I have owned 2.7, 3.6 and now 3.0 diesels in RRS and from my point of view the 3.0 litre in the Dynamic versions of the cars is streets ahead of any of the others handling wise. I ran an SDv8 for a month and found the handling was not as nice as the V6 dynamic and certainly not worth the extra cost over the 3.0 in day to day driving. I hasten to add that I have not driven any of the petrol engines cars, ever! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
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naks wrote:

yes, it's a current issue.

just recently, one on a 2014 D4 on 35k last serviced 29k in Jan 16.

Not sure if Disco_Mikey is also active here? He's an indie who can shed more light on this

Is the V8D a proper twin turbo now or still just a single turbo on each bank?

I love the SDV6, a mighty fine engine.  Gone:
2016.5MY RRS HSE Dyn
2015MY Disco Sport HSE
2011MY FL2 HSE
2010MY RRS HSE
2008MY D3 HSE

wilf wrote:

Your comments about engine failures intrigued me. I had the opportunity to speak with an engineer who is "in the know" yesterday and he confirmed that the 3.0V6 Diesels had the issue you pointed to of no locating tags on the bearing shells, leading to bottom end failures.

Why this affected more cars in export markets I don't know. And why it affected RRs more than Jags I also don't know. But I do understand a mod was introduced, on all 3.0 diesels used after the August '15 factory shutdown.

Your comment from the someone in the know is interesting, but seeing how JLR have ignored the problem all along and passed the buck to the customer, I do not trust anything they say.

As for the LR vs Jag, well, the D4/RRS is way heavier than the Jag, so maybe that's a factor?

Vehicles in ZA/Oz/export markets are driven a lot more & on longer distances than in UK/EU. For example, I can drive 1000km in one day easy at cruise speed and not even get to my destination. And Oz is even bigger than ZA!

Also, the quality of diesel in ZA (not sure about Oz) is not that great - we only have 50ppm in the cities, and it's mostly 500ppm in the rural areas. --
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2015 Range Rover Sport Supercharged V8 HSE Dynamic



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It wasn't a JLR engineer I spoke with. MY2016 HSE D SDV6 - gone due to fuel dilution problems.

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