Rover, Discovery, LX 470 ...also Jeep Commander> Any comments on the
> above?> > Wife wants out of the horrid Venture van, me too! Plus our kids
> are getting> much bigger so time re-configure transportation.> > I might
> also sell my 1993 V8 as part of this process, my sons are getting> too big
> for the back seat.> > Paul> www.jageng.com> > > >
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