Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
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Hey guys. Need your help BADLY.
Discovery 4 3,0 HSE 2014
My wife was driving to our countryside, and was stuck in trafick. After traffic she went onand suddenly the car gave the following problems.
1. Sound like rubber flubing. Not sound of mechanical metal sound.
2. Loss of power and steering power.
3. Engine died after stoping. But was like engine breaking before.
4. Electricity would not turn of when pushing Start/Stop button. Only after exiting the car with door open.
5. Trying to start, and it just clicked like a relay activating/deactivating.
6. Charging did nothing to even crank over the engine.
7. Handbrake could not be released. Absolutely no sound like it was trying.
8. In the end it did not even recognize the Key FOB.
There was NO warnings NO lamps came up NOTHING.
Now the thing is that we delivered the car to a repairshop, and after 20 minuttes they claim that it is a valve stuck and it needs a new engine.
They made this diagnos in like 10 - 15 minuttes. I mean the handbrake was stuck, so alone to release that and get it in to the shop would take some time.
To me it sound not at ALL like a valve stuck, but more that the battery is old and that the Alternator failed or belt failed.
Well something electrical have gone to the toilet on it.
I really could URGENTLY need an advice on this thing, cause I am afraid that I am about to be cheated here.
IF it is a stuck valve, is it really not possible to fix that instead of changing engine. I mean another engine starts at around 5000 Euroes and up.
Please guys I am totally NOOOOOOOOO 
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 27th Jun 2024 5:04 pm |
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HairyFool
Member Since: 04 Jan 2023
Location: North Essex
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Have to agree, the chance of them identifying a stuck valve  after such a cursory inspection is unlikely, certainly wouldn't want to budget for a new engine on such a dubious diagnosis.
It needs looking at by someone who knows what they are doing. A visitor from the dark side, my other vehicle is an is still an EV. Strictly speaking its SWMBO.
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| 28th Jun 2024 5:22 pm |
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Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
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I agree on this one. It seem a little fast to diagnose this.
What do you think about the symptoms.
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| 28th Jun 2024 6:19 pm |
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DN
D3 Decade
Member Since: 23 Jun 2006
Location: W.London.
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If you lost power steering, and electrical power, and heard the sound of rubber flapping, have you looked to see if the ancillary drive belt is still intact and tensioned ? Has the battery completely died, due to no alternator drive or alternator failure ? I would be checking these, long before going anywhere near even thinking about condemning the engine. But if the vehicle was driven for a while with no drive belt, there is a possibility, (and this fills me with dread BTW when you mentioned the engine braking before it stopped  ) that with no ancillary belt driving the water pump, could the engine have overheated, and started to seize and then fully seize (probably a worst case scenario) ? I think I would be inclined to get the vehicle out of the hands of these con merchants, and their dodgy 20 min diagnosis ASAP, unless they can give you some hard and fast facts about what has actually happened ie. Could a ‘seized engine’ be described as a ‘stuck valve’ in Lithuania ? I don’t know. But if it has seized, then unfortunately it will need to be replaced.
Incidentally, I have never heard of these engines just developing ‘ a stuck valve,’ ….as in combustion chamber valves. A stuck EGR valve yes, but this is nothing to do with your vehicle symptoms, and certainly would not require engine replacement. D3 owned from new, P017 brake recall, BAS FBHIC, new FBH, LR013487 oil pump, new water pump. RRS front lower suspension arms. New suspension compressor/ relay. New Denso alternator. CuNifer rear brake pipes. New GKN rear propshaft. New HPFP belt & tensioner. New A/C Condenser.NO WARRANTY for many many years.
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| 28th Jun 2024 6:58 pm |
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Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
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Naaa, you cant a seized engine cant be mistaken as a stuck valve in Lithuania.
I know that my wife is good at keeping an eye on the temp, and I have asked her about this and she is very sure that it did not overheat.
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| 29th Jun 2024 12:48 pm |
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Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
Posts: 20
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Does the Disco 4 Have some kind of security meassure like a sensor that will shut down the engine if it is low on oil.
I know some cars have so
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| 29th Jun 2024 1:01 pm |
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Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
Posts: 20
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DAMN IT, it sound like that my wife never checked the oil level. Probably they meant that a rod has seized. That means probably a spun bearing and a goodbye engine I think
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| 29th Jun 2024 1:30 pm |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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But you’d think the low level warning light would have come on before anything catastrophic would have happened. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner 
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 29th Jun 2024 2:06 pm |
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Dennisvogelius
Member Since: 19 Nov 2021
Location: Vilnius
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Nothing came on
That can offcourse be the sensor have gone bad.
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| 30th Jun 2024 8:56 am |
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