Member Since: 11 Jun 2017
Location: Isle of Islay
Posts: 66
Re: crank failure
DSL wrote:
hillbillypop wrote:
Right what am i listening for?
Will i get any warning?
Mine went from sounding sweet as a nut to sounding like something was flapping under the car to sounding like the engine was full of demented chickens in about 1/2 mile. Found a lay-bye to get pulled over into and that was the last half mile she drove.
Hi
Is it worth getting it up on the ramps to drop the sump before it goes any further and make up some lock washers easy enough to do!
30th Jul 2017 8:10 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73045
Afraid no idea, needs input fro someone far more techie than me I'm afraid.
30th Jul 2017 8:13 pm
sputnixb51
Member Since: 23 Apr 2013
Location: Morayshire
Posts: 833
DG please click x 2 more not failed cranks D3, I entered x 1 thanks yes gluten for punishment I run x 3 all going well touch wood.
30th Jul 2017 8:17 pm
3disco
Member Since: 23 Sep 2010
Location: devon chardstock
Posts: 504
Re: crank failure
hillbillypop wrote:
DSL wrote:
hillbillypop wrote:
Right what am i listening for?
Will i get any warning?
Mine went from sounding sweet as a nut to sounding like something was flapping under the car to sounding like the engine was full of demented chickens in about 1/2 mile. Found a lay-bye to get pulled over into and that was the last half mile she drove.
Hi
Is it worth getting it up on the ramps to drop the sump before it goes any further and make up some lock washers easy enough to do!
. Were are you going to fit the washers,it's not the Conrod bolts coming loose it's the shells moving within the Conrod!
30th Jul 2017 8:22 pm
hillbillypop
Member Since: 11 Jun 2017
Location: Isle of Islay
Posts: 66
I missunderstood i thought the bolts were slacking off due to not having lock plates,So they havent pinched the shells! what nutter designed this? have they produced an upgrade set?
30th Jul 2017 8:30 pm
monty2515
Member Since: 28 Jul 2017
Location: pembrokeshire
Posts: 13
I'm worried reading this as picked my d3 up last week and it going back in the garage next week because mine 2.7 sounds like a bag of spanners compared to my mates that has twice the mileage on it
very tappety could this be a sign
1st Aug 2017 6:54 pm
Sunliner
Member Since: 19 Sep 2017
Location: Vercelli
Posts: 3
I don't know if it's relevant for the poll, but be awaere that I found a disco 3 for sale in Italy with the engine down due to a failure of cranksfat bearings ( not really bearings but I don't know the English term)
19th Sep 2017 7:53 pm
hillbillypop
Member Since: 11 Jun 2017
Location: Isle of Islay
Posts: 66
There failing all over the place USA Oz SAFRICA They should have called it the Fordover fix or repair dayly common fault doesn't just cover it for this one next to my XJS this is the worst second hand car I've ever bought.
19th Sep 2017 8:21 pm
3disco
Member Since: 23 Sep 2010
Location: devon chardstock
Posts: 504
You don't have a problem with yours do you,or have I missed something?
19th Sep 2017 8:37 pm
Keefaaa
Member Since: 26 Sep 2017
Location: The North
Posts: 55
I'm just looking at buying my first LR and was honing in on the D3 but this topic has scared me after a bad experience with a Scrooby diesel!
Is this the reason the D3 prices are all over the place? And petrols are so expensive?
Is the v8 more reliable?
Anyone caught the damage with an oil sampling test?
I
28th Sep 2017 7:29 pm
hillbillypop
Member Since: 11 Jun 2017
Location: Isle of Islay
Posts: 66
3disco wrote:
You don't have a problem with yours do you,or have I missed something?
I assume you mean me Bought it in June with 147k on clock then joined this forum in the space of a month and under 500 miles done central locking packed in bonnet warning keeps coming on airbag warning light is latest if I go over 25 miles distance power in engine drops as though it's ready to seize other than that it's immaculate it got a full service week after I bought it so to answer your question No it ain't snapped and the shells have not turned but after reading all this I have no confidence in the car
3rd Oct 2017 2:43 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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Grow a set and use it. Life's too short to worry. Chances are it will be perfectly fine. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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3rd Oct 2017 2:54 pm
mz mini
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You tell em Moo Land Rover 90 - deceased
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3rd Oct 2017 3:27 pm
3disco
Member Since: 23 Sep 2010
Location: devon chardstock
Posts: 504
hillbillypop wrote:
3disco wrote:
You don't have a problem with yours do you,or have I missed something?
I assume you mean me Bought it in June with 147k on clock then joined this forum in the space of a month and under 500 miles done central locking packed in bonnet warning keeps coming on airbag warning light is latest if I go over 25 miles distance power in engine drops as though it's ready to seize other than that it's immaculate it got a full service week after I bought it so to answer your question No it ain't snapped and the shells have not turned but after reading all this I have no confidence in the car
if you have no confidence in the car get rid and the you will be able to sleep at night.
It does concern me when I read a couple of weekends on another forum, two members had snapped cranks that weekend and another member suspected his had just snapped but was awaiting confirmation, just means I will be making sure I always have warranty.
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