We placed the order for our Land Rover Discovery 5 in April 2018, which was due for delivery around September and a month before our caravan was set to arrive. By August, however, we had received no communication from the JLR dealership. Following-up we discovered the original salesman no longer worked for JLR and there was a complication.

In July the dealerships were notified that the existing V6 diesel engine did not meet the latest E.U. emissions regulations and was to be replaced with the more powerful Ranger Rover Sport V6 twin-turbo diesel. This meant a further 2-month delivery delay was expected.

Obviously we were far from happy that this hadn’t been communicated to us and meant our caravan would arrive well before the car leaving us without a tow vehicle. Fortunately the dealership did the right thing and promised to lend us a Discovery 5 to allow us to do a shake-down run when the van was to be delivered on the 23rd of October.

On a positive note at least the delay meant we would receive the MY19 model but we were now looking at a mid-December delivery.