Hi there from sunny Scotland, Newbie here from Blackburn aberdeenshire.
My question for you all is this my Girlfriends parents have an 04 defender fitted with the TD5 engine it has approx 72k on the clock and recently the engine went bang in a big way, total destruction of engine and turbo. Now the garage and landrover told them it was the cylinder head which had cracked causing diesel and oil to mix which destroyed the engine, so in went a new engine from landrover complete with new turbo only for the same thing to happen 2 days later!!
, So this time it went to a landrover dealer for another engine refit only for the same thing to happen again on the journey home!!. Finally another engine later and a week later and all seems fine apart from a small oil leak from the filter housing!.
So the question is this was there a recall or known problem from landrover that they can use to claim back some of the £6k+ they have had to shell out for repairs. The original warranty ran out only a few weeks before the first engine fault but surely a landrover with only 72k which has been fully maintained and never been offroad in fact its quite pampered in landy terms shouldn't have blown up in such a big way.
So any help would be very helpful indeed.
My question for you all is this my Girlfriends parents have an 04 defender fitted with the TD5 engine it has approx 72k on the clock and recently the engine went bang in a big way, total destruction of engine and turbo. Now the garage and landrover told them it was the cylinder head which had cracked causing diesel and oil to mix which destroyed the engine, so in went a new engine from landrover complete with new turbo only for the same thing to happen 2 days later!!
, So this time it went to a landrover dealer for another engine refit only for the same thing to happen again on the journey home!!. Finally another engine later and a week later and all seems fine apart from a small oil leak from the filter housing!. So the question is this was there a recall or known problem from landrover that they can use to claim back some of the £6k+ they have had to shell out for repairs. The original warranty ran out only a few weeks before the first engine fault but surely a landrover with only 72k which has been fully maintained and never been offroad in fact its quite pampered in landy terms shouldn't have blown up in such a big way.
So any help would be very helpful indeed.
