Member Since: 22 Aug 2018
Location: Lempäälä
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Discovery 4 tdv6 engine stopped
I bought 2011 Discovery 4 HSE few months back and I love the car until turbo failure. Repair shop fixed turbos but now TDV6 engine has come to its end and complete stopped running and unable to rotate anymore. The repair shop told me that engine needs to be replaced.
Where have you found your engines and should I try to find newer engine model from the junk yard? Unfortunately I have already spend high amount with turbo replacement and I try to find innovative way to save some money in engine replacement. Any good tips are highly appreciated!
22nd Aug 2018 4:02 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Unfortunately no cheap options, probably more so in Finland. I’m not sure what it would be like in Finland but in U.K. I’d have thought far, far more people with engine failure chasing very few crashed cars where the engine is useable. Reconditioned engines are a complete gamble, often a bad one, and a “new” engine from LR is stupid money, often more than the car is worth.
Hopefully I’m wrong, it has been known, but doubt it.
22nd Aug 2018 4:20 pm
Disco4Finn
Member Since: 22 Aug 2018
Location: Lempäälä
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Thank you for your response DSL, even though not exactly the kind of response I would hope to see at this state of mind Still trying to be positive to find an affordable running engine...
22nd Aug 2018 4:36 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Sorry, didn’t want to rain on your hopes and I feel your pain. Had an engine pack up on me on my D3 last year a long way from home (NW Norway), it was not a happy outcome.
22nd Aug 2018 4:41 pm
nrich
Member Since: 04 Jan 2015
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Look on uk websites or Ebay it will seem cheap to you buying it from here possibly a Jag engine and swap sump and ancilliares.
22nd Aug 2018 7:21 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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Eurojag is a name that comes up a lot (in a good way) when talking about getting second hand engines.
22nd Aug 2018 7:26 pm
galwaygreen
Member Since: 30 Oct 2011
Location: plymouth
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did disco mickey not say a short engine from LR was about £5000..with 2 year warranty
EDIT think disco mickey still has forsale ,,,thread is on at the moment
22nd Aug 2018 7:43 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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ISTR the one that’s for sale is a 2.7 rather than a 3.0. There is a 3.0 in Eurojag but it’s £6,000!!
22nd Aug 2018 7:50 pm
galwaygreen
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take it its the 3.0 he needs
22nd Aug 2018 7:52 pm
Disco4Finn
Member Since: 22 Aug 2018
Location: Lempäälä
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I might be lucky because there is a crashed 60000km driven Disco 4 in Estonia. Thumbs up!
22nd Aug 2018 7:53 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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That could be a result, and just across the water.
22nd Aug 2018 7:54 pm
kajtzu
Member Since: 10 Aug 2017
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Disco4Finn wrote:
Thank you for your response DSL, even though not exactly the kind of response I would hope to see at this state of mind Still trying to be positive to find an affordable running engine...
There are less than 500 (didn’t verify with Trafi, this is from the top of my head) Discovery 4s registered in Finland. The chance of having one of those totaled and written off but engine in salvageable condition is rather low. Ergo sourcing a used but working might be a big problem.
I notice you’re from Lempäälä but you could try asking one of the indies here in Helsinki whether they can source. So either Autorep (Mauri) or Karaasi (Antti).
22nd Aug 2018 7:57 pm
kajtzu
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DSL wrote:
a “new” engine from LR is stupid money, often more than the car is worth.
Hopefully I’m wrong, it has been known, but doubt it.
His D4 is worth somewhere between 30 (D4 HSE MY11 210000 km) and 55 kEUR (D4 HSE MY12 45000 km) with a working engine............
22nd Aug 2018 8:03 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
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I knew I should have hired Rudolf and his crew and dragged Dark Bluie to Finland.
22nd Aug 2018 8:07 pm
Disco4Finn
Member Since: 22 Aug 2018
Location: Lempäälä
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Thank you Kajtzu! My Disco might not be as expensive, but I love it. Where are you located? Maybe we can have Finnish brother club
For DSL please remember we have hungry taxation office, which will shoot high import tax to high CO2 cars....
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Still trying to be positive to find an affordable running engine...
