Iirc he had issues, I genuinely reckon once a wrongun always a wrongun where these engines are concerned, if you get a good one then you are doing well, he say fingers crossed with 162k and counting!I remember the German fella measuring the block of that 3.0 sdv6 they did to check for true
Bloke down the club his mate had 2016 3.0 blow, LR changed engine few months later that blew, now legal arguments.
Garage in Kent who specialises/d in them have had rebuilt ones fail, and now charge 5k before they will even strip your car for a look see, and I am sure there is a damned good reason for that.
One bloke on the d3forum summed it up for me when he said, I had to sell it as it was like driving around on a hand grenade with the pin pulled!
I did smile a few years ago when they closed rank when I said they (the 3.0) were crap and the apple never falls far from the tree, but then they would as they had 10s of thousands sitting on their driveways, many went to the volvos, cannot say I blame them either.