What a travesty that after 74000 miles an engine is scrap, along with nearly every other engine from that period. LR deserve to go out of business, trading on their old name which lets face it was crap to begin with. I know a load of you will hark on about your love for the brand but it took BMW to make it into a properly built car and engine. It really annoys me that a seven year old car is good for nothing. It seems I now have a low mileage Rangey for sale with the mandatory knackered engine. Anyone?
I've already used it. Apart from junking the £350 water pump and god knows what else it cost me £200 to get it put in as I don't have the space. Didn't work anyway.
Point taken (although BMWs first effort was the 2002 L series which I think everyone agrees is in a different league)... but where on earth do you get a new long/short engine and get it fitted all for a couple of grand?imo R/R should be held accountable for the slipped liner/porous block .. that is a travesty but to say it took bmw to build it properly isnt quite right, wasnt it 1994/95 they bought r/r? shouldnt they shoulder some of the blame for the crap engines? with yours being a 2002 if it turns out it is knackered wouldnt it be worth the couple of grand to put a new long/short engine in? i would if it were mine... anyways good luck whatever happends or whatever you decide to do
Shud have mentioned the fitting would cost extra, theres plenty options open to you 1st would be to get it correctly diagnosed then take it from there, take a look at gavbriggs posts he had slipped liners and his r/r is a labour of love there are many knowledgable peeps on ere who im sure would be willing to offer help and advice... it could always go missing :behindsofa:
There's a difference between comment and advice. Advice implies some degree of knowledge as opposed to 'Mine worked after someone did so and so to it so it must be true' comments that you must have had in the past.i am sorry but i have to pull you up on this post, a knackered block is just that, it doesnt mean it is beyond repair.
if the liners are slipped that means the combustion gasses can escape under compression past the head gasket fire ring and into the water galleries and on to the coolant system. thus resulting in pockets of gas and/or gasses pushing water out of the expansion vessel.
the reason that liners slip is the expansion and contraction rates of the liners and block bieng different as they are constructed: liners = ductile iron, block aluminium alloy.
this is obviously brought on by some excessive heat/cooling process which as yet has not been explained to me other than an overheat can cause this.
now if you dont believe me, pop round and i can show you examples of slipped and non slipped liners.
having been through the process in the last 12 months i can assure you that if the liners are slipped no amount of 'wizerd's sperm additives' will seal the liners and gasses from the water ways!
that said, there are degrees of severity and other problems which can cause similar symptoms but none i know of will produce combustion gasses in the coolant system other than gasses escaping via the usually sealed combustion chamber. head gasket, cracked heads, slipped liners and 'porous block' all require a strip down, again cracked heads are less severe than slipped liners as they can be changed to a good pair in 6 hours!
a sniff test (hydrocarbon in the coolant test) will tell you if there is gasses present not where they are coming from!
the lpg vapouriser will give you the same symptoms as slipped liner if it is allowing lpg gas into the coolant system but i dont think it will show on the sniff test.
the cheapest option available to you at the moment is to get the test done and if there is no problem with the liners/head and no gasses in the coolant replace the parts that are suspect, rad, stat etc!
sorry to be blunt but it ****es me off when people are told the way to go then disbelieve the answers to thier questions. if seeking advice from other owners and people who have been in the same place you are now is below you then i suggest the 'google search' facility provided by google and the countless posts and articles that people have posted and written after having what at first looks like a terminal situation with thier car!!!
i hope you get to the bottom of the problem and find a speedy solution but for fcuk sake, learn to take opinions and advice on board!!
Or do you do the next best thing and rebuild and troubleshoot like so many others on this forum have done....hoping it costs a lot less than £5K when all totalled up in the end. You also need to take into account the other stuff that can go wrong - the EAS for example, or the aircon, or the BECM itself and the general condition of the body and the car itself and if is going to take £££££s then I'd seriously reconsider dumping it for spares, if everything else is pretty sound though, I'd seriously consider a new engine - Good Luck and I hope it isn't a massive task. 
