Importing LR problems

But if Land Rover have a policy / practice of being awkward towards dealers supplying imports that is a breach of EU law. VW were fined a huge sum for doing similar.

Tim Hobbs

'58 Series 2 '77 101FC Ambulance '95 Discovery V8i

Indeed, however the contract is with the dealer, who in turn will have an agreement (I guess) with LR.

I really don't think I'd get a very good response if I called BDs office to ask if there is any such policy! :-)

Perhaphs best to text him then...less confrontaional... ;-)

I'll ask later when he pops around to pick up the postit note sketches for the new 101 Winnebago due to hit the production lines soon :-) However only sales in the uk due to the P&P.

Lee

"The Hills" wrote in news:3f0aa8a1$0$163$ snipped-for-privacy@master.news.zetnet.net:

It might be worth your while telephoning The Office of Fair Trading in case they are getting similar complaints from others. In my experience, they are very nice people and definitely on our side!

Derry

Only if the dealer, or person with which you have the contract is based within the UK.

The OFT Won't cover anything else.

"Lee_D"

I imported a 110 H/T in April. Everything OK (the German dealer had the 110 in stock) but L/R did drag their feet when the 110 came into the UK and the Certificate of Conformity which L/R has to produce took quite a few days to surface.

On or around Tue, 8 Jul 2003 23:35:50 +0100, "PJS" enlightened us thusly:

Heard anecdotal evidence of other people having similar problems with similar certificates.

There has been lots of this kind of discussion over the years over pn uk.rec.cars.imports

As someone else has said VW were found guilty of having policies of trying to stop people buying cars from parts of Europe other than the state they live in and it cost them dearly (but still not as much as they make ripping people off....)

Someone in uk.r.c.imports went into this in some detail and posted the name of the Euro minister responsible for the VW investigation and, IIRC, a quick note to the manufacturer, copied to the Euro minister guy and the dealer, soon had the blockage sorted.

Maybe worth trawling Google groups to see if you can find it

Try and get the dealer to commit to writing what the problem is. He'll probably only see the problem as far as the Dutch LR importer. They'll maybe have the problem with LR in the UK.

Best of luck and keep us up to date.

C P.S. If I get chance I'll try and find the stuff I mentioned above

I know it's bad for to reply to your own posting but I found the thread I mentioned

Either search in Google groups for Audi Denmark restrictive trade practices or go here

Can't find any follow up though so don't know how he got on but at least the Euro minister acted swiftly enough even if Audi didn't.....

Best of luck X=C

Thanks for all the useful advice and posts. Husbad has gone off today with Landrover's phone number, details of the EU commissioners, a copy of LRO with the interview with the Landrover CEO, and a mission to try and find out what's happening at the Dutch end and "kick *ss" as the Americans would say. We need to clarify that our Dutch dealer doesn't have problems with Landrover over, say, credit, so we can try to pinpoint the difficulty.

Watch this space.

Sarah