My MY20 DS gives me a shower when opening the tailgate after a rainstorm. It happens on both sides and I am considering drilling a couple of holes in the plastic. Has anyone else seen this phenomenon or got a better fix ? Thanks
I contacted Landrover customer services by phone, please do this and say you are unwilling to have the fix as you consider this to be a safety related issue and that you would have no confidence in the car after welding.Mrrena31 said:I picked up my DS on 3/9/16.
I will have a look at the fixings today around the boot.
I also have the 1600 RPM dashboard vibration!
Love the car but rapidly being put off!
LR won't discuss rejection until the welding has been tried.
How many people constitute the many others that are quoted. This figure should give a good idea of the enormity of this problem.Barnsh said:I contacted Landrover customer services by phone, please do this and say you are unwilling to have the fix as you consider this to be a safety related issue and that you would have no confidence in the car after welding.Mrrena31 said:I picked up my DS on 3/9/16.
I will have a look at the fixings today around the boot.
I also have the 1600 RPM dashboard vibration!
Love the car but rapidly being put off!
LR won't discuss rejection until the welding has been tried.
By welding they are admitting there is a fault in the b pillar welds which is safety related, they have sold you an unsafe car if hit side on.
I did this and many others have too.
I am awaiting my replacement at the moment as are others .
Make sure when you phone you get a case manager and a case number from them.
Do not leave it up to the dealer , this is a manufacturing defect you are in the driving seat.
There should be no need to have invasive welding on a brand new car !
If you look through all the folks suffering on here as I did , many joined the forum long before they had the b pillar issue . This suggests that forum figures are important, whilst they do contain some people who's first post was b pillar, these are far and few between.when I checked. So these not all are first posters and figures are not wildly exaggerated as some seem to say or refer to.wheels81 said:some dealers have estimated 2% of cars have the bpillar issue (reported) - the real number could be much larger.
This also matched some of our estimates on the forum
in the last 12 months, JLR sold ~100k cars. that means there are 2000 cars with the issue reported.
There are (and this is a guess - i.e. i have not counted) about 15 people on the forum presently going through rejection for Bpillar.
Thats not the case on my September'16 MY17.Monkey Boy said:...I asked if they were going to drill holes to let the water out, as mentioned on here earlier. They apparently seal up where the water gets in, rather than drill holes in the new car. All according to the LR service guy, so I dunno...
+1 :xCharly777 said:I've just joined the club !! Opened tailgate, torrent of water out of left hand side
Only the drain hole on the bottom rubber flap is visible unless you take the pinch strip off, which isn't actually that difficult if you wanted to check they've done it properly.Hillwalker said:I took it in for service and asked for this problem to be sorted, even showed them the Service Bulletin document. Collected the car and was assured work had been done, and after the first rain I had water pouring out the same as before!!!
Booked it in again, but have to wait 6 weeks!
Is there any visual difference after the modification? Can I actually see anything different to tell me the work has been done? Any pictures from anybody showing the drain holes (if they are visible).