Hi all,

Just been out for the evening and headed home, maybe a mile into the journey and I felt a lack of power, then engine system fault error pops up and she must have gone into a limp mode for 30-40 seconds beofre cutting out completely.

This is the second time now. It's an 06 HSE and it developed this intermittent problem a few weeks after I bought it, initially just a warning, loss of power and then it sorted itself out. The last time it happened (a few months back) she died completely and went to Landrover to be fixed. They didnt really seem too sure, just that the diagnostics showed a fuel pressure fault, they told me they changed the fuel filter and it was ready to collect. It's been fine for a few months but this week I started to get the fault message a couple of times, again just a brief power cut and she was away again until tongiht.

Now, I am a bit of a for running her low on diesel and on both occasions when she has died the range was reading <20 miles. 18 tonight to be precise. As for the quick cut outs I cant really say what the fuel level was but probably low.

Anyway I called a buddy who was kind enough to bring me 20 litres of diesel which brought her up to just quarter of a tank. Tried starting her but no joy, still saying engine fault. Had a poke around under the bonnet, couldnt see anything so tried to start the engine a couple more times without success. Next thing I have a HDC fault and a parking brake fault, follwed by a flat battery. Presumably the hdc fault etc was caused by the flattening battery?

I noticed that I only had a few attemps at starting before the battery was too flat to turn the engine over, maybe 10 short starting attemps, does that sound normal?

Towed home now and I think I'll try to sort it before I go to a garage... £60 for a fuel filter?? Range rover is totally new to me so I will go and read some of the doucments on here as I'd like to look at the fule filter and see if it is blocked up but I have a few other questions maybe you could answer.

If the range indicator was innacurate and I Did actually run out of diesel, I assume I dont need to prime anythng?

Given the short life of the battery, is it possible thats causing the cutting out issue?

Any other suggestions on what to look at?

Thanks in advance

You may have sediment in the fuel system if you're continuously running it low (or is that just a problem with Australian fuel over here?).

I'd try a replacement battery first and see if it rectifies the cascade of errors.

Cheers,

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Don't think it's the lack of fuel have had a couple of occasions in 3 years where I have driven in on 0 miles to get to a petrol station...

Sounds like either a blocked fuel filter or sticking RGR valves. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Very Annoyed wrote:

Sounds like either a blocked fuel filter or sticking RGR valves.

yes egr and they can stick and do stick. 2005 Zambezi TDV6 - Gone but not forgotten
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Very Annoyed wrote:

yes egr and they can stick and do stick.

So can they be unstuck or do I have to replace?

Thanks

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Just has ESF again (about 8 now) on my d3, all at modest speed but putting in a bit of throttle to get out & round stuff on Mway or on hills. Changed air filter, fuel filter, intercooler, MAF sensor, EGRs new(ish) but blanked. Thinking it's turbo related but turbo is only 9 months old. Having her plugged in tomorrow to try and see what else to change. Getting mightily ed off with is as no-one seems to have a handle on what is causing this on D3/RRSs.

DSL wrote:

Just has ESF again (about 8 now) on my d3, all at modest speed but putting in a bit of throttle to get out & round stuff on Mway or on hills. Changed air filter, fuel filter, intercooler, MAF sensor, EGRs new(ish) but blanked. Thinking it's turbo related but turbo is only 9 months old. Having her plugged in tomorrow to try and see what else to change. Getting mightily ed off with is as no-one seems to have a handle on what is causing this on D3/RRSs.

i hope i'm not in for that kind of ride, sounds expensive

I'll have someone to give me a hand looking into it tomorrow so we'll see what happens.

Most replaced due to maintenance or offroading use/abuse so you should be OK. Had it plugged in to an Autologic reader and it has come up with TURBO OVERBOOST type fault, again, pointing to either turbo actuator linkage needing fixed (again) or a new turbo (again). Would also explain my 20% drop in mpg, chart shows clearly when the problem occurred.

Will get it booked into Guava for them to have a mooch. Thanks to the gods that this is my offroader & not day to day wheels!

Well luckily it looks like my issue was fuel related. Got some power in the battery, bled off a very small amount of air and kept cranking her for 30 seconds and away she went. WIN!

foobar wrote:

Well luckily it looks like my issue was fuel related. Got some power in the battery, bled off a very small amount of air and kept cranking her for 30 seconds and away she went. WIN!

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