Jeep Problems

Your choices are limited if you want a four-wheel drive for serious off-roading. You could look at a Mitsubishi Pajero, Nissan Pathfinder, or maybe one of the popular 4WD utes. A ute will do everything you need, and they are quite comfortable on the road.

The Discovery hasn’t done a lot of kays for its age, presumably those it has done have been tooling around town. If it’s in great shape, has been well maintained and serviced and hasn’t been used off-road I would tend to go for the Land Rover. Against that the Jeep has a good reputation as a towing vehicle, and it’s new, which adds to its appeal.

The current run-out deal is pretty good. If it suits your needs, why wait?

It's you against city hall, I'm afraid.

It would seem that you had a good case for a refund or a replacement engine or vehicle, but that won't happen without a fight.

You have to reach a resolution with Jeep, it won't happen at dealer level.

You could try and reopen negotiations with Jeep directly and try to reach someone at a high level in the company rather than simply dealing with the customer assistance people who have little or no power to do anything. If you feel that isn't going to get you anywhere go back to the Dept. of Fair Trading and enlist their help.

It isn't going to be easy, you have to be persistent.

Range Rovers are great, but they can be expensive to run and service.

I would strongly recommend the Sorento, particularly if you find it gives you the comfort and support you need.

If the warning light is in the shape of an engine it's telling you something is amiss within the engine management system and you should take it to a mechanic to find out the reason it's coming on. It's probably a faulty engine sensor, or something similar in the engine management system.