Hello!
I'm calling for all you Landy know it alls to give me some advice.
For a quick summary of my history, I got a 4 cylinder TD almost a year ago which promptly blew up. I was stupid, knew nothing, the turbo went, ruined.
Since then, me and my friend fitted a 200TDi, its had servicing done by a decent Land Rover place, and it's been great.
I was at Abingdon 4x4 festival today, had a great time doing some proper offroading in it, and got seriously muddy
On the way there, I was doing around 65 and the temperature needle was stuck to just right of the middle.
On the way back however, it shot right up to the top of the white after about 10 miles, so I stopped at a service station, washed the mud out of the radiator, and the temp plummeted. I watched nervously as again it began to rise. I got home with it about half a centimetre away from the top of the cold, which is very high since I was "limping" home at about 45-50 the whole way (40 odd miles)
I don't know whether I'm being really paranoid, but after losing one engine I don't want to lose another one. I haven't lost any oil, I can't see any water in the oil or vice versa, the only thing I noticed is the viscous fan seems to not be going very fast compared to normal. I could just be imagining that though.
I'm really sorry for the long post, but please set my mind at rest and tell me if I've screwed my engine or whether it needs some simple loving.
Thanks very much!
Laurie
I'm calling for all you Landy know it alls to give me some advice.
For a quick summary of my history, I got a 4 cylinder TD almost a year ago which promptly blew up. I was stupid, knew nothing, the turbo went, ruined.
Since then, me and my friend fitted a 200TDi, its had servicing done by a decent Land Rover place, and it's been great.
I was at Abingdon 4x4 festival today, had a great time doing some proper offroading in it, and got seriously muddy
On the way there, I was doing around 65 and the temperature needle was stuck to just right of the middle.
On the way back however, it shot right up to the top of the white after about 10 miles, so I stopped at a service station, washed the mud out of the radiator, and the temp plummeted. I watched nervously as again it began to rise. I got home with it about half a centimetre away from the top of the cold, which is very high since I was "limping" home at about 45-50 the whole way (40 odd miles)
I don't know whether I'm being really paranoid, but after losing one engine I don't want to lose another one. I haven't lost any oil, I can't see any water in the oil or vice versa, the only thing I noticed is the viscous fan seems to not be going very fast compared to normal. I could just be imagining that though.
I'm really sorry for the long post, but please set my mind at rest and tell me if I've screwed my engine or whether it needs some simple loving.
Thanks very much!
Laurie