Contaminated diesel

londonTiger

OP has every right to get the full replacement if engineers deem it to be required. What happens if he just does a cheap flush and then later on finds there was still water trapped and the car breaks down again?

shaun_from_Africa

arcon5 wrote: »

Sorry but I can't see you being awarded £4,800 when a flush and filter change could have yielded the same results.

This might be true if the OP had simply gone ahead and did the work without any input from a landrover main dealer, but as they stated that the work needed to be done, I can't see there being too much of a problem if it got to court.

scooby75

Did you contact trading standards or the CAB who are more likely to have knowledge / reports of problems like this?

londonTiger

scooby75 wrote: »

Did you contact trading standards or the CAB who are more likely to have knowledge / reports of problems like this?

if you read posts before replyin you would know

Joe_Horner

A full relacement of the fuel system is going overboard, mo matter what the main dealer (who make a lovely profit on the extra work and parts) say.

Proper flushing will remove all the water from the tank, pipes, pump and injectors - the only part that may retain some is the filter, and that's the one part that should be replaced as a matter of course following contamination.

Joe_Horner

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

This might be true if the OP had simply gone ahead and did the work without any input from a landrover main dealer, but as they stated that the work needed to be done, I can't see there being too much of a problem if it got to court.

Other than the fact that Sainsburys (or their insurers) will be able to find any number of diesel specialists (and quite possibly several other main dealers) who'd confirm that the dealer quoted for far more work than was needed for such short term contamination..

vaio

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Other than the fact that Sainsburys (or their insurers) will be able to find any number of diesel specialists (and quite possibly several other main dealers) who'd confirm that the dealer quoted for far more work than was needed for such short term contamination..

possibly but the sums involved are small claims area so no legal costs can be recovered, throw in the gamble they might lose and I'd be surprised if their insurer defended it to the point it got to court.

epninety

Joe_Horner wrote: »

Other than the fact that Sainsburys (or their insurers) will be able to find any number of diesel specialists (and quite possibly several other main dealers) who'd confirm that the dealer quoted for far more work than was needed for such short term contamination..

I think a quick phone call to Land Rover technical at Gaydon would get aresponse that would hold more sway in court than anyone Sainsburys might bring along. :rotfl:

Pumps running at 29000psi need a bit more lubrication than water provides, even for a few minutes.

arcon5

I trust you also got a few quotes for the work... ? Thus mitigating your losses. This work could have been done much cheaper and since your claim is based on damages you will be expected to have tried to do so

vaio

arcon5 wrote: »

I trust you also got a few quotes for the work... ? Thus mitigating your losses. This work could have been done much cheaper and since your claim is based on damages you will be expected to have tried to do so

Don't sweat this one, with a scrape to the body work it's probably true, with an immobile car at a main dealer it would be unreasonable to even think about spending time & money touting it round other dealers on the back of a recovery truck.

As for getting the work done "much cheaper", I guess you mean a flush & filter change would have been cheaper, yep, and just draining the filter and reusing it would have been cheaper still.

Whether either of those options would have fixed the damage done by running a stupidly high pressure system dependent on diesel for lubrication on water I don't know. But I guess Land Rover do and will happily come to court to says so if needed (which they won't be because no insurance company will even think about spending the money required to take on a motor manufacturer on a sub £5k claim)