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Greywolf
 


Member Since: 08 Jun 2011
Location: North west Lancashire
Posts: 8

United Kingdom 2011 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 Landmark LE Auto Santorini BlackDiscovery 4
Experience Day

Hi. I'm new to the forum having picked up my new Disco Landmark last Friday. What a fantastic machine. I have however stopped looking at threads where people enumerate all the things that have gone wrong with theirs. It' a sort of Landie hypochondria.

When I picked it up I was given a voucher for a free half day experience which was great. I wasn't expeting it and was actually intending to pay for a whole day later in the year. I rang the number to book on at the Skipton centre and right at the end discovered I would not be able to go as I had 9 points on my licence (all SP30s) Don't ask bad few weeks last autumn.

I have two questioons.

1 Has anyone else fallen foul of this it of legislation?

2 Does the same ru;e apply if you just go and pay for the course.

I really want to do the course and don't want to have to wait 2 1/2 years until the points come off.
  
Post #8049449th Jun 2011 6:35 am
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Comanche
 


Member Since: 22 Jul 2010
Location: So far behind I think I'm first!
Posts: 960

Wales 

Hi and welcome to the mad house!
I think the issue with the penalty points is the insurance so I guess it will be the same if you pay for a full day experience. Sad
 I started off with nothing and Ive still got most of it left.  
Post #8049749th Jun 2011 7:37 am
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Ent
 


Member Since: 12 Oct 2007
Location: In the cack
Posts: 6488

Iraq 2011 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 XS Auto Fuji WhiteDiscovery 4

Welcome Greywolf

If you want to do a bit of mild green laning, non damaging of course, drop me a pm but you will need 5 post before you can send one. Where abouts in Lancashire do you live?

Lee
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Post #8050029th Jun 2011 8:59 am
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kljw
 


Member Since: 06 Aug 2011
Location: Edinburgh
Posts: 185

Scotland 

the exsperiance day you where offered, was it a propper off road exssperiance, where you drive around the off road course, or was it an off road experiance that is in fact an exstended test drive? reason for asking, my wife an i have been offered a few of these when changing vehicles, but they all turn out to be a glorified test drive.
complained to land rover about this, as it seems a bit rich to offer something, that then turns out to be something different.
so in short, you may not have missed out on anything, check and and let us know,

keith
soon to to be a D4 (2012) owner.
 Cheers
Keith 
 
Post #82443310th Aug 2011 9:30 am
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markate
 


Member Since: 17 Sep 2011
Location: England
Posts: 704

2016 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 HSE Auto Aintree GreenDiscovery 4

The Land Rover Experience Vouchers given by the Dealers are for a half day experience at one of the Land Rover Experience Centres. The basic format for the 1/2 day is laid down by Land Rover and includes:

a. Short introductory briefing on Health & Safety, Land Rover Technology and Fragile Earth.
b. Demonstration drive by the Instructor.
c. Option of either, All on road, half on road/half off road or all off road.

If you have points on your licence it is often possible to opt for the all offroad option which gets round the insurance problem but it will depend on which Centre you're using
  
Post #83610417th Sep 2011 7:41 pm
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D4Comm
 


Member Since: 08 Dec 2007
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 317

England 2016 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 Commercial XS Auto Corris GreyDiscovery 4

Does everyone get these vouchers when buying a new D4 or is it for 1st time LR customers??
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Post #8669784th Dec 2011 7:55 pm
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cherokee
 


Member Since: 03 Jul 2007
Location: preston
Posts: 562

2012 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 HSE Auto Nara BronzeDiscovery 4

andymount, go see the guy who sold you your car and ask him for your voucher,I went back last week
and did exactly that and he said they have stopped doing it, but! i can get you a voucher if you want
one he gave it to me there and then.........He can only say no nowt to loose Thumbs Up
 Always walk behind a Shooter and
In front of a Sh*ter 
 
Post #8679506th Dec 2011 10:34 pm
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h9scw
 


Member Since: 26 Mar 2010
Location: Ayrshire
Posts: 37

Scotland 2012 Discovery 4 3.0 SDV6 GS Auto Indus SilverDiscovery 4

I have done the D4 and RRS at the Scottish LRE centre at Dunkeld. The first time we meant to do the D4, and after arriving found the vehicle unavailabe so were offered the RRS instead....as well as a replacement date for the D4.
We did a short road run in the RRS then spent the next 3.5hrs off road, swapping driving seats between the wife and I. The next visit up to do the D4 had no on-road driving and was solely off-road, seeing as we had done the usual tracks the instructor guided us through the forest quad bike tracks...very narrow for a D4 but immense fun.

When chatting to the instructor, she could not believe that the dealer had never offered us the LRE voucher when buying our previous 2 D2s, or indeed when buying the D3. Alledgedly all dealers have these vouchers at their disposal to be issued at their discression. I only managed to procure my first voucher by embarrasing my dealer slightly at the Royal Highland Show. They were giving vouchers away like free sweeties, so I asked just how much hard earned cash a "loyal" customer had to spend to get one!

It is an eye opener as to what the vehicles can and will do....without breaking sweat.
  
Post #8775281st Jan 2012 8:15 pm
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RAK
 


Member Since: 20 Jan 2009
Location: Midlands
Posts: 14

United Kingdom 2009 Discovery 3 TDV6 GS Manual Zermatt SilverDiscovery 3

D4Comm wrote:
Does everyone get these vouchers when buying a new D4 or is it for 1st time LR customers??

Didnt get one when I picked up a D3 3 years ago but given one when I picked up a new D4 just before xmas. Dealer (Guy Salmon) asked if I had previously done the experiece day and when I said no he gave me the voucher.
Cheers
  
Post #8777192nd Jan 2012 11:19 am
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WanderinTsar
 


Member Since: 14 Dec 2011
Location: Port Erin, IoM
Posts: 11

United Kingdom 2010 Discovery 4 3.0 TDV6 XS Auto Zermatt SilverDiscovery 4
Virgin territory

Hello chaps,
1st post here (although I've loitered a while),
I picked up my MY10 3.0 XS from Stratstones in November and was given a LRE half day voucher but as I'm away from home at the min and the voucher says 'claim within 28 days' I rang them to book a future date. They were really helpful on the phone and said the voucher would be valid until July so I'm looking forward to the 'experience' at some future date.
Stratstones were very helpful too during purchase.
Bill.
  
Post #8800376th Jan 2012 10:24 pm
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