Bugger, and double bugger

[Disomania]

Bugger.

Driving to an appointment yesterday, I ended up behind a street sweeper. He stopped, and there was other traffic I had to wait for to go around. He decided to reverse without looking and I now have a dent in the bonnet of my 1 week old Disco4. I know these things happen, but it annoys me when somebody looks in one mirror, doesn't see anything, and then reverses. Car being new and still a little unfamiliar, when he reversed, I made an attempt to grab reverse and got park and then didn't have time to get it out before the touch. Funny thing is, the after the ding we neither of us had moved and there was about 4" of clearance between the truck and the car... He hit the brakes when he saw mer and the full hopper of dirt/stones/gravel rocked back, hit the car, then settled.

Double bugger - with all the rain in Canberra recently, ALL the repairers are booked solid so I have to wait over a month to get it fixed.

Oh, another annoying thing. Filled the beast and put 69.89l in for 582.6km.... Works out at 11.99l/100km - fair enough on a new car being run in (it will improve) BUT according to the trip computer, I had 'averaged' 9.1l/100km! Out by near on 3l/100km! I wonder if the dealer can reprogramme the computer to be a little more accurate.

[ADMIRAL]

Ouch...maybe a good set of airhorns could have helped. ( or a more aware sweeper driver ) You would actually think they would either have a camera rear vision setup, or damn good mirrors. Those sweepers are quite dangerous ( fatal ) to anyone on foot, let alone another vehicle.

[Disomania]

Yep, very dangerous. I'm more frustrated that had I still been in the Subaru, I WOULD have grabbed reverse and got out the way in time. I did it a couple of times over the 5yrs I had the car. Just not familiar enough with the LR yet and missed.

[WhiteD3]

Commiserations:( This has happened to me 3 times, all in relativity new cars but thankfully not in the D3.

[Tombie]

Oh, another annoying thing. Filled the beast and put 69.89l in for 582.6km.... Works out at 11.99l/100km - fair enough on a new car being run in (it will improve) BUT according to the trip computer, I had 'averaged' 9.1l/100km! Out by near on 3l/100km! I wonder if the dealer can reprogramme the computer to be a little more accurate.

Whilst it is recognised the trip computers are often out a bit...

Dont bet on your fuel station giving you 69.89L

I got sick of putting in more :eek: than the fuel tanks could actually hold in my last vehicle at a service station.
Complained and nothing came about.

So took 2 accurate measuring containers down there, pumped 20 litres (indicated) into each and came up around 2 litres shy :mad:
Filmed the whole lot, and threatened to expose it...
Over a 155L tank, that was quite a rip off....

It also has a lot to do with your tank temperature, fuel temp etc... And just how high you got the tank filled (remember theres air trapped in there too)

[Watpub]

Condolences Disomania,

There seems to be only 2 times in the life cycle of a car when it is most vulnerable to damage:
1. When it is less than a month old, and,
2. After you've haggled the best possible trade in deal from a dealer and you're waiting for the new car to arrive.

Ron

[eddomak]

There seems to be only 2 times in the life cycle of a car when it is most vulnerable to damage:
1. When it is less than a month old, and,
2. After you've haggled the best possible trade in deal from a dealer and you're waiting for the new car to arrive.

True indeed:
#1 - My last car got caught in hailstorm at the 3 week mark...
#2 - My parked motorcycle got knocked over by a car driver during the wait for the new one...

[Disomania]

Whilst it is recognised the trip computers are often out a bit...

Dont bet on your fuel station giving you 69.89L

I got sick of putting in more :eek: than the fuel tanks could actually hold in my last vehicle at a service station.
Complained and nothing came about.

So took 2 accurate measuring containers down there, pumped 20 litres (indicated) into each and came up around 2 litres shy :mad:
Filmed the whole lot, and threatened to expose it...
Over a 155L tank, that was quite a rip off....

It also has a lot to do with your tank temperature, fuel temp etc... And just how high you got the tank filled (remember theres air trapped in there too)

I was a little shocked so filled again today and it came out mathematically at 10.7l/100km which is what I expect from the driving I'm currently doing. I usually trickle fill for the figures, and use the same servo for getting fuel.
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Can do anything about the temp, but diesel is not so expansive (is that a word?) as petrol.

What I DID remember about filling last time is that the fuel 'in' seemed about right for 10l/100km, then there was this spit of fuel (not much) and I then put near on 10l more in the tank. I'm guessing there was an air lock when I did the first fill that cleared at that time hence the poor consumption figure.

This time, I shook the car thouroughly then filled and when it 'clicked' shook again (stand on the tow bar and move weight up/down) till I heard a gurgle then did the rest of the trickle fill. I'll do this for the next fill and I should (magic escape word - should) have taken one variable out of the equation a bit.

Working on what the trip computer is telling me, I should (that word again) get 750km from the tank of fuel which is fairly in line with the 10.7 I worked out.

Ah well, it's only got 1200km on the clock so in around 30k or so it should be working as it should.

Thanks for the thoughts though, appreciated

[p38arover]

Condolences Disomania,

There seems to be only 2 times in the life cycle of a car when it is most vulnerable to damage:
1. When it is less than a month old, and,
2. After you've haggled the best possible trade in deal from a dealer and you're waiting for the new car to arrive.

Ron

Yep.

I had a brand new, and I mean brand new, car damaged by a bloke who parked his car next to mine and slammed his opening door into the side of mine.

My car had only been picked up from the dealer that afternoon. :mad:

[gps-au]

Yep.

I had a brand new, and I mean brand new, car damaged by a bloke who parked his car next to mine and slammed his opening door into the side of mine.

My car had only been picked up from the dealer that afternoon. :mad:

I remember picking up a vehicle at the stealers and whilst finishing up the paperwork another salesPERSON decided to move the new vehicle. The detailers hadn't removed some plastic off the pedals and with a slipped foot managed to reverse the vehicle directly back into my trade-in.

BTW, managed to write off BOTH vehicles (& 3 others) as hit with such force, knocked over the brick wall behind as well which bounced forward off the adjacent, collapsing forward.

Needless to say I was driving the GM's demo for the next 2 weeks till they got me a replacement.

[Disomania]

With all the other incidents people have mentioned, I don't feel so bad - thanks people.

Still most annoying that I have to wait so long just to get a quote and then get it fixed some time later.:mad:

If Canberra drivers would only learn HOW to drive in the rain then things wouldn't be so bad. Guess that's a huge thing to hope for - most of them can't drive in the rain.

Today, a taxi decided to dart out from behind me, nearly hit the car in the right lane that was just ahead of me, and try to run into the side of the car. His passengers didn't look very happy with him.

It's an every day occurance here for people to try to take you out. A 'National Passtime' ......

[chuck]

What is even worse is another landrover owner damaging your car & not owning up.
I parked my car way away from others at Sugarloaf & a D1 pulled up while I was on site & swung his door into my passenger front door causing a dent & chipping the paint.

I was furious & would have belted him however I suppose a $300 dent is better than being sacked for assault!!!!!

The car was a week old.

Regards

Chuck