Thread: New to Landrover - Advice please!

If you do a search on here of engine issues with D3's you will find the vast majority of them are for diesels and the cost of fixing them can be horrendous believe me.

The good old story's of diesels doing a 1,000,000 k's or just being run in at 100,000 k's in many cases no longer apply to the new highly stressed engines with very complicated injection systems. If that was the case why are 90% of the issues on here relating to diesels?

The water separator that Davis LR offers for diesels is a very good investment, my D3 has suffered from bad fuel and if I had bought one when I first got the old girl then I wouldn't have had any issues nor the very expensive fix that it will eventually need.

Diesels are fine if you buy them knew and get lots of warranty, second hand without warranty you are taking a gamble. Yes the 2.7 is a great engine and tows easy when going well but you will wish you didn't own one if you have a decent problem. Where as You will struggle to find many complaints about the petrol D3's blowing up or needing expensive repairs.

I'm in the market for a good reasonably priced V8 D3 to replace our D2a, but in the last six months the price second hand for the V8's has gone up, maybe because people are starting to do the maths on fuel costs versus purchase and on going maintanance costs and have worked out how much of a bargain they were.

Cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

If you do a search on here of engine issues with D3's you will find the vast majority of them are for diesels and the cost of fixing them can be horrendous believe me.

The good old story's of diesels doing a 1,000,000 k's or just being run in at 100,000 k's in many cases no longer apply to the new highly stressed engines with very complicated injection systems. If that was the case why are 90% of the issues on here relating to diesels?

Could this be that 90% of D3 owners have diesels???

Cheers, Craig

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

Could this be that 90% of D3 owners have diesels???

Cheers, Craig

Big block engines also fluctuate in price with the petrol price, not that expensive at $1.20 per litre but when it goes up to $1.50+ per litre ouch!!!!! Take it from someone who had one. Oh, and don't be fooled by the whole LPG con as the car is tuned differently to petrol causing it to consume more gas per litre than just petrol and the direct injection gas systems that everyone will recommend they will not take into account the petrol usage you will have, again take it from someone who was fooled!

Cheers
Julian

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

Could this be that 90% of D3 owners have diesels???

Cheers, Craig

Oooh, statistics, you fickle mistress you

I'm not so sure that 90% of D3's sold here were diesel.

There are 149 D3's for sale on Carpoint, 66 are diesels.

While this is not exactly a scientific way of working out the percentage of petrol v diesels D3's sold in Australia it would more than likely indicate that there were more petrol engined D3's sold in Australia than diesels.

Cheers,
Terry

Originally Posted by TerryO

I'm not so sure that 90% of D3's sold here were diesel.

There are 149 D3's for sale on Carpoint, 66 are diesels.

While this is not exactly a scientific way of working out the percentage of petrol v diesels D3's sold in Australia it would more than likely indicate that there were more petrol engined D3's sold in Australia than diesels.

Cheers,
Terry

No it would more likely indicate that 83 people are desperately trying to offload their fuel guzzling, unpopular, Petrol versions.

There have been a couple of failures of 4.0 petrols listed on this forum.

Diesel is the way to go - drove from Canberra to Newcastle this week in my 2.7 TDV6 - drove at 110 kph and the computer showed 6.9l/100km (40mpg) - realistically 7.9l/100km (35mpg) - try that in your petrol gas guzzler.

Driving back in much hotter weather and a head wind and still managed 7.2l/100km (indicated).

Garry

Spot on Tombie. Not too many want petrols. That's why there are so many still for sale compared to the diesels.
Most of the diesels have already been sold

Cheers, Craig