Considering RRS limited budget
Discussion
Okay so I'm considering getting a Range Rover Sport and particularly the 3.0 TDV6
L322. I have a max budget of £20k but ideally cheap as possible lol around £15-16 would be a dream.
I have no mechanical experience so I normally like to go for low mileage versions to try and limit problems.... so maybe around 40-50k mileage.
My commute is 15mile round trip with the odd 300mile trip a couple of times a year (for holiday breaks)
Anyway, any suggestions / thing to watch out for when buying (I have been looking around these forums, honest John, parkers, etc), they seem a good solid car!
L322. I have a max budget of £20k but ideally cheap as possible lol around £15-16 would be a dream.
I have no mechanical experience so I normally like to go for low mileage versions to try and limit problems.... so maybe around 40-50k mileage.
My commute is 15mile round trip with the odd 300mile trip a couple of times a year (for holiday breaks)
Anyway, any suggestions / thing to watch out for when buying (I have been looking around these forums, honest John, parkers, etc), they seem a good solid car!
www.rrsport.co.uk
You could have had my 2009 TDV8 for 15k this time last year - but then you'd have needed to pay for a major suspension rebuild shortly afterwards
They're great cars though and I really miss mine
I had it from new and ran it for almost 8y without much hassle, the alternator is a £££ pain on the TDV8 and an entirely predictable fail but other than that, £500+ road tax and yearly servicing on the early cars mine was trouble free apart from an almost trivial (in the overall scheme of things) ride height sensor fail
My indie told me I had been lucky with mine, most are a lot more trouble
Im currently in a leased BMW estate but to be honest often wish Id kept the RR Sport
Cheers
My mate's experience with his RRS (also the 3.0 TDV6) has been a complete nightmare. He bought an '11 plate with low miles and within a month the gearbox was playing up. The dealer he bought from refused any liability and then folded the company. From memory I think LR wanted £11k for one, in the end he had his refurbed at about £4k and I think it required the body coming off. Whilst it was in bits he took the opportunity to refresh anything else known to be a wear-and-tear item. The car was fine for a few more weeks and then the engine went pop; by this point he had already sunk too much into it to lose so he had the engine rebuilt from from the ground up - another 'body-off' job and another £8k. It finally seems to be running OK but he's always worrying about any unusual noise etc and what's going to go wrong next.
He'd never buy another and having seen the money pit it can be, I wouldn't buy one either!.
He'd never buy another and having seen the money pit it can be, I wouldn't buy one either!.
As an long time owner of various of these I can attest to the reliability issues across the brand.
I wouldn't run one without a bullet proof warranty preferably manufacturers. My current Svr is already developing 'niggles' at 1000 miles on the clock.
I remember my first supercharged sport 2005, various suspension failures , always ended up on the bump stops, limp mode this limo mode that.
My 2006 vogue broke down so many times that Range Rover genuinely didn't know what to do with it it went through injectors for fun.
That said my 2015 vogue that I kept up until recently didn't give me any grief , 38k on the clock when I sold it.
A buddy of mine has a tale of woe, he d just come off tour in Afghan, few quid burning a hole in his pocket, desperate for a Range Rover and bought an absolute shed of a 2007 sport for 10-11 k, with 120k on the clock, the car quickly had more lights on the dash than an xmas tree and various problems throughout the 18 months he kept it, alternator , suspension faults a plenty, door locks failing .
He sold it for 3.5 k about a month ago just to get rid of it. The faults bill was going to be thousands even at a good indie and he just couldn't swallow it.
If your budget allows buy a approved used at least it ll come with a 2 yr Range Rover warranty.
Good luck!
I wouldn't run one without a bullet proof warranty preferably manufacturers. My current Svr is already developing 'niggles' at 1000 miles on the clock.
I remember my first supercharged sport 2005, various suspension failures , always ended up on the bump stops, limp mode this limo mode that.
My 2006 vogue broke down so many times that Range Rover genuinely didn't know what to do with it it went through injectors for fun.
That said my 2015 vogue that I kept up until recently didn't give me any grief , 38k on the clock when I sold it.
A buddy of mine has a tale of woe, he d just come off tour in Afghan, few quid burning a hole in his pocket, desperate for a Range Rover and bought an absolute shed of a 2007 sport for 10-11 k, with 120k on the clock, the car quickly had more lights on the dash than an xmas tree and various problems throughout the 18 months he kept it, alternator , suspension faults a plenty, door locks failing .
He sold it for 3.5 k about a month ago just to get rid of it. The faults bill was going to be thousands even at a good indie and he just couldn't swallow it.
If your budget allows buy a approved used at least it ll come with a 2 yr Range Rover warranty.
Good luck!
Funk said:
My mate's experience with his RRS (also the 3.0 TDV6) has been a complete nightmare. He bought an '11 plate with low miles and within a month the gearbox was playing up. The dealer he bought from refused any liability and then folded the company. From memory I think LR wanted £11k for one, in the end he had his refurbed at about £4k and I think it required the body coming off. Whilst it was in bits he took the opportunity to refresh anything else known to be a wear-and-tear item. The car was fine for a few more weeks and then the engine went pop; by this point he had already sunk too much into it to lose so he had the engine rebuilt from from the ground up - another 'body-off' job and another £8k. It finally seems to be running OK but he's always worrying about any unusual noise etc and what's going to go wrong next.
He'd never buy another and having seen the money pit it can be, I wouldn't buy one either!.
The 'body off' topic is something non LR owners like to shout about as the think its major surgery. It isn't. A decent indy can have the body off in an hour and half and there are some who can do it faster. He'd never buy another and having seen the money pit it can be, I wouldn't buy one either!.
£15k is not the bottom of the barrel for the RRS and thats not a good thing. I bought my Discovery 3 (Same car) for half that I've done quite well at a compressor and a set of tyres. Others don't have the same luck.
Do your research and ideally take someone with you who knows what they are doing.
Join an online forum (You will need it)
Buy a warranty (You will need it)
£15k could get you a car with the later 8Sp box, which is more reliable, smoother and better on fuel. The earlier 6Sp boxes are rapidly becoming the reason why D3s and RRSs are written off. Budget £3k for a re-build and £1k for Torque Converter.
Best of luck.
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shocka144 said:
What's the deal with the 2.7 and 3.6 litre engines? The prices are much lower than the 3.0....is it just speed and mpg which are compromised?
The 2.7 and 3.0 are V6s for a start. The 3.6 is a twin Turbo V8. The 8 speed is worth having. The 3.0 is a nice lump. If memory serves, it can be tweaked to nearly 300bhp. V8 is lovely lump and sounds pretty good for a diesel. I can't emphasize this enough, but the D4/RRS are vehicles you MUST research before buying. General advice is budget £1000-£1500 e year in maintenance. Your buying budget is no guarantee that the vehicle won't go wrong as soon as your drive down the road. They are complex beasts
You are hardly doing any miles, so maybe get a nice reliable 4.2 V8 instead, lots more reliable than the diesel 
A friend has nearly 200k miles on his and I have done over 110k miles in mine so far (2009 versus 2006 model) and other than a few niggles (brake sensor) and a suspension compressor, everything else has been a consumable.
A friend has nearly 200k miles on his and I have done over 110k miles in mine so far (2009 versus 2006 model) and other than a few niggles (brake sensor) and a suspension compressor, everything else has been a consumable.
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