Help Needed - Diff recall

All,

I hope you can help, I am a car novice so please bear with me!

I have recently bought from a pal a 2004 RR Vogue 3.0d. It had 69000 miles on the clock and has been dealer serviced since new.

On the last service they mentioned that the car needed to be recalled for Diff Recall. It went back and was done.

Now 4 weeks later I was driving along and I heard a bang, sounded like a popped tire. The car then started vibrating and losing power. The car wouldnt over rev but just wouldnt pick up pace. I pulled over and the car is making a loud knocking noise when idle, sounds like a spanner in the works and the car rocks very slightly from side to side with the rev counter flicking (not by much but the needle isnt steady).

I called the RAC out and they said "It sounded expensive" but couldnt offer any opinion on what it was.

Can these two items be related? I dont want to take it to a dealer to be paying thousands until I am equipped with at least a little bit of advice.

Apologies for being vague.

Many thanks in advance!

Alex

it will be expensive.get the dealer who sorted the diff recall to have a look but not carry out the wiork then come on here see if his pulling yer plonker or being straight.As the engine is idling funny sounds unrelated, but you never know.

methinks the price quoted to fix it will be approx 2.35K (main dealer inc VAT)

sounds like sean knows wot it is

goonarmy said:

sounds like sean knows wot it is

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not exactly, but anything that makes a big landy rock at idle for sure isnt going to be a blocked breather

nice to know that the RAC men are right sometimes

Chaps, just heard back from the dealers. Apparently its a buster full injector on one of the cylinders. They have quoted me £200 for the part plus £300 labour. They also said that they cant tell if its only that yet until they "get in there".

Does this all sound pretty standard? Also would a faulty fuel injector cause it to sound like I described and knock that loudly?