An interesting review at 40K+ miles. He goes trhough everything, including his reasoning for selling it which sounds reasonable to me. Covers every issue including the reason his wife won't drive it (gas station pole, she didn't like the size) and how hard it was to repair it due to it being an in demand vehicle.

Pretty unique build, jump seat SE model. Found it to be an interesting video. For the TL/DW people, he does some big roadtrips and the lack of auto-lane steering gets old. Nothing wrong with the car for him, no issues with maintenance and very few overall service issues.

 

LOL, I drove to the beach on a largely deserted interstate yesterday and just for kicks turned on the odious lane-change minder, only to turn it off ten minutes later when it nearly caused me to wreck when making a lane change without signaling, on an empty highway. I had forgotten all about it by then of course.

I haven’t watched the video yet but I’ll be interested to see how important that feature’s absence is to Doug, and why. For me, I could see selling a car that had an undefeatable version of this (I’m sure none do), but I would surely never sell one because it DIDN’T have it.

 

Deeply concerning about the inability to find a replacement door panel. Minor damage that took over three months to fix and only because they lucked out with finding a door at another dealership. Yikes.

 

Summary

- his wife can't drive
- rocks crack windshields
- parts are hard to get since covid
- self driving aids are prone to mistakes

 

I am feeling this now. Going on my second month waiting on headlight replacement. At least the actual light still works, just the halo is kaput. I am not sure what I would do if I had a crash and no headlight. I guess (on a traffic stop) would have to risk counting on a cop's goodwill in accepting a letter from LR saying the lights are in backorder.

 

my halo is out too. Told in February it’d be late summer to expect it.

Considering the light is almost $4k to replace and usually both go…I’ll admit I’m sweating bullets a little on keeping this after my warranty is up…I have about 26 months left…

 

Same boat here. I have about 19 months to go and love the car so probably keeping, but no way I am keeping it without an extended warranty. Gotta bite that bullet.

 

where do we find a competitively priced but good coverage?

I was quoted 4yr or 48k for $7k from the dealer…

so that’s really an extra 3years of coverage for me. I mistyped above, I only have about 16 months of factory coverage remaining.

 

that's an interesting question, and probably source for a good thread.

As background, I'm moving from a 2018 RR sport (purchased w a 7yr extended warr I won't be using) and have a SnapOn tall boy full of tools and code readers for a Dodge & Mercedes. Being a Dodge/Ram/Cummins truck guy for a long while, I've been on vehicle specific interest forums since 2004. That question came up there numerous times. Of all the options and questions, the most interesting was sourcing a Mopar (factory) warranty extension through an alternative dealer after purchase of the vehicle; a dealer who was not trying to pay the month's rent with each extended warranty contract sale. The forum was successful finding a dealer sourcing Mopar warranty extensions, and over the years, a good number of warranty purchases were directed that way to everyone's satisfaction.

I'm looking at a June 23 delivery of a 110X, and that's exactly what I'm interested in. I've got the ext-warr paper on my 2018, so I know how it reads. The warranty price has more than doubled since then, and yet given the price of some things, the value might still be there. This coming from a guy who actually likes wrenching on his own vehicles. Has anyone investigated a co-operative or receptive dealer in the U.S., for a LR related warranty extension (which I know is not really LR and not as valuable as you think it might be.... in fact it's the exact same paper they were using for the Jag extension as well). Is there a better alternative out there?

 

What I find odd in his video is that, considering his car is early 2020 production, he lists the sunroof as the only [significant] problem he had during his ownership period. None of the other issues we face and discuss here - A-pillar, Shot halo, rattles galore, car dying with start stop, etc, etc.

Maybe he was just lucky.