Yes, it was the common rail pressure sensor - replaced the sensor and the pump, stopped the light coming on but the starting problem persists - as to did I pay, not yet but I've got the bill - huge, reaching the point where the car is no longer worth it :-(

February 2016 - after spending a lot of time and money on the old girl she ran sweetly for a week and the started the whole performance again. Six weeks later with the attentions of Land Rover Services in Hull, Replacement fuel pump, injectors, filters, sensors etc.etc. it ran for about 50...

Thanks to all for your ideas and help, a new fuel pump, common rail pressure sensor and some electronic wizardry with the immobiliser seems to have resolved the old girls cantankerous ways for now. Fingers crossed :-)

Thanks for the ideas, but probably not electrical - everything lights up and the engine turns over freely but doesn't fire up. After a couple (sometimes several) of resets with the key fob it will start and run for a few minutes then the engine management warning light comes on - if I persist...

Thanks to all, after yesterday's efforts the old lady just refused to start this morning, and when she finally started to run the engine management warning light lit up and after a few hundred yards the engine died only to restart first try, no warning lights, and then run without a murmur for...

A quick into - a Lincolnshire lad but currently working in the Netherlands, running a 2004 TD4 Freelander. A Much loved old bus but getting cantankerous as it gets older; not much fun trying to find a helpful Landy shop here. Mechy skills very basic so may well spend quite a bit of time asking...

The old bus is indeed due for a service, booked in for the week before Christmas, the immobiliser interference resonates with my own thoughts. Many thanks for taking the time to reply, I'll try and track down a local garage with the right diagnostics.

My 2004 TD4 Freelander is getting cantankerous, at a time and a place of its own choosing it will turn over but not start, using the remote (key out of ignition), lock and unlock a couple of times and then it strikes up without a murmur. Ideas?