There is a definite transition underway on this forum as original LR4 buyers are moving on and new members are coming in with their used LR4 vehicles. Funny how second owners have more "wrenching" skills and aren't afraid to work on repairs themselves. Same thing happened with the Audi allroad forum and after a while there were posts and instructions on how to disassemble and repair any part of an allroad.
I'm at 110K miles and paid about $7K in repairs in 2019. Next year I may call it quits with my LR4 and get a Defender, if I like it of course. Still keeping my wife's LR4 for many many more years.
Ha! This is me to a "T". I don't put many miles on a vehicle. I had a 2500 HD GMC Denali with a duramax in it that I sold for nearly 40k to pick up a 21k '13 LR4 with the HD package with 87kmi on the clock. I was shopping for a used 4runner but after driving an LR4 (we used to have a RRS), I was hooked. WAY nicer, gobs more power and torque (required for trips over 10k passes in Colo) and I am certainly able to fix most any issue that crops up on this thing. I find wrenching strangely "therapeutic" and with more cars that drivers in the house, I have options that won't screw me if the 4 needs to be down a few weeks. So far all mine has needed is a battery which from my research here was to be expected since the old one was 5 years old.
Overall - so far - this is probably my favorite vehicle I have owned and I have probably had more than 20 over the years. Wanted to trick it out for off road trail running but recently have been thinking about building up a D2 and keeping this one more refined for daily use. Not that it is "too nice" to cut up - more like I am enjoying it too much to cut it up....will need some mods to make it do what I need - hunting camp, deep snow...need a real set of tires but those are in the works.
I hope it doesn't go down catastrophically, but I have lost engines in 4runners as well so it happens.