The Boy wrote:

mse wrote:

The Boy wrote:

Those sensors have been replaced on mine maybe four or five times plus just about everything else on the fuel system including two pumps! It is still at the dealers at the moment but I will be ringing them this morning to check on progress. Hope fully the smashed window and scratched paint work has been replaced after it was broken into over the weekend while at the dealers. They emailed me yeesterday to say that they will not be held responcible for the kit stolen out of the vehilce but I expected that.

No they are responsbile for it - whilst in their care it is their responsbility and their insurance.

just as it would be with the hire car. i wouldnt stand for that - ask for their insurance company, totally down to them to secure.

Sorry mate but if they have taken reasonable measures to protect the vehicle then they cannot be held liable. They are saying it was in their secure compound with locked gates and steel fence with barbed wire so they have taken suitable precautions. Now I have taken advice form the insurance legal help line and this is right. Now I have a very strong feeling my vehicle was not in the compound but the customer car park. I tried to follow this up and asked for the name of the police officer who attend and when asked why I told them that I wanted to see the report as to the location of the car when they came. The dealers said that by the time the police arrived it had been moved to the vehicle to the workshop where they dusted it for prints. Read into that what you will. I asked for the name off the officer who first attended and they told me they did not know.

Bosun wrote:

A comment from "one_iota" has prompted me to inform you guys of my experience regarding loss of power and pressure sensor failure. Albeit not on the 2.4TDCi common rail diesel, but a common rail diesel none the less, which I assume all use similar engine software logic.
If the rail pressure sensor fails, the engine goes into a "limp home mode", which derates the engine (dumps fuel), resulting in loss of power. Because the injection system uses a constant displacement pump, the excess fuel has to go somewhere, and that's back to tank via the return fuel line. This fuel is now very hot and there's a lot of it. If the return line directs the fuel onto the tank walls or base it can melt a hole quite quickly in a polyethylene tank if not rectified straight away. So it's probably not a good idea to contiue driving with loss of power caused by a faulty pressure sensor.
Bosun.

Bosun wrote:

Not sure, remember this is return fuel. Normally "excess" fuel would return to the tank via this route. I assume the cooler is for fuel going to the engine and not from it.

felos wrote:

b)Install a webasto or other heater and use it every cold morning to heat the engine and therefore lower the viscosity of oil before startup .

Webasto is standard equipment on Defenders in Norway. I use mine every morning during the winter. It's running for half an hour before I start the engine. I've had problems with fuel rail twice........... Both times when shifting from 2nd to 3rd gear.
But, after the last fuel rail installation, the engine sounds much more 'smooth'. 08MY Defender 2.4 SE

The Boy wrote:

I am ringing the police tomorrow to get as much info as possible. I will also contact my broker for advice now you have said that. At the end of the day if the insurers don't like the sound of things they will simply counter claim from the dealers. I am told if that is done I will, after time get my £200 excess back and hopefully the £60 excess form my claim form he equipment stolen form my contents insurance.

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On a more upbeat note, the dealers had a meeting with some people from land rover about why my lr keeps breaking down over the last year or so and they think they have come up with the cause. They think the pump is over pressurising and when the injectors reach critical pressure it is dumping fuel in leading to semi-hydrolock. Just waiting for parts to be delivered.

Boy

Very interesting as our car still has the engine rattle that land rover australia have been chasing for the last 18months just like one iota's except he as only had it once ir twice we have also had ours go into limp mode 3 times and on occasions the rattle has happened twice not once with in the 500 meter distance from starting up.

Landrover have just informed me that it was due to a blocked filter which i'm pretty sure when I cut it open that it wasn't blocked and i'm sure the second new filter that went on wasn't blocked either as the rattle never went away..

Can you let me know how you get on The Boy as at least you have people getting together and talking about yours we have to do our own research for the dealers over here YOU KNOW REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS!!!!