Land Rover Reliability

[Fittster]

Another day, another survey flagging up the poor reliability of Land Rovers.

Why are Land Rover unable to address the reliability problems? It's not as if it's a new issue.

Is it down to:

1. Poor Design. Making a car that is both luxurious and able to do serious off road work must be tricky but even the evoque which doesn't have great off road credentials comes up poorly in reliability polls.

2. Poor Materials. Do the just build the cars from poor quality parts / materials to save cost.

3. Sloppy manufacturing. is the manufacturing process the problem, more investment in training and automation required. British workers seem to be able to assemble the products from other manufactures without issues (e.g. Hondas and Nissans).

4. All the above or something else.

Ultimately it must hurt the bottom line, due to loss of sales and the cost of warranty work but it doesn't seem the firm are able to get a grip on the problem

[Fittster]

I was hoping to understand what is going wrong within Land Rover.

I understand that the various surveys carried all have the imperfections but when Land Rover are always languishing at the bottom something must be wrong.

If Toyota/Lexus can build reliable 4x4s (RAV4, Land Cruisers, various Lexus models) what is holding back Land Rover?

[Fittster]

Cold said:

Fittster said:

Another day, another survey

Another day and another survey has them ahead of some prestigious German brands.

JD Power:




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But even in that survey they are still near the bottom. Surely people with control at Land Rover would prefer them nearer the top.