Thread: New 3.0 engine installed - video

Thomas had you just had a service when it started blowing blue smoke? It sounds ominously similar to the issue that struck my RRS...18 months old, about 26,000km. Exactly the same, it would blow clouds of blue smoke on sharp acceleration after a day or two of normal driving around town.
Refer your dealer to Gordon Wales at Barbagallo service department in Perth, he's intimately familiar with my car...he's had it in his shop almost as much as I've had it over the past six months.

(happy to report though that day two after getting it back, no obvious issues with the new engine.)

Originally Posted by GregMilner

(happy to report though that day two after getting it back, no obvious issues with the new engine.)

You've got to get 26K up before it proves to be any different!

Very true. Which means another 18 months with fingers cross. They're going to ache a bit.
Glad I bought that extended warranty through to 2016!

thanks greg .....its due in for a service soon and ill have them look at it then .............would have thought its not what you'd expect from a modern diesal at only 30k !!

It seems far from uncommon among these engines, unfortunately. LR are well aware of the problem, they've replaced turbos on a number of cars at my dealership, but as far as I know they've never gone as far as replacing an entire engine before mine.
I wouldn't muck about with it Thomas, tell them about my experience over here. If they start talking about replacing the secondary turbo, they did that on mine - twice - still didn't fix the problem.

Originally Posted by GregMilner

I wouldn't muck about with it Thomas, tell them about my experience over here. If they start talking about replacing the secondary turbo, they did that on mine - twice - still didn't fix the problem.

A bit of caution here - in many cases, the dump-pipe/secondary turbo replacement HAS cured the problem. In fact Greg is the only case I know of that's had to have a complete engine replacement. So I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that a new engine is the minimum requirement for a cure.

Cheers,

Gordon

I'm a little nervous that mine sometimes produces oil smoke on morning startup as I discovered again today when I got back out of the vehicle immediatley after starting rather than just driving off. Perhaps it always does it but I don't get to see it.

Mine is the only case of engine replacement I know of too Gordon. And I'd already had two secondary turbo replacements, plus a body-off scavenger pump replacement.