Range Rover Hybrid - Major Problem

Range Rover Hybrid - Major Problem

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Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

143 months

Thursday 20th September 2018
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Image this, it’s midnight, dark and raining. All of a sudden the car looses power on a busy motorway with no hard shoulder. You’ve got you family in the car and you need to get to a safe place. The consequences of what could happen are frightening.

The car gets recovered, repaired and returned. But, you find out that LandRover was fully aware of the fault but failed to inform you.

This is a major issue which apparently effects all hybrid RR’s produced this year. However, there are owners out there who are unaware.

LandRover’s response is unforgivable when you think this could easily have resulted in a fatality.

When you spend 100k on a premium car, you expect better !

Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

143 months

Thursday 20th September 2018
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Totally agree, buts it’s not about the reliability, it’s about duty of care and making owners aware of a major problem.

Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

143 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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Whether it cost £1 or £100k the manufacturer is putting lives at risk. Total loss of power, due to an alleged software issue with fuel tank sender, it was not run out of fuel. As stated LR are aware of the issue. This is also about making owners aware.

Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

143 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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The dealer. Apparently a TSB was issued to all dealers.


Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

143 months

Friday 21st September 2018
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Ed. said:
Is OP coming back to answer?
I was busy counting my 1 and 2 pence coins along with my Burberry caps 😄😄😄😄😄😄😄

Ocdbeemer

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94 posts

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Friday 21st September 2018
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Willy Nilly said:
There are goat herders in the foothills in the Himalayas that know that Range Rovers are not renowned for their reliability. Yet here we are in 2018, in the UK with excellent internet access and exchange of information and you went out and spent 100 thousand of your (presumably) hard earned pounds on a Range Rover then appear surprised when it broke down.

Range Rovers are about lugzury, opulence, status, one upmanship etc, not unfaltering reliability. In fact faltering seems something they're quite good at.

The man that looks after my car (7 years old and the repairs amount to 1 headlight bulb) looks after a Prius with over 250,000 miles and tells me it's never gone wrong. A Prius is unlikely to give you the feel good factor of a Range Rover, but it will work. Sir might like to trade up to a Lexus, if sir can't face such a low rent motor car, they do a Hybrid too.

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Lol, the internet is better in Himalayas !

The surprise was the fact the dealer knew and could have prevented it