Range Rover 2.5 Turbo Diesel

I have a 2001 low milage P38 fitted with the legendary BMW engine. I bought it for 7000gbp 36 months ago. Since then I have spent 5000gbp maintaining it. Of the 16 trips I have made in it, of less than 300mile round trips, it has broken down 17. It has never one time been on a trip that it finished. I have changed the gearbox, 3 radiators, head gasket, diesel pum, tank pump, rebuilt the air suspension, changed all 7 pulleys plus what I have forgotten.

Yesterday, a friend cought an 8 hr train ride to go bring it back from Oradea ( Romania) where it broke down twice in the past 2 months. First time, en route to the uk, the transfer box exploded. It was fixed, I went back a month later to collect & 50 miles later, the prop shaft seized up. That was fixed & yesterday a friend went to pick it up to take it back to Brasov, to sell it. Predictably, 100miles into the journey, the top hose exploded. Another friend came out with a spare, got the car running again & carried on. 100 miles later, naturally, the air pump failed & the n sank. I dont care how bad a car is, never can it be as unreliable as a range rover. Take that from someone with 24 years design & developement experience in Car production.

When I get the air pump fixed, if it fails again, you will see a viral video on break.com of me torching mynotherwise imaculate, piece of Sohihull rubbish. Please trust me, never buy a land rover if destination is something you want to reach. Even 2012 Disco 4's fail randomly.

Best wishes,

Damian Galvin

Trying to perform property management in Romania

This car is a truely well built car, its stable, reliable, and does everything that i require it to in comfort. it has a nice suspension, good looks and a good engine, however as you would expect a 2.5 tone jeep doesnt have much performance wise, but its not built for that. its extremly safe, and spacious, ive never had 1 problem and it has never broke down one, this is a great car! however fuel economy is not greatand its hard for my girlfriend to park.

used to drive them in the army .taking officers aroud and found that it outstrips all .it will go enywhere without effort .like enything if you dont keep an eye on the thing it will give you big bills ,if worryed about air suspention.get it changed and put polly bushes in,as for engine i found thet there bullet proof ,most cars have problems and if you think of what could go wrong no one would be driving.all on horses again have you seen how much one of them cost to run.so all i can say keep it real.most work on a rangerover you can do your self because it is that it a landrover at the end of the day.

I have a Range Rover 2,5 dse from 2001 and 251.358 km on board.In this years was necessary to change: radiator (~300 euro), air springs (~275 euro), brake pads (~1000 euro), brake disks - front and rear (~200 euro), filters - air, pollen,oil,fuel (300 euro), battery (~50 euro), and few lamps, all about 2000 euro. All parts are OEM from Bearmach UK. Oil and fuel is not calculated.For me is nothing in 8 years and a sttagering 250.000 km.I have three friends with Toyota Land Cruiser (no. 1 for reliability in reviews). All three are spent over 10,00 euros each for replacing various parts, including transfer gearbox, rear differential, clutches, injection system, all the bushes etc. in less than five years and no more than 120.000 km. They are very jealous on me and my car. And for good reason, because my Range Rover is not only more reliable but it beats all, equally on-road and mainly off-road (where is the King). I don't know why the people here tells these frightening stories, because I know another 50 owners of Range Rover P38 and all are very satisfied with their cars and, most notably with their reliability in years and kilometers.I believe this people are not comparing their Range Rover with nothing and I see they are use the cars only few tousand kilometers and a couple of years. It is not revealing.

Ok, after reading the previous comments I ' m already worried! I traded my perfectly in shape 2002, f-350, on 39.5" tires, 8.5" lift, with turbo upgrade, 600 hp chipped, in excellent condition pick up for a 2000 range with a 2.5l BMW turbo diesel.... Don ' t say nothing.... I know...now!

Having this British/German wonder model for less than a month I have to say: very comfy....but that ' s where it stops! No kick, that turbo isn ' t much bigger than my watch, electrical problems all day and now its even telling me my engine is running at its hottest! I haven ' t recognized any leaks and it drives just fine! So please can somebody tell me some similar experience, where it was just the thermostat going bad...please!

I live in Costa Rica and parts here are like UK prices times 3 plus the u$ vs pound is like 2 to 1! That means everything is 6 times more expensive than in the UK!

I only traded that thing because I have to haul clients from a to b and it isn ' t that fenzy in a huge f-350.

Help! I think I made a huge mistake here!

As you can tell I love my Rangey, Who wants to sit at the same eye level as an ant. Be brave, if you want one...BUY ONE!!!

If only they had put a decent air suspension system in, it would be the perfect 4x4. I took mine on a 3500 miles round trip to southern France and it was so good, plenty of space for 3 adults and a child and all the luggage. Two months after we returned air suspension went, so expensive to fix, sold the car straight after I had it done. But when ever I see them I wish they had put a decent system in so I could keep one and trust it.

It's a good, comfy car and certainly looks good!

However, I have a huge list of bad points! My Range Rover 2.5 Turbo Diesel is less than a year old and you mostly see businessmen driving them but I bought this one myself and so far in 9 months I have paid £8369 on repair bills! If you think about it you can by a small car with that! My electric windows only work when they want to and the satellite navigation screen often goes completely white and is being fixed for a whopping £1500! According to the sales rep they have never experienced this problem in any other vehicles. Extremely disappointed and I'm now looking in to buying a Volvo XC90 which as much more boot space, the D5 version costs much less and does at least 12 mpg more than my range rover! It's supposed to be a Land Rover but the build quality is no way near a proper Land Rover! Overall, I can say that these were probably designed for easy money!

I have always wanted a Range Rover 2.5 Turbo Diesel 4x4 and I finally sucumbed to temptation. The 2.5 diesel turbo BMW engine with manual gearbox is the most economical of the bunch so is probably the best choice at 20 to 30 mpg.

It looks the part and the driving position is great. I never get used to looking down at the lights to see the next driver through his sunroof!

But the build quality is abysmal. In six months (and with a good history of servicing etc) this 4x4 has got through two sections of exhaust, clutch, part of gearbox, an electric window unit and now the aircon is playing up and every so often the air suspension announces its failure. To date it has resurrected itself a couple of times but at £1000+ to fix I fear the day it finally dies.

Worst of all is getting used to the parts costs. When something fails you think £x to repair, but then you have to remember it is a Range Rover so times by 3 and add a zero. Frightening.

I know this review section advises you not to discuss religion, but I find I pray alot when anywhere near this car! Never again.