Fuming Range Rover owner!
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Sounds like it overheated and destroyed the engine.
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rang...
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/rang...
Many years ago a sign appeared outside a local firm saying that a local firm of solicitors were liars and assault their clients. The solicitors took the farmer to court and lost as the farmer proved they had lied and one of the partners had assaulted him! So the solicitors then complained about the sign on planning grounds and an enforcement notice wa served on the farmer. So he moved the sign on to a trailer where it stayed for years.
I'd love to know the actual detail and hope he can come here and give us the lowdown.
Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
SmithCorona said:
I'd love to know the actual detail and hope he can come here and give us the lowdown.
Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
Surprise FFS!Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
Sheepshanks said:
I was in a Ford dealer some years ago and a woman sat down in service reception and quietly said she woulld stay there until the issue with her car was sorted. They called the police!
My ST170 developed a fault when it was about 6 months old where it wouldn't rev over 4k and Ford refused to look into it. Eventually it got traded in on a Leon 225 when it was 2 years old. The issue wasn't there anymore when I tracked the car down in 2017 so clearly someone actually bothered to look into it eventually. 
Canon_Fodder said:
Sheepshanks said:
I was in a Ford dealer some years ago and a woman sat down in service reception and quietly said she woulld stay there until the issue with her car was sorted. They called the police!
rest of the story please 
I did own a new Ford many years ago and every encounter with dealers at the time, and I tried a few of them, left me plotting how I could blow the places up.
SmithCorona said:
They wouldn't investigate a six month old car that couldn't get to within 1.5k of redline?
Why didn't you just reject it?
It was my dads car at the time, I think it was a case of them saying that they didn't know what the fault could be so they never bothered to look. It was a quick replacement for a Subaru that got stolen so I think he was more or less just sick of dealing with cars for a while and put up with it. Why didn't you just reject it?
SmithCorona said:
I'd love to know the actual detail and hope he can come here and give us the lowdown.
Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
The £2500 he spent on a warranty might have been better put towards investigating the oil cooler and EGR casings. Common enough failure points on the TDV8 to be known about, but still very rare occurrences. Coolant leaks happen in l405s but often as a result of the rear HVAC and tracing can be a pain if it evaporates quickly.
The warranty (if the full and not 'select') is genuinely pretty bulletproof - though they won't pay for speculative work.
The low mileage in four years is a suprise and maybe they have their reservations. I can do 15k a year easily in my fatty - and I have other cars, and nowhere to actually go.
Also, and I cannot state this enough - they are not unreliable cars.
As always with the older cars it can often be more productive taking the cars to a reputable indie.
Canon_Fodder said:
Sheepshanks said:
I was in a Ford dealer some years ago and a woman sat down in service reception and quietly said she woulld stay there until the issue with her car was sorted. They called the police!
rest of the story please I passively/ agressively emptied their free coffee machine in that time...
Turned out it was one of the engines with a failed camshaft hardening that needed almost a whole new engine under warranty, but service manager wasn't keen to explain why they signed off the service and handed it back in that state when it was fine when it went in...
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