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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
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I know of someone that put water in their engine thinking that was the spot to fill the reservoir/overflow and their comprehensive car insurance covered the subsequent engine damage.
Good luck.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
x 2.
I know of someone that put water in their engine thinking that was the spot to fill the reservoir/overflow and their comprehensive car insurance covered the subsequent engine damage.
Good luck.
Dullbird,
It seems that other people in the UK have had the same problem as you and appears that the position of the breather allows water to spray off the rear tyre into the opening of the Breather. See attached comments from LRO forum in Uk.
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2.4 DEFs do have a problem The tank breathere is behind the Rear Left wheel and gets watere thrown up onto it this then causes the injectors to leak and hydralicks the engine! causing more damage Crying or Very sad . This fault can be rectified by moving the breather to behind the plastic flap coverig the rear lights acording to LR. this is advised to any 2.4 driver as althow under warenty you lose you verchel for a undisclosed amount of time as the damage is assesed and reported to LR befor and action can be taken.
Hope this helps and 2.4 drivers and no one on here has been struck by the fault!!!
jonny
Hope this helps
hi all, donations for fuel pump send this way......
so far i have spoken with insurance co and they going to do there bit and see if there is a claim, it works along the lines of its your fault unlike an accident but you have not done it on purpose so we will cover you, fingers crossed, they also want to see if the supplying garage can be traced as they can then sue there insurance to get everyone money back including my excess, that would be cool.
as scouse said landrover have to change everything to cover them selves over teh exsisting run on there warrenty, which i guess makes sense especally if you are not footing the bill.
i spoke with gordon at opposite lock and he has had a customer go though the same thing, sound sliek its pretty common in this country.
as for water in fuel light i can not see anything in teh hand book, so does anyone know any different.
what happened to the good old days of a water trap on the fuel filter or does fuel quality stay good these days not too need one???????
so watch this space and lets hope we come out smiling, incidently apart froma rattle which lasted for half a second first thing in the morning teh car has been great, no fuel economy or performance issues, no excess noise vibration etc etc still a great car but would be even better parked on my drive way.:D
have to admitt the phone call certainly ruined my day but at least i have stopped shaking with the shock now.
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Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies
IsuzuRQuote:
Originally Posted by isuzurover
I would tend to agree with you on your intent, however my post (as stated) was referring to small amounts of water contamination.
As would always be the case, and if you were doing the job yourself, it would be appropriate to drain all remaining fuel, clean out fuel lines. any water traps and change the fuel filters. Then use the methanol to absorb the remaining water. Perhaps I should have made that a bit clearer.
Dullbird,
given that there seem to be numerous cases of water contamination and even a "Land Rover" company fix in the U.K., I would be bringing that information to the attention of Trivett's and possibly going as far as the NSW Office of Fair Trading/ or the federal ACCC.
Diana
Dam thats not the call you want.
You are probably already aware of this but in case not, here is a link to the Defender2 thread regarding contaminated fuel and the suspect breather position.Quote:
Originally Posted by one_iota
This sounds like an issue I had very briefly a few weeks back and our dealer also suggested bad fuel. We took ours STRAIGHT into the dealer and they plugged-in then informed us that the entire common rail and fuel delivery system needed replaceing (under warranty). The way they described it it sounded like they were trying to fix this on several vehicles without forcing a recall.Quote:
Originally Posted by dullbird
Water in fuel - known breather location problem - known issues with fuel delivery system... I would press the point and expect some sort of warranty fix from Land Rover. If your regular fuel supplier has not had any other reports from customers of bad fuel, then the vehicle is the problem, not the diesel!
I hope this issue doesn't bite Scallops and Kat while they're a million miles from anywhere...
Yep. That's what they told me too when they did the common-rail. I'm sure if you combined ALL the warranty issues people have reported in ONE vehicle, you would get eventually have a whole new one.Quote:
Originally Posted by muddymech
I actually said it as a spare of the moment thing without putting much thinking behind it , but the after thought was , I suppose the dealer warranty won't cover this scenario.Quote:
Originally Posted by EchiDna
my appologies and thank you for pointing it out..
Although this scenario is confused when you factor in failure of the "water in fuel" warning light. With such a supposedly massive amount of damage, the failure of this component to perform its function has certainly magnified the problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco_owner