It is quite astonishing that on a £78k car, in my case, this level of fit is deemed to be with design tolerance. I have the gap left and right, and to a lesser extent in the middle.
I doubt its causing any issues ref water ingress, and I think attempting to rectify it would be quite an operation.

Rectifying ? Think out of the box bob  2014/5 rr sport hse, Marianna black , silver roof , silver door mirror caps , privacy , deployable tow bar
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Land rover after sales manager has looked at the demonstrater at my dealers , said he was unaware of the issue and would not comment ! , land rover have insisted it is a design characteristic ! I have also been told that because it is a design characteristic there are no grounds for rejecting the car live with it or sell it , further to this I have also been advised not to take on JLR re this , all of which I sort of expected so now going to the next stage now I have all that clarified 2014/5 rr sport hse, Marianna black , silver roof , silver door mirror caps , privacy , deployable tow bar
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robot wrote:

Land rover after sales manager has looked at the demonstrater at my dealers , said he was unaware of the issue and would not comment ! , land rover have insisted it is a design characteristic ! I have also been told that because it is a design characteristic there are no grounds for rejecting the car live with it or sell it , further to this I have also been advised not to take on JLR re this , all of which I sort of expected so now going to the next stage now I have all that clarified

Yes... taking on multi billion £ companies is always ill advised and avoided at all costs... irrespective of the merits of your case

.... unless of course it involves life and death situations or 10's of millions of £'s

There was a fab film called Flash of Genius about the guy who invented intermittent windscreen wipers and patented it only for Ford and Chrysler to steal the idea..... read below..... This is when it's worth pursuing the Multinational giants.....
At the cost of dedicating and ruining your whole life in pursuit....

Brief synopsis below if anyone is interested.... lol

On his wedding night in 1953, an errant champagne cork renders college engineering professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) almost completely blind in his left eye. A decade later, he is happily married to Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and the father of six children. As he drives his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, the constant movement of the windshield wipers irritates his troubled vision. The incident inspires him to create a wiper blade mechanism modeled on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds rather than continuously.

With financial support from Gil Previck (Dermot Mulroney), Kearns converts his basement into a laboratory and develops a prototype he tests in a fish tank before installing it in his car. He patents his invention and demonstrates it for Ford researchers, who had been working on a similar project without success. Kearns refuses to explain how his mechanism works until he hammers out a favorable deal with the corporation. Impressed with Kearns' results, executive Macklin Tyler (Mitch Pileggi) asks him to prepare a business plan detailing the cost of the individual units, which Robert intends to manufacture himself. Considering this to be sufficient commitment from the company, he rents a warehouse he plans to use as a factory and forges ahead. He presents Ford with the pricing information it requested along with a sample unit, then waits for their response. Time passes, and when nobody contacts Robert, he begins placing phone calls that are never returned.

Frustrated, Kearns attends a Ford dealers convention at which the latest model of the Mustang is unveiled, promoting the intermittent wiper as a selling point. Realizing the company has used his idea without giving him credit or payment for it, Robert begins his descent into a despair so deep he boards a Greyhound bus and heads for Washington, D.C., where he apparently hopes to find legal recourse. Instead, Maryland state troopers remove him from the bus and escort him to a mental hospital, where he is treated for a nervous breakdown. Finally released when doctors decide his obsession has subsided, he returns home a broken man, determined to receive public acknowledgement for his accomplishment. Thus begins years of legal battles, during which time his wife leaves him and he becomes estranged from his children.

At trial, Kearns represents himself after attorney Gregory Lawson (Alan Alda) withdraws from the case, because Robert refuses to settle. Eventually his ex-wife and children support him in his endeavor. Toward the end of the trial, Ford offers Kearns a $30 million settlement, but with no admission of wrongdoing. He decides to leave his fate in the hands of the jury, who determine that Ford infringed his patents, but that the infringement was not deliberate. The jury awards him $10.1 million. The closing credits indicate that Robert later wins an $18.7 million judgement from Chrysler Corporation as well. 2014.5 SDV6 AB Dynamic ... Fuji /Santorini Pan roof and 22's
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[quote="robot"]Land rover after sales manager has looked at the demonstrater at my dealers , said he was unaware of the issue and would not

