Buying an L405

[BigBen]

After buying an L322 a few months back and really enjoying it the time has come to potentially upgrade.

The recent PH buyers guide suggested that the 2015 model year fixed a lot of early L405 niggles. My question is how do you spot a 2015 model year car, AFAIK a late 2014 car could be a 2015MY.

Is the 2015 MY a different transition to when the SDV8 gets Adblu and lower tax?

Ben

[BigBen]

Stick Legs said:

My L405 March 2015 hasn't got AdBlue.

Now my understanding is that the cars had some minor wiring improvement about late 2014 with a change in supplier. This cured a lot of the issues.
I believe these are MY15 cars.

There was then a 'mini facelift' in mid/late 2015 where they got AdBlue and the heater controls had a short cut to the heated seat function instead of going through the menus. These are MY16 cars.

So my L405 has the better wiring, but not the heated seat short cut or AdBlue being an MY15 car.

Hope that helps.

High Peak Autos on YouTube, the chap there has just replaced his L405 for a later one and most of the visual clue are pointed out in his videos.
Just search High Peak Autos, Range Rover.

That makes sense thank you. So a 2015 registered car should have the improved wiring which is the bit that really matters (I can take or leave heated seats and can certainly wait a few seconds to access them)

[BigBen]

cayman-black said:

Have you found a car yet BB?
I believe cars registered after April 15 are £385 in road tax compared to the £585 pre.

Does not seem to be that simple. Some 15 plate cars have Ad-blu (which makes them Euro 6 so cheaper tax) and some are not. I 'think' a car registered after April 15 could still be £585

I went to look at a late 15 car last week and am struggling to see £25k of value over a really nice late 4.4 L322 especially as for both vehicles I would be buying at a market peak (cf all used cars)

Ben

[BigBen]

to conclude this thread I went the other way and bought a late L322.

Ben