Comments on: 2008 Land Rover Discovery 3 TDV6 SE review

By: NIGEL BAINBRIDGE

NIGEL BAINBRIDGE — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:17:01 +0000

I HAD NEGETIVE COMMENTS WHEN I BOUGHT MY 300TD I HAVE JUST SOLD IT WITH NEARLY 200,0000 MLS AND ONLY SERVICE PARTS CHANGED NO MAJOR PROBLEMS.IF YOU LOOK AFTER THEM THEY GO FOR EVER.

By: meme

meme — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:47:22 +0000

The will only get stuck in sand is the DSC is turned on. For sand use it needs to be turned off.

By: Chispy

Chispy — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 14:35:58 +0000

Look up ‘G4 Discovery stuck in sand’ on Youtube.
This is not the only vid showing Disco 3′s stuck in sand.
Is it true that Discos struggle in sand? Hope not because I live in Perth and I was considering buying one. Sand driving is 80% of our offroading.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 10:04:33 +0000

Austral are a bunch of lazy thieves.
Sorry your experience was so poor Trudy.
Next time you break down in Brisbane – I’ll happily put you up

By: Mick

Mick — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 17:30:42 +0000

my disco 3 has an intermitent problem of appearing to be in neutral when travelling slow at give way and wanting to accelerate it does eventually pick up and pull away but can be awkward..any ideas?

By: WOW D3 rock !

WOW D3 rock ! — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 09:07:31 +0000

Well well, maybe u guys are taking a wrong angle ! It ALL depends on the driver does it ???? If u cant handle the D3 , shutt up and go home !!!!! There are Toyotas for those who cannot handle a REAL 4×4 !!! Us woman know how to 4×4 without peoblems. Play nice BOYS !!!

By: Razor

Razor — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 05:34:03 +0000

Been doing some research before taking the plunge and while my preference would of been for a D3 it looks like I’ll probably go for a pathfinder. Main reason for this is that I live in Karratha in WA and LR have no “authourised” service centres here,nearest one is 2000ks away in Perth. Would be interested to hear from anyone in the area who has one and what they do in regards to this.
Someone has previously mentioned that LR have ditched most of their country/regional service centres and I’d imagine that this has had an effect on sales in these areas.

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:16:45 +0000

Owned a 2006 D3 – faultless unlike my mates Prado (loads of issues) and another’s Jeep. But I admit I only did 100,000 trouble free k’s (around 20K offroad) so it will be interesting to see what they are like at the 400,000km mark.

By: trudy bates

trudy bates — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:11:54 +0000

Well I own one and have spent thousands on repairs, its only done 84,000kms. It had its first brakes pads & discs replaced at 30,000km and now requires a second lot because of the weight of the vehicle…approx. $700 for each front and back, my diff needs to be replaced, I’m sorry but what car especially a $70,000 car needs its diff replaced at 84,000kms! I’ve had 3 lots of recalls, replaced vacuum hose, brake issues with oil leaking across blah blah
Oh and did I mention that to top it all off I had to get my partner to call them when I had my initial problems re: brakes because they didn’t think I knew what I was talking about and then what do you know all D3 were being recalled.
Oh and my key stopped working but because it was 7 days out of warranty they didn’t want to know me but unfortunately there are no service centres in the country and I had to drive to Brisbane with my 6 month old, get accommodation, for them to tell me they didn’t want to know me especially as i’d dared to get my vehicle serviced outside of LandRover – Austral Brisbane.
And you’d best not get me started on LandRover service or is it a lack of.
For a vehicle that is advertised as an off road vehicle god forbid you should actually break down, which is likely because you can only get serviced in a major city i.e. Brisbane, Sydney simply because LandRover has pissed off all the country dealers.
I’ve just had my car serviced it cost me $927.00 plus rear brakes $695 and then I’m going to have to replace my diff $1300 plus labour approx. $400.
But it is a nice car to drive except when it rains and the windscreen wipers scrap across the window…
T

By: Noelia S

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