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its my understanding that these are seimens and are only available from LR, two versions OEM NEW LR ones at £180ish plus vat, plus £50 surcharge for yer old one or service exchange ones/recon units which are around £30ish cheaper plus £50 surcharge.

In general, I would have yer existing tested whilst insitu by specialist before spending monies on having them ALL changed, IMO there is no reason to do them all at the same time, just seems to be "the way its done" rather than "it should be done" - a bit like ARB where often its easier to change the whole arm rather than the bushes.

The guys at Bristol are only £60ish per hour and WILL fit new ones at that price rather than £100+ at yer LR dealer

LR RTS puts them down at 70mins per injector, these Bristol guys quoted me £400 to change all of em

OEM LR are warrantied for 12 months BTW

Thanks mate just to clarify only 2 were showing up as possibly faulty on wiggs msv 2 so i removed all 6 and sent away for testing and the report back was all 6 injector nozzles and tips are badly worn so a small amount of leakage/dribbling on all 6.
So what i cant get my head around is where are these so called service exchange injectors coming from whats been done to them to make them service exchange if no parts are available, is it just a quick ultrasonic clean check the spray pattern then out the door or are all service exchange injectors coming from Siemens them self.

I Will give Nick a ring tomorrow to confirm prices i think he said around £248 each new + vat = £1785 and about £1550 for exchange ones.
I did find a company today that can do 6 service exchange injectors with 12months unlimited mileage warranty for £600 + vodka and tonic but again where did they come from whats been done to them

Or i can get some from the company that tested my injectors for £175 each +vat and they wont charge me for testing which is about £120 for all 6 so total £1250 inc

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Most of the 'Landrover exchange' ones are actually new, I have yet to see a reconditioned one from Landrover.
Reconditioned from other sources, well, if other injectors are anything to go by, the quality can vary so much.
from a 'clean' to new siemens
I personally would only use genuine.
regards
Steve

Thanks Steve i guess you pay your money and all that,i better go and sell my body for a couple of nights,but knowing my luck i would get 10 jobs and end up with 20 refunds

SteveNorman wrote:

My personal choice would be have them all back, stick them back in, find the two bad ones again, renew just those, & go from there.
If only two showed as faulty, I would suspect those two would have been worse in their 'tests'.
I don't send any away for testing, my previous experiences on other common rail cars has showed testing off car to be unreliable.

HTH
Steve