I think there are different levels of comfort affording a Land Rover. I’ll have mine paid off long before the warranty expires, but I also don’t have a problem paying for repairs if they are needed. Some will correct me and say when…. However, I know the interwebz magnify the negative of things, especially automotive horror stories and overshadow the many more people who have little to no issues with their vehicles. I’ve read plenty of stories about folks who say that their defenders have given them 150k trouble free miles over more than 4 years. These folks don’t generally run to the interwebz to report their satisfaction with their LR’s. While there’s always a risk, i think a 24, post pandemic/chip shortage Defender should have good reliability. I have 601 trouble free miles so far. lol. I would have bought a warranty only if to have a warm feeling about keeping the LR 6 years, but they wanted 7500 for their dealership group warranty. I just smiled and declined. I paid half that for my R8s warranty.

 

I’ll give you another one. I ordered a 2022 110 P400 in late-Feb 2021, right before they started becoming super hard to get. It was built in early May. I just got back from a trip where I crossed the 36,000-mile threshold. I took a rock chip to the windshield and have an appointment to have it replaced this week. That will be my second trip back to the dealership; the first was also to replace a windshield, broken when a branch landed on it in a storm. That’s it. I’ve done the oil changes myself, taken it to an indy for a full check/oil change once, and to do the winch and rear caliper swap for 18s.

Heading out to Utah for a backpacking/offroading trip in a couple weeks, where I will cross the 40,000-mile mark. I realize that it could all go to hell and start breaking right and left at any moment, but I have been amazed at not having a single issue so far, 2.5 years and 36,000 miles in. Not what I expected. I bought it in spite of LR’s reputation.

 

Yea I think you and I ordered during a similar timeframe, I remember they went from 2020s on the lot to taking 2022 orders really quickly. 2021 model year seemed almost non-existent. I'm glad to hear you've had good luck. I'd like to think I might be back someday for an F-Pace even if my one JLR experience did nothing but underscore all of the internet lore and the bottom ranking they get on quality surveys. In terms of daily driving I can't recall anything more embarrassing than when this things engine cut out and stranded me in a 30mph zone then wouldn't restart for about 15 minutes, I'm sitting on the shoulder with hazards on in a 65k new Defender in an area where half the population drives an Equinox rubbernecking at me. What a joke.

 

Sorry to hear about your troubles. However, I have friends on another forum with new Toyota Tundra’s with blown engines on the side of the road. I think this current generation of vehicles assembled during the pandemic all suffer from issues. While my 23 tundra was parked for 2.5 months waiting for parts for a recall so it didn’t spontaneously catch on fire, I was handed a new 24 Prius. The Prius infotainment screen rebooted itself every 20 seconds while it was on.

I think the playing field has been leveled between manufacturers.