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markb110

Member Since: 22 May 2010
Location: Guildford
Posts: 2644

Apart from screen wash there is no need to open the bonnet / hood as the information can be found on the screen in front of the driver. Expect the new Defender to be the same.

Unfortunately some dealers dont go into enough detail at handover nor fully explain the benifits of using the free half day Experience and finding out more about their vehicles. For many owners Land Rovers are just 'cars' and get treated as such. Even the staff at main dealers look like any other sales people.

A friend works in the service department at a main dealers and he was saying a couple of issues they get with FFRR and RR Sport owners is when they come in complaining the their cars are slow
. They have either put it into low range or put the hill decent control on. You would not let anyone drive a digger without training but at a dealership you can drive off in something with more technology than anything that landed on the moon.

Apart from Adblue has Land Rover cured the oil dilution problem yet?

21st Jun 2019 10:16am

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17463

2007 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 DCPU Stornoway Grey

I wonder if the screen will have messages like "Warning: Multiple oil leaks".

21st Jun 2019 11:02am

ericvv

Member Since: 02 Jun 2011
Location: Near the Jet d'Eau
Posts: 5816

2009 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 SVX Station Wagon Santorini Black

The joys of AdBlue on Martin’s D5 forum. Just one of the topic threads on the matter.
Eric

https://disco5.co.uk/forum/thread1842.html You never actually own a Defender. You merely look after it for the next generation.
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21st Jun 2019 11:50am

lohr500

Member Since: 14 Sep 2014
Location: Skipton
Posts: 1319

2013 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Santorini Black

markb110 wrote:
They have either put it into low range or put the hill decent control on. Y

Talking of low range, do we know if the new Defender will be blessed with a dual range transfer box?

21st Jun 2019 2:50pm

blackwolf

Member Since: 03 Nov 2009
Location: South West England
Posts: 17463

That will be very interesting to see. Personally I suspect that its 4WD system will be based on a Haldex unit not a centre diff, but I would have thought that the range change was a feature that had to persist. We shall see.

21st Jun 2019 3:43pm

Naks

Member Since: 27 Jan 2009
Location: Stellenbosch, ZA
Posts: 2645

2010 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Alpine White

lohr500 wrote:
Talking of low range, do we know if the new Defender will be blessed with a dual range transfer box?

most likely, they will want it for its off-road cred

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22nd Jun 2019 6:34am

CDN38

Member Since: 14 Nov 2014
Location: Courtenay, BC
Posts: 729

My wife drives a Mercedes GL320 Bluetec. Love the vehicle, the biggest issue is AdBlue. The AdBlue tank has already been replaced under warranty ($1200 part) 2 NOx sensors and DEF injector needed to be replaced also... by far the most expensive portion of repairs over the 9 years we have had the vehicle.

Now other components of the system are failing again, and with the dealership being the only one that can clear the "remaining starts" code it's close to a $10,000 bill for them to replace items that are going to fail again. Biggest issue is if you drive a DEF equipped vehicle short distances it will clog the system with unburnt AdBlue. Solution, rip it all out, re-program the ECU and carry on.

Let's hope Land Rover's AdBlue system is better than Mercedes! it's a Landrover thing...

my renovation thread:
http://www.defender2.net/forum/topic40792.html

22nd Jun 2019 3:27pm

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