I can tell you what I actually paid since I bought the thing, and what I should have paid. Mind you, I've owned this delightful heap of junk for about 2 months, and bought it as a highly maintained car with chains already done. That said, it was a Land Rover, and I knew a lot would go wrong with it. I just didn't anticipate how much.
140,200 miles Within three days the original air pump failed. Known issue was "intermittent" suspension error. It was intermittent, but it became permanent real quick. $65 fix. No, really. Amazon Warehouse random China brand pump. Plus $10 to replace the garbage clay based junk it was filled with for desiccant. It works, for now.
140,220 miles Diagnostic tool from Launch. Does every everything the IID does except for ECM reprogramming and keys. $135.
140,500 Off the car carrier, I could smell I faint odor of coolant. Within weeks this transitioned into coolant on the ground and dumping coolant into. I replaced both crossovers, thermostat, water pump, water pump/oil cooler connector, serpentine belt, and stretch belt. Maybe $350 in parts, plus some extra for tools. Including a few oddball tools and extra parts I didn't need, $500.
140,600 miles: Major failures and won't run. Turns out to be a dirty MAF or throttle body. $30 for cleaners. Or $1000 for parts, but so far unnecessary. Aftermarket MAF replacement attempt did not work.
140, 700 miles: New AGM Battery: $170.
I've bought a bunch of other stuff, but it wasn't maintenance. Now, the total cost to fix all this stuff on a supposedly great condition and well cared for LR4? At least $6000 if I paid a dealer to do it with Rover parts. Probably more. So, I'm into it for about $600 or $6,000, depending on your perspective, in 500 miles. Next on the list is the lower steering shaft, which has now failed. I'm guessing that would be a $1000 dealer job, but it's a $200 part, so that's what it will cost me. So call it $7,000 or $800. However you look at it, it's ridiculous. I haven't even put 1,000 miles on it, and the thing was a cream puff that came with a stack of maintenance records. These things are at an age and a used value where the parts costs are seriously devaluing them because every last thing on them is wholly unreliable. I have owned dozens and dozens of cars, and this is the worst in repairs, bar none. Total failure prone piece of crap from a mechanical perspective. Coulda, woulda, shoulda bought a Jeep or a Toyota. But *IF* it holds together, I'll be money ahead having done the repairs myself. Previous owner also paid for repairs out the nose, or at least his warranty company did. There's a reason I only paid $6500 for a cosmetically perfect vehicle, even with maintenance records, which still must have been more than dealer trade. Dealers don't want the time bomb either. I would never, ever recommend that anyone buy one of these dumpster fires unless they know how to spin wrenches and are willing to put on crappy Chinese parts. The cost of many OEM parts is obscene. Fabulous when it works, though!
