stretchie_
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Picked up my cheap troubled Disco TD5. Needs a GOOD clean in and out but I recon itll scrub up very nicely.
List of things: you got any ideas?
The dent in the rear under the lights on the drivers side is actually a dent with tears in it about 6 wide
Not too bothered about this, as can fill it and deal with it later
Only the drivers door and the rear passenger side door unlock, the front passenger door will unlock if you hold the catch up and try the handle from the inside a couple of times, once opened you can open and close it easily until you next lock/unlock it.
This is not the press the unlock twice on the fob issue. On the rear drivers side door the tab that sticks out the door at the top does not stick out of the hole at all so possibly got pressed into the door card and now it cant get back out. Are the locks on the TD5 like the 300tdi? Could it be just a spring or do you have to get the whole mechanism?
The front right indicator does not work so the right side indicators run twice as fast
Its full of water, so will drill a little hole in to drain it, if it doesnt work when its dried out then Ill replace the unit
Does not start well, you try to start the vehicle and its weird, the sound you get is maybe like a starter motor turning over but louder and heavier?? And the revs meter goes up so possibly running but on one/two cylinders? But it does eventually start after 3 or four attempts.
I havent got a scooby
When driving (Safemode?) it FEELS like fuel starvation in the way that you have to keep plunging the accelerator to stop it stalling, not easy when maneuvering it to park it up
It overheated in a short space of time which may have been what put it into safe mode? (the missus was driving it not me so cant really comment apart from that I drove it around the car park in a hotel we pulled up in.) Bonnet up and there was liquid on the right hand side (passenger side) of the engine. Not sure what liquid as too dark to tell I I think it was just behind the turbo
I havent got a scooby
There is a smell like burning plastic/rubber. Clutch?? Something leaking and getting burnt off on hot pipes?
I havent got a scooby
I like a challenge and got this for a song and wont have to pay labour costs for any work done, cos Ill be doing it.
Its getting hooked up to a proper Land Rover testbook soon for a full diagnostic so well see what comes of that. Aside from that I have made a list of some typical issues to check (the vehicle has been taken to the girlfriends brother in laws so will be going over there to fiddle with it)
· ECU for oil
· Fuel Pressure Regulator for leaks
· Oil pump bolt in the sump, will just do it for peace of mid
· Diesel in the oil
· Injector O rings
Cheers
List of things: you got any ideas?
The dent in the rear under the lights on the drivers side is actually a dent with tears in it about 6 wide
Not too bothered about this, as can fill it and deal with it later
Only the drivers door and the rear passenger side door unlock, the front passenger door will unlock if you hold the catch up and try the handle from the inside a couple of times, once opened you can open and close it easily until you next lock/unlock it.
This is not the press the unlock twice on the fob issue. On the rear drivers side door the tab that sticks out the door at the top does not stick out of the hole at all so possibly got pressed into the door card and now it cant get back out. Are the locks on the TD5 like the 300tdi? Could it be just a spring or do you have to get the whole mechanism?
The front right indicator does not work so the right side indicators run twice as fast
Its full of water, so will drill a little hole in to drain it, if it doesnt work when its dried out then Ill replace the unit
Does not start well, you try to start the vehicle and its weird, the sound you get is maybe like a starter motor turning over but louder and heavier?? And the revs meter goes up so possibly running but on one/two cylinders? But it does eventually start after 3 or four attempts.
I havent got a scooby
When driving (Safemode?) it FEELS like fuel starvation in the way that you have to keep plunging the accelerator to stop it stalling, not easy when maneuvering it to park it up
It overheated in a short space of time which may have been what put it into safe mode? (the missus was driving it not me so cant really comment apart from that I drove it around the car park in a hotel we pulled up in.) Bonnet up and there was liquid on the right hand side (passenger side) of the engine. Not sure what liquid as too dark to tell I I think it was just behind the turbo
I havent got a scooby
There is a smell like burning plastic/rubber. Clutch?? Something leaking and getting burnt off on hot pipes?
I havent got a scooby
I like a challenge and got this for a song and wont have to pay labour costs for any work done, cos Ill be doing it.
Its getting hooked up to a proper Land Rover testbook soon for a full diagnostic so well see what comes of that. Aside from that I have made a list of some typical issues to check (the vehicle has been taken to the girlfriends brother in laws so will be going over there to fiddle with it)
· ECU for oil
· Fuel Pressure Regulator for leaks
· Oil pump bolt in the sump, will just do it for peace of mid
· Diesel in the oil
· Injector O rings
Cheers
