TrevMTB
Member Since: 18 Jan 2012
Location: Cape Town
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| My D3 TDV6 is sick - no diagnosis yet |
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Hello from balmy Cape Town
I booked my D3 TDV6 in for its service yesterday (118k) - very straight forward, but asked my indy to investigate what I thought was transmission vibration / droning and general laziness...
he called back within an hour of me dropping the car off to say that it was driving like an absolute pig... and that it had absolutely no oomph?? and was generally running really cr@p.
He asked to keep it for 2 days to investigate further - just been to collect it and he doesn't know whats causing the problem... The engines not throwing any fault codes. In fact there are no fault codes present at all.
we went for a drive in another D3 TDV6 - jeeeeeeez, what a difference. beautiful and smooth with loads of oooomph compared to mine - AND, just to add insult to injury, its got over 200k on the clock... you just have to touch the throttle and it flies. with mine, you really have to give it loads of throttle to get any "performance" out of it. As a matter of interest, fuel consumption is hanging round the 13.7l / 100km's...
Its going back on Tuesday so that he can investigate further - if anybody has any ideas, opinions or suggestions, please feel free to comment
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Trevor
2006 Landy Disco 3TDV6 SE
Cape Town
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
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blocked intercooler,
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| 14th Dec 2012 2:54 pm |
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DSL
Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
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Or bunged up air filter.
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| 14th Dec 2012 2:56 pm |
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TrevMTB
Member Since: 18 Jan 2012
Location: Cape Town
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Would these issues not throw out a fault code?
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| 14th Dec 2012 3:39 pm |
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Advanced Factors
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Member Since: 27 Nov 2012
Location: Southampton
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Could this be the infamous split top intercooler hose?
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| 14th Dec 2012 4:09 pm |
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John P
Member Since: 12 Aug 2011
Location: West Sussex
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Is it smoking? Have you checked if the intercooler hose is split?
Where about in Cape Town are you? I'm originally from Milnerton.
Cheers
John
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| 14th Dec 2012 4:12 pm |
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TrevMTB
Member Since: 18 Jan 2012
Location: Cape Town
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no smoking - no fault codes - just really "rough"...
I'll let the guys have one more look next week - I really hope it's nothing too sinister!
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| 14th Dec 2012 6:49 pm |
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grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
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I had EGR failing making the car pig to drive
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| 14th Dec 2012 7:15 pm |
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grzesiul
Member Since: 11 May 2008
Location: UK
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oh showing no EML at all it had to be reved a lot to make it move and all
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| 14th Dec 2012 7:15 pm |
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TrevMTB
Member Since: 18 Jan 2012
Location: Cape Town
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mmmmm... eGR valves you say?? Did it make the engine sound/feel quite harsh?
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| 15th Dec 2012 11:24 am |
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dervdave
Member Since: 21 Nov 2012
Location: Tyne & Wear
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When was the fuel filter last changed ?
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| 15th Dec 2012 1:09 pm |
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TrevMTB
Member Since: 18 Jan 2012
Location: Cape Town
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Too be honest, I'm not sure...  I'll be discussing all these issues with the indy next week.
Thanks for the replies so far Chaps!
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| 15th Dec 2012 3:43 pm |
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