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You know that feeling when your heart sinks because you suspect you've bought a ringer?
When I got the current P38, a few weeks later things began to go wrong (as usual).
Terrible water ingress issues whenever it rained and the drivers footwell would be full of water.
Engine Disabled message unable to enter EKA (microswitches) etc.
I looked at the engine Serial number and it didn't match the V5 paperwork.
Lots of protestations of innocence from the dealer I bought it from etc. etc.
I was really concerned that despite its pristine appearance, I had been sold a pup.
But, it drove fine the faults got fixed and the anxiety subsided and so I decided not to let it worry me too much. Then, the chap on here that is able to access a vehicles build spec from the factory obliged me with the full details about a year later and the engine serial number I have is the one JLR have in their records so the DVLA is in error and my vehicle may have been pranged and repaired but has never been written off so all is good.
Why do I write this now? Because I just read the post of the guy with the 6-wheeled fire-engine and all his provenance issues. The DVLA do get things wrong and LR ownership isn't all doom & gloom.
When I got the current P38, a few weeks later things began to go wrong (as usual).
Terrible water ingress issues whenever it rained and the drivers footwell would be full of water.
Engine Disabled message unable to enter EKA (microswitches) etc.
I looked at the engine Serial number and it didn't match the V5 paperwork.
Lots of protestations of innocence from the dealer I bought it from etc. etc.
I was really concerned that despite its pristine appearance, I had been sold a pup.
But, it drove fine the faults got fixed and the anxiety subsided and so I decided not to let it worry me too much. Then, the chap on here that is able to access a vehicles build spec from the factory obliged me with the full details about a year later and the engine serial number I have is the one JLR have in their records so the DVLA is in error and my vehicle may have been pranged and repaired but has never been written off so all is good.
Why do I write this now? Because I just read the post of the guy with the 6-wheeled fire-engine and all his provenance issues. The DVLA do get things wrong and LR ownership isn't all doom & gloom.
