I've read some of the posts re VIS valves on the KV6. What's your experiences? A151 update is a free recall update OR another opportunity for the dealership to gorge on the blood of innocent LR owners (haven't spoken to my local dealer yet)? I think the general jist is; get the update and...

Also.............one of the false starts was being supplied with a crankshaft position monitor, after going through the WS manual it looks like this could also have been causing the non-start problem (it wasn't). Is there any merit in changing out the CKM; diagnostics isn't showing up and fault...

Gents (especially Nodge68)..............thank you After a couple of false starts, finally got the correct camshaft position monitor (& OBDII diagnostic tool) doddle to fix; hunky dory. My son had taken to keeping a football in the boot so we could have a kickabout whilst we waited for the...

Thank you so far. I am an experienced mechanic (agricultural); however all my experience is pre-electronics. I've been thinking about getting a diagnostic tool but there seems to be a wide variation in price (and presumably therefore efficacy?), any advice on this issue? The cam sensor seems...

No problems starting when cold, but when hot if I switch on ignition and allow lights to go out i.e. the choke/cold start initiation, it just wont start, presume flooded and it won't start until it cools down a bit. Most times it will start when hot if I don't give the choke time to come on...

All very formal to introduce myself, but happy to do so. Wishing all you gentlemen (& gentlemanettes) a very good day. I'm a 2001 Freelander V6 owner, bought it as a second car, bout 2 years however now it's me main motor so all the things I was willing to put up with need fixing and I'm...