My trusty 2008 TDV8 Vogue has died! I got it about 8 years ago and apart from a transfer box failure and the usual wearing out hings hs been quite reliable and was running nicely. I had a problem a few months ago with the steering lock jamming and some vibration from the sront end. I got all the front suspension rubbers changed and a couple of weeks later new discs and pads all round and new caliper. I'd recently put a new battery in as the previous one wasn't holding the charge. I was getting just on 30 mpg at motorway speeds and it was running sweetly.
Then it developed a problem of occasionally going into limp mode. Switch off and restart and the fault would clear, so I booked it into my indy garage on the south coast. they put the computer o and it showed some sort of air imbalance on no.4 injector. They took it for a test run and it started grey smoking and stopped. It wouldn't turn. Long story short, it took a day or more to get 3 injctors out, with the 4th coming out today. Expecting diesel or water to have caused hydraulic locking with suspected injector failure , engine oil came out!
Has anyone else had this problem? They suspect piston ring failure has caused it. The car has been regularly serviced by this garage and was about 1000 miles overdue for a service, but all the other stuff has been wasted! Feeling a bit gutted at all that money going to waste.
Now looking for a cheap alternative!
The car has done about 380,000 km so not done too bad over all.
Then it developed a problem of occasionally going into limp mode. Switch off and restart and the fault would clear, so I booked it into my indy garage on the south coast. they put the computer o and it showed some sort of air imbalance on no.4 injector. They took it for a test run and it started grey smoking and stopped. It wouldn't turn. Long story short, it took a day or more to get 3 injctors out, with the 4th coming out today. Expecting diesel or water to have caused hydraulic locking with suspected injector failure , engine oil came out!
Has anyone else had this problem? They suspect piston ring failure has caused it. The car has been regularly serviced by this garage and was about 1000 miles overdue for a service, but all the other stuff has been wasted! Feeling a bit gutted at all that money going to waste.
Now looking for a cheap alternative!
The car has done about 380,000 km so not done too bad over all.