Anyone got any contacts who can ship a car back to the UK for a reasonable price?

I know...it has turned out ot be a very expensive mistake but hey, these things are put in life to test us.

My 4 year old Land Rover has died. When I came over I could not afford to sell it and get another car so had to bring it. Excellent results until it started having engine problems and Emil Frey have, after 4 months given up and told me to get it back to the UK and sell it.

Land Rover Switzerland are also not interested (incidently it turns out they are part of the Emil Frey Group anyway).

Not what I would have expected from Land Rover.

What is it ?

dave

Land Rover Discovery TD5 (2002)

Problems starting and intermittent engine cut out while driving.

Emil Frey originally said air in fuel system and have replaced complete fuel delivery system at a cost of over 2000sf.

I dont believe it is that now. It is something really simple that no one can seem to identify.

contact LR directly. They might be able to help or know of a TSB about your problem.

I assume you're fully-serviced on schedule?

Yes and Yes

Land Rover UK (direct approach) are not interested as they have no jusrusdiction over LR Switzerland. Great isn't it? LR Switzerland are not interested because it is a right hand drive (and they are part of the Emil Frey Group so back up their garage).

LR UK made it quite clear they cannot and will not do a thing until the car is back on UK soil and in a LR garage.

I am more concerned at the moment as I have guests coming for two weeks snowboarding over Xmas and I have no car so face a hefty hire cost now too...and whose to say there will be any snow anyway at this rate.

I am so sorry I am sounding gloomy but thanks for your suggestions. I WILL find a solution somewhere.

p.s. any charitable folks have a car to lend me? (if you dont ask, you dont get).

Do you have European Assistance? LRA? Where is the car registered?

You were on holiday and your car has broken down....

Just an idea - what about trying LR Italy or Germany?
My old car caused some sniggers (nay, almost fainting) at a CH Garage,
was fixed in a jiffy in Italy.
If they're willing you could then pay a regular tow-truck to move it -
or even rent a car-trailer combo and do it yourself.
You've shelled out the 2000CHF, you've gotta solve this one!
Andy

btw try asking here for ideas: www.disco3.co.uk

Can you shoe-horn a TDV6 into it? The Td5 was a Beemer engine wasn't it?

hit #1 references SOFTWARE problems - they're put the latest software on? Did the problem come after a service where they changed the software to a later version which is causing problems?

Do some research yourself. I typed in "Landrover TD engine cut out" to Google and came up with :

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Td5 Not Starting/Intermittent Cut-Out

The information below was supplied by Saif Al-Noaimi.
Recently I ran into a problem with my 2001 Defender 90 Td5 not starting and intermittently dying on me on the highway.

I sent the car to the dealer 4 times and first 3 times they were clueless. The 4th time they replaced the ECU wiring harness because they feared it was the oil in the ECU problem. Thankfully the car was still under warranty. But 2 months after that was done (car is now out of warranty) it died on me again. I posted in the Land Rover Addicts Forum my problem and amazingly it turned out to be the relays under my passenger seat were just loose! Apparently they are saying this is a common problem so I thought it might be useful to others to include it in the KB.

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There are plenty more anecdotal stuff out there...

Try posting the symptoms here too:
http://groups.google.co.uk/group/alt...r?lnk=li&hl=en

This is the internet at its best. I had a niggling problem concerning the warning lights on my landrover, and found many many anecdotes pointing to a common mode fault...

Hope this helps,
Dave

Does anyone have any contacts to ship a car from Geneva to the US