When I had a service recently dealer charged an insurance fee, £18, for courtesy car. I'm booked back in in a week for the rust on tailgate, cover hopefully by warranty. Is it normal for dealers to charge for a courtesy car ? ?

Steve

Didn't last time I had one. Probably depends on the dealer.

Mine (Guy Salmon) never has, but I am aware that some Dealers are now making this common practice. Foraging near Gaydon....
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MY13 HSE Lux SD4, Baltic Blue - current, 30,000> miles without fault
MY12 HSE 2.2 SD4, Sumatra Black - gone after 10 months/43,000 fault-free miles

I use Guy Salmon in Wakefield

I was charged £10 by Pentland when my car was in for the tailgate fix. Took 3 days.
To me it doesn't really seem right to be charged for this when it's a warranty issue, but I tried my normal Insurers, Directline and they wanted £15.
I was just pleased to have my car fixed....

A certain dealer near me charges for a courtesy car for the insurance ,if your vehicle is out of the three year warranty period.
But they can't be trusted, if you buy a vehicle off the forecourt, they charge you £69 on top for doing an HPI check.

Is that an official LR dealer?

Rhymes with Pratstones, but very fitting.

I've never been charged a fee with Hunters, Enterprise have a fee if you use their insurance.
My fleet insurance covers hired or loaned vehicles so I always use that, check your policy as your own insurance may cover the loan car in which case you should have nothing to pay.
We have a range of loan equipment that we use when dental equipemnt breaks down and is a keep you going service, we charge for this and have learnt to get money up front. The equipment is abused and treated with contempt and many people forget that the cost of providing this service is quite high.

Abused and treated with contempt, the last courtesy car from Pratstones, was in such a state Sue went back in and asked for a seat cover, it was disgusting.

^^ sounds like Evans Halshaw at its finest.....last time my previous FL had the misfortune of being serviced at that dump in Aylesbury, they "forgot" to put the oil filler cap back on properly! Foraging near Gaydon....
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MY13 HSE Lux SD4, Baltic Blue - current, 30,000> miles without fault
MY12 HSE 2.2 SD4, Sumatra Black - gone after 10 months/43,000 fault-free miles

TVLR only give you a crappy little Citroën, but they don't charge for it! Good chaps. Ex AA Series III LWB Safari - Gone
300TDi Disco (bought new - terrible car) sent back after 18 months
Freelander 1 Estate - leased, given back at end of lease
200TDi Disco (bought from a mate with 100,000 on the clock) - Gone
Disco 2 TD5 - sold and exported to France
FR2 TD4 GS - Gone
FR2 SD4 HSE - Now changed for a DS
New model ex-demo Evoque S 180 in white
Unable to order a new DS, so gave up. Now have a Volvo S90 Recharge.

Duckworths don't charge but for the past two times I got an Isuzu Pick Up! 10MY (Sept 09) TD4 HSE Auto in Stornoway Grey (Now Gone)

08 FL2 TD4 SE Manual in Rimini Red (Now Gone)

My LR dealer used to charge £10 per day but once I realised that my insurance cover did infact cover me for loan cars as long as I showed the dealer the certificate there was no charge. On the odd, sorry NUMEROUS times that my FL2 needed an extended stay for repairs I was given an Enterprise vehicle and was never asked for insurance certificate. Hats off to enterprise I had a brand new FL2 HSE LUX with 27 miles on the clock once, a couple of FL2's with less than 1000 miles on the clock and once I was fortunate enough to be given the keys to a Range Rover Sport as they couldnt get me a F2 in time. Now - 2017 BMW X3 M Sport Carbon Black
Gone - 2014 BMW X3 M Sport Space Grey, faultless!
Gone - 2011 Freelander 2 SD4 HSE Bali Blue with xenons
Gone - 2008 Freelander 2 TD4 HSE Rimini Red with bodykit