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I certainly would never buy another. It’s my first introduction to Land Rover. I knew that they weren’t blessed with reliability to say the least but I wanted comfort for all the miles I would spend on the Motorway. I was prepared to spend money to rectify faults as they showed up. I sought out...

Yes, sorry. I didn’t mean to by cryptic. I was following on from the earlier post which stated I am probably looking at setting fire to it. It has catastrophic engine failure. Unsure if the crank has snapped or if it’s seized within the engine. As I am hopefully completing on a house purchase...

Well, everyone was right. I was wrong. I don’t have a Zippo but will be buying one shortly.

Still waiting for the garage to attempt to manually crank the engine. Disappointed it’s taking them so long to get to it with everyone here believing it’s a catastrophic failure. I just want to know.

I’ve had no noise or vibration.

How did they know it snapped 300km before letting go?

I’m still hoping it’s something less serious. My brain won’t allow me to believe that the crank has snapped - the car was doing 70mph at time of shut down and I think there surely must be some noise and vibration at that speed. My car has been transported to a local garage who will hopefully...

Wow. Then it must actually be made of chocolate!

Surely there would be an extremely loud bang if a crank snapped whilst the car is being driven!

The crank. As in the actual crankshaft?

The battery has been replaced today so I think we could rule out the battery terminal connection. Though that was my first thought. Unfortunately I am 300 miles away from my car so I am trying to rule things out using my girlfriend.

I have a 2010 Range Rover Sport 3.0 TDV6. My girlfriend kindly arranged to take it for its first service in my ownership, on the drive from her place to mine (90 miles) it suddenly shut down. Unable to start again. Green Flag were called, battery boost pack insufficient to get it started. Faulty...