Thread: tank of petrol for the Puma.

You’re not completely up the proverbial.

Some go for a while, most that went hard don’t and fail soon. Being such a short run and immediate shut down - I’d suggest the following:

You can always try your luck, drain, fill, go.
At worst it’s a tank of diesel.

Just a thought maybe get the flush done by a specialist 1st? Similar to one of those guys that come to the servo. If there is no petrol in ANY of the system it shouldn't do any damage when you fire it up, then look at changing the injectors If the problem persists you should be able to get the refurbished if they only have done 5xxxkms

Good luck hopfully the flush/filter will be enough

not clear on your location, but there are diesel experts around that could be far more rea$onable

Are you trying to protect a relatively new-car warranty?

Originally Posted by fatnold

sooo, without pointing fingers around my house, my 2015 110 (with only 5000k's on the clock) Has been filled with 65L of ULP and driven 200m. It was turned off as soon as it started to cough. Had it towed to a dealer who wants to change injectors and high pressure fuel pump. (as well as a complete flush and new fuel filter of course) Their price -$13 762! ($1420 for flush and filter) They have conducted no testing/ diagnostics and are following the Landrover Technical Bulletin. What is the wisdom? New injectors and high pressure pump MUST be replaced or 'they should be right mate'? Will it be drive-able after a flush regardless? (so i can get the work done elsewhere given a set of injectors is around $1600 and a pump about $800).
Your wisdom will be appreciated.
ps. i have bought 4 Landrovers from this dealer over the years and I hate them with a passion. ........nice to get that off my chest.

You mention at the end how you hate the dealer, yet you keep going back??????? When will people learn? or do they sell the vehicle vowing never to buy another land Rover again, simply due to mechanical incompetence.. For goodness sake take it to an actual qualified mechanic and not a group of "approved bluh bluh bluh"

ANY half decent diesel mechanic should advise you on the issues with running petrol through the system (and it can be potentially fatal to the diesel fuel system), all the while flushing the petrol out and priming with diesel. I have done dozens of diesels that have had petrol through the system, the odd one drops an injector or lift pump a few kms down the track, but surprisingly most have survived to do many many more km's.

Its a land Rover Defender... you need a real mechanic (that would make a good sig)

P.S the injectors in the ford engine cant be refurbed

I have had 2x Hilux diesels go through the same dramavand after draining the tank thel filling up with clean diesel they went on for another couple of hundred thousand K's.
Just drain the tank then refill and give it a whirl

If you do need to pay it cost me around $3k for parts and labour done at an independant, that was about $1800 for injectors (x4) and pump which i supplied and $1200 for labour with other bits and pieces that were required.

I did flush the tank and lines before replacing and took it the Fraser island for a week but it started having problems again so it was off to the mechanics to be repaired. I suspect that I may have had a failing injector and pump already as the pump wouldn't run the learn off the tool I had or the mechanics ones, so they all got replaced at the same time.

Richard

Originally Posted by DazzaTD5

P.S the injectors in the ford engine cant be refurbed

I don't own one but good to know thanks for sharing!

Originally Posted by LRJim

I don't own one but good to know thanks for sharing!

Well I'm not a sharing huggy person ... the relevance of what I said is with regards to 2007 onwards Defender models that are a Ford engine. Another thing to note, is Land Rover didnt do some big engineering on it, Ford call it a severe service engine (or something of that description).