Cheers VA. Don't want to leave but feel I'm being pushed into it by lack of help from dealership and LR! Especially with the feeling it was take it or leave it on the offers from yesterday! That and I'd hate to think of you missing my avatar!

If you promise to let me have the best avatar award next year then I'll stay!

I hate looking like a moaning mini about it but I don't think I'm being unreasonable in my request for a replacement vehicle. Or am I expecting too much?

Answers on a postcard to.......  Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

Would I be correct if I said your problems are with Town and Country?????

Mate you could always park up outside and put stickers all over your car telling the dealer how they are and how your car is a lemon and then see what they do......what have you got to lose???

OOOps meant to say Urban and Rural...

4wheeldriver wrote:

If you promise to let me have the best avatar award next year then I'll stay!

All your avatars are belong to me  
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Nick

I'm considering it

Angel

You wish matey

 Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

 
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WINNER - 2009 �Best Avatar� Award
WINNER - 2009 Comedian Of The Year Award

When living in Thailand a case similar to yours provoked the toyata owner to take it back to the garage one last time. (Yep it was a toyota)

This time he took several hammers and smashed it to bits on the garage forecourt, the press coverage was everwhere and then toyota opened their ears and a replacement was found.

Just a thought

Hope the situation improves seems a big drop perhaps when paint is sorted you would be better off trying to sell it privatley, because all they are going to do is sell it on for another profit andf then profit further from having to carry yet more work out on it. Deny them the profit at least

your welcome  Clones are people two

Had a similar problem with an AMG Merc a few years ago, dealer damaged it, stupid repairs not done properly, rejected the car the day before it was 6 months old, got a replacement vehicle with no cost to myself and better specced as well. The law says that any defect that occurs within the first 6 months is deemed to have been there since new, I told delaer this and said I would not buy a car that had those defects and as such was rejected.

Good solicitor is your way forward, my personal experience of LR is not particularly happy one and as for the dealer, Stratstone in Newport, I would never recommend them and have no problem in naming them.

4 wheel

Want to borrow an armed Black Hawk to go pay them a visit?

I sympathise with you and you must go down every route to nail this dealer. How dare they damage your car while its in for repair.

Don't give up.

Now the Blackhawk sounds like a good bargaining chip parked in the forecourt!!  Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

I'm sure everyone would like to have the dealer named and shamed. If they have anything about them (the dealer) they will be on this forum and will take this sort of issue seriously. If I was in their shoes I would have someone on this forum every day looking at every fault and every complaint. I reckon I could clear up.

CHPR (or whatever your new name is...) - when the new TDV8 engine comes out and the complete revamp of the car - I presume in about 3 years - I will be happy to travel 200 miles down to London to pick it up - social media gives power to the consumer - this forum does a great job - now stop me before I start welling up!

 Jaguar XKR Convertible
MY 2012 Range Rover Sport TDV6 Autobiography in Fujian White....Mmmmmmm
Range Rover Evoque 2.2 Prestige in white - gone
Porsche Boxster S White with lots of extras! Gone
Lotus Elise 2011 Touring for sunny days - gone!

Previously....
RRS TDV8 Black 57 Plate
645ci
Jag XKR Convertible (my wife still loves this car!)
BMW 530i
BMW 328i (I loved this car)
Golf R32

Jonathan

Once I get either a buy back or replacement deal in place then I will but until that point I may have to go legal so don't want to give them anything they can throw back at me!

All the owners from up this corner of the country know exactly who I have the problem with at this point and as you say the internet and word of mouth are powerful tools in this day and age! Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

535d m-sport Platinum grey and a few extras.... Gone

X5 3.0 sd in Space Grey, 20's, Dynamic Pack, Memory Pack, Media Pack, Tow Pack, Rear DVD, Panoramic Sunroof, Steps, 7 Seat Pack, Reversing Camera with moving lines, programmable park heat, etc etc etc - Gone

Range Rover Sport Santorini, privacy, dvd, towpack GONE!!!

Jonathan wrote:

now stop me before I start welling up!

I'm welling up here too!!

James