Charles Banbury
Active Member
So, I bought this car about three weeks ago. It clearly had a problem as it was catastrophically under powered. Two owners from new, last serviced at 100k now at 105. However, the last service was in 2010! Got home very slowly and sent it off to an excellent independent Range Rover specialist for a full check over and rigorous service. Other than a few minor issues all was well and the mechanic found that a vacuum pipe had detached itself from something and this was preventing the turbo from working. After collection, the car was transformed and in the words of the mechanic who test drove it, ‘it now performs like every other DSE’
This was great. My previous RR was a 4.6 and over the next two weeks I drove the car a fair bit, did a few miles and was beginning to get used to the way that a diesel performed.
The only irritation was a loud vibration from all over the dash whist accelerating that disappeared when the car changed up to 3rd (auto). However, and this is the weird bit. Yesterday when off on a trip the vibration completely disappeared and the car has increased in power considerably. Now I’m not going mad here there is a significant increase in power smoothness and driveability. It’s almost as if there is a different engine under the bonnet.
How, has this happened? Could it have been chipped some time ago and it’s just kicked in due to dodgy wiring? As it had only done about 4500 miles in 5 years, could just driving the thing have made the improvement? The bit I really don’t get is it is quite responsive now, not like the 4.6 but not that far off. What do I do to try and make sure that it maintains this form or have I stumbled on the words first self-healing Range Rover. It’s spooky.
This was great. My previous RR was a 4.6 and over the next two weeks I drove the car a fair bit, did a few miles and was beginning to get used to the way that a diesel performed.
The only irritation was a loud vibration from all over the dash whist accelerating that disappeared when the car changed up to 3rd (auto). However, and this is the weird bit. Yesterday when off on a trip the vibration completely disappeared and the car has increased in power considerably. Now I’m not going mad here there is a significant increase in power smoothness and driveability. It’s almost as if there is a different engine under the bonnet.
How, has this happened? Could it have been chipped some time ago and it’s just kicked in due to dodgy wiring? As it had only done about 4500 miles in 5 years, could just driving the thing have made the improvement? The bit I really don’t get is it is quite responsive now, not like the 4.6 but not that far off. What do I do to try and make sure that it maintains this form or have I stumbled on the words first self-healing Range Rover. It’s spooky.
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