Thread: Devastating phone call....

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.

have to admitt the phone call certainly ruined my day but at least i have stopped shaking with the shock now.

Originally Posted by Lotz-A-Landies

...You can add methanol (metholated spirits) to petrol to trap small amounts of water contaminated petrol to allow it to pass the filters and be burned through the engine, but I'm unaware if the same goes for diesel.

Diana

Originally Posted by isuzurover

I would not advise this. ...

IsuzuR

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.

Originally Posted by one_iota

Sorry to hear.

You sure it isn't related to the fuel tank breather location...if it is then it might be Land Rovers issue?

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.

Originally Posted by dullbird

i will et ian know he is talking to the insurance company......

the thing is scouse when we had the rattle and engine light problem (that did go off the next day).. and ian rang up the serivce centre they said probably a bad tank of fuel dont bring it in just see how it goes.......

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.

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...

Originally Posted by muddymech

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.

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.

Originally Posted by EchiDna

DB, Ouch!! I bet that makes one feel happy... NOT!!

Disco Owner, how can a dealer warranty cover damage caused by the fuel the owner puts into it? In my understanding, warranties are against faulty manufacturing, not misuse - even if that misuse is completely unintentional as in the case of water in the fuel. This is what you buy comprehensive insurance is for!

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.

my appologies and thank you for pointing it out..