I’m just waiting for the OP reply, but to your point
I am acquainted with another full-sized Disco that died-died in the middle of the freeway on the drive home: it was truly a 1-in-a-million road-hazard. A piece of concrete the size of a softball came up off the road, hit the radiator just right and lodged-in there. The car would have never made it out of the dealership had that been any kind of defect.
Which does not explain the many, many other unforgivable mistakes (who needs proper sunroof seals on an RR Autobiography anyway?)
Never
If we are moving to slightly-more JIT build-to-order, and building less stock to age, every brand (every single one) could amp up their testing and quality so fewer cars come back before their first service. My last lemon (not a RR) had a manufacturing error that was missed at the factory, and the port, at the dealership. And when the finally fixed it and turned those systems on, the software was shameful - the calibration process took 4 hours every time and required specific daylight.
Consumers who spend this kind of money expect some rigor in testing and quality (by all the comments here): they rarely get it.
Not a legal advice nor a lawyer, but 30 days in service is not the only criteria to be a lemon eligible in CA. You should also consider the reasonable number of repair attempts. For very serious issues with the car especially if it is a safety risk, 1-2 attempts deem to be reasonable, and 4 attempts for all others. Source: My lemon law attorney who represented me in a BMW case.
Land Rovers are interesting vehicles. We blasted music in our Disco 2 back in 2000 or something, and it wouldnt start afterwards. Turns out a wire got knocked loose or something.
We had a new 2000 328i that wouldn’t start and needed a flatbed few months in. When my wife asked the tow truck driver if he knows where the dealership is. He said “Ohhhhh yeah, I go there all the time”.
He drives a tow truck, where else is he going to go? I’m sure he knows where every dealer and independent shop in the area is and who would give him the biggest kickbacks as well if asked for recommendation by an unsuspecting customers.
Seemed like a totally accurate and reasonable comment to me; a lemon attorney, when looking at the restrictions regarding a buy back, is the right person to consult and in this 70 page thread, the OP has replied once.
I was not able to follow that well exactly on the details, but there was a bracket holding the transfer case that broke? That in turn broke the transfer case… And some other parts…