Sorry dbl post by accident 2014.5 SDV6 AB Dynamic ... Fuji /Santorini Pan roof and 22's
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That actually sounds like a really good film when was it released 2014/5 rr sport hse, Marianna black , silver roof , silver door mirror caps , privacy , deployable tow bar
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It was 2008...
Bored one day so watched a true movies special expecting it to be .... and it was quite touching...
Then again when I saw it I didn't know the ending of the story ..... !!!  2014.5 SDV6 AB Dynamic ... Fuji /Santorini Pan roof and 22's
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Ile try to find it the ending would be obvious good guys win in the end 2014/5 rr sport hse, Marianna black , silver roof , silver door mirror caps , privacy , deployable tow bar
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andman wrote:

robot wrote:

Land rover after sales manager has looked at the demonstrater at my dealers , said he was unaware of the issue and would not comment ! , land rover have insisted it is a design characteristic ! I have also been told that because it is a design characteristic there are no grounds for rejecting the car live with it or sell it , further to this I have also been advised not to take on JLR re this , all of which I sort of expected so now going to the next stage now I have all that clarified

Yes... taking on multi billion £ companies is always ill advised and avoided at all costs... irrespective of the merits of your case

.... unless of course it involves life and death situations or 10's of millions of £'s

There was a fab film called Flash of Genius about the guy who invented intermittent windscreen wipers and patented it only for Ford and Chrysler to steal the idea..... read below..... This is when it's worth pursuing the Multinational giants.....
At the cost of dedicating and ruining your whole life in pursuit....

Brief synopsis below if anyone is interested.... lol

On his wedding night in 1953, an errant champagne cork renders college engineering professor Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) almost completely blind in his left eye. A decade later, he is happily married to Phyllis (Lauren Graham) and the father of six children. As he drives his Ford Galaxie through a light rain, the constant movement of the windshield wipers irritates his troubled vision. The incident inspires him to create a wiper blade mechanism modeled on the human eye, which blinks every few seconds rather than continuously.

With financial support from Gil Previck (Dermot Mulroney), Kearns converts his basement into a laboratory and develops a prototype he tests in a fish tank before installing it in his car. He patents his invention and demonstrates it for Ford researchers, who had been working on a similar project without success. Kearns refuses to explain how his mechanism works until he hammers out a favorable deal with the corporation. Impressed with Kearns' results, executive Macklin Tyler (Mitch Pileggi) asks him to prepare a business plan detailing the cost of the individual units, which Robert intends to manufacture himself. Considering this to be sufficient commitment from the company, he rents a warehouse he plans to use as a factory and forges ahead. He presents Ford with the pricing information it requested along with a sample unit, then waits for their response. Time passes, and when nobody contacts Robert, he begins placing phone calls that are never returned.

Frustrated, Kearns attends a Ford dealers convention at which the latest model of the Mustang is unveiled, promoting the intermittent wiper as a selling point. Realizing the company has used his idea without giving him credit or payment for it, Robert begins his descent into a despair so deep he boards a Greyhound bus and heads for Washington, D.C., where he apparently hopes to find legal recourse. Instead, Maryland state troopers remove him from the bus and escort him to a mental hospital, where he is treated for a nervous breakdown. Finally released when doctors decide his obsession has subsided, he returns home a broken man, determined to receive public acknowledgement for his accomplishment. Thus begins years of legal battles, during which time his wife leaves him and he becomes estranged from his children.

At trial, Kearns represents himself after attorney Gregory Lawson (Alan Alda) withdraws from the case, because Robert refuses to settle. Eventually his ex-wife and children support him in his endeavor. Toward the end of the trial, Ford offers Kearns a $30 million settlement, but with no admission of wrongdoing. He decides to leave his fate in the hands of the jury, who determine that Ford infringed his patents, but that the infringement was not deliberate. The jury awards him $10.1 million. The closing credits indicate that Robert later wins an $18.7 million judgement from Chrysler Corporation as well.

lol.... nice one Rob..... 2014.5 SDV6 AB Dynamic ... Fuji /Santorini Pan roof and 22's
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