L R Assist

You shouldn't notice any difference (according to LR)! That is apart from the technician arriving in a bright yellow Transit or Trafic van rather than a silver Disco4.

We have used them once and it was a LR discovery man..great service and it turns out he lives 10 min from ours and he covers a huge chunk of the country. He told me at the time there were only 6 of him that over the whole country. The number was on the back of our tax disc sticker.

(21-04-2014 12:14am)ChuckieB Wrote:  Had occasion to call on them today! Been out travelling this weekend doing the Easter visiting and came time to fill up, being down to the last 30 miles on the fuel warning. Alas at the pump the filler flap refused to open. Decided to haul it back to the in-laws and sort it out from the relative warmth and then started to investigate fuses, etc. myself. 4 fuse boxes located all over the shop and once I had found then found the offending narrow width fuse (all on it's own circuit) i was then a bit surprised that there were no obvious spares!

Down to the last litres I didn't want to risk trawling around to try and find a garage with suitable spares on Easter Sunday so I thought what the heck, and gave them a call. Wasn't in a huge rush but they were out to me within a couple of hours and he left me with a couple of spares just in case. Not much for him to do really but it was a dedicated LRA Guy at least and he reckoned he was probably the only one covering the whole of Yorkshire for Easter Sunday. He said it shouldn't have gone like that and recommended I get it booked in the looked at.

All in all, a relatively painless exercise on this occasion but comfortable with the level of service given by LRA.

Boom! Fuse gone again and unable to open the filler flap. On this occasion I had the spare and it took about 15 minutes to replace once I had done all the contorting in the passenger footwell.

So twice is unfortunate but this could become irritating. What is the dealer going to be able to check if I now book it in to be looked at? Is it going to be a waste of my time or can they actually run some sort of meaningful diagnostic procedure?

(21-05-2014 11:48pm)ChuckieB Wrote:  Boom! Fuse gone again and unable to open the filler flap. On this occasion I had the spare and it took about 15 minutes to replace once I had done all the contorting in the passenger footwell.

So twice is unfortunate but this could become irritating. What is the dealer going to be able to check if I now book it in to be looked at? Is it going to be a waste of my time or can they actually run some sort of meaningful diagnostic procedure?

Isn't the fuel filler lock part of the central locking system. It must have been unlocked as you were in the car changing the fuse

If the fuse is separate to the filler cap and it blows when the doors unlock, then the cap will stay locked but the doors will open as normal. You've probably got a sticky/faulty solenoid that pulls the lock on the cap, and the dealer should test this part... or just replace it, if it is regularly blowing the fuse.

(22-05-2014 08:09am)speary Wrote:  Isn't the fuel filler lock part of the central locking system. It must have been unlocked as you were in the car changing the fuse

The fuel filler flap has it's very own circuit!

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(22-05-2014 08:55am)PhilSkill Wrote:  If the fuse is separate to the filler cap and it blows when the doors unlock, then the cap will stay locked but the doors will open as normal. You've probably got a sticky/faulty solenoid that pulls the lock on the cap, and the dealer should test this part... or just replace it, if it is regularly blowing the fuse.

Thanks for the steer. It's the second time it's happened in the last 4 weeks. Something is obviously amiss.

I wonder if it needs a squirt of WD40 then one of aerosol 3in1 to keep the pin moving easily?

Called them out on Sunday (at the Oxfordshire Golf Club & Spa) - took 1 1/2 hrs (but he was from Wolverhampton!, but was from LR in a disco)

Car wouldn't start - low battery and 'EBD' fault - everyhting checked and no fault found.

Gave the battery a 5 minute boost and hey presto - still working fine

Reading this made me think, as mine will lapse soon!!! Can you take out continued LR Assist Cover...

You used to be able to extend the cover - I kept my Defender covered up to it's 12th birthday and only stopped the cover because the car has never broken down and needed roadside assistance so I felt I was wasting my money. It will be 18 years old in September and apart from one head lamp blowing and one flat battery it still has never needed any assistance to get home. All the big expensive damage I've done to it has never rendered it undrivable. - I even unknowingly drove it 80 odd miles with a transfer box that had left it's entire oil contents on a Scottish hillside........... It only gave up after I had arrived at the local specialists forecourt to get them to investigate why the performance seemed to be a bit off colour!