Hullectric
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My story starts like this! On the the way to my local beach my freelander 2 decided to stall! Thought it was oil so popped across road to get some oil, all was fine until
I returned home on dual carriageway, thought I'd put my foot down to mix the oil around, car gave up and started to Hunt and it was a verry bum clinching and rattly journey home, I was left with these options,
1 fuel filter/pump
2 injectors
3 swirl flaps
So I thought I'd take it to the garage I got
It from, they said they would change the oil filter and drain and fill back up! They couldn't do an injector test as they didn't have the gear!
Picked it up! exactly the same and £40
Worse off!
So I thought I'd take it to THE Landrover people ya know the top bollocks people who
Make the cars, 2 hours later and £200 lighter they were scratching there heads!
So i took it home and removed manifold myself, found 2 and a half swirl flaps were missing and part of the rod that holds them
In place. Took it into my local engine repair specialists and I had a hole in one valve and a melted piston, due to these flaps, Basically had a engine rebuild £2200
Got the car back, now it's a cold start problem, 4 new glow plugs and injectors injectors tested, also been to a auto electrician, fuel pressure is spot on, and glow plugs pulling the required amps to show all 4 are working, engine runs better than it ever did, but hard to start, cleaned out maf sensor, and tps yesterday, starts first time, but very juddery and white smoke out of the back, see pics above for damage caused by swirl flaps
