JFK wrote:

Hi Viewwise, Bad news putting petrol in. I have said before to others that have done this, a friend of mine did this with his X5 & was facing a hefty bill to rectify it, so on the off chance called his insurers & they paid up! Seems to me unless its stated in their T&Cs that fuel contamination isnt covered you must be in with a chance. After all no one does it on purpose. Even X5 owners!! Got to be worth a phone call. Good luck & let us know what they say

Cheers for the advice, Insurance will cover it. They didnt even complain. However it becomes a fault claim on the record which will obviously affect all future polices for all the cars. Also the £1000 excess. Along with the extra time it would have taken for an assesor to come down and approve the repairs before they started meant cash was the better option. After all, im not disputing the fact its user error and things need to be replaced. Whats getting on my nerves is the lack of courtesy (car) considering i am less than a month later spending 5k with them.

My last post may have sounded a little harsh thinking back. Its not really the dealers fault. They have been helpful generally (im just nitpicking because i still have no car ), and thanks to james the buying experience was great. What it comes down to is land rovers fault. Fuel pump not arriving on time and them not offering me a courtesy car (ie just renting one for me) is making this mistake alot more costly than it should be.

Java Jungle wrote:

Hi guys,

Before having the tdv8 I had a tdv6 and the same thing happend to me. Filled up the car and after 100 meters the car stopped! Long story short: my dealer picked the car up and after emptying the tank changing the filter and some other stuff, I received the car back withing 3 hours...got an invoice of 280.00 Euro!!! I bought the tdv8 in Switzerland and on a Land Rover magazine from last year it says that it's not possible to fill up the tdv8 sport with petrol due to a system which recognises the "nosel"!...??...

Different system for different countries??...

JJ

im pretty sure its only on the FFRR. Which bugs me considering if you read the reasoning behind this in the land rover tdv8 press releases. They say they had to because the engine is so refined it doesnt feel like a diesel so people might put petrol in accidently. Apparently it must sound different in a sport because they dont put in the cut off .

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ViewWise wrote:

im pretty sure its only on the FFRR. Which bugs me considering if you read the reasoning behind this in the land rover tdv8 press releases. They say they had to because the engine is so refined it doesnt feel like a diesel so people might put petrol in accidently. Apparently it must sound different in a sport because they dont put in the cut off

If you found yourself in the situation of filling up your TDV8 why would you not know it was diesel? You'd either own the car, or at least know something about it.... or is this LR assuming that all it's customer are idiots?

You are right though... it does sound more like a petrol V8 in the RRS, less so in the FFRR (although still sounds good for a diesel). 

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