Land Rover and Jaguar engines

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The Singing Stalker

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So, for those who have disco sports 2 litre ingenium or a jag with the same engine, have a look at this.
The engines going bang are well known and for anyone who has ever been in engineering will know, servicing is key. Sealed for life is a stupid thing and 25,000 service intervals is really dumb.
JLR do not do themselves any favours.
This will not stop the engines from going bang, but it should reduce the risk enormously.

 
Land Rover are known for continuing to make engines long after faults have been identified, just look at the K series they fitted to the Freelander 1.

I wonder if the petrol ingenium is any better.
 
It’s a shame as I like the look of a lot of LR’s but having one that snapped its crank (disco 3 2.7tdv6) I’m not inclined to buy another as the engineering really isn’t great.
 
Yorkie said:
Land Rover are known for continuing to make engines long after faults have been identified, just look at the K series they fitted to the Freelander 1.

I wonder if the petrol ingenium is any better.
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Oh aye, rarely a day or two went by without a mangled K series head coming in the door.
 
Jamouk said:
Diesel ingenium 3.0l engine just cost me 9k to rebuild ! In a Disco 5
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Well that’s put me off what I’d been thinking about recently… swapping out the D4 for a D5 with 6 cylinder diesel as & when the time comes. Guess I’ll stick with the old D2 V8 when the D4 dies 😎
 
Without wishing to tempt fate, my 2017 Discovery Sport with the 2 litre Igenium is now on 105k on the original engine. Since getting it at 82k, I've been doing oil changes every 5k and fingers crossed..................

My niece and my brother have the Petrol PHEV versions which are I believe, much better.
 
It’s a miracle that JLR are staying afloat. What with the Jaguar arm stopping selling new vehicles altogether until their whacky new EVs show up and the long running reliability issues with Land Rovers.

I wonder if Tata regret buying them.

Although to be fair, I’ve had two Disco2s and one Disco4. Two out of three were fairly reliable. But the cost of anything on them when stuff goes wrong is another story. I don’t have one now.
 
A Discovery Sport would be perfect for my needs, but i just can't take the risk. That's why i wondered if the petrol ones were any better. I could live with the extra fuel consumption if they were reliable.
 
Malxwal said:
Oh aye, rarely a day or two went by without a mangled K series head coming in the door.
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Yes, they were sh1te. If memory serves me, i had three head gaskets on mine.

Once the Chinese bought Powertrain and moved production to China, the issues were solved in no time. New gasket, new stretch bolts, new oil rail and modified cooling system.
 
Yorkie said:
A Discovery Sport would be perfect for my needs, but i just can't take the risk. That's why i wondered if the petrol ones were any better. I could live with the extra fuel consumption if they were reliable.
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Apparently there are some 2.2 diesel with the ford / Peugeot engine found in the freelander 2. By all accounts good engines
 
Jamouk said:
Apparently they don't hold much oil and when your misses drivers round for a couple of months with the oil service light flashing .......
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The Dipstick who thought it was a good idea to remove dipsticks in the LR/Jag engines, should be boiled in oil.
A dipstick tells you the quality of the oil, as well as the level. The incantations one needs on the computer in the D4s to find out one's oil level succeed in doing neither.
Essexsussex said:
This is why I went freelander 2. Love the disco 4 but wow that could be expensive!
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You are a wiser man than I, who went from a Freelander to a D4. I could buy a Freelander four times a year for the service costs of the D4.
 
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