Reliability

LR3 Owner 2008, Have had it for 5 years. I have decided to deduct 10 IQ points from my over all score because I own one. They are Junk compared to any similar Toyota or Honda. The crap that Land Rover owners will put up with regarding their trucks is unbelievable. How can someone think just because a part is cheap and easy to fix is a good thing or equals relibility? To me it indicates an Engineer at Land Rover was having a bad day at work. How can a splice point cause a total shutdown of a truck. I am starting to believe that the reason I own the dumb thing is I like working on vehicles. The only plus to it is there are 1000's of other people like me. By the way I have a BMW 1200 GSA and it is the same deal. Great to run around CO but I am not going to take it around the world.

The only people that tell me LandRovers are unreliable and expensive are people who don't own them and have never driven one. Im at 200,000kms and changing the bushings, replaced the brakes around the 150k mark which is amazing life span compared to domestic vehicles. If the LRnshop does the labour yes I agree its over the top compared to other garages.

Owning two Land Rovers (2006 LR3 and 2010 LR4) and a Honda (2011 Ridgeline). I can say the reliability of the 4 > 3 but they are not necessarily unreliable. They DO however cost a lot to keep on the road in general upkeep. About $0.08/km vs $0.03/km for the Honda. What will eventually **** them is when the driveline wears out. Lots of spinning stuff in the AWD design. Have you priced out a diff or transfer case? Yikes.

ktm525 said:

Owning two Land Rovers (2006 LR3 and 2010 LR4) and a Honda (2011 Ridgeline). I can say the reliability of the 4 > 3 but they are not necessarily unreliable. They DO however cost a lot to keep on the road in general upkeep. About $0.08/km vs $0.03/km for the Honda. What will eventually **** them is when the driveline wears out. Lots of spinning stuff in the AWD design. Have you priced out a diff or transfer case? Yikes.

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You've got to find a competent rebuilder. The new transfer cases are obscene. No way I would go the new route.

I had my front diff fully refreshed when I had the ARB locker installed and the price was very reasonable. I have never set up a diff before, so it was kind of fun watching the guy work. Seemed a mix of art, science and experience.

It was somewhere around a grand in labor, I believe.

Ummm....LR3 is > LR4 from what I can tell, if nothing else just based on the engine having fewer Achilles heels. @[email protected] sure Toyotas and Hondas are reliable but they are nowhere near as capable as Rovers off-road or on-road. They are appliances....

Perhaps just my models but at similar mileage my LR3 had required: 2 front wheel bearings, starter, 2 sets of LCAs, 2 height sensors, compressor. The LR4 has required a water pump and a front set of LCAs (110k miles).

Off- road I ride dirtbikes. Nothing is as capable as my Husqvarna TE300 or FE501. My cage vehicles just haul me to the odd rough trailhead.

That's fair. I mostly meant in terms of the 4.4L being mostly bulletproof whereas the 5.0 has timing chain guides issues and crossover pipe issues; both of which can **** the engine.

Outside of power I prefer the 4.4. LR3 were plagued with failing differentials. At least the early build 05/06s were. If I had to buy another LR3 I think I would lean towards a HSE 2008. Unpainted arches and most of the gremlins were addressed by then.

Totally agree on that assessment. I have an '05 and an '06. They are both well sorted, but yes, I experienced the diff issue on the 2005.

I expect to get 300k miles on each.

Aretools said:

The only people that tell me LandRovers are unreliable and expensive are people who don't own them and have never driven one. Im at 200,000kms and changing the bushings, replaced the brakes around the 150k mark which is amazing life span compared to domestic vehicles. If the LRnshop does the labour yes I agree its over the top compared to other garages.

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Huh? I owned an LR3 and then an LR4 and now have a Range Rover and I'm here to tell you that they are very expensive to maintain,esp. if you take them to the dealer. Maybe my local dealer is just particularly predatory, but my experience is that even routine maintenance costs much more for LRs than, say, Toyotas. I loved my LR4. It was big, powerful, luxurious and spacious, but it became terribly expensive to maintain after I put over 150,000 miles on it. When my RR starts having consistent issues, I'm selling it.