Hello all. I'm looking into purchasing a 2008 Land Rover LR2. While doing my homework I came across the issues they have with the rear differential and frankly it spooked me. I'm kind of on the fence at the moment. For what it's worth the one I'm looking at it in great shape and has 110,000 miles. So I have two questions.
1) Is this as widespread of a problem as I'm hearing?
2) Most importantly, I've read that the same issue happens with Volvos, but that Volvo forces you to replace the entire differential unit whereas Land Rover has a protocol for only replacing the broken pieces which saves you thousands of dollars. Is this accurate? Is so, has anyone had this done and could you give me an idea of what it might cost?
Any guidance here would be greatly appreciated!!!

 

 

Thank you, Paul!

 

Just by reading the forums on this topic, if you have an LR2 with a bad rear diff it usually fails well before 100K miles. So if you're considering a vehicle with higher miles than that, it's probably fine.

 

I would guess that an '08 with that many miles would have failed for sure long ago. There's a good chance the rear diff was already replaced once.

There are two version, and the newer one I think was used on later trucks and fixed the original issues. You can tell if you have the '08 original or the newer version by looking at it, there's a thread with pics somewhere on here.