Jonathan-NZ
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Hi folks,
As mentioned in my introduction thread, I am looking after a Freelander 2 (2007, STD4, 2.2L diesel, manual) vehicle for a NZ charity.
It's done around 130,000KM.
It's due for it's 10 year service as of about 15 days ago.
Whilst driving over a steep mountain, towing a relatively heavy trailer and load, it had a total power loss.
The accelerator ceased doing anything at all.
The engine was still running though, but obviously it dropped to just an idle, and the car came to a halt.
I turned vehicle off. After a few minutes, I fired her up and acceleration resumed working.
About 2 minutes later, same thing occurred.
I removed the trailer, and I was then able to drive the rest of the journey okay (another 30 mins of driving). Not knowing whether it would give out in any moment, I drove rather gently though. Just down the road from our destination, I attempting accelerating hard from a complete stop, and the same issue occurred. Total loss of acceleration.
I've since been informed it might be the solenoid on the turbo unit. But it was explained this results in the car going into a limp home mode. I would have thought that would show me some kind of warning light or message on the dash, of which there were none. Is that normal for limp home mode?
I am not sure it was "limping", unless the limp is so slow one can easily mistake it for total power loss, as opposed to a 95% loss, or whatever limp mode drops to.
I don't have a means to pull error codes (will need to pay the auto electrician $60 for that). Which raises another question... What the most cost effective yet useful third party device for getting all the various codes, and resetting them, etc.? At $60 a pop to have someone else check them, I figure we'd be better off buying a code reader. With so many options (and a big price variation), it'd be great to see what you suggest.
Any thoughts and input would be appreciated.
Cheers...
J
As mentioned in my introduction thread, I am looking after a Freelander 2 (2007, STD4, 2.2L diesel, manual) vehicle for a NZ charity.
It's done around 130,000KM.
It's due for it's 10 year service as of about 15 days ago.
Whilst driving over a steep mountain, towing a relatively heavy trailer and load, it had a total power loss.
The accelerator ceased doing anything at all.
The engine was still running though, but obviously it dropped to just an idle, and the car came to a halt.
I turned vehicle off. After a few minutes, I fired her up and acceleration resumed working.
About 2 minutes later, same thing occurred.
I removed the trailer, and I was then able to drive the rest of the journey okay (another 30 mins of driving). Not knowing whether it would give out in any moment, I drove rather gently though. Just down the road from our destination, I attempting accelerating hard from a complete stop, and the same issue occurred. Total loss of acceleration.
I've since been informed it might be the solenoid on the turbo unit. But it was explained this results in the car going into a limp home mode. I would have thought that would show me some kind of warning light or message on the dash, of which there were none. Is that normal for limp home mode?
I am not sure it was "limping", unless the limp is so slow one can easily mistake it for total power loss, as opposed to a 95% loss, or whatever limp mode drops to.
I don't have a means to pull error codes (will need to pay the auto electrician $60 for that). Which raises another question... What the most cost effective yet useful third party device for getting all the various codes, and resetting them, etc.? At $60 a pop to have someone else check them, I figure we'd be better off buying a code reader. With so many options (and a big price variation), it'd be great to see what you suggest.
Any thoughts and input would be appreciated.
Cheers...
J
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