Thanks for update Rory, great to hear about LR assist. I also turned off keyless entry on my 75th Anniversary defender and have steering and pedal locks for at night to try and avoid theft or at least make it hard for them to take my pride and joy. I'm fitting a false OBD port to make it even harder if they try.
Thanks for your feedback...In 12 months of ownership of my 23 Defender I haven't had to call on JLR for assistance. I've had an interim service and health check done and the Dealer's service has been professional. (I have owned 3 Land Rovers since 1997)
Never had any issues with the last three Range Rovers I've had. I often mention that fact on various threads and even had some accusing me of lying.....lol The media has a lot to answer for.....
This vehicle is a disaster in the eyes of off readers. And now, "software issues" with this? Can you imagine serious off roading with this dainty vehicle? Bashing it up is one thing but then you you have to deal with software issues when you're axle deep in mud in deep mud and stones? Proximity issues??? Someone getting your code over the air??? What a piece of Ess Aich One Dot T! 😂 No serious hunter/offroader/overlander would ever call this a Defender (last Defenders were made in 2016) nor compare it with a Defender. This is a Disco 6 at best, dainty and finicky as ever!
@@johndoyle4723 interesting you should raise this subject, as I’ve often considered the same issue and know many farmers and learnt this: Typically farmers will buy cheapest work vehicle, abuse, moan and service themselves, resulting in poor margins for JLR and their dealer network. So effectively JLR have handed the bottom end over to the pickup truck manufacturers and chased the higher margin ‘style, high tech high cost’ sector, where sadly it’s all about black, grey and big wheels. Clearly, we use our Defender as a tool, filthy inside and out and hope for the best ref. all the technology 🤞🤔. So far so good 😊
So more expert advice from someone who doesn't own one, has no experience driving one, has a rose-tinted view that the demise of the last one was the end of civilisation as we know it and that JLR shouldn't have deserted a minuscule but devoted market of weekend lumberjacks, expeditioners, gold fossickers and 90" driving hipster Sloane Streeters. I own a 2009 Defender and 2023 Defender incidentally and both have been "axle deep in mud and stones" both without issues of any sort.(the 2009 is for sale).
Thanks for update Rory, great to hear about LR assist. I also turned off keyless entry on my 75th Anniversary defender and have steering and pedal locks for at night to try and avoid theft or at least make it hard for them to take my pride and joy. I'm fitting a false OBD port to make it even harder if they try.
The false OBD port is an interesting one, hadn’t thought of that 🤔. Is this something available to buy? TIA
Thanks for your feedback...In 12 months of ownership of my 23 Defender I haven't had to call on JLR for assistance. I've had an interim service and health check done and the Dealer's service has been professional. (I have owned 3 Land Rovers since 1997)
Delighted and long may this be the case 😊
@@cotswoldmusings Hopefully history can be a good teacher...we nor JLR are not necessarily destined to repeat the past.
I have a 75th with a pedal lock I fit. How do I turn off the door handle push buttons?
Powerful U.K. have a CZcams channel and have produced a video showing you.
Never had any issues with the last three Range Rovers I've had.
I often mention that fact on various threads and even had some accusing me of lying.....lol
The media has a lot to answer for.....
Sadly negativity spreads positivity doesn’t 🤦
Enjoy your Defender - my farming family currently run three and think they're fantastic....@@cotswoldmusings
@@cotswoldmusingsthat's the world works.
Is the cup on the bonnet an optional extra?
Definitely …… if you forget it’s there and drive off 🤦🤣🤞
Is yours a 6 cylinder diesel? D350?
Yes D300 😊
Couldn’t live with the Union Jack 😱
It peels off 😊
Nice colour ❤❤❤
You are not supposed to talk about good LR service, what’s wrong with you man!!
🤣👌🤞🤦♂️
This vehicle is a disaster in the eyes of off readers. And now, "software issues" with this? Can you imagine serious off roading with this dainty vehicle? Bashing it up is one thing but then you you have to deal with software issues when you're axle deep in mud in deep mud and stones?
Proximity issues??? Someone getting your code over the air??? What a piece of Ess Aich One Dot T! 😂 No serious hunter/offroader/overlander would ever call this a Defender (last Defenders were made in 2016) nor compare it with a Defender. This is a Disco 6 at best, dainty and finicky as ever!
At these prices would you want to take it serious off-roading? Time will tell 🤔
There was a time when the Defender was standard kit for UK farmers,JLR have abandoned this sector.
@@johndoyle4723 interesting you should raise this subject, as I’ve often considered the same issue and know many farmers and learnt this:
Typically farmers will buy cheapest work vehicle, abuse, moan and service themselves, resulting in poor margins for JLR and their dealer network. So effectively JLR have handed the bottom end over to the pickup truck manufacturers and chased the higher margin ‘style, high tech high cost’ sector, where sadly it’s all about black, grey and big wheels. Clearly, we use our Defender as a tool, filthy inside and out and hope for the best ref. all the technology 🤞🤔. So far so good 😊
So more expert advice from someone who doesn't own one, has no experience driving one, has a rose-tinted view that the demise of the last one was the end of civilisation as we know it and that JLR shouldn't have deserted a minuscule but devoted market of weekend lumberjacks, expeditioners, gold fossickers and 90" driving hipster
Sloane Streeters. I own a 2009 Defender and 2023 Defender incidentally and both have been "axle deep in mud and stones" both without issues of any sort.(the 2009 is for sale).