johnboy429
Active Member
Right just got home from work/doing the filter.. Changed filter and oil and added Lucas stuff I was shocked how thick that stuff is! Before hand it wouldn't change up or down in manual (1,2,3) now however it changes up sometimes when I move it up through but changes down everytime! So it's a step in the right direction!
The oil had a burnt smell and was a dark brown! So I'm getting some more Lucas stuff this weekend but won't get chance for another oil change until next week!
And to top it off my rear shock has popped,sheared the bottom off and is now hanging down so it's ruled the range rover out of the Wales trip, and also got a nail in my tyre whilst driving the p38 around the industrial estate testing!
The focus is running spot on I think the problem is with the egr valve or possibly a actuator rod on the turbo? It's the wife's car and she only uses it for plodding around and never takes it above 2k rpm so other week eml came on she panicked I went out revved the engine and surely enough a cloud of black smoke came out and the eml went out and stayed out since. On Monday we went shoping and I told her to change hear at a higher rev (3-3500) depending on acceleration etc and then the eml came on!
Got home fine have it a rev bit if black smoke like last time but light stayed on.. Next day she goes to drive it and light isn't on and was fine. Then this morning the "engine system failure" message came up (she said shed been driving like I told her) so I don't know if it's just as the egr is being disturbed or iv found a similar case where he had a actuator rid replaced to solve it?
But we've found if we stay below 3250rpm the light doesn't come back on???
The oil had a burnt smell and was a dark brown! So I'm getting some more Lucas stuff this weekend but won't get chance for another oil change until next week!
And to top it off my rear shock has popped,sheared the bottom off and is now hanging down so it's ruled the range rover out of the Wales trip, and also got a nail in my tyre whilst driving the p38 around the industrial estate testing!
The focus is running spot on I think the problem is with the egr valve or possibly a actuator rod on the turbo? It's the wife's car and she only uses it for plodding around and never takes it above 2k rpm so other week eml came on she panicked I went out revved the engine and surely enough a cloud of black smoke came out and the eml went out and stayed out since. On Monday we went shoping and I told her to change hear at a higher rev (3-3500) depending on acceleration etc and then the eml came on!
Got home fine have it a rev bit if black smoke like last time but light stayed on.. Next day she goes to drive it and light isn't on and was fine. Then this morning the "engine system failure" message came up (she said shed been driving like I told her) so I don't know if it's just as the egr is being disturbed or iv found a similar case where he had a actuator rid replaced to solve it?
But we've found if we stay below 3250rpm the light doesn't come back on???
