Originally Posted by
Dee Haitch
As a newbie here, I'll start by saying that chances are my issue has been raised previously - in which case I apologise!
I have a 2000 Discovery TD5. I accept that it's not a new vehicle, nearly 250,000 kms, and that things will go wrong. Over the past 18 months I have spent a lot more than ever anticipated on 'repairs' as suggested by my Landy specialist. I started getting a bit concerned when, after a major service in which brake pad wear was measured and recorded as I had reported odd brake noise, a wheel seized up 900 kms later when I stopped at lights and required backing up to get the brakes off. The pads were so worn that one had actually jammed between the caliper and the rotor and was lying in the road. Needless to say, that then cost me new rotors and pads all round! The comment made that I must have been braking hard. I don't; I drive very conservatively. There have been other cases where things have been less than satisfactory - and I've had to later rectify - but I do try to accept that the world is not perfect. The latest annoyance is the fuel pump. The car just stopped dead and after having had it towed in, I was advised that I needed a new fuel pump. These things can happen and $700 later I was mobile again. Two days later the fuel pump started screaming so back it goes. I'm told the pump is faulty so they will order a new one. It is fitted in due course and performs just as the previous one did; with a noise that could be heard half a street away. It was duly replaced and the car performed fine for about 1000kms - and then the screaming started again. Again I was told that the pump was faulty and had to be replaced. On taking the vehicle in, I got no pick-up call that afternoon, so went the next day to see what was wrong. I'm now told that the problem was dirt in the fuel tank, blocking filters in the pump and causing the bearings to fail(!), so they have had to remove the tank and send it off for cleaning and it will take about 10 days. Plus I have to pay for a new pump. When I questioned how it was that a dirty tank would not have shown in the previous 3 fuel pumps, I was told that the filters are internal and not visible. I also pointed out that my car had not been out of town for the past 8,000 kms, I had done less that 1000kms since a major $1,000 service and that I always filled at the same, very busy, servo. No answer to that, only to say that it was hard to prove when a servo had given dirty fuel.
I really don't want to cast aspersions here, but I'd be interested in hearing comments from those more familiar with the vehicle than I am. I don't want to be unreasonable but .... I would also question why any manufacturer would install a filter in a pump so that it is a] Unable to be seen or cleaned and b]. the blocking of which results in the need for (I'm told) a $1,700+ repair bill.
Sorry for the length but there is no point in asking if I don't give the full information. Thanks.
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