Breakdown help in Belgium

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roythebus

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As you may have read in another thread, I'm currently stuck in the Wallonie part of Belgium with the 4.4TDV showing with what I suspect is the fan belt about to fall apart . does anyone have any contact detail or recommendation for garage in the area who can help? The recovery firm say they don't know how to fix it, find somewhere else! I know my recovery insurance ought to be dealing with this, but I'm trying to save a tow home!

There used to be a firm near the Spa race circuit who dealt with a previous car that melted its torque converter about 15 years ago, but an internet search can't find it.
 
kermit_rr said:
The fan belt on the 4.4 tdv8 is a stretch belt.
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I've not come across that, I'm used to the normal V belts and multi-groove belts used on buses! It seems to me that to replace the belt the whole front end has to come off. What else is driven off that belt, and I wonder what cause the red and yellow warning signs on the dash? Possible turbo failure, split pipe? The engine had been working hard on the long climb out of Liege, it just dropped down a gear at the top and was doing about 120km/h. The faults had cleared the next day. Is it worth risking driving it back?
 
roythebus said:
I've not come across that, I'm used to the normal V belts and multi-groove belts used on buses! It seems to me that to replace the belt the whole front end has to come off. What else is driven off that belt, and I wonder what cause the red and yellow warning signs on the dash? Possible turbo failure, split pipe? The engine had been working hard on the long climb out of Liege, it just dropped down a gear at the top and was doing about 120km/h. The faults had cleared the next day. Is it worth risking driving it back.
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I have no idea what the red and yellow warnings are, they will be in the owners handbook. However the faults were transient so maybe due to an overheat of engine or gearbox. If it were me I would risk the drive but go carefully and limit my speed and have the number of the recovery service handy.
 
Sadly I don't have the handbook with me, it's at home "somewhere" tidy! I reckon it could well have been gearbox overheat, there was a bit of burning smell at the top of the hill, but that's normal for everything on that road. Maybe low on gearbox oil? How can I check on that? Maybe with the worn belt causing a bit of slip on the cooling fan?
 
roythebus said:
Sadly I don't have the handbook with me, it's at home "somewhere" tidy! I reckon it could well have been gearbox overheat, there was a bit of burning smell at the top of the hill, but that's normal for everything on that road. Maybe low on gearbox oil? How can I check on that? Maybe with the worn belt causing a bit of slip on the cooling fan?
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Stating the obvious, handbooks are best kept in the car, no use in the cupboard. Have you checked for binding brakes?
With any Range Rover, best to never leave home without diagnostics to hand IMO, you would then know what the problem is/was rather than guessing.
 
Datatek said:
Stating the obvious, handbooks are best kept in the car, no use in the cupboard. Have you checked for binding brakes?
With any Range Rover, best to never leave home without diagnostics to hand IMO, you would then know what the problem is/was rather than guessing.
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Quite, my other half has this thing about "tidying up" and not knowing where she's put my stuff, most annoying. I doubt it's brakes binding, the rears have only been on the car a couple of weeks, the fronts were serviced and freed off at the same time.

What I was hoping was that the recovery firm would have a diagnostics box to plug in and read the fault. Maybe i'll get on for myself, it may save a lot of worry. What would the members on here suggest to buy? It would help as my partner has a 63 plate Disco 4 with the 250bhp engine, that seems to be very reliable so far!

I don't want to knacker the gearbox if that's the problem. Maybe get the car recovered to Calais then it's only a 20 minute drive from Dover to home.
 
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