Thread: Can I get this fixed by LR before Monday

Well it happened to our deefer too!

The common problem mentioned in these threads 2.2 Defender Interesting Warranty Claim & http://www.aulro.com/afvb/90-110-130...urbo-hose.html regarding the rubbing though the intercooler hose.

Now my wife is in Sydney from Melbourne visiting family and I am overseas at 2.30am and she calls to let me know that the car is making a different sound

She describes it as a hissing sound that get louder as the engine works more like at highway speed. Lurking on this forum I had my suspisions so I let her know where to look and low and behold there is a hole in the spiral bound turbo-intercooler hose where it has been rubbing on the pulley.

Now my wife needs to be back in Melbourne Monday night and is/was driving Monday. Any suggestions on how to get this fixed under warranty beofre then. Is there anyone in Sydney that can do it today as it seem the service centres are closed on the weekends

Want to have my ducks in a row before calling LR Assist or the LR dealer direct

Appreciate any help

Glenn

PS the car has 26, 500km and was serviced 6000km back. Surely initial wear on the hose was evident then and there is a bulletin - just thinking out loud.

An update. Thanks to everyone who responded and it seems all too hard to get it done right over the weekend so it should be fixed Monday (hopefully).

The wife had noticed a sound a couple of days back but then thought she was hearing things and didn't investigate further. It was only a highway drive around sutherland this morning that she observed a definate problem and called me. She found the hole that I thought it was and then on the way home (10km) the engine light came on and she stopped immediately and called land rover assist straight away.

She then limped home (5km) and the tow truck will pick it up Monday morning (the first and hopefully the last ride).

Land rover assist was helpful although they were more than happy for my wife to get the car home and not tow it straight away and store it for the weekend. That being said my wife was not keen to sit on the side of the road with a 2 year old daughter waiting either.

So we will see what happens Monday. Hopefully they install the third version of the apparent fix with the associated bracket.

Now I have a further question that someone may want to answer. The turbo is predominately positive pressure but does it ever run into vacuum and possibly suck contaminants, rubber hose pieces, dirt etc into the intercooler and/or engine bypassing the air filter? Would this be significant or a cause for concern as it was a slow leak that got worse over two to three days before being picked up by my wife/ECM?

Also this issue may explain another phenomenon that my wife discussed a few months ago. After completing a U-turn to the right she did notice on occasion a reluctance to straighten. This only became evident after the service 6000km ago and was intermittent. My guess is that this was the turbo hose steel spring catching on the steering shaft which then leads me to think the dealer may have already replaced the hose in the last service and it lasted a grand total of 6000km of highway, 100km of towing and some 300km of 4x4 work - Not very long!