Member Since: 07 Jan 2020
Location: Sevenoaks
Posts: 60
Sad Day.....Advice needed D3
Hi all,
I have a D3 2006 158000 miles on the clock. She gave up the ghost about 2 weeks ago when driving she just suddenly started splurging and kangarooing down the road then died. She started again but then died immediately. No warning lights on dash....I try and turn her over but just get a click noise. I have had the battery checked and she is all good....I have also had the starter motor checked and she is fine. I have had a local mechanic look at her and h.e said it is the crank shaft and pulleys? I have no idea I’m a telephone engineer not a mechanic so I have taken his word for it.
Can I get this confirmed with a diagnostics machine. I had one guy come out with an all singing and dancing machine and it just read canbus issues and he said it’s because I have LED’S for internal lights. He reset this and the car did not start when he tried. Just kept doing the click noise.
Any advice guys...she is up for sale on the bay and here but I’m so desperate to keep her that I want to make sure she is proper ready to go to Landy heaven before I spend any more money on her....
Cheers everyone, any advice would be helpful...!
12th Dec 2020 2:01 pm
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
I would hazard a guess the mechanic was telling you the truth and the engine is fubar.
Any mech worth their salt would have tried to turn the crank by hand, no go = dead.
12th Dec 2020 2:13 pm
thommo1927
Member Since: 30 Sep 2016
Location: Cardiff South Wales
Posts: 416
Sounds like the crank has gone or possibly the oil pump casing has cracked but to the “mechanic “ that blamed your leds needs to give his heads wobble. As mentioned above you need to try and get the crank turned over by hand. Good luck 👍🏻
12th Dec 2020 2:28 pm
Moo D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
Posts: 14285
Yep. Crank. New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!)
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231,000 miles and counting
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12th Dec 2020 2:37 pm
aechambira
Member Since: 11 Jan 2016
Location: Nairobi
Posts: 117
Hallo Atto.
I saw your disco for sale advert. A very nice looking car. Sorry its broken.
Maybe...
1. Repair it / fit another LR engine.
2. I have read on forum that you can use a Jaguar engine. And its a bit cheap as compared to LR3 engine. Though you have to borrow and swap some parts from your engine...thats all I know. Maybe doesn't apply to your model.
3. Break it and sell it for parts. Looks like broken LR3 is worth more when sold as parts.
4. Sell it as it is. Top up. And wait for a good one to come up for sale.
Thx.
12th Dec 2020 4:52 pm
Captain SlackBladder
Member Since: 18 Nov 2020
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 30
Hi, have you seen this up for sale on here, the following link? Maybe you could do an engine swap? Just because I'd read your post and then this one?
Member Since: 07 Jan 2020
Location: Sevenoaks
Posts: 60
Thanks everyone for the advice. We have decided to sell her as she is. I still can’t understand why I’m not getting any warning signs even though the engine is knackered, surely I would have got an engine management light? Sorry to keep harping on just really don’t want her to go, but really don’t want to spend anymore money on her! Worked out I’ve spent over £5000 on her since January this year....!
13th Dec 2020 10:12 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73004
Bit like when my D3 died, I’d just had the gearbox reconditioned and the engine failed 4k miles later. Mistake I made is thinking that with enough tlc she’d live for ever. Sadly not.
13th Dec 2020 10:19 am
Attodisco3
Member Since: 07 Jan 2020
Location: Sevenoaks
Posts: 60
Yeah unfortunately with these babies you just never know when to stop! But of a stupid question but if I was to take her apart bit by bit what do I do with the chassis and anything’s that’s left, can I get it picked up by scrappy....? Thanks
13th Dec 2020 10:30 am
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73004
Unfortunately I’ve no idea re scrapping the chassis. My car got picked over for a day, until I filled my D4, then left her to be scrapped in NW Norway. She was looking a bit sad last time I saw her.
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ISTR DiscoDunc scrapped his down to that level, might be worth trying to find his thread(s). ISTR he cut up the bodyshell and trailered it to be weighed in, and chassis was sold, poss with engine & gearbox.
13th Dec 2020 10:53 am
lynalldiscovery
Member Since: 22 Dec 2009
Location: Maidstone
Posts: 7274
I believe you can scrap the thing yourself, ie cut it up and weigh it in, or get a scrappy to take it away, they most likely will want the vehicle docs, but make sure dvla know it has been scrapped.
13th Dec 2020 5:41 pm
Dondiddy
Member Since: 26 Dec 2019
Location: Hamilton
Posts: 308
Its a bit harder than it used to be to scrap your own car as DVLA will normally only accept a scrapped notification from a authorised treatment facility. If you do it yourself you have to write to DVLA and tell them where you have broken the vehicle up and how you have disposed of the oils/engine gearbox chassis etc. You must show them that it has been done in an environmentally friendly way and that you have not caused any pollution of the area where you broke up the vehicle. Not sure that they would ever check up on what you tell them however!
13th Dec 2020 6:57 pm
DSL Keeper of the wheelie bin
Member Since: 11 May 2006
Location: Off again! :-)
Posts: 73004
I was lucky, I just flagged mine as “exported”. Sorted.
13th Dec 2020 7:01 pm
paul123
Member Since: 22 Mar 2020
Location: norwich
Posts: 235
the recent ones i have broken for spares the shell and anything left on it i just take to the scrap yard and weigh it in as a scrap car . give them the logbook they pay the money into my account and email me a certificate of destruction . all nice and simple and its disposed of safely . check to see if you have an EMR near you thats where i take them .2005 discovery 3 tdv6
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