2.7 and 3.0 Td V6 Crankshaft Bearing Failure known manufacturing fault

I would go further and expect JLR to meet labour cost. You are not 'partially' at fault if you have maintained the vehicle to manufacturer's specs, so why should you fund any of the cost? My suspicion is that's a try-on by the dealer, because the manufacturer (all brands) only give a specific labour time and rate to the dealer to get a given warranty job done. Seldom does the allowance give the dealer a break-even on labour.

So the dealer makes it up by attempting to charge you labour ("goodwill"). Don't fall for that one.

Approaching 200,000km on my D4 SDV6SE. Build Dec2010 from the Solihull factory. All good so far regarding crankshaft, full oil change every 10,000km since I’ve owned it using quality 5w30 oil. When under warranty it was always serviced by JLR.

Just wondering if anyone has ever removed the sump in situ and checked crank main bearing cap torque settings? I’m entertaining doing just that during my next oil change.

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Approaching 200,000km on my D4 SDV6SE. Build Dec2010 from the Solihull factory. All good so far regarding crankshaft, full oil change every 10,000km since I’ve owned it using quality 5w30 oil. When under warranty it was always serviced by JLR.

Just wondering if anyone has ever removed the sump in situ and checked crank main bearing cap torque settings? I’m entertaining doing just that during my next oil change.

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Haha. Go and read disco3uk. Someone on there removed the lower and main sump and what a nightmare of a job. My advice would be to leave well enough alone.

I guess if it ain't broke....

Look back at TerryO's posts from a few years back when he had some issues with his 2.7 D3. For a reason I cannot recall, the sump was dropped to check something and some of the bearing cap bolts were found to be loose.

Garry

Thanks, that's the one that got me thinking.

Interestingly the bottom end was not the issue they were working on and there were no symptoms - the issue was either a injector or a glowplug job that had gone wrong and for some reason they decided to drop the sump and found loose cap bolts by accident.

Garry

Talking to a mechanic friend yesterday, some series bmw suffers similar problems regarding crank bearing and big end conrod cap bolts (both petrol and diesel engines), also leading to crank failure. Access permitting he advised to check cap bolt torque..

China is now doing a major recall of JLR vehicles because of bearing/crankshaft issues - this follows South Korea a while back.

Jaguar Land Rover to recall vehicles over engine hazard

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China is now doing a major recall of JLR vehicles because of bearing/crankshaft issues - this follows South Korea a while back.

Jaguar Land Rover to recall vehicles over engine hazard

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And yet Australia continues to deny a problem, just like the UK.