Am I mad?

[goddo]

I have seen a 2015 Range Rover Sport 3.0 tdv6 with service history for the first 32k miles only.
The car has now done 60k miles.
I am going to give it a good look over and, if I do buy it, take to an Indy for full checking.
Am I mad to consider it? Walk away or should it be a reasonable chance to take.

[swisstoni]

I suppose the question to ask yourself is, if you were selling such a car, would you expect buyers to be ok with that?
What price would you have to ask to make 30k miles of mystery acceptable?

There may be other evidence of care of course. The MOT history may show advisories being fixed, and garage receipts, etc.

[goddo]

swisstoni said:

I suppose the question to ask yourself is, if you were selling such a car, would you expect buyers to be ok with that?
What price would you have to ask to make 30k miles of mystery acceptable?

There may be other evidence of care of course. The MOT history may show advisories being fixed, and garage receipts, etc.

Yes I agree there is a fair bit of doubt about the car although after a superficial look over, it seems very well kept. Leather and carpets are all pretty well what you would expect for the mileage and there are no serious marks on the bodywork. Mechanically the engine looks leak free both oil and water wise. The diesel sounds just like my 3.0 diesel Vogue did. Haven't had a chance to have a quick look underneath yet. I checked the MOT history and the advisories all referred to tyre wear/damage. The current set of tyres, although worn down a little, all seem OK.
I may try and take a pic of the logbook and drop a line to the previous owner.....if that's not stepping over the line?

[bakerstreet]

Its done 30k without services. That literally two services that its missed. Yikes. Its also pretty low miles really.

If its the 3.0 V6 Diesel, I would exercise some caution there. Nice and smooth but known to suffer from broken cranks, split inlet manifolds plus the usual gremlins of modern diesels (Turbos, injectors, EGRs)

However, even if it had two oil services in the service history, it wouldn't make much difference to any of the above points any way.

With any modern Land Rover I would check:

electrics, do they all work
Suspension, Does it work as it should (Raise, lower ect)
Gearbox. All modes
Leaks. Even the Sport was known to have a leaking problem on early models.

Warranty Direct warranty worth considering. Think its about £400 a year ish, but you can get a quote online.

[f1_dragon]

I would just be aware of and read up on the DPF issues I think 2015/2016 cars had where the DPF could not get hot enough to regen during short journeys. This led to DPF red warnings and the car going into limp mode, oil dilution with active re-gens and increased risk of engine issues if the oil was not regularly changed.

I got rid of mine as got fed up of repeatedly having to call out LR to reset the DPF red warning and then drive up and down a motorway for 20mins to regen, and I wasn't confident they would change the oil FOC once I was out of warranty. Shame as I loved the car otherwise.

[cayman-black]

It is probably a plus that it hasn't been into main dealers, useless as they are.

[goddo]

cayman-black said:

It is probably a plus that it hasn't been into main dealers, useless as they are.

Ha Ha! I couldn't agree more on that aspect. As it happens, I have now decided not to go for that car anyway. It wasn't the one for me.
The one I have selected is almost at the point where it needs a new timing belt (coming up for seven years old). I then realised that there are two belts, one timing, one fuel injection, plus while the mechanic has access, it would be prudent to change the water pump as well. The sales guy agreed to replace the timing belt as part of the deal so I have suggested that I contribute 50% of the cost of the entire job as I don't think it fair he has the burden of all of it.
Thoughts, good or bad accepted please?