Any vaners who havnt listen to me about towing causing extra strain on your car should see the latest photo from pinky



fantastic havn't laughed so much since I saw a range rover and caravan in a similar situation last week in Wales

































































































































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Last edited by chicken george on 12th Jun 2009 5:57 pm. Edited 1 time in total

oh and I forget to say

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I thought that might cheer you up CG.
Turns out the temp sensor wasn't fix by a update. 4.5 hours to do a 90min trip to grassington on the back of a tow truck  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

well thats faster than your normal van towing time, why worry? At work
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npinks wrote:

I thought that might cheer you up CG.
Turns out the temp sensor wasn't fix by a update. 4.5 hours to do a 90min trip to grassington on the back of a tow truck

Yeah but think about how good the MPG for that trip was! 

Have a TDV8 FFRR For a few days  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

can the ffrr pull the tin tent?

No towbar on the FFRR

Car gone to GS LR Leeds, so all been well they will have it fixed by next saturday when i need to collect it

I'm back home, and the outlaws are having it for a week with my son, if not Caravan club breakdown cover returns it home for me  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I would like to add

Thank you Mad-Dog for pulling over in my hour of need and seeing if i required any help

Good to see a traffic officer (and Police D3 driver) helping out the fellow FL2 driver/owner

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Bad luck NP,

Given the agro you are having with that motor you're staying remarkably good humoured about it

You must be close to doing what the guy with the RRSport did recently parking it outside the dealer ship with a very long list of faults written down the side of the car.

I hope your dealer is taking good care of you !!! Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

past caring about the cars faults, its become part of what i expect

I'll be ring my dealer in the morning and asking for a print out of all my trips to them, and taking it up with LR customer services....... so no doubt that will lead to no where...... apart from a trip to a new brand of car

my dealer, were on stop with LRA, so it has gone to another dealer Guy Salmon Leeds, so i will be speaking to them tomorrow as well Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

my dealer, were on stop with LRA, so it has gone to another dealer Guy Salmon Leeds, so i will be speaking to them tomorrow as well

This where it gets very messy, when one particular dealer's problems with LR start to have an impact on customers. I'm sure that LR will say they are doing the best for you, but I'm not sure you will see it that way.

As I said earlier, LR need to be in touch with customers directly to find out how their dealers are doing, then act accordingly. it seems they don't have the appetite (or bottle) to do that; probably because they know what the answers will be and they (LR) haven't got the drive and resources to deal with the problems they might identify.

LR are relying on brand loyalty to override the practical problems of ownership; that may work for so long but it is not a sustainable business model. Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor ... but not any more ... ... psst look at my gallery!
Company cars ... a thing of the past - May 2013.

Just spoke to my dealers service manager, they are going to fax me my list when the cars has been in with them.

I asked if they was on stop with LRA, and he said they have never been on stop with them. So looks like LRA or at least the recovery truck was not telling the truth.

Speaking to GS, Leeds they said they can only look at what the car is booked in for (ie. the temp fault) ...
and not the other stuff thats come to light like the fact my handbrake doesn't work on the slightest of slopes, or the whooshing noise that my clutch/engine makes when reversing up a hill when i dip the clutch.

So I ring back my dealer and they tell me that GS can add anything I think is at fault on to the list to look at whilst its there

Land Rover Dealer Customer service at its best My dealers are keeping my prebooked appointment for tomorrow open, just incase I get a half fixed car back  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks - LR Customer Service are a pile of ! I had 9 months of grief with my FL2, after getting it fixed after 6 attempts I sent a fully detailed letter to them all i got back was a letter basically saying "well its alright now aint it whats the problem?"

On a scale of 1 to 10 I would rate LR Customer Service -10, absolutely no interest whatsoever in assisting their customers and one of the main reasons why when I come up for renewal in 18 months time I will be looking elsewhere!

In response to my laughing at pinky, about 10 minutes after I posted that picture of his stricken car, my lawnmower broke down, just been checking it out this morning and its looking expensive the steering ram has ripped out of the chassis  At work
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