2015 Range Rover SportTDV6 3.0L Diesel Auto Reliability

jackdev112 · Tuesday at 09:02

Hi guys,

It's my first post here but I thought this would be the best place to ask.

I am currently looking about buying a range rover, specifically the one in the title.
As many of you will probably had experience with, when you tell someone you're thinking of buying a range rover you always get the same response about how it's going to break and cost a fortune to fix. I was wondering how reliable or unreliable the 2015 range rover sport TDV6 is?

Is it down to people not doing preventative maintenance or are they just generally going to break. I'm looking at ones that have around 50,000-70,000 miles, which for a regular diesel is quite low mileage. I'm just looking to know what I'm getting myself in for.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Datatek · Tuesday at 09:24

jackdev112 said:
Hi guys,

It's my first post here but I thought this would be the best place to ask.

I am currently looking about buying a range rover, specifically the one in the title.
As many of you will probably had experience with, when you tell someone you're thinking of buying a range rover you always get the same response about how it's going to break and cost a fortune to fix. I was wondering how reliable or unreliable the 2015 range rover sport TDV6 is?

Is it down to people not doing preventative maintenance or are they just generally going to break. I'm looking at ones that have around 50,000-70,000 miles, which for a regular diesel is quite low mileage. I'm just looking to know what I'm getting myself in for.
Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Look at the J D Power and other surveys, Range Rovers are always near the bottom for reliability and that's in the first 3 years. Always best to have a second car available for when the RR is off the road. If you can't DIY it could turn out to be a money pit.
Having said that, you could be lucky and have no problems.

kermit_rr · Tuesday at 09:33

Datatek said:
Look at the J D Power and other surveys, Range Rovers are always near the bottom for reliability and that's in the3 first 3 years. Always best to have a second car available for when the RR is off the road. If you can't DIY it could turn out to be a money pit.
Having said that, you could be lucky and have no problems.

i think a good, well maintained older (5-7 years+) example could be more reliable than a newer one, on the basis the failures have been addressed, parts replaced or upgraded etc. an abused/unmaintained example needs to be left well alone

marjon · Tuesday at 10:13

The trick is as above. find a well maintained 1 first and if you then keep up the maintanace it could end up being a reliable car. Start skipping over small problems will only lead to bigger issue down the line. Because of the complexitiy of them a small thing can take a while to find and cost a fair bit if you have to have a garage do it for you.

But I would also add search TDV6/SDV6 crank breakage. Then decide if a different engine option would be better to remove that "if it happens its scrap" thought.

They are a high cost/maintainace car so be prepared. If you are, then they can be reliable IMO.

J

lynall · Tuesday at 13:38

Crank issues would stop most people from buying one in the first place.

marjon · Tuesday at 13:52

lynall said:
Crank issues would stop most people from buying one in the first place.

You would think, wouldnt you. But JLR are still using it all these years later. I guess they have worked out that it will probably get out of the warranty period, then its not thier problem

.

We added a bit to our budget when we brought our L322 to get the 8speed 4.4 TDV8, after alot of research, so far we think it was a dam good choice. (jinxed it now havent I

).

J

jackdev112 · Tuesday at 14:03

lynall said:
Crank issues would stop most people from buying one in the first place.

Is there a more reliable version without these issues such as 2.0 evoque or velar?

kermit_rr · Tuesday at 14:08

I think the key issue is regular oil changes to avoid oil dilution, keep an eye on the oil level

marjon · Tuesday at 14:16

jackdev112 said:
Is there a more reliable version without these issues such as 2.0 evoque or velar?

For me the car is too big for a 2.0, which also have issues, but then many modern (big cars do) mainly because the owners dont really need such a car.

What do you intend to use it for? Driving to school and the shops will give problems.

J

lynall · Tuesday at 15:52

J

jackdev112 said:
Is there a more reliable version without these issues such as 2.0 evoque or velar?

Just google ingenium engine issues, then go and buy another make, though I have to say most modern vehicles are just plain crap!

marjon · Tuesday at 15:59

lynall said:
J

Just google ingenium engine issues, then go and buy another make, though I have to say most modern vehicles are just plain crap!

What do you class as modern?

or is it the modern drivers "looking good

"

J

lynall · Tuesday at 16:05

marjon said:
What do you class as modern?

or is it the modern drivers "looking good"

J

Euro 6 onwards, so basiclaly 2015 ish onwards, but anything with a dpf would steer me clear, though my main experience is with hgvs.
Even the farmers are trying to avoid the new gear as it is so much bother, I dont think is is the cost though that is certainly an issues, it is the unreliablity that they hate.

Datatek · Tuesday at 16:16

jackdev112 said:
Is there a more reliable version without these issues such as 2.0 evoque or velar?

The Evoque does not fare well and Velar is really just a trim level I think like Vogue in the past.

Mark Piercy · Tuesday at 18:05

Datatek said:
The Evoque does not fare well and Velar is really just a trim level I think like Vogue in the past.

The velar is it's own model with pop out door handles, you can see that fail coming in a few years..... "hello is that the rac , I can't get into my car"

kermit_rr · Tuesday at 18:40

Mark Piercy said:
The velar is it's own model with pop out door handles, you can see that fail coming in a few years..... "hello is that the rac , I can't get into my car"

More cars are doing this now? Try getting into it when it's frozen

pwood999 · Tuesday at 18:48

Avoid anything with "wet cambelt" engines !! My son tells me the number of replacements for those was unbelievable over last few years. Essentially the oil contaminates the belt resulting in de-lamination, tooth sheeding etc. Much more frequent belt changes required, or the engine goes for a very long lunch.

gstuart · Tuesday at 18:53

lynall said:
Euro 6 onwards, so basiclaly 2015 ish onwards, but anything with a dpf would steer me clear, though my main experience is with hgvs.
Even the farmers are trying to avoid the new gear as it is so much bother, I dont think is is the cost though that is certainly an issues, it is the unreliablity that they hate.

Talking of the newer cars I watched this today , wonder how effective the new JLR update is

Plus the way there stolen is changing so hiding the obd2 port doesn’t seem to work anymore

Really does make owning an older car more attractive, particularly to reduce u getting pulled out the vehicle

There’s a new form of keyless car theft that works in under 2 minutes

As car owners grow hip to one form of theft, crooks are turning to new ones.

arstechnica.com

lynall · Tuesday at 18:58

pwood999 said:
Avoid anything with "wet cambelt" engines !! My son tells me the number of replacements for those was unbelievable over last few years. Essentially the oil contaminates the belt resulting in de-lamination, tooth sheeding etc. Much more frequent belt changes required, or the engine goes for a very long lunch.

Whilst wet belts in my view are a crap idea, I reckon as most are commercial vehicles they will not get any tlc between services, no one will check the levels, and if they do they will get topped it will be with whatever oil is to hand, the services will be overdue and done on a budget possibly with the incorrect engine oil.

But still it is a crap idea, mind you they cannot even make camchains last these days!

pwood999 · Tuesday at 19:30

Exactly. Does make me wonder who thought it a good idea to put rubber in the one thing that softens it !!

Datatek · Tuesday at 19:38

pwood999 said:
Exactly. Does make me wonder who thought it a good idea to put rubber in the one thing that softens it !!

A design engineer with an honors degree and absolutely no hands on experience. It was not even a cost saving feature.

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