Please help- sudden engine cut out on TD 5

well brilliant start in the weekend.
Dropped yesterday the children at school and on the way back my LR TD5 was just running fine and just died. The yellow engine management light came on. Got it fired up again after a while and the same thing happened a few hundred yards down the lane again. Same thing a few more times (got me a couple of miles) and then nothing anymore. Engine seems to start after glowing but cuts out immeadeatly. AA man came scecked fuel , all OK. Checked diagnostic no obvious fault. Checked for water or oil on the ECU, all dry. He run out of clues and towed me to the next garage.

Anyone a clue out there or had the same trouble ?

When was the fuel filter last changed? If you're lucky it's clogged and you just need a noo one... that'll be about £10 + VAT and a fiver for delivery from Paddockspares.com

If you're less lucky it's the fuel pump... which is going to be between £50 and £200 plus a chunk of labour to fix.

Trouble with these electronic diesel control engines... they're a right bastard to diagnose without having it plugged into yer laptop and having the right software.

A car with a proper engine doesn't have a 'check engine light' it has a bit of smoke darkened glass in front of a gap in the bulkhead - when that lights up it means yer engine bay's on fire and you should stop, get out and phone your insurance company

if you do get it running a way to check if pump is working properly is to feel the temp of the filter after its been running a couple of mins if the filter is warm then the pump is pumping and circulatin all that liquid gold as it should , if it is the pump then on a disco it only take 20 mins to change cos there is an inpecton plate under the boot carpet