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I emailed them and within 24 hours I had a deposit on a fully loaded HSE less bluetooth and took delivery two weeks after my first contact with them. It was a hassle free experience.
Check out this website for A plan info. If you are the family member you will need your sponsor to contact them to provide you access.
https://www.myplan.ford.com/Home/homepage.asp
From a safety stand point, if the car has the problem, I'd rather experience it on a route that I am familiar with so I can focus only on dealing with it (instead of reading road signs and traffic patterns for example). I'd like to think through what to do and practice how to deal with it safely before taking on a long unfamiliar trip. It seems not to be as safe if I am hundreds of miles away from home and encounter the stalling in an environment that's foreign to me.
"Periodic Re-levelling
When the vehicle is parked, the air suspension control module 'wakes up' two hours after
the ignition was last switched off and then once every six hours. The vehicle height is
checked and if the vehicle is not level within a pre-set tolerance, small downwards height
adjustments may be made automatically."
We suspected as much, but now we know the numbers.
Jeff
I plain won't accept those explanations or workarounds as something I just have to live with. If I get this stalling behaviour, I will just work to invoke the lemon law and return the vehicle, if unable to repair per the lemon law.
I don't know about the ‘A plan’ discounts but I do know that HSEs were widely available only until last month when all the reviews came out. Plenty of SEs on the lots but ZERO HSEs, at least in the Southeast. I know, I made plenty of phone calls and had plenty of dealers laugh, err, tell me at least two months for an HSE.
If you are looking for any discount using any method and only wanting an SE, Im sure you can get one considering dealers have every color on the lot. If you want an HSE, good luck!! Be happy to pay sticker and get it within two months, they are simply unavailable. Again. at least in the southeast.
A bunch of people tell stories about buying one of these trucks off the lot with discounts last November/December when they first came out, but then the reviews came out, and then everyone just like you & me drove their happy butt straight to the dealer to buy one... Thus choking the supply!! My loaded Silver/Black HSE7 is sitting at the dealer now becuase they somehow pulled off a dealer trade to get it. Took three weeks but was told two months. It even came from a dealer who told me they had NONE. Go figure. I would have had it today but I think it was my salesman's day off... DOH!
Should there exist a special combination of driver habit and such magic slope, it would have to be a flaw by design and this ute probably would have encountered it. No stalling so far, but my misgiving about stalling and suspension failure still persists. I really hoped that LR would spring into action and address these issues.
Dealer states that there is a fix coming shortly.
Gothope, where are you located such that you got such a deal... are you an inside purchaser, good negotiator or luck or all of the above?
To test it, I drove through the Poconos until approx 30 miles left to empty (according to trip computer). Up and down fairly large hills.
Tom M.
I have 3k on my LR3 and I will post some of my thoughts soon (no time right now).
I was wondering if anyone has ordered/installed the dog barrier. If you have, please let me know what you think. Does it look okay? Is it a major pain to get in and out? Thanks!
JJ
This truck is SOO much better than the Range Rover I drove for two weeks!
A new car may have issues like this but I am not worried: if it is systematic they will just issue a recall. And of course chances are it was a one-off fault.
Just drove 100 km - wonderful. So great in snowy weather - stable, quiet, almost serene.
Michael
I want to take mine through an automatic wash if possible. Here in Ontario we collect a ton of salt every time we drive, and washign the top manually (as I do) is all very well, but the salt still collects everywhere else.
Ideas?
Michael
Both under 5k miles in white.
In case anyone cant wait!
Indeed - that is because it is such a great car. Trusck. whatever. And every bit of high-tech equipment needs maintenance - try a Boeing 767 or an Apache helicopter. As long as the issues are handled, all is OK.
I dunno -
I am waiting for someone to get pissed off enough to call the factory - gosh - they have to know about this problem - hmph!
We also purchased a new XC70 wagon this last week. That's a pretty nice ride.
Why settle for anything less???
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I was checking through inventories on-line It looks as though one may be able to determine what batch their vehicle is from by looking at the 5th letter of the VIN #, e.g. SALAA, SALAD, SALAE, etc.
I am taking delivery of a fresh off the boat SALAE today...I am hoping the stalling problem has been resolved in production by now...Anyone experience a stall with a SALAE?
Tony,
There are several owners that have written about this condition including myself. My guess is a software issue. It not problematic enough for me to warrant a trip to the dealer but should be corrected
My hope, inspired by the mass of postings on this forum, is that these failure modes are infant mortality issues and as such will appear right away or most likely never.
If the test drive reveals any issues, then I will not take the car. If no issues, then I will chance the validity of the infant mortality assumption.
Comments?
It almost feels like there is a sudden down shift of gear and engine over-revs as a result.
I think that the down-shift of the LR3 gear is not fast enough for up slope and for stopping.
Baby step the throttle or stopping for slightly longer seems to alleviate the situation.
Your experience may say more about who was responding to your inquiry than anything else. I drove over to the dealership and my experience, to-date, has been very good (well, about as good as buying a car can be!). We test drove the LR3 and the Range Rover, and they answered all of our questions. The sales rep that I spoke to was low pressure, and I like that.
The first step is to admit you have a problem. "AA 4 LR""
LR has just tested a programming change that is coming out now.
Let's hope this fixes the problem once and for all.
You may want to ask you dealer about this theory on the stalling issue.