Thread: Tow truck

Originally Posted by Tombie

For some reason the incidence of failures in South Africa is proportionally higher than in Australia

We’ve always been better friends with the Poms. I’m sure our bearings were fitted with love and care.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

I’ve never been able to understand all the talk about cats so hopefully they won’t either

If they did , the cat would be out of the bag

Lots of discussion in South Africa here:
Links to Discovery TDv6/SDv6 Failure Reports
and here":
Discovery 3 TDv6 Failure Survey

For what it is worth, the car service place I take my LR3 TDV6 to (Goulburn) replaced the TDV6 in another LR3 with a second hand, but almost new, Ford Territory engine, that from memory cost $8k. I think it took a full week to do the work, but their rates are almost a third of what you would pay a specialist place in Canberra.

Those failures all sound nasty and very hard to see a pattern.

Originally Posted by Vern

$17.5k for a secondhand motor! Thats rediculous. I would want a brand new crate motor for that.

Consider speaking to the this company at Lonsdale, a southern suburb of Adelaide. Having been there, I can believe it is the world's largest graveyard for LRs and the like. Check out their website for D4s.

Triumph Rover Spares - The World's Largest Land Rover Dismantler

www.triumphroverspares.com.au/




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Good luck
Nick

PS . I share your grief. I have also experienced a crankshaft failure in MY15 Discovery TDV6 3.0 at 25,000kms (1500kms from home)