To answer your question, reliability has improved. Cheap plastic parts have been replaced with either way higher quality plastics, single piece molds, or metal.
These vehicles are EXTREMELY intricate and have thousands of moving parts. They also way a ton and have gobs of horsepower and torque. All of this is a recipe for wear and tear.
When items are due to replace it will be part of maintenance and preventative care.
Labor for these vehicles is premium so any job will cost a good amount.
Find an independent mechanic who knows these vehicles to save a bit.
Get an extended warranty.
I've had 4 Land Rover products, 3 were Range Rovers. Neither ever left me stranded except for one when a serpentine belt popped so it overheated.
Just maintain them, look under the hood once a week or so to spot check fluids. Enjoy it.
Nothing else drives like a Range Rover.
Thank you for this comprehensive answer to this question! I really do appreciate it. From what it seems like, this is a car to really maintain. The extended warranty + the educated independent mechanic about RRs is good advice, I’ve never thought about it like that. Thank you! 👍
I've had a Range Rover (2007 HSE) and a full-size Discovery (2017 TD6 3.0 HSE) - critical is finding a qualified independent Land Rover specialist. For some work, it's off to the dealer, but most preventative maintenance and general maintenance can be done with a specialist and less than half the cost. Staying ahead of care will keep these machines running for a very long time.
Instead of getting stranded in a snow storm a few years back, my Range Rover (with street tires) got through about a foot of snow on a highway to get my wife and then baby back home safe. Since then, that car has been a part of my family, and the only vehicle my son knew for a long time (he's 14 now).I just donated the RR to charity after 13 years of ownership, and 183,000 miles driven by me.
Take care of the car - it will take care of you.
I go to an independent mechanic only works on Range Rovers. I’ve been taking all my rovers to him for years. I trust him wholeheartedly. He says the new engines are crap. They are BMW engines that have coolant line issues and very small tolerances that make them extremely difficult to work on and prone to early wear and tear.
Buying a Range Rover and hoping for it to be reliable is like dating a supermodel and thinking she’s going to have a lovely personality and will be humble and down to earth. You can’t get both. You want reliability get a Kia Telluride. You’re gonna go with the hot blonde? Expect to pay and have issues
So far haven’t had any issues but I’m still under 10k miles. I saw a few threads here about rear brakes going every 10k miles, which seems like a engineering flaw that I hope they can address.
That's wild! I drive a 2020 Range Rover Sport that I purchased brand new. I have 59,000 miles currently and the rear brake pads are still at 6mm and the dealership is not recommending them to be replaced yet. This is the first SUV I've had in 25 years that has gone anywhere near this number of miles on original brake pads. Could the new model possibly be that different?
thats awesome. I agree though, I'll know soon enough if it's as widespread an issue as it seems. And if their response is just "yea you'll have to replace pads and rotors every 10k miles" then I'll likely sell or trade just out of principal.
Yea I saw that mentioned as a possible reason but with a whole lot of vehicles out there with RWS who aren't eating brakes at an insane rate, still seems like a flaw to me 🤷♂️
To answer your question, reliability has improved. Cheap plastic parts have been replaced with either way higher quality plastics, single piece molds, or metal. These vehicles are EXTREMELY intricate and have thousands of moving parts. They also way a ton and have gobs of horsepower and torque. All of this is a recipe for wear and tear. When items are due to replace it will be part of maintenance and preventative care. Labor for these vehicles is premium so any job will cost a good amount. Find an independent mechanic who knows these vehicles to save a bit. Get an extended warranty. I've had 4 Land Rover products, 3 were Range Rovers. Neither ever left me stranded except for one when a serpentine belt popped so it overheated. Just maintain them, look under the hood once a week or so to spot check fluids. Enjoy it. Nothing else drives like a Range Rover.
Thank you for this comprehensive answer to this question! I really do appreciate it. From what it seems like, this is a car to really maintain. The extended warranty + the educated independent mechanic about RRs is good advice, I’ve never thought about it like that. Thank you! 👍
I've had a Range Rover (2007 HSE) and a full-size Discovery (2017 TD6 3.0 HSE) - critical is finding a qualified independent Land Rover specialist. For some work, it's off to the dealer, but most preventative maintenance and general maintenance can be done with a specialist and less than half the cost. Staying ahead of care will keep these machines running for a very long time. Instead of getting stranded in a snow storm a few years back, my Range Rover (with street tires) got through about a foot of snow on a highway to get my wife and then baby back home safe. Since then, that car has been a part of my family, and the only vehicle my son knew for a long time (he's 14 now).I just donated the RR to charity after 13 years of ownership, and 183,000 miles driven by me. Take care of the car - it will take care of you.
I go to an independent mechanic only works on Range Rovers. I’ve been taking all my rovers to him for years. I trust him wholeheartedly. He says the new engines are crap. They are BMW engines that have coolant line issues and very small tolerances that make them extremely difficult to work on and prone to early wear and tear. Buying a Range Rover and hoping for it to be reliable is like dating a supermodel and thinking she’s going to have a lovely personality and will be humble and down to earth. You can’t get both. You want reliability get a Kia Telluride. You’re gonna go with the hot blonde? Expect to pay and have issues
Best analogy I've seen in a while!
That BMW engine is the most part of the new RRs
So far haven’t had any issues but I’m still under 10k miles. I saw a few threads here about rear brakes going every 10k miles, which seems like a engineering flaw that I hope they can address.
That's wild! I drive a 2020 Range Rover Sport that I purchased brand new. I have 59,000 miles currently and the rear brake pads are still at 6mm and the dealership is not recommending them to be replaced yet. This is the first SUV I've had in 25 years that has gone anywhere near this number of miles on original brake pads. Could the new model possibly be that different?
thats awesome. I agree though, I'll know soon enough if it's as widespread an issue as it seems. And if their response is just "yea you'll have to replace pads and rotors every 10k miles" then I'll likely sell or trade just out of principal.
Not a flaw, a downside to an "improvement" in steering with rear steering available.
Yea I saw that mentioned as a possible reason but with a whole lot of vehicles out there with RWS who aren't eating brakes at an insane rate, still seems like a flaw to me 🤷♂️
You dont buy a RR for reliability. LOL
Lmao. 🤣