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I didn't use Dr Tranny's in the end. My engine had a major issue so I had to remove it from the car. While I had the engine out I pulled the TC out and sent it to Sussex Autos for a rebuild. They were brilliant! £250+VAT including collection, delivery and a new oil seal. They turned it around in...

Yeah, my first thought was Haldex as I had been going up and down a steep slippy mud/grass/gravel driveway that day so the haldex had probably been kicking in and I'd been using HDC on the way down (not that that any of that should be a challenge for the FL2, it's kind of what it's designed to...

Hi @Nodge68, Hope you're keeping well. I have read a lot about diff failures on the FL2 and early Evoques. I had the 10 year service about 3 years back and they supposedly changed the diff oil and serviced the Haldex. My car has almost 110k miles so I guess it's about due for a diff! My...

Hi Guys, I was driving along the other day, came to a junction, set off and when I did I had a strange rumble and slight judder from the rear end when cornering. It felt a bit like when you leave a diff lock engaged and turn on tarmac. After a bit of searching I found a few things to try and...

A bit of a "newbie" question (apologies if it's been asked before but I couldn't find it); When working with SDD and using a PSU do you leave the battery connected and connect the PSU in parallel or do you disconnect the battery and use just the PSU? I'm building up to re-flashing my ECM and...

No worries, I appreciate your time and all your previous contributions to this thread are a huge help.

Thanks @PRO Now that sounds like a job to do while wearing an incontinence pad! 😱 Any idea if the engine ECU is the same for autos and manuals or are they specific? Mine's an auto. Do you know where I'd find the "Flash PCM" button?

After replacing the engine on my FL2 I had a whole raft of DTCs. I have worked through most of them but there are two that remain and won't go away: U2101 - Control Module Configuration Incompatible P1603 - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory Malfunction (EEPROM) The strange...

Well that coolant leak was coming from the EGR. I pulled it out again and managed to make one good one from two bad ones. I now have what appears to be an oil leak with oil dripping onto something hot. It looks to be coming from either the rocker cover (bad gasket?) or the intake pipe to the...

https://www.britishdiagnostics.co.uk/products/jaguar-land-rover-v130-ids-sdd-software-only Looks like you can buy it here. I think I downloaded a a v130 a while back but deleted it. I'll have look around and see if I can find where I got it from. Edit: This might be worth a look...

Well I drove it for about 15 miles and had no great dramas. There was a hot, slightly metallic smell when I stopped the car and a quick look under the bonnet revealed a bit of a drip from a coolant hose. It looks like it's dripping onto something hot (maybe the exhaust manifold) so I'll try and...

It does seem to run ok. I'm nervous to take it far from home but I think I'll take it for a run and get my wife to follow me in her car in case the worse happens.

Because I'd had a DTC relating to glow plugs I took the opportunity to test the plugs while the intake manifold was off. It turns out that they were all dead! I swapped them for my old ones which were all ok. I removed the swirl flaps from the intake manifold (they put up a heck of a fight!) and...

Good tip on removing bulkhead, I looked at it and thought should I or shouldn't I. Of course 2 hours into the job and the answer was obviously that I should have! 😁 I imagine the inlet manifold will be pretty bad based on what I've seen. I think I'll pull the swirl flaps out of my original...

I bit the bullet and replaced the TB and EGR yesterday. The TB was easy but OMG the EGR is such a pain! When I removed the TB I couldn't believe how much crud there was in there. I thought y old one was a bit scruffy but the one off my "new" engine was a mess: The one I removed... and my...