DaisyDriver
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Okay.... Daisy is an April 2004 D2 TD5 enjoying a second career after emigrating from the UK to Australia. She has developed a fault where, without warning, she loses all power. Severe cranking of the engine usually persuades her back into life but that life lasts anything between 500 yds and 50 miles (irrespective of how much load/revs I demand from the engine) but is a little less reluctant to start if I disconnect the battery and count to 10 first. I have:
1. Changed the fuel pump and filter - because these seemed to be the obvious faults in the first instance but I was wrong.
2. Cleaned the red ECU plug - it was clogged with oil and for a month the fault went away but then came back, despite a second visit to red ECU plug land.
3. Cleaned the injector loom. It was new last March in any case and I am familiar with losing 1 cylinder with an oil soaked loom. Daisy is losing all 5 cylinders at once.
Her clutch and gearbox (long story) were changed last March and all seemed well.
I clock up 800km (500miles) a week, nearly all of it at motorway speeds (110km/70mph).
When she was running properly, Daisy was returning 10l/100km (almost 30mpg) and max speed is in accordance with the manual. She has 270,000km on the clock. The only engine work that she has had is:
1. 2 new injector looms (2007 & 2015)
2. New fuel pressure regulator seals (2014) and there is no smell of diesel
3. New radiator and top hose (2013)
4. New Starter (2013)
She is religiously serviced (new fluids and filters) every 10,000 km (6,000miles) and this is the first fault she has ever had that means she has failed to complete a journey.
I do not have a Nanocom and am reluctant to give the local LR shop a blank cheque.
Apart from the crank case sensor and/or wiring (see note on new GB above), what else can it be?
1. Changed the fuel pump and filter - because these seemed to be the obvious faults in the first instance but I was wrong.
2. Cleaned the red ECU plug - it was clogged with oil and for a month the fault went away but then came back, despite a second visit to red ECU plug land.
3. Cleaned the injector loom. It was new last March in any case and I am familiar with losing 1 cylinder with an oil soaked loom. Daisy is losing all 5 cylinders at once.
Her clutch and gearbox (long story) were changed last March and all seemed well.
I clock up 800km (500miles) a week, nearly all of it at motorway speeds (110km/70mph).
When she was running properly, Daisy was returning 10l/100km (almost 30mpg) and max speed is in accordance with the manual. She has 270,000km on the clock. The only engine work that she has had is:
1. 2 new injector looms (2007 & 2015)
2. New fuel pressure regulator seals (2014) and there is no smell of diesel
3. New radiator and top hose (2013)
4. New Starter (2013)
She is religiously serviced (new fluids and filters) every 10,000 km (6,000miles) and this is the first fault she has ever had that means she has failed to complete a journey.
I do not have a Nanocom and am reluctant to give the local LR shop a blank cheque.
Apart from the crank case sensor and/or wiring (see note on new GB above), what else can it be?
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