Last week as i was driving back home from work the car started to make a funny sound and to vibrate. After a few more km the car stopped and failed to start. The next day i had the car towed to the dealer and they had told me that i have a bad starter motor and they will change it --- so far so good because i was thinking the engine is broken. After 3 days in shop they phoned me and guess what ---- THE ENGINE IS DEAD. The shaft has broken and
damaged the entire engine. I'm out of warranty and they want to charge me 9000 euros for the engine repairs.
The car is a 2006 RRS 2.7 diesel engine with 120.000km on board. The funny thing is that they already had another car with the same problem at the dealer. Now i'm thinking this is a land rover's engine problem and they should repair it on warranty but the service manager doesn't want to hear anything like that .
What do you think i should do? I live in Romania and here the customer care is poor.

Thank you
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Hi BBBB,

Really sorry to hear about your probs. There are no engine problems like this in the UK (in my experience anyway), in fact my understanding is the 2.7TDV6 engine is very robust. As your dealer has experienced another vehicle with the same problem, could it be 'fuel' related in your area maybe? just a thought

Kaine

BBBB wrote:

Last week as i was driving back home from work the car started to make a funny sound and to vibrate. After a few more km the car stopped and failed to start. The next day i had the car towed to the dealer and they had told me that i have a bad starter motor and they will change it --- so far so good because i was thinking the engine is broken. After 3 days in shop they phoned me and guess what ---- THE ENGINE IS DEAD. The shaft has broken and
damaged the entire engine. I'm out of warranty and they want to charge me 9000 euros for the engine repairs.
The car is a 2006 RRS 2.7 diesel engine with 120.000km on board. The funny thing is that they already had another car with the same problem at the dealer. Now i'm thinking this is a land rover's engine problem and they should repair it on warranty but the service manager doesn't want to hear anything like that .
What do you think i should do? I live in Romania and here the customer care is poor.

Thank you
Sorry for my spelling errors.

I asked them if there is any chance a bad fuel could cause that and they said that there is nothing i could do (bad fuel, agressive driving style, etc) to cause that. The engine has not been chipped. The warranty is 3 years or 100.000 km. The service manager won't ask anything LR because the car is out of warranty.

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I asked them if there is any chance a bad fuel could cause that and they said that there is nothing i could do (bad fuel, agressive driving style, etc) to cause that. The engine has not been chipped. The warranty is 3 years or 100.000 km. The service manager won't ask anything LR because the car is out of warranty.

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Sorry to hear your bad news BBBB.

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That is not good BBBB , i would of thought that L/R would have offered some sort of solution rather than leaving you high and dry, as TB said keep us posted.

This definitely needs to be escalated so a mutually agreeable solution can be found. Very bad luck though - you should be able to get there with the info that VA has probably sent you. Please let us know how you get on with it. 

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Checked the oil recently?

The Tdv6 is a thirsty when it comes to oil and modified piston rings were fitted to later models to reduce oil consumption.

I've replaced a few engines because owners don't check the oil between services. I no longer work for Stratstone land rover cardiff. Thank f**K!!!

Clutchdust, are you saying that earlier TDV6's use lots of oil throughout their service lives, as I was under the impression it was only for the running in period, and mainly due to the oil initially soaking into the semi porous graphite block, with not that much getting past the piston rings? Any idea when they started fitting modified rings, in case I decide to update mine? (don't want to buy a lemon). Just as a matter of interest, in the cases where an owner has failed to keep the oil level correct, has LR stumped up for replacing engines, or have the owners had to fork out (loads I should imagine). Oh and BBBB, sorry to hear of your problem, shaft broken eh (crank or cam ?) sounds pretty terminal , I hope they get it sorted for you.

I don't think my problem has anything to do with the oil. My brother also has an RRS with the same mileage and no problem except that he changed his gearbox under warranty at 90.000 kms. We bought the cars in the same time, we use the same fuel, we changed the oil at the same dealer so if my engine is broken so should be his.
The dealer says that the crankshaft is broken + all the parts that were destroyed by it. The service manager told me today that they had contacted LR( ) a few days ago and LR reply showed a big interest in this engine problem and it's possible to be inspected by LR engineers in the next few days .

As soon as i'll get the pictures with the engine from my dealer i'll post them

Good luck, hope you get a favourable result