Posted this in the wrong place but was meant to be in this section.

I haven't done business with Stratstone Perth but i'm wondering if anyone here has? All of their FFRRs are too expensive at the minute but I would like to go and have a proper look at some, but I've heard some bad experiences with Stratstone in general. My wife says that she would feel out of place and so would I in some aspects as I'm not what a stereotypical Range Rover owner is portrayed as (All a load of mut nuts) So has anyone ever bought a car from them or went and looked around? I take it would be fine to just turn up and look around, as I'm not in the market to be buying from them, they're just my local dealer.

Thanks

No such thing as a stereotypical RR owner!! Most important thing for us is to 'never judge a book by it's cover'. You should be able to (and both feel comfortable to) walk in to any Franchise LR dealership.

Shame you're not in London as the kettle is always on.

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If I'm down in London this year I might pop in and have a snoop around. Might as well go in next Saturday or in the week when i have a spare moment, be good if they're as welcoming as LPR are

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Most important thing for us is to 'never judge a book by it's cover'.

Stratstones are no worse than any of the rest. Most important would be to find out if there's someone there you click with. Once you find a person you feel you can trust then you're almost there.

People do business with other people, not companies.  Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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Royle, I don't look at this section much, but my 2p.

For nigh on 12 years I used my local dealership down the M9 from Stratstone Perth for buying new cars and servicing. They had been excellent and I had bought 5 of my six Land and Range Rovers from them but when I wanted to buy a White Sport or a factory order car they suddenly came over wanting deposits (which they had never done before on factory order cars and telling me no discounts available etc etc.) I travelled up the road to Stratstones who had not one but 3 TDv8 RRS's in 2 of the colours I was looking for, one was a demo car with about 3k miles on it BUT they wanted the same price as for the unreg car that was on the showroom floor! Then they weren't prepared to negotiate on the price of the demo. So I got onto my iphone and emailed Kam100 on the RRS forums who sourced me a car in London available tomorrow if I wanted it! I have been shopping in Lookers Park Royal ever since.

I have since taken my business back for the FFRR and the Evoque - their gain is the local dealer's loss. The nearest dealers to me had the FFRR in for service 3 weeks ago - I was talking to the sales people and they never even mentioned that there was a new model being launched or asked if I might be interested in it................ I still haven't been asked either. You would think they would be trying everything they could to get me back into their car buying customer clientele 2012MY RREvoque Dynamic Lux Plus Auto SD4 Coupe in Fuji White with full ebony interior

Statstone Stoke offered me £3000 under book trade value for my FFRR against a £20000' 05 HSE Disco.. I was offered actuall book trade value by three other dealers against cars at £17000 for '08 Nissan Pathfinder Mammoth (Top spec special edition) or '05 Disco S. So I won't be buying from Stratstone and have gone down the Nissan route as I need some time out from big bills. Sad as I love my Landies but £3000...or £6000 depending on how you look at it is a lot of money.

My FFRR is dammed near mint as well.. as you will all know I don't wait for failure but try to head them off before at the slightest suggestion of an issue. Ah well.

Stratstone also services my FFRR from the day I had it so they can kiss my wot not if they think that I'll be going back there as long as I have a hole in my

Just my honest experience  2008 Nissan Pathfinder Mammoth Sport - "Rory", 1990 110 TD CSW - "Snowy" - 2005 Freelander TD4 S - "Freddie"

Previous Landrover products - 2003 TD6 Vogue - "Jeeves/Big Bill" (Depends on mood!) - RRC TD Vogue - "Alfie", RRC v8 Fleetline "Reggie", Disco ES V8 LPG "Oscar", 101 Ambulance prototype - "Morph", 1964 SIIa Auto Powered by Jag 4.2 Lump - "Percy".