I'm about to take the plunge...

[carnoch]

Thank you. I’ve had Land Rovers before and never took a test drive in them either. Seems to work for me.

I would have bought another LR, but why throw money away. The lowest spec Disco 5 is now £66k. When I went into the LR dealership they have vehicles on display over £200k Thats just silly money, I’d rather buy property than waste it on a lump of metal sitting in the driveway.

I mentioned I was moving away from the brand on an established LR forum i belonged to and I got a lot of snobby replies about if you can’t afford to run a LR.

Thing is I did, for 20 years and 7 new ones. I could afford it if I wanted and I’ve always purchased them for cash. It’s down to preferences and choice.

The current LR I purchased new and is approaching 8 years. It’s lost £30k in that time. I could have kept it, despite being on engine No.3 - a common fault. Thankfully I have the LR warranty which covered the £14k replacement engine each time.

The warranty increases in cost with age, but the next one would cost me nearly £1,800 for another year, a service is £799, the rotas and discs normally need replaced every two years at £800 for an Indy or £1,600 at a main dealer, tyres are £200 per corner.

Add to this the warranty at 10 years, takes a dive from covering up to the price of the car to a maximum of £4k claim limit. I decided it was time to try something else.

 

[BarrieG]

For ten years I was driving company cars and the first three of the six different cars were cast offs from people who had left the firm, so for 150,000 miles I had no choice and no chance of a test drive.

 

[671223pjw1]

Thanks for taking the time to respond with your posts. I'll probably still buy the car but I'm not dismissing any of your concerns, I've just kind of accepted that any very modern car, indeed any modern piece of technology is overly complicated and riddled with irritants. It is these kind of issues that have delayed me ordering so far but ultimately I have to buy a new car at some point and take some kind of chance. I am spectacularly over cautious and indecisive by nature and am driving myself nuts with competing thoughts!

With regards specifically to the app,is it something I have to engage with every day or every time I charge or drive the car?

If your not fussed about plugging in, then look at hybrid+, self charging gives you best of both worlds and saves about 8k as well.

 

[BarrieG]

Put yourself in the shoes of a company car driver. You take the eHS for the super low Benefit in Kind tax rate, but you never charge it because you have a company fuel card that pays for your petrol, but not your electricity.