I bought a Range Rover Vogue 4.6 (2000 W) last week and I am having a problem with it and I was wondering if anyone would be able to help me.
I have first realised the problem last week when I was driving along (on LPG) totally fine, then totally out of the blue the engine looses power, the only way to rectify the fault is to manually switch back to petrol and wait for it to kick back into life.
When I stopped I looked under the bonnet & noticed the LPG Vaporiser was dripping (being totally new to LPG I didnt know if this was condensation or a dodgy gas pipe, and the unit was VERY cold). I didnt use the LPG for the rest of the day, and then continued to use it the next day.
Then since then, the car has run fine on both petrol & LPG (vaporiser very hot) without any problems until today!
I was halfway to my destination (aprox 3 miles) along a dual carriageway when the same problem happened again, the car lost power, so I switched to petrol.
5 minutes later when I had stopped, I opened the bonnet and checked the vaporiser, and again it was VERY cold, I squeezed the big coolant hoses on the top of the radiator but these didnt make much noise and wasnt boiling hot, just pretty warm.
When the car cooled down I opened the coolant bottle and it was pretty dry so I topped up and started the engine on petrol. After a few minutes on idle the engine was warm, the hoses hot and vaporiser hot as supposed to be.
What can cause this loss of water (dad has checked oil and this is fine) could it be some sort of blocked pipes or a solenoid that isnt switching?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Sorry for the long description.
Many thanks
Paul
I have first realised the problem last week when I was driving along (on LPG) totally fine, then totally out of the blue the engine looses power, the only way to rectify the fault is to manually switch back to petrol and wait for it to kick back into life.
When I stopped I looked under the bonnet & noticed the LPG Vaporiser was dripping (being totally new to LPG I didnt know if this was condensation or a dodgy gas pipe, and the unit was VERY cold). I didnt use the LPG for the rest of the day, and then continued to use it the next day.
Then since then, the car has run fine on both petrol & LPG (vaporiser very hot) without any problems until today!
I was halfway to my destination (aprox 3 miles) along a dual carriageway when the same problem happened again, the car lost power, so I switched to petrol.
5 minutes later when I had stopped, I opened the bonnet and checked the vaporiser, and again it was VERY cold, I squeezed the big coolant hoses on the top of the radiator but these didnt make much noise and wasnt boiling hot, just pretty warm.
When the car cooled down I opened the coolant bottle and it was pretty dry so I topped up and started the engine on petrol. After a few minutes on idle the engine was warm, the hoses hot and vaporiser hot as supposed to be.
What can cause this loss of water (dad has checked oil and this is fine) could it be some sort of blocked pipes or a solenoid that isnt switching?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated!
Sorry for the long description.
Many thanks
Paul