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Hello Anaconda and Tottot, Lile I said, I looked into it today... I took out the start and stop combination and went to a Land Rover wizard with it. He opened it up and then we saw that the system that makes it impossible to pull the key out...

I am glad I have helped, even if it was by accident 🤔🤣

I am not sure what year ign switch off diesels first appeared? Knowing LR probably years after everyone else!

Do you mean you can turn the ign off and the engine keeps running then you can remove the key? I assume the car is pull cable to stop?

I have been thinking about it and you are correct, "stretch" may well be the wrong word.

Newer kit has auto tensioners, so things must wear and whats older motors cambelts get slack, think my d3 cambelt has an auto tensioner, I should remember as have done the belt twice! Was an old wives tale when cambelts were a new thing that...

If you think about if, if a timing belt stretched it would not be doing its job. I have always found 200 belts a sod to fit when new and with a new tens, almost like there is zero tolerance.

Not worn as in stretched but teeth have bedded in.

Belt does not stretch, merely settles into its correct operating place, hence why they say turn it over a couple of times by hand.

It is bot of an art tensioning the cambelt, you can and I do do it by hand/eye, but as the belt is quite a bit wider than normal car cambelts it takes some judgement. Other thing to remember is to try and get the inj pump adjustment slots in the...

So when the car and engine have both stopped, what happens next?

I would say most likely not off a landrover series. What size thread is it? might give you an idea of age.

I would say someone has stolen your piston rings.