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Joncarma
Member Since: 21 Mar 2015
Location: Birmingham
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Due next month. I've had a main stealer call to remind me and a quote of £687.49 (Listers, Solihull) with the comment that it is a main service and the Discovery is expensive  !
A nice round number. Advice welcome please. Should I seek to negotiate and if so what's the view without wanting corners being cut?
Cheers
Jon MY2014 Discovery SDV6 HSE
MY2003 Discovery 2 TD5 ES
MY1995 Discovery 300TDI
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 27th Feb 2016 1:21 pm |
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L319
Member Since: 14 Dec 2013
Location: Herefordshire
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Definitely get alternative quotations, often dealers will price match . See if they will match Cambrian Land Rover in Aberystwyth
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| 27th Feb 2016 1:27 pm |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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Had similar, bit of phoning round and renegotiation, £450
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| 27th Feb 2016 2:03 pm |
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Robse
Member Since: 10 Jun 2014
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 498
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Holy cr@p that's nearly the price for the 5 year service pack  Velar MY18 D180 S Narvik
Discovery MY2015 3.0 SDV6 SE Corris - Gone
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| 27th Feb 2016 2:11 pm |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
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Yep, one of the reasons I am flogging mine and going for a DS, which is £499 5 year service, £130 tax and 50+ per gallon.
A comparison,
Wife's car - £399 5 year service plan and £30 a year tax, 75mpg.
Disco - average A and B services - £400 per year, £2,000 over 5 years. Tax £490 per year, 25mpg.
D4 to DS - I'd save £300 per year service, £360 tax, £1,824 per year diesel based on 10k miles. That's £2,484 per year or £12,420 over 5 years, NOT counting AA membership as my D4 is just out of warranty and you need something if you break down, also assuming the D4 doesn't need anything major done etc.
Anyway, with my part exchange D4, it's not costing me that to change, so it's a no brainer.
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| 27th Feb 2016 3:12 pm |
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Robse
Member Since: 10 Jun 2014
Location: Cambridgeshire
Posts: 498
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Not quite as cheap I know but a new D4 service pack is £699 and the tax is £290.
You'll miss it when you're in a DS !! Velar MY18 D180 S Narvik
Discovery MY2015 3.0 SDV6 SE Corris - Gone
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| 27th Feb 2016 6:01 pm |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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Yeah probably if I got to drive it as much as the little wifey. 
Thing is, do I wait until the new Disco 5 comes out and then find it starts at £50k or more for the poverty version?
It has to be more than the DS when you think about it or it would be in competition with their own brand. No point in pitching two 7 seater at each other. The DS HSE is early £40k's, so I think I am on the ball there.
The new D5 will look exactly like the DS, but slightly bigger. The DS looks like the Evoque and so on, so I am not sure there's much to be gained in waiting.
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| 27th Feb 2016 8:17 pm |
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FenRob
Member Since: 24 Mar 2014
Location: Fenland, Cambs
Posts: 130
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Funnily enough I had a DS while my D4 was in for second service at Duckworth in Boston (£565). It's the second one I've driven (first with the good old 2.2, this with the Ingenium).
I can only say "don't do it". DS is one of the most disappointing cars IMHO. Noisy, horrible dash, massive blind spots at the bottom of the A-pillars, crappy stereo, needed a map and compass to find 5th and 6th in the manual 'box. And the lieometer gave me 35.3mpg (albeit with a heavy right foot).
Getting back into the D4 was bliss. Floating along. And with a light right foot I managed 34.6mpg on the exact same route back. So less than 1mpg difference (OK, I realise 28mpg is more real world).
And given that the biggest running cost of any car is depreciation, it's madnesss to chop your D4 in for a DS just to save a few quid on petrol and tax.
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| 27th Feb 2016 8:23 pm |
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Someone-Gone
Member Since: 21 Dec 2015
Location: Gone
Posts: 5117
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I am mad then. I quite liked the car when I had a test drive. Anyway, deal is done, I'd loose my £1k deposit if I backed out now.
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| 27th Feb 2016 8:27 pm |
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Russell
Member Since: 24 Aug 2007
Location: Kent
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A number on here have done just that and all come back to the D4 very very quickly. I also recently meet a gent who was towing with a DS after part exch his Freelander, he regreted it and wished he had kept his FL....... MY17 D5 1st Edition Namib Orange
MY15 D4 HSE Kaikoura Stone
MY12 D4 HSE Nara Bronze Sold and gone
MY11 D4 HSE Stornaway Grey Sold and gone
D3 S spec Silver Sold and gone
Tow bar, full length roof bars, side steps, tow bar storage unit, surround camers.
D4 camera club
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| 27th Feb 2016 8:54 pm |
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FenRob
Member Since: 24 Mar 2014
Location: Fenland, Cambs
Posts: 130
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Freelander *much* nicer than DS.
Legally I think you get can your deposit back, so all is not lost 
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| 27th Feb 2016 8:59 pm |
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