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carracarra13:
I no I'm going to stir a hornets nest up by posting this but I love landies . but I'm concerned about there reliability and having to have work done at a garage the regular trips to a garage (that iv been told will happen more regular with a disco  than a jap car) in your opinions would I be better of jap or disco ? as it must be 4 doors to get kids in and out of, and trust worthy(got to sell our lwb suzuki sadly as not enough room

Evilgoat:
Jap/German

Have all three. German needs its first wheelbearing at 200K, never had any problems with her.
Suzuki does fall apart on a regular basis but not to the scale the Disco does. almost all repairs take about an hour and cost daft money.
Paj tis a pain to fix some things, but again, my fathers spat out its dummy for the first time 3 months ago after 5 years of owenership (tis an L reg)
Disco, well its dead right now, and has been for almost a month, I'll say no more.

BK:
Jap,every time,toyota.  (and I drive a 90!!!!)land rovers break just too often but are cheap to repair(if you can do it yourself) jap motors dont break very often but are expensive to repair (parts) so you make your choice.For my money for a daily drive would be a landcruiser

Thrasher:
You will only get negatives I bet. I have owned a slew of Land Rovers, and other vehicles. Here's the Sp :

Granada - blew 2 heads and 3 engines.
Land Rover 109" - had to adjust brakes in 3 years of ownership. Never failed.
Land Rover Stage One - only failed when it was to be sold, and that was a fuel pump.
Land Rover Discovery - ONE break down that was a pain, due to immobiliser. Had to replace various parts due to abuse/poor maintenance by MAIN DEALER, but it never failed during daily use.
Land Rover Freelander 1.8 - No issues at all. Sold to buy ...
Land Rover Freelander 2.5V6 - Heads failed, had them done, then sold it to buy..
Mitsubishi Shogun Pinin - after one year had a major engine rebuild and gearbox faults rectified at our cost. NOT HAPPY.
Range Rover 4.4 V8 - NO ISSUES. Sold to buy ...
Range Rover 4.2SC V8 - NO ISSUES. Possibly the most reliable and well built car I have EVER owned.

I have not listed all my vehicles in that list....but I'm sure we all know Montego's, Hyundais and other cars from the 80's were not much cop ;-)

So er ... in my experience the only vehicle I've owned in the last 10 years that I've had to pay out nearly £3000 to repair is the Jap one ..... and by that I mean in excess of normal maintenance  :?

Oh and one more thing ... the Discovery which gets abused, sat for more than a year, and passed it's MOT with no issues. Even running on 14 month old petrol ...  :shocked:

python:
i have owned tonnes of cars, wouldnt buy a jap over a landie. i own a 93 disco with 230.000 miles and its still going strong. never really cost me much and never let me down..

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