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Steve Miles

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"Lara" is my wifes TD5 90 Land Rover. I bought in February and it has been back to the dealer 5 times, once on the back of a break down lorry. I would of liked to take it back behind my 1973 Series III and Ifor Williams trailer!!!!!

After a month of driving it with no problems it developed a hiccup when accelerating hard, as you do when joining traffic on a A road or motorway. This got worse and worse and has been the reason for four visits.

The last visit my wife was going along and stopped at the traffic lights, she thought she had stalled Lara but infact Lara had stopped, after a short while, after wife turned the key again Lara pulled away from the traffic lights. Two roundabouts later a straight bit of road wife puts her foot down to overtake a car loses power until rolls to a halt at the next traffic lights. Engine had no response to throttle just ticked over got her across main dual carraigeway and into a safer place.

Wife phones me, I leave work and go to her, turn key every thing is alright. Wife insists I follow her home, no shopping for this week, 1 mile down the road once again power goes no throttle response. Recovered to dealer, once again diagnosis no fault found by laptop.

Wife distraught can anyone help cause the dealer can't. Wife don't trust Lara anymore if no help Lara for the boot.
 
might be a fuel pick up pipe getting blocked. then when its switched orf the crap falls off and allows you to drive until its clogs up again. and so the cycle continues. if this is the case yer best to take the tank off and clean the fooker out and then recoat the inside with special tank stuff from a vehicle resorers, I.E eastwoods.
 
When you lose power, does the engine stall completely if you put the clutch in?

If so, try cleaning the contacts for the stop solenoid if they're dirdy - another fella on that other forum had a very similar problem with his Tdi and solved it with a bit of WD40 and a quick polish ;)

Might be worth trying that before draining the tank etc, as it's a bit less messy :D
 
Also, could be iffy lift pump and or fuel fuel filter. A mate has a 110 with a Disco 200 TDi in it and had a similar problem losing power and roll to a halt. Stop engine, restart all is fine for a bit. Ended up replacing lift pump, fuel lines (been bodged together) and filter assembly and all is working.
 
if its been to a dealer 5 times you'd have thought they would have checked **** like filters and pumps by now, which is why ah wur thinking of things that are easily missed and hard to find.
i had a car that would work fine ine 1st and 2nd but as soon as you went into third it died. wait 5 mins and it wur fine. drive slowly it wur fine,. you could rev it up all day long in the drive/workshop and it would be fine. ask it to accelerate in third and it died. took fooking ages to find out the tank was full of crap. including driving down the road with a turbo pressure gauge and a fuel pressure gauge stickin up from under the bonnet.
so if yer dealer mechanics are any good they should have checked the obvious by now and its time to look elsewhere
 
Aye, it was fixed finally when it conked out 1/2 mile from Nene Overland, and they sorted it out there and then ;)
 
He says it's a TD5, so all references to lift pumps are off-topic.

It's a nightmare of wires and silly smart-arse ideas that aren't worth a fart.

I would like to know what the problem was once it has been sorted.

CHarlesY
 
Ive had this problem myself.
First a craked head didnt help :-(
Anyway I needed an new engine and had the whole thing rebuilt due to some balls up by Nrwegian Landrover mechanics.

After the rebuild Ihad the same problem as you are talking about.
We changed fuel pumps all gauges and everything.

My problem was the injector seats on two of my injectors.
 
Lara returned today. Very responsive wife got 90 out of Lara when trying to get it to break down or cough.

Wife not happy though worried it will break down again. God help the dealer if she does, by hook or by crook she will get Lara there and the dealer will have his head bitten off and spat out!!!!!

We are going to stick my Ifor William trailer on the back with one of our vintage tractors, approx 3 tons in all. Give it a work out. Watch this space for info. My series III (Betsy) manages this slowly but we always get there.
 
ffs heidi never mind yer auld tracctas and ivor biggin trailers,, what was wrong wiff the landy
 
Not sure this is going to help but as the TD5 has a pretty modern (ish !) ECU, it's probably going into "Limp Home" mode. My Vauxhall does it occasionally after driving through a big puddle at speed. I don't know if the ECU records a history of faults (depends on the age of the machine, I think) but a decent dealer will be able to retrieve the fault history from it with a 'lectronic gismo (you can also buy them yourself from a well known online auction site and other places for about £60 if it's a post 2004 engine - don't know about earlier ones - made by Gedman, I think).

Vauxhall is fixed by letting the water out of the connectors around the engine. Maybe a similar process would help you.

Best of luck,
Chris.
 
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