jwest
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Is this the classic vehicle that you will take as far as it will take you or will you move on to an LR4 or something else when your lease is up or it's paid off?
No, the older Land Rovers fit that idea and I thought these would when they came out but the inherently prone to failure high tech items mark a big departure. I got a 96 Discovery in 2000 and still have it, with 223,000 miles and it runs smooth and has never been stranded. I got a 2004 in 2006 after getting my LR3 realizing the 04 Discovery was the very best and last of the type. Still simple enough with solid axles and springs while more refined than the 96.
The functional designs of the LR3 are what sold me, as well as the air suspension but I never gave a thought to what happens if it fails far from smooth roads or somewhere that required lift to get to in the first place. I wouldn't have spent $25,000 on modifying it had I given more thought to the whole thing, and I still love it now, but feel like it isn't a 200,000 + mile vehicle the way the 96 disco is.
All systems eventually wear out, like a rock sitting still will wear out someday, but the ones in the lr3 are going to be really pricey, not quite like basic discovery stuff, most of which has been replaced in the 96 but a ball swivel is nothing like the cost of an air suspension, or the compressor, or fiber optic wiring looms, etc, in the lr3....