Quintin
New Member
Hi All
I recently purchased a 2006 Freelander 1 TD4 Auto with about 98k on the clock primary for towing our caravan in and out of muddy festival fields.
The first thing I did was to get our local garage to do a major service, replace the crank case breather, check the MAF sensor and we tested the VCU. All seemed fine.
When it's cold it seems reluctant to shift up a gear and will hold a lower gear to almost 3000rpm before shifting up. I'm applying very little throttle and barely accelerating. (20mph zone) but when it's warm it shifts much sooner, as expected. Is this normal?
When the engine is warm everything seems fine until you load the engine. The engine will speed up as instructed, but when the engine returns to lower rpm (below 2000rpm) or to idle it starts stuttering, loosing power and the orange engine management light comes on intermittently with the stuttering. It has even cut out at traffic lights once, but starts up fine again.
I have read a lot of the threads about fuel pump failure and leaky turbo/air hoses, but this issue seems to only occur after the engine has returned to rest, not during load.
The local garage advised a double dose of Redex with a full tank of diesel to clear out any dirty injectors and I am about half way down that tank with no improvement yet.
Is there any other wisdom out there, anyone who might have any ideas before I start spending more money investigating and replacing components that might not be at fault?
Thank you,
Q.
I recently purchased a 2006 Freelander 1 TD4 Auto with about 98k on the clock primary for towing our caravan in and out of muddy festival fields.
The first thing I did was to get our local garage to do a major service, replace the crank case breather, check the MAF sensor and we tested the VCU. All seemed fine.
When it's cold it seems reluctant to shift up a gear and will hold a lower gear to almost 3000rpm before shifting up. I'm applying very little throttle and barely accelerating. (20mph zone) but when it's warm it shifts much sooner, as expected. Is this normal?
When the engine is warm everything seems fine until you load the engine. The engine will speed up as instructed, but when the engine returns to lower rpm (below 2000rpm) or to idle it starts stuttering, loosing power and the orange engine management light comes on intermittently with the stuttering. It has even cut out at traffic lights once, but starts up fine again.
I have read a lot of the threads about fuel pump failure and leaky turbo/air hoses, but this issue seems to only occur after the engine has returned to rest, not during load.
The local garage advised a double dose of Redex with a full tank of diesel to clear out any dirty injectors and I am about half way down that tank with no improvement yet.
Is there any other wisdom out there, anyone who might have any ideas before I start spending more money investigating and replacing components that might not be at fault?
Thank you,
Q.