Anthony here,
Just joined the forum as is the best site Ive seen yet from scouring the net for tips and advice on maintaining my TD4 (BMW engine). I live in Dublin and so am constrained to just two service dealers listed as officially certified by Land Rover, one where I bought the freelander series 2, and who I would'nt trust with a push bicycle, the other ...no comment yet but a bit out of the way for servicing.
Anyway the main reason I'm here is to read as much advice as possible about a slow starting problem I'm having for a few weeks now, to try fix it, then report back what I learnt before bringing it to only available official service dealer.
Please forgive my ignorance with the many awfully silly questions I may ask, I am a complete beginner with working on engines! However since being made redundant as a building services engineer last year I cant afford the luxury of regular maintenance, plus as an engineer Ive always wanted to actually get to grips with 'engines'!
Since my starting problem Ive brought the TD4 to several local non-LR garages, they all pretty much recommended the same sequence with associated service charges:
1. Diesel and oil filter change:£150
2. Diesel pump change: £300
3. Diagnostic check (OBD2): £30
4. EGR valve clean: £180
5. They had no further options before carrying out 1-4.
So I read through these fora along with my haynes manual, completed all filter (diesel, oil, air) changes (when I went under rear right wheel to change diesel filter noticed it was hanging by a thread, dealer purchased TD4 from didnt even secure it following last service! It was a pig to change, but managed it, cost: £25 original LR Part);
But, still no joy.
Took off egr valve, was blocked to high heavens, cleaned it out now shinning, but did'nt reconnect the threaded tube from exhaust yet following advice online.
Still no joy.
Bought an OBD2 Elm327 bluetooth connector for £10 plus Rev for iphone app at £25, ran diagnostics, no error codes (tested on a mates car and returned error code he was aware of).
So next I'm going to clean the high pressure fuel sensor with silicon oil
which seems to have caused problems to others', BUT don't know the socket extension size to use to get at it under the engine manifold, anyone know? Looks a 24mm
I'll also clean the contacts using contact cleaner and buy the replacement direct cable loom for it when I save £50.
I'll also clean the MAF, and PCV and use millers injector cleaner to clean inside engine.
Then, well thats it, out of options if all else fails!?
Cheers for reading this more than detailed intro, just letting you guys know where I'm at and much appreciate all the posts that have helped me eliminate over £500 worth of service charges to date.
Its very satisfying to keep on top of maintenance, in a strange way I really enjoy getting my hands dirty and spending hours maintaining my land rover!
Anthony
Just joined the forum as is the best site Ive seen yet from scouring the net for tips and advice on maintaining my TD4 (BMW engine). I live in Dublin and so am constrained to just two service dealers listed as officially certified by Land Rover, one where I bought the freelander series 2, and who I would'nt trust with a push bicycle, the other ...no comment yet but a bit out of the way for servicing.
Anyway the main reason I'm here is to read as much advice as possible about a slow starting problem I'm having for a few weeks now, to try fix it, then report back what I learnt before bringing it to only available official service dealer.
Please forgive my ignorance with the many awfully silly questions I may ask, I am a complete beginner with working on engines! However since being made redundant as a building services engineer last year I cant afford the luxury of regular maintenance, plus as an engineer Ive always wanted to actually get to grips with 'engines'!
Since my starting problem Ive brought the TD4 to several local non-LR garages, they all pretty much recommended the same sequence with associated service charges:
1. Diesel and oil filter change:£150
2. Diesel pump change: £300
3. Diagnostic check (OBD2): £30
4. EGR valve clean: £180
5. They had no further options before carrying out 1-4.
So I read through these fora along with my haynes manual, completed all filter (diesel, oil, air) changes (when I went under rear right wheel to change diesel filter noticed it was hanging by a thread, dealer purchased TD4 from didnt even secure it following last service! It was a pig to change, but managed it, cost: £25 original LR Part);
But, still no joy.
Took off egr valve, was blocked to high heavens, cleaned it out now shinning, but did'nt reconnect the threaded tube from exhaust yet following advice online.
Still no joy.
Bought an OBD2 Elm327 bluetooth connector for £10 plus Rev for iphone app at £25, ran diagnostics, no error codes (tested on a mates car and returned error code he was aware of).
So next I'm going to clean the high pressure fuel sensor with silicon oil
which seems to have caused problems to others', BUT don't know the socket extension size to use to get at it under the engine manifold, anyone know? Looks a 24mm
I'll also clean the contacts using contact cleaner and buy the replacement direct cable loom for it when I save £50.
I'll also clean the MAF, and PCV and use millers injector cleaner to clean inside engine.
Then, well thats it, out of options if all else fails!?
Cheers for reading this more than detailed intro, just letting you guys know where I'm at and much appreciate all the posts that have helped me eliminate over £500 worth of service charges to date.
Its very satisfying to keep on top of maintenance, in a strange way I really enjoy getting my hands dirty and spending hours maintaining my land rover!
Anthony
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