lareynard2001
Member
Dear All,
This may be a known issue already but I couldn't find anything on the forums.
Yesterday after driving about 1.5 miles (part motorway) I suffered an incident with my 2001 Discovery TD5 ES (100k Miles, ACE with Air-con) that sounded like a one-off single misfire although the engine seemed to be running fine.
All of a sudden, I got the oil and battery warning lights displayed and immediately the car felt like it was struggling and had no power so I pulled over as soon as I could.
After allowing the engine to cool down at the side of the motorway I checked the oil level and everything seemed okay and there nothing in the engine bay seemed abnormally hot and no funny/oily smells.... The battery is only around six months old with plenty of amps.
I fired the engine up again at the side of the road and there was what I can only describe as a repetitive "coughing" sound coming from around the turbo area although there's no sign of any oil leak, no con-rods sticking out of the side of the block and no tell-tale signs of smoke from the exhaust so I shut the engine off.
My breakdown service recovered the car to my home and I left the car for a couple of hours. I started the car again to take a proper look and the coughing sound changed to more like a slipping pulley or belt noise and then the engine stalled.
I've checked for fault codes via the ODB connector but can't find anything. This is the first diesel I've had and it's run fine up to yesterday with no previous loss of power or weird noises but I don't want to run the engine again in case something seizes irreparably!
I know I can't rule out the turbo or the oil cooler/centrifuge but I wondered if anyone had any prior knowledge or experience of this kind of fault. In short if someone could point me in the right direction regards what to look and in what sequence I may be able to fix the problem(s) myself without hefty labour charges!
Any advice would be very much appreciated....
Yours, Andy.
This may be a known issue already but I couldn't find anything on the forums.
Yesterday after driving about 1.5 miles (part motorway) I suffered an incident with my 2001 Discovery TD5 ES (100k Miles, ACE with Air-con) that sounded like a one-off single misfire although the engine seemed to be running fine.
All of a sudden, I got the oil and battery warning lights displayed and immediately the car felt like it was struggling and had no power so I pulled over as soon as I could.
After allowing the engine to cool down at the side of the motorway I checked the oil level and everything seemed okay and there nothing in the engine bay seemed abnormally hot and no funny/oily smells.... The battery is only around six months old with plenty of amps.
I fired the engine up again at the side of the road and there was what I can only describe as a repetitive "coughing" sound coming from around the turbo area although there's no sign of any oil leak, no con-rods sticking out of the side of the block and no tell-tale signs of smoke from the exhaust so I shut the engine off.
My breakdown service recovered the car to my home and I left the car for a couple of hours. I started the car again to take a proper look and the coughing sound changed to more like a slipping pulley or belt noise and then the engine stalled.
I've checked for fault codes via the ODB connector but can't find anything. This is the first diesel I've had and it's run fine up to yesterday with no previous loss of power or weird noises but I don't want to run the engine again in case something seizes irreparably!
I know I can't rule out the turbo or the oil cooler/centrifuge but I wondered if anyone had any prior knowledge or experience of this kind of fault. In short if someone could point me in the right direction regards what to look and in what sequence I may be able to fix the problem(s) myself without hefty labour charges!
Any advice would be very much appreciated....
Yours, Andy.