Thread: Puma intercooler hose / steering linkage

Thanks 'iota will check ours,clears it by about an inch.

ours is rubbing

I mentioned this issue after my around Australia trip last year. My dealer fitted a new hose which for some reason clears the rub point. Maybe LRA have a modified hose - that was the impression they gave me. So it might pay to get this sorted under warranty rather than just do the cable tie fix.

Now I thought that I would dig this one up following a strained conversation with the service department at a well known dealership.

I added the turbo hose issue to the "look at list" having hoisted mine up with cable ties.

Now apparently according to the "brains" there and the suited gentleman who relayed the technical advice...my rubbing issue is as the result of the after market snorkel installation..

The hose in question is nowhere near where the Snorkel man goes.

At least I have the response in writing so a stiletto like response will be penned by me in response.

It's like trying to wade through treacle though.

It seems to me that they think we live in a knowledge vacuum whereas they think that they are the font of all knowledge with respect to Land Rover.

Fortunately our collective brains trust here is greater than theirs.

Well here's another one for the record... Since back in September my 130 has been suffering from driveline noises/vibrations. The vehicle has been at 3 different dealers, on 4 separate occasions, and was given 4 mis-diagnoses. In the end ... clearly running out of options for fobbing me off ... the final dealer workshop (and then of course LRA) blamed it on my aftermarket accessories. So I went to the provider of said accessories to have them check them out, and not surprisingly they found no problems. What's more, within a day they had the answer to my real problem, and sure enough, it's related to an unmodifed vehicle component ... they also have a fix for it! I will go into more details in a separate thread once I get the fix applied, but the point I would like to make is:

Why are 3 authorised Land Rover dealers unable to diagnose a problem during a total of 9 days in the workshops, that it has taken an independent shop (and not even one that specialises in LRs) a single day to diagnose? I think I know the answer...

G'day blokes,

Just pulled the intercooler to turbo hose off "to check", sure enough, it is rubbing, not split yet but off to get a new hose tomorrow. Any of you blokes changed this hose, is the LR replacement any different, if not, is the cable tie the best way out? Seems to be a bolt on the wheel arch side - not on the steering linkage, that is rubbing. 2007 Puma: 55,000km.

Thanks.

I took a different approach, replacing most of the hoses with metal tube and overcame any lag as well - (see thread below). This option probably isn't much more expensive than replacement hoses. The dearest part was the clamps and no matter what hose you chose, they require bullet proof clamps.




http://www.aulro.com/afvb/projects-t...roject-24.html


Erich