Hello,
I have a 2006 Freelander 2.5 V6 auto with 57000 miles on the clock and I am experiencing an annoying problem. The car has low power at high revs, above 5000 rpm. So if I kick down going up a hill, the tachometer gets stuck at around 5500 rpm and I have to use manual shift to change gear, so the rpm drops to 3500 and the car accelerates again. On a plain surface, the car is able to reach above 6000 rpm and change gears by itself (auto), but the engine struggles a lot and takes a while to do this.
The car is driven by my wife, so I am not sure how long it took to get so bad. I think it worsened slowly, not suddenly. My wife never complained about this. She uses the car only for city driving. I noticed the problem when used it for a road trip.
My mech (not a LR specialist, as there is none in my town out of the untrustworthy LR dealer I live in Brazil) changed fuel filter (no improvement), fuel pump (no improvement) and finally the VIS valve motors (both were not working, valves stuck closed). The car didnt improved a bit . The air filter was changed as well.
My guess was that the engine was not getting enough air, so it worsened at higher revs. I think the stuck VIS valves were not harming the engine performance because there was something worse going on.
Any suggestions on how to fix this will be welcome.
Thanks.
I have a 2006 Freelander 2.5 V6 auto with 57000 miles on the clock and I am experiencing an annoying problem. The car has low power at high revs, above 5000 rpm. So if I kick down going up a hill, the tachometer gets stuck at around 5500 rpm and I have to use manual shift to change gear, so the rpm drops to 3500 and the car accelerates again. On a plain surface, the car is able to reach above 6000 rpm and change gears by itself (auto), but the engine struggles a lot and takes a while to do this.
The car is driven by my wife, so I am not sure how long it took to get so bad. I think it worsened slowly, not suddenly. My wife never complained about this. She uses the car only for city driving. I noticed the problem when used it for a road trip.
My mech (not a LR specialist, as there is none in my town out of the untrustworthy LR dealer I live in Brazil) changed fuel filter (no improvement), fuel pump (no improvement) and finally the VIS valve motors (both were not working, valves stuck closed). The car didnt improved a bit . The air filter was changed as well.
My guess was that the engine was not getting enough air, so it worsened at higher revs. I think the stuck VIS valves were not harming the engine performance because there was something worse going on.
Any suggestions on how to fix this will be welcome.
Thanks.