I'm in agreement with some of the comments here and would be very careful purchasing any JLR product as they seemd to be plagued with issues which are broadly down to poor engineering decisions and quality control which runs counter to their brand prestige and accompanying price.
iPaces have just had their 4th recall to fix an ongoing and seemingly difficult to resolve issue with the battery system that has led to an
ongoing series of fires which have totalled a number of cars. Owners have been
advised by JLR to 'park their cars outside'
F-Pace and Discovery owners are having issues with
instantaneous loss of power steering while driving due to water ingress caused by cracking of the rack body.
Range Rover - security, nuf said
Velars, Discoveries, F-Paces and Evoques fitted with 4cyl Diesel Ingenium engine, it's a total disaster. Premature timing chain failures, turbo failures which destroy the engine due to oil contamination, etc. see
Jaguar Land Rover 2.0d Ingenium Engine Failure Group
According to JD Power's 2021 survey, Jaguar ranked 31st out of 33 car brands, with
Land Rover coming last, Here in the UK,
Warrantywise ranked RR last in 2022 too. These surveys are both driven by hard data, not opinions.
The
dealers are exhausted and it seems that the cup of goodwill that reimbursed early owners of cars with failures has run dry and JLR are not as forthcoming as they once were with assitance when it all goes wrong.
And against this backdrop JLR have announced that they're going to
cut back the number of UK dealers to ~20 as they drop 'volume sales' and attempt to shift Jaguar into the premium brand segment.
They look beautiful and the marketing works, but I'm a lttle too risk averse to roll that dice, even with a warranty.
