Range Rover / RR sport reliability?

[djohnson]

Time has come to change my (now quite elderly) X5 that I use for moving kids, garden rubbish, furniture etc around at the weekends. I fancy a change from a X5 and have always wanted a Range Rover. I'd want to spend around £30k and would be looking at main dealer RR or Sport supercharged cars. The only thing that really puts me off is the tales of reliability issues. It would be a 3rd card for us and tends only to get used at weekends and would thus drive me mad if I had to invest much time in takng it for repair etc.

Am I likely to have reliability with say a 3 year old, 35,000 mile car from a main dealer? Is the full fat car any better or worse than the Sport in this regard?

[Triple7]

Firstly, get the Range Rover Supercharged, not the Sport. Why? Because it is the best. For £30k you should get a nice one. If you buy from a main dealer, it will be sold with an MOT, fully serviced plus 12 mnths full LR warranty. Make sure the car looks as though it has had a v easy life, no seat/steering wheel waer, stone chips etc. and you should be just fine. Main issues with these cars can be front diffs, but no sorted with a full factory recall and electrical woes, but TBH I don't think you'll have an issues. If the car is a dud, you have the full confidence of the 30 day exchange policy. From my LR experience, I have had 3 nearly new and 1 brand new LR product in the past 5 years and never once gad a issue of any sort aside a battery change. Great cars, ignore the hype and buy a great vehicle.

PS There is a nice black RR Supercharged at Stratston of Burnham. £28k Ithink it was.

[djohnson]

Thanks

[Badapple]

Go & drive both.......!
I wanted the full fat, but hated the drive.... I prefer the full fats looks & image over the sport, but much prefered the nimble drive

[PompeyM3]

I bought a 2005 RR Sport (the 2.7TD) just over a year ago and I've got to say I've been really impressed with the reliability. I've had nothing go wrong and I use it every day.