XDAndy wrote:

Thanks both

Should have said it has a DPF, which is where I’m concerned.

I live in an area where the max speed limit is 50 km /h, and the longest stretch is about 1.5 km, and to do anything greater than that requires relocating to another country.

In the last 9 months I’ve had two ‘DPF full’ alerts, and needed to travel abroad to clear them.

Just picked up on this in last couple of weeks due to other issues.

XDAndy wrote:

Thanks both

Should have said it has a DPF, which is where I’m concerned.

I live in an area where the max speed limit is 50 km /h, and the longest stretch is about 1.5 km, and to do anything greater than that requires relocating to another country.

In the last 9 months I’ve had two ‘DPF full’ alerts, and needed to travel abroad to clear them.

Just picked up on this in last couple of weeks due to other issues.

M3DPO wrote:

Certainly isn’t if it’s being run on the wrong spec oil, but surely a local garage should know that and not use it.

All the other occasions, they’ve used the Magnatec C1 WSS-M2c934-B stuff

Guessing this time they thought it was non-DPF

But tbh, a little at them following a diagnostic check three weeks ago to check for a high pitched whine from auxilliary drive/timing belt. Diagnosis came back ‘viscous fan coupling’

So off to Morocco we went, driving to Marrakech.

First round about off the ferry, horn wouldn’t work - disconnected from behinf the front grill

Half way down, realised not the usual power and a slight ‘hiss’ - Vacuum hose for 2nd turbo disconnected.

Also noted that the throttle body wasn’t on correctly, and the fan has very slightly ‘notched where tis been striking it.

Then noticed misting at the back of the engine where a cable routing has been left loose - found the oil separator crankcase breather hose on the left was fractured at the T-piece; gouge outthe broken bit, trim and reconnect and electrical tape to hold it together…

The cables routed on top of the fan shroud were routed under the shroud.

Get it into an LR indy in Marrakech as whine a bit worse, and find the pulley idler bearings for the aux drive belt are rough. Plus its loose having been mis-aligned, causing wear in the locating pin, so ‘clicks’ when being put under load.

Extra stress cause spring in tensioner to fail when replacing belt.

Oh, and the alternator decided to fail literally the day before the day before we were due to drive back.

Also managed to sort out an exhaust rattle that LR had attributed to corroded baffles in the mid-section silencer; quoted £1600 to fix - new mid section, both rear pipes and connection clamps and finishers.

Found it was due to a failed weld between right hand rear pipe join to mid-section, and you could easily see a black bloom from where it had been leaking.

The guy welded it for nothing in less than 5 minutes.

There’s even a TSB for this! (LTB00568NAS1)

So all in all, not impressed with LR, and meeting with the service manager tomorrow so we can go through things.