Its official The discovery is dead update

Where are you & what year is the car etc???

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Subaru WRX Range Rover 4.6 HSE (The Tank!)

We might be going on a summer holiday, the Greece Ball rally!!!!

West norfolk, 300tdi L reg,1995, Automatic 3 door

GGJ

Blimey, cost me £300 to replace the turbo on the plastic rocket, your figures sound a tad high. Not sure what all the banging and clanking you're getting though, if it's not coming from the turbo. If it is coming from the turbo then you ought to be able to replace it for cheaper than £500.

I was thinking more along the lines of if you are going to replace it ,then what the hell, upgrade it while you are at it, better turbo, nice new intercooler etc. The banging and clanging is coming from what is now left of the engine, could be just about anything, after it revved up to warp factor 8 it done the head gasket and sorts of other damage. GGJ

Well driven turbo's on diesel engines usually last the life of the engine.

10,000 hours or 300,000 miles is not unusual. I know plenty of TDi engines that have exceeded 200,000 miles with no turbo problems. Some drivers manage to wreck turbo's on a regular basis. Go figure.

Huw

What usually kills a turbo is a problem in the oil supply, since the turbo bearings are a film of oil rather than any metal-to-metal contact.

When I first drove turbopcharged vehicles the owners' manuals made a big thing of careful starting and stopping of the engine.

The annoying thing is that anyone who had driven my disco had always said how great it ran and how smooth everything was. It always used to fly through the emissions testing at mot time, it didn't smoke at all while running, one small puff when starting from cold and that was it. It never even used any oil, more amazing it did not even drip oil like most land rovers do from various places. I can honestly say that up until the turbo killing it off the engine has been fantastic. It had been serviced regular, more than it actually needed to be but its all over now , its had it. Oh well. I should have stuck with the non turbo ex-army waterproofed and winterised I had rather than going for that bit of luxury of the discovery, or better still the the series 3 I started off with many moons ago . Only one thing for it now, lottery numbers come up and I get the discovery fixed, then shoot up to the local land rover dealer and get a nice new Defender, and maybe a disco 3 for good measure.

GGJ

Sorry to hear its gone west mind you there are a good few 300tdi engines about from scrappers so you never can tell you might get lucky. Personally if that Deadly bloke gets the numbers right I'm up for an Overfinch Disco I saw then I buy back my old Rangie and she gets the same treatment and the current Disco gets the new 3 litre V8 diesel for play days easy peasy Derek Disco 200TDi

spotted this tread on LRO hope it helps Derek

£381.87 inc VAT & delivery - new Genuine Garret jobbie.

Richard

Agreed - I'd venture that the turbo failed due to lack of oil caused by the run-away rather than causing the failure. The vast majority of requests for new turbos we get are fixed by mending he associated plumbing rather than replacing the unit - the remainder almost always being due low (read no) oil.

Richard

"> Agreed - I'd venture that the turbo failed due to lack of oil caused by

I'll second that, my bet is still a blown head gasket that caused the run-away and lack of oil.

Regards Jeff

I will agree, I would take a chance that on my disco the head gasket decided to go first followed by the turbo and like you say this caused the runaway engine to suck up its oil and destroy itself in about 10 seconds flat. Only thing I will guarantee is that the oil levels were all at the correct levels before the 10 second nightmare. Anyone after a couple of new head light adjustment motors, as I have 2 of them here, I was going to replace my old ones today.Free if you want to pick them up.

GGJ

probably too late but ebay

300tdi 114k Derek

Gary,

Do you have contact details for TJC, that's Tony's business isn't it? I used to have his address and phone number, but he moved premises and I no longer have any other details.

Would be most appreciated.

Neil

harven53 at btopenworld dot com will get to me.

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Hi Neil , this is it

TJC Landrovers Fitters Workshop Manor Farm Weasenham Norfolk PE32 2TF

Cheers Gary

Thanks Gary.

Much appreciated.

Neil

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