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capthook
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ouch! 
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Your lucky a fellow D2 owner just had a fuel pump fail $700+labour on top has not got the final bill yet as pump has to come up from Melbourne as none available in New South Wales And yes it was tilt tray pick up to deliver it to LR the vehicle has jst clicked up 110,000km.Not a happy chappy.
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capthook
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I wouldn't be either... but then again I don't have to wait on parts because I am in the states, and I would have done the job myself. The total cost here for a fuel pump would be around $150 for a spare, which would have less than 40k on it knowing my LR spare parts source...
Just had a fuel pump done on my Company truck, & it was $539 for the pump + $500 for the job. That's on a 2003 Chevy Van w/ 84k, so nothing new here
Vehicles break, LR's, Fords, Chevy's --- if it's got a motor, and it's not PROPERLY MAINTAINED, or has a DEFECT it's going to. One thing that has always (however) prolonged the life of my vehicle's fuel pumps has been numerous fuel filter replacements. If you don't do it, it'll suck the crap from you filter right into the pump which may have been the case on such a low mileage Rover. Thing that bothers me is that the chap it happened to didn't notice his pump was starting to fail? I almost always know when a vehicle of mine has a pump that is "starting to go" but it can occur that one does just stop working. I know that was the case on the Co' Van, boss is too cheap to get fuel filters for all his trucks
Just had a fuel pump done on my Company truck, & it was $539 for the pump + $500 for the job. That's on a 2003 Chevy Van w/ 84k, so nothing new here
Vehicles break, LR's, Fords, Chevy's --- if it's got a motor, and it's not PROPERLY MAINTAINED, or has a DEFECT it's going to. One thing that has always (however) prolonged the life of my vehicle's fuel pumps has been numerous fuel filter replacements. If you don't do it, it'll suck the crap from you filter right into the pump which may have been the case on such a low mileage Rover. Thing that bothers me is that the chap it happened to didn't notice his pump was starting to fail? I almost always know when a vehicle of mine has a pump that is "starting to go" but it can occur that one does just stop working. I know that was the case on the Co' Van, boss is too cheap to get fuel filters for all his trucks
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lipadi
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So far only the lucky ones have spoken!
I have a '98 Disco ES bought brand new, dealer serviced, 258000kms, and have had to be rescued by the AA on three separate occasions.
#1 - Fuel pump failure
#2 - "Spider" failure (immobiliser)
#3 - Belt tensioner bearing failure
While each of these was relatively cheap and easy to repair and I was lucky enough to be within 30 miles of home each time incidents like this do not encourage one to take long trips unaccompanied into places like Botswana or Mozambique where the consequences of having unfixable problems could in some cases be fatal.
For those of you in North America and Australia - don't travel alone unless you're going to be within walking distance of food and water!!
I have a '98 Disco ES bought brand new, dealer serviced, 258000kms, and have had to be rescued by the AA on three separate occasions.
#1 - Fuel pump failure
#2 - "Spider" failure (immobiliser)
#3 - Belt tensioner bearing failure
While each of these was relatively cheap and easy to repair and I was lucky enough to be within 30 miles of home each time incidents like this do not encourage one to take long trips unaccompanied into places like Botswana or Mozambique where the consequences of having unfixable problems could in some cases be fatal.
For those of you in North America and Australia - don't travel alone unless you're going to be within walking distance of food and water!!
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pauln
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Some of you know I am trying to sell one for my former boss and it did leave me stranded one evening when I took it to run an errand and it refused to shift out of Park! No notice, no warning and no way to bypass it. I have a Crown Victoria and even when the electric cooling fan failed (my fault, I bought an aftermarket one, false economy) and the way the engine is designed it shuts down half of the cylinders and begins injecting air into them in an effort to cool the engine. I was able to drive it to a Ford dealer for repair. I cannot imagine why all vehicles are not as reliable as a Crown Victoria. I have an appointment to show the Land Rover today and the radio station display panel is now blank - unreal.
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This is a tech response, and the thread is non-tech, but:
There are ways to bypass the brake light switch, or the gear shift interlock solenoid, both of which are common causes for the "won't go out of park" problem. A search here can save a lot of problems. The brake light switch is a $30 part and took me 30 minutes at the most to change this weekend.
There are ways to bypass the brake light switch, or the gear shift interlock solenoid, both of which are common causes for the "won't go out of park" problem. A search here can save a lot of problems. The brake light switch is a $30 part and took me 30 minutes at the most to change this weekend.
