Thread: Serious TDCi issues: a personal experience

Originally Posted by Scallops

Jeez - mine doesn't have either of these issues Mine just puts holes in the brake master cylinder, wears away at the intercooler hose, breaks front ABS sensors, has headlights that stop working, comes with holes in the underside of the seat boxes, has rear sliding windows that jam..... Where am I going wrong?

apart from the brake master cylinder issue, and the intercooler issue, and the abs issue, and the headlight issue, it (sort of) sounds like my 21yo county
but at least you can talk to the person next to you when doing over 100kph...

Originally Posted by 87County

apart from the brake master cylinder issue, and the intercooler issue, and the abs issue, and the headlight issue, it (sort of) sounds like my 21yo county
but at least you can talk to the person next to you when doing over 100kph...

Yep - there is an upside.

in all fairness to the car i think it must just be sydney!!!

we have just driven eleven and a half thousand kilometers without a hicup the car ran like a dream other than the last 2 days when we hit the cooler climate of victoria the engine rattle returned...
the car broke down the day before we were supposed to go and we decided to take it anyway...and the car has effectively broken down the day we got back

Originally Posted by dullbird

in all fairness to the car i think it must just be sydney!!!

we have just driven eleven and a half thousand kilometers without a hicup the car ran like a dream other than the last 2 days when we hit the cooler climate of victoria the engine rattle returned...
the car broke down the day before we were supposed to go and we decided to take it anyway...and the car has effectively broken down the day we got back

Good to have you back and I'm glad the trip went without incident. Good luck with getting your issues resolved - I'm picking up Grover tonight so I'll post the fixes to my issues when I get the chance.

Originally Posted by solmanic

Could it be someting to do with the choke???

Diesels don't have a choke or a throttle butterfly. As required they just page the injectors more..

I am sure it will be worth it in the end!

You are basically just geting the 'new model' issues that they missed prior to launch. Some are maybe more frustrating than others but I am sure they will get solved.

You have just got work through them like they did with the early Tdi issues, and then the early Td5 ones.

It is worth it!!

Originally Posted by PAT303

The engine rattle is a common complaint for the 3.0ltr Prado,Hilux as well. Pat

My work lux rattles like a can full of marbles if its a cold morning. Trying to get mr Toy Yoda to acknowledge its there is a different matter.


Martyn

I have a semi educated guess as to what it might be....

If its what Im thinking I would be very very glad that its happened under warrenty and hope that the engineer the problem out before your warrenty runs out and that they give you a new engine......


we had a detroit come in doing it next door just before it detonated an injector......

I think it might be the equivelent to either a vapor lock in the system caused by the temperature changes "pumping" air past a seal and letting the air get into the rail, which then doesnt purge so you dont get full injector feed pressure on every shot. Sort of like an advanced form of air in the brakes. you take a few pumps and it gets pressure but then when you back off a little the brakes go spongey again. thats the good version as its usually just a case of new seals to fix it.

IF its injector blow by (which is the failure method of the td5 injectors that Im most afraid of) your going to be getting combustion gasses coming back past the injector nozzle. it'll do the same thing as above but its a lot harsher and will very quickly take out other parts of the fuel system. Initially this will only happen at idle and when its cold as the extra pressure needed to work the injector above idle will normally allow the injector to "snap" closed better. As it gets worse it will happen more frequently and then start to happen under light loads untill eventually the injectors just give up the fight and turn into ports instead of injectors.