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julie

Member Since: 27 Apr 2010
Location: glasgow
Posts: 18

2007 Range Rover Sport TDV6 HSE Santorini Black

no it was serviced at 18700

Tue Apr 27 2010 10:10pm

JC1

Member Since: 24 Oct 2009
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 939

2010 Range Rover Sport 3.0 TDV6 HSE Santorini Black

Im talking time not milage, your earlier posts says first service carried out in November 09, you bought it in November 07, your first service was a tad late.

Its your call at the end of the day, i dont know what an engine costs for an RRS, but im guessing at £4-5K. So £500 sounds a small prce to pay. You have to accept some blame for the lack of servicing its time and milage based, which ever soonest (clearly in your case time). MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.

Tue Apr 27 2010 10:20pm

NightFox

Member Since: 02 Mar 2010
Location: North Shropshire
Posts: 381

When my 2-month old Freelander 2 drowned in the floods three years ago and they were deciding whether to repair or write-off, they quoted the insurance assessor £8000 to fit a new engine inc labour, so I don't see it being less than that for a RRS. Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.8::MG Montego Turbo::MGB GT::Rover Sterling::MGF::MG ZT 190+
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Wed Apr 28 2010 8:08am

RichardM

Member Since: 24 Sep 2009
Location: Herts
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2010 Range Rover Sport TDV8 HSE Galway Green

With water damage though its often the risk of electrical problems that causes the write off as its hard to track where the problem are. WINNER - 2009 ‘Just Doing What It’s Designed To Do’ Award

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Wed Apr 28 2010 8:21am

NightFox

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Location: North Shropshire
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Yes, but that £8000 was just for the engine - the total repair including all the electronics and upholstery etc came in at about £17,000 IIRC Alfa Romeo Giulietta 1.8::MG Montego Turbo::MGB GT::Rover Sterling::MGF::MG ZT 190+
Discovery Series II Td5 GS::Discovery 3 TDV6 S::Freelander 2 TD4 XS::Freelander 2 TD4 SE
Range Rover Sport TDV6 3.0

Wed Apr 28 2010 8:29am

Josh

Member Since: 24 Dec 2005
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julie wrote:
no it was serviced at 18700

I suppose it depends on when the service light came on. Most service indicators these days are variable according to the mileage you are doing and your driving style......so yours may have come on at 12000 miles or earlier because you only do short journeys/low mileage.....in which case you may have missed a service by several thousand miles or 6 months of what most manufacturers would call heavy use because of the stop/start nature of your driving.
Where as if you did daily long journeys the wear and tear on your engine would be less so missing a service by 1300 miles might not be so crucial.

So given the above I think I might pay the £500 and get back on the road asap. TDV6 - gone
TDV8 - gone
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Wed Apr 28 2010 8:40am

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Julie - as most have already said, pay the £500 and consider yourself lucky. You have made the warranty technically void by missing the 1 year service. As for the service indicator - mine never actually came on resulting in my 1st service being done at nearly 20,000 miles! 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Wed Apr 28 2010 10:38am

Texstar

Member Since: 27 Aug 2006
Location: W.London
Posts: 208

julie wrote:
has never been right since purchase

..Hmmmn,know that feeling well.......I have a vehicle with a noisy (horrible tapping) engine (from new), I have complained many times to LR, and several dealers about it, until I am blue in the face, they simply do not want to know. I am convinced that there is excessive mechanical clearance somewhere in the engine, that it has not been built to the correct tolerances by the feckwits at the Dagenham engine plant, and that it will fail prematurely. Julie, believe me, you are being treated well by LR, especially as you have not kept to the servicing schedule. Pay the £500 and get it sorted,( otherwise it WILL cost you thousands), and hopefully at the end of it you will be a happy customer, and may one day(unlike me

) possibly buy another LR product. RRS TDV8 Buck Blue (no, not now in my dreams). ..........D3 TDclankety clankV6 ............BMW 318i

Wed Apr 28 2010 4:03pm

julie

Member Since: 27 Apr 2010
Location: glasgow
Posts: 18

thanks to all who commented, i know i missed a service but it is shocking the state the engine is in now! i have told lr i will pay 500, i will be trading in asap so disapointed... i have had 4 discos with no bother

Wed Apr 28 2010 9:06pm

JC1

Member Since: 24 Oct 2009
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 939

Julie - Sensible choice to pay the £500 . Though i would be inclined to keep the car with that low milage and a spanking new motor in it. MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.

