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Malcolm
 


Member Since: 06 Dec 2005
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Make your problems known

Dear All,
Rather than chatting with each other , nice as it is, e-mail this guy marc_mustard@dennis.co.uk who is a journalist from Autoexpress who has run one and will be running a second article on my good fortune with LR.
The first article made LR move up to a whopping £500 offer of compensation and many voices attract attention! LR just seem to be pretending that nothing is wrong.
  
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Slimer
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I disagree, the purpose of the forum is to chat and discuss our experiences with the Discovery 3. The guy from Auto Express should sign up and join in, if he wants to publish anything from the site he should contact Martin and take it from there. He will get a much better idea of what owners think on here than he will from the few people that bother to email him
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Malcolm
 


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Good point, I guess if he is worth his salt he will be able to find this site via a web search as I did.
  
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10forcash
 


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If the journo manages to find Disco3.co.uk it may not be of much use as there are many positive experiences shared - and people actually seem to enjoy ownership of their vehicle most of the time Shocked Shocked ...not what most journo's actually want to hear about any vehicle really Rolling Eyes
  
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Malcolm
 


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It's odd have read this for a couple of days there seems to be two camps 1) the owners who have 100% vehicles and love them, as I do when it works.2) The owners who have returned one or more vehicles and just don't seem lucky. Just strikes me this is a high ticket price product with a rather hit and miss reliability rate.
  
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Pelyma
  


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Do you think journos look at the site then? Must be easier to let the story come to then, that's how most the finance stuff gets written. A person such as myself gets in contact with a journo for a story they rewrite it give me a mention - job done!
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Post #318008th Dec 2005 2:56 pm
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BN
 


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Re: Make your problems known

This site does get attention from LR and many dealers. Martins keyrings put the awareness into any dealership that a car goes into for attention or service now. As a one marque site the following is remarkable and the members normally very understanding and very sensible. Journalists don't report on 'the norm' that is not news. We deal with the situations as they come along and usually with some degree of success and we are not a 5 second mag item seller for the press.

There are only 2 journalists who I know who I would even consider talking to for a piece in a magazine and one of them teaches our Newbies and as well as being a LRE senior instructor and his son the 9 times European Champion now. The other is also a very experienced 4x4 expert, are Auto Express 4x4 experts ??

We also own the vehicles in the majority and find them brilliant. It is better to get them sorted than give the press a story.
  
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10forcash
 


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Todays news = tomorrow's Censored wipe...
  
Post #318078th Dec 2005 3:17 pm
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Martin
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Bear in mind that Auto Express will just take a quick story to get magazines off the shelf - and may just tar all D3 owners (or members of DISCO3) with the same brush. So please think about it before contacting any magazine.

This is a site for all aspects of D3 ownership - not simply a forum for problems to be aired, but for D3 owners to share information, learn and help each other. 8)
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Pelyma
  


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In AE defence they do run a D3 long term more than any of the LR magazines do. I'm not so sure that the Journos mentioned would really be writing the sort of article anti D3 anyway, but trust none is my moto.
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simon
  


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I've always found Auto Express to be grossly inaccurate and sensationalist with most of their news articles... tend to read its rather more serious and respected sister mag Autocar.
  
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