"Clive" <
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> "Huw" <hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > Land Rover parts distribution in the UK is top class. It was run
at
> > one time by Caterpillar Logistics but has since sadly reverted to
> > Unipart. Happily, Unipart is now a much more efficient company
than it
> > once was.
> > After sales service in the long term is very important. Sadly,
> > Mitsubishi is very poor in its delivery of this vital product.
> >
> > Huw
> >
> LR parts distribution NEED to be top class, because owners will
need a lot
> of parts ;-)
Not my experience. Land Rover are intensely annoying with their
teething troubles but are not too bad as they age. Not perfect and not
as generally reliable as the Japanese in the short term. Long term,
believe me when I tell you that anything mechanical has the potential
to fail, and fail it will at some point.
>
> Mitsubishi - don't know if they break a lot, but I shouldn't think
so
>
Globally, Mitsubishi have a mediocre reputation for reliability and
longevity. My experience is that they go well up to a point then all
Hell is let loose. Ditto Isuzu which is still in my family. Only kept
the '87 Shogun for some 50k miles but its head gasket failed and the
oil return from the turbo came loose [not in that order]. Nissan
gearbox bearing failure at 80,000 with no towing. Range Rover petrol,
no major failures in 50k miles. Range Rover diesel manual, just a
steering box and various suspension bushes in over 80,000 miles with
much towing and off-roading. Discovery, no major problems in 40k miles
as above. LR110, a couple of clutches early on and a few bushes and a
couple of the perennial steering boxes in 19 years.
Was not so lucky with an '83 110 which had most major and minor
components fail at least once in three years and 40,000 miles!
All LR products suffer early niggles due to poor build quality
control. If it was not for this, I would have no hesitation in running
a whole fleet of their products. As it is, and at my age, I cannot
stand the inconvenience of sorting the initial problems on one vehicle
after another. With five of their products here at one time, replacing
one per year, it was no bloody joke I can tell you.
Huw
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