P38A A thank you

Grrrrrr said:

Yes, when the fuel changed my old Vauxhall started chewing through fuel line. Of course, I fixed it with what I had in the shed and it lasted about 6 months.

Done my leak-off pipes once about 5 years ago. Bosch do decent stuff. The stuff from Island-4x4 is an absolute joke. Still got it in my shed.

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Datatek said:

Funny that the Transit leak off pipes are still good after 17 years and nearly 170K miles.
My experience of German engineering is that it is pretty poor, a BMW and a Porsche from new, both unreliable dogs, a Caravan from new that turned out to be crap, a Bosch and an AEG washing machine, both short lived, even a German vacuum cleaner that fell to bits, add in my son in laws VW transporter that was off the road more often than it was on plus the VAG emissions cheating and I have a very low opinion of German stuff. They are very good at marketing to the sheeple though.

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wammers said:

2003 Transit will have been fitted with pipes suitable for fuel additives. Get some ford spill pipe for your P38s. Looks like you have had a lot of bad luck with cars. My local factors has spill pipe at £1.50 a metre and spill pipe at £3.50 a metre trade price, guess which one most would buy, guess which one i use.

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Datatek said:

So what changes in fuel came in between November 2000 and February 2003?

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wammers said:

None as far as i am aware but knowing land rover they would be using up their stock of old crap. Did you book an half hour argument or the full hour?

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Datatek said:

I thought it would be more economical to book a day rather than half an hour or an hour
Land Rover using up old stock of leak off pipe? Silly me, I thought the M51 was manufactured in Germany and shipped to the UK for the P38 and the Omega.
Maybe you have never seen a Transit, the leak off pipe is a semi rigid plastic shrunk on to the injector spigots and very unlikely to fail unlike the BMW rubbish.
None of my other diesel vehicles have ever suffered leak off pipe problems, but then they weren't German engineering.

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