My car passed its MOT today, no advisories, and also had its annual service, (had driven 14800 miles) and some other special work. The service cost with MOT £688.21p : Total bill with other work £927.48 inc VAT. Is that expensive for 48 month 64k service? (Car only done 41k miles) Castrol Edge fully synthetic Oil was £106.94 all genuine LR parts used.
It did as usual come back washed, hoovered, valet and tyres blacked at no charge.


I was loaned for the last three days a brand new LR Discovery Sport with only 89 miles on clock at pick up.
Just wanted to report on first impressions and wasn't impressed at all. This was the 7 seat version, but it was the amount of plastic everywhere that put me off, it had the new 8" Screen entertainment centre and latest gadgets on it, but it just felt so cheap and well....er nasty.
I was quite surprised at this, and the full pananoramic glass roof, I found just heated up the car to quick and served no real useful purpose. The seats were leather but completely plastic backs and the sides of front seats. There was decent amount of rear room if rear seats were slid back, but that just lost rear two seats space and no luggage room. All in all a very poor drive, even with the nine speed box, the Eco button is a joke and complete waste of time, the on/off ignition was the first thing I disabled as it didn't recover quickly enough for me.
As a loan car, it was great to have, the new engine sounds nice but is all noise and nothing else, I did get an indicated 38.9 mpg so not that much better than the V6 3 litre I have! But this put me completely off the new range and look of Disc Sport, even the rear lights look cheap with red plastic covers over bulbs/LEDs, so Mrs will have to go continue looking.  John

RRS MY12 SDV6 HSE. Sumatra Black/Ebony & Walnut + Dynamic Pack, + Cold Climate Pack + Memory Pack, Digital TV/DVD, Premium Leather, Cornering Lights, Cooler/Fridge Box, & most Options.

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Makes you wonder how awful the other "family sized" small SUV's are then because DiscoSport outsells and comes top of every group test of this class of SUV in the motoring mags. I see in the latest TG magazine that the F Pace 3.0d S gets top slot in their group test, ahead of the SQ5 Plus which is then ahead of the Porsche Macan S and the GLE 350d 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
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Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

I thought the same when I had one on loan while my sport was in for repair, would never buy one.
Very poor quality for a car of that price. Lot of Landcruisers now sold
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I got 8 litres of castrol edge delivered yesterday for a 15 plate Vw transporter sport line that I'm servicing today & it was £30+vat.so with the price of filters & technicians wages taken off they make £500 on a service.I had mine serviced 3 week ago (foc) & they called me to say everything was fine apart from when the technician took it out to warm the oil up he noticed some wheel wobble & asked if I wanted wheels balancing,I have never noticed it even at speeds exceeding 70mph.so I took all the wheels of last week & none were out of balance.They wanted £96 to balance 4 wheel the robbing ,,makes me wonder if they just makes things up to get money out of customers because they were doing service FOC.

Andy. Andy.
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What you have to remember, is that the service dept pays for the big fancy showroom, and tea/coffee/biscuits

Well said DM

I can't help feeling that if LR stuck "Range Rover" on front of DS instead of "Discovery" and another £20k some people on here might be a little kinder about it

Have I mentioned I like mine  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

I completely agree Muddy, Discovery Sport is not meant to be a luxury SUV, it is meant to be an unpretentious "utility" family SUV to replace the very successful Freelander, it isn't meant to compete with Range Rover badged models. Also I suspect that what was given out as a loaner was the basic or SE version not the rather nicer HSE or HSE Luxury which is as well fitted out as any RRS. 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Pretty impressive towing ability too

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The Discovery Sport Tows 100 Tonne Train in Demonstration of Towing Capability

But cant a Freelander 2 tow more than a Disco Sport  2003 BMW M5 - 5 Litres of V8 Optimax Slurping Goodness in Carbon Black

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Freelander 2 was 2000 kg

http://www.gocaravanning.com/towcars/Land-...ights.html

Discovery Sport is up to 108 Tonne

or up to 2500 kg according to website

http://accessories.landrover.com/gb/en/new...are-wheel/ Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!

I never realised that a disco sport could tow that much Muddy, every day is a school day  2003 BMW M5 - 5 Litres of V8 Optimax Slurping Goodness in Carbon Black

2013 SDV6 HSE Black Edition- Orkney Grey with Ebony & Ivory. LR Facelift RAI, Genuine G4 Expedition Rack, 4x Warn SBD-160 Spotlights, Warn 9.5XPS Winch, Mantec Underbody Protection and Sump Guard, Full Easy Lift Suspension Module, LR Light Guards, Light Force HTX230 Hybrid spotlights, 18� Compomotive PD1881 on 265/65/18 BF Goodrich KO2, ARB fridge, TuffTrek awning 😎

In latest copy of What Car Magazine, the Discovery Sport came first ahead of the new Jaguar F-Pace and the BMW X3 in the first UK test of the new Jaguar F-Pace car, main complaint of Jaguar was the hard ride was not comfortable and on 19" alloys, Fairly noisy by comparison, steering wheel buttons are low rent, speedo cover very flimsy, no lumbar support and manual seats, and that slow to respond InControl nav and sound system (same in DS) which requires upgrading to the pro version for an extra £2280, and the Panoramic roof an extra £1200 (standard on DS) After one year they reckon the F-Pace would have retained 78% of purchase price against the LR Discovery Sport which should hold 83% in first year. (Company car tax goes up each year for next four years to £455 per month for business users). The LR also scores the best on safety and crash results, one star above the Jag. (Could be because of the lack of outside pedestrian airbags on bonnet etc?).
The F-Pace is the dearest to run and Service over three years, it obtained 4 stars, LR DS 5 Stars and X3 only got 3 Stars. Being aimed at same SUV market the Jag F-Pace didn't fare as well as the LR DS, a surprise to some but good for Discovery Sport owners, just hasn't got the performance though of the others. John

RRS MY12 SDV6 HSE. Sumatra Black/Ebony & Walnut + Dynamic Pack, + Cold Climate Pack + Memory Pack, Digital TV/DVD, Premium Leather, Cornering Lights, Cooler/Fridge Box, & most Options.

From memory i paid £536 for my 4 yr service on my last RRS. 2014 L405 SDV8 RR Autobiography

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2007 RRS TDV6 HSE - Zermatt Silver - Gone

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From memory i paid £536 for my 4 yr service on my last RRS.

Paid £499 for 5 year service package including adblue top ups on DS

£130 pa rfl too so I'm about a grand better off a year immediately  Wanted a Series 2 LR since childhood but previously owned MY16 Disco Sport HSE TD4 Auto, MY13 RR Sport Black Edition TDV6 Auto, MY10 RR Sport HSE TDV6 Auto, 2007 Freelander 1 Freestyle TD4 Soft Top, 2009 Freelander 2 GS TD4 Auto, 2007 Freelander 2 GS TD4, 2004 Disco 2 Metropolis Auto, 2002 Disco 2 GS, 2000 Freelander 1 SE TD4 SW

Still hoping for a S2 one day!