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R55 One day, 100 miles, towed to the dealer

Old Oct 27, 2011 | 10:10 PM
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One day, 100 miles, towed to the dealer

2012 fully loaded Hampton package, S delivered to my door by the dealer (40 miles) - daughter drives to Santa Barbara the next day (60 miles) - all o.k. The next morning, goes to start car, flashing lights, engine malfunction - drive to nearest dealer, however car vibrates like in an 8.0 equake, towed to closest dealer (60 miles) bad intake valve. Great start for Lionel (Hampton) By the way, it looks great.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2011 | 10:19 PM
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Ouch!!!
well.. at least it looks great...
 
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Old Oct 27, 2011 | 10:19 PM
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Yikes, not much of a first impression. Hope they get it fixed up right for you, and fast.
 
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Old Oct 27, 2011 | 11:54 PM
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Ouch! Sorry to hear that. Similar thing happened to my next door neighbor a couple of months ago, was a bad HPFP after about 600 miles.
 
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Old Oct 28, 2011 | 12:19 AM
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Originally Posted by drpampers
2012 fully loaded Hampton package, S delivered to my door by the dealer (40 miles) - daughter drives to Santa Barbara the next day (60 miles) - all o.k. The next morning, goes to start car, flashing lights, engine malfunction - drive to nearest dealer, however car vibrates like in an 8.0 equake, towed to closest dealer (60 miles) bad intake valve. Great start for Lionel (Hampton) By the way, it looks great.
Sorry that happened to you....hopefully that is the end and you can just enjoy your car now.
 
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Old Oct 29, 2011 | 08:28 AM
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Sorry to hear that - have faith!

My '09S had a HPFP failure at 343 mi. Have not had another issue with Fubbsy in over two years since then...
 
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Old Oct 31, 2011 | 12:52 PM
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Lionel is back, defective solenoid valve. Now if I could only program the garage door opener and gate opener.
 
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