Wed Apr 28 2010 9:28pm

julie

Member Since: 27 Apr 2010
Location: glasgow
Posts: 18

i have lost all confidence in it! what will go next? it has been recalled 3 times and is constantly gong in to garage wigh parking sensors, lights and messages on dash which are fauluty.... had enough i have 3 small kids and need something safe and reliable.. the car chucked it when i was doing 70 inside lane lost all power quite scary

Wed Apr 28 2010 9:41pm

JC1

Member Since: 24 Oct 2009
Location: Berkshire
Posts: 939

Shame really, but i can understand your frustration and lack of confidence.

Good luck and all the best with your next choice. MY10 3.0 HSE Santorini Black, Ivory Premium & extended leather, privacy, paddles, diamond turned alloys, Ipod lead that charges, tasmods, rrsport.co.uk stickers

Jeep 4.0 High Output XJ 94 6" teraflex lift, c/w rear coils, 9500lb winch, 35" TSL super swamper boggers, safari snorkel, custom made bumpers, tom woods custom double cardon driveshaft, twin electric fans. Don't follow it..............you wont make it. The first 4 x 4 by far.

Wed Apr 28 2010 9:48pm

Rupert

Member Since: 13 Mar 2006
Location: Here !!!
Posts: 1194

julie wrote:
........ and has never been right since purchase

Can I ask in what has it “never been right since purchase” ?

Reason I ask, is that my D3 is currently at the dealers awaiting a new engine, after only 15000 Kms & having been properly serviced according to the LR schedule. I had no evidence of a an oil leak & by the time the oil pressure light flickered (& I mean flickered) it was too late, the engine was banjaxed being completely dry of oil !!

I’ve always had a feeling that there was something not quite right about the D3’s engine since I got it. Compared to the RRS it always seemed somewhat under pressure when towing & even without a trailer, when just driving daily, there seemed to be some sort of lag in the engine. I had it checked for EGR fault codes& other such stuff a few times, but to no avail.

I have since heard that there have been a couple of cases of faulty engines in the D3 resulting in a total loss of oil & a leak into the crankcase would certainly produce the results we’ve seen. But apparently from what I’ve heard the RRS doesn’t seem to suffer this fault……… until now !

I’m hoping & have no reason thus far to doubt, that LR are going to stand over this & replace the engine under warranty, as I‘ve complied with all service schedules completely.

However in your case, if they are playing hard ball with you over service schedules & are looking for £500.00 I would be inclined to pay it. Think of it like an excess on your insurance policy. Where if you crash your car, you may be liable for the first £500.00. Principal of the matter aside, it would be a cheap fix compared to the alternative, particularly if they (LR) are trying to apportion some blame to yourself.

Thu Apr 29 2010 9:53am

julie

Member Since: 27 Apr 2010
Location: glasgow
Posts: 18

hi there, yeah when you put foot on gas it struggled sometimes to pick up speed, slugish and heavy, lots of lights on dash all faulty, sensors faulty, and recalled 3 times for quite big things. i think the rrs has the same engine as the d3. good luck

Thu Apr 29 2010 2:10pm

Rupert

Member Since: 13 Mar 2006
Location: Here !!!
Posts: 1194

Yep the D3 & the RRS share the same TdV6 engine.

I've had pretty much faultless driving though. Never a warning light until the slight flicker of the oil pressure light prior to "meltdown". But I certainly experienced the “struggle to sometimes to pick up speed, along with sluggish and heavy performance”

Haven’t even had the car a year yet & covered only 15000 Kms ( a tad over 9000 miles if my calculations are correct) & now it languishes at the dealer waiting a new engine.

I’m severely disappointed to say the least & am considering do I even want the car back. I’ve always taken pride in my vehicles & looked after them so well & I just don’t like the thought of it being pulled apart to fit a new engine. Don’t think it will ever be the same again.

I tried to speak to the dealer about some sort of sweetener deal to trade up to a D4 or some other vehicle, but they weren’t very forthcoming. Just saying that I should take the car back & drive it for a few months to see how I feel then. Not exactly the sort of response I had hoped for or indeed expected.

Must say that my faith in Land Rover (after 17 years of ownership) & my dealer is fading fast.

julie wrote:
....good luck

Best of luck to you too Julie

Thu Apr 29 2010 5:45pm

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