I have had my Range Rover for 2 years and have had the usual problems that my local independant dealer has sorted for me, heated seats, air con, fuel pump, alarm etc etc.
The trouble is something always goes wrong just when i am getting ready to sell the car. The latest problem is verry puzzling. It became apparant when overtaking a car on my way home work. I was doing about 35mph and floored the accelerator to kick down, as i am accelerating the revs hit 3500-4000 RPM and then nothing, the engine would not rev any more and would not change up. Only when i completely lifted off and then back on with the accelerator did the engine change up and i continued to accelerate.
This i thought must have been a one off, but to my disbelief it now happens most of the time (but not always) that if i floor the accelerator the engine hits a 'rev' brick wall at about 3750 RPM and makes a hissing noise. Then after lifting off and only giving about 50-70% throttle will the car continue to accelerate.
I am having horrible thoughts of injector pumps faulty or worse. I have a vann akken chip fitted but otherwise the engine is FSH on 80,000 miles and standard. A new 'in tank' fuel pump was fitted 6000 miles ago to correct a starting problem.
If anyone has had a similar experience i would apprieciate some advice.
Many thanks
The trouble is something always goes wrong just when i am getting ready to sell the car. The latest problem is verry puzzling. It became apparant when overtaking a car on my way home work. I was doing about 35mph and floored the accelerator to kick down, as i am accelerating the revs hit 3500-4000 RPM and then nothing, the engine would not rev any more and would not change up. Only when i completely lifted off and then back on with the accelerator did the engine change up and i continued to accelerate.
This i thought must have been a one off, but to my disbelief it now happens most of the time (but not always) that if i floor the accelerator the engine hits a 'rev' brick wall at about 3750 RPM and makes a hissing noise. Then after lifting off and only giving about 50-70% throttle will the car continue to accelerate.
I am having horrible thoughts of injector pumps faulty or worse. I have a vann akken chip fitted but otherwise the engine is FSH on 80,000 miles and standard. A new 'in tank' fuel pump was fitted 6000 miles ago to correct a starting problem.
If anyone has had a similar experience i would apprieciate some advice.
Many thanks