2025 Discovery Sport PHEV Horror Stories?

[Bum_Face]

I'm thinking of buying a nearly new one of these, has 3000 miles on it. I'm reading all the reviews and it's a complete mixed bag, but all reviews tend to agree that the reliability of these is horrific.

In the real-world, is this the case? Seems a great car on paper...

[MesoForm]

Is it purely the PHEV version you're after stories from? My 2019 (facelift) petrol version has been faultless in 35,000 miles.

[Bum_Face]

ideally the PHEV, although the press seems to suggest that any Discovery Sport is abysmal for reliability...

[MesoForm]

Well from my sample of one they're 100% reliable
They do seem to be either perfectly fine or consistently and spectacularly unreliable with not a lot in between - my wife's A5 went back to the garage a couple of times with the roof closing mechanism playing up but you wouldn't get that in a Land Rover, ie. it wouldn't be so mundane as the boot strut playing up, it would explode and take a tail light with it then when it gets back from the garage the next week the engine explodes, etc.

[Bum_Face]

I had an A5 which was a total lemon. New gearbox, electrical gremlins, head unit failure, water leak...

[The Leaper]

Had my LR DS since 2015, now 65000 miles, no issues really. Still on the original brake pads!! Obviously not a PHEV.

R.