Westporter
New Member
I bought a one owner dealer maintained ‘15 LR4 which has been meticulously dealer maintained. It has been wonderful until an incident today. About 5 miles into a 35 mile drive in rain and a long way from any services the car started to stutter when I hit the accelerator, the shaking was very violent, you could feel the heft of the car as it struggled either to deliver fuel or that in some combination of transmission failure. I had just swapped it 3 weeks ago from a Land Cruiser which hadn’t given me a second of trouble in 2 years of ownership. Dread and regret immediately came over me but it also felt like an electronic issue not because I have any knowledge but just an intuition. With that thought, I pulled over and turned off the car, waited a moment, restarted and continued on my merry way for a 75+ mile round trip. Not a whiff of the trouble from earlier, as if the problem went away. Now however, I am left wondering if this is the harbinger of a future larger issue or just some combination of events that may never happen again (rain, a stick stuck in a sensor - reaching here i have no idea). Has anyone ever experienced anything like this? As a former Toyota person I used to scoff at LR’s because of their reliability reputation even though I have always admired their form. I never had a concern about jumping in my car, family in tow in the middle of the night if I wanted but no I have a concern about whether or not my fears about reliability may eventually be realized.