Thread: Jaguar Land Rover recall TDV6 engined vehicles

I recall that the fault had reportedly been fixed at around 2013 but later engines are still failing, perhaps not for the same reasons. Later D4, L494 and L405 TD/SDV6 engines still have far too many crankshaft failures, according to UK reports.

Originally Posted by Victim

Did LR change anything in "post 2013" 3lt engines to eliminate the risk of this problem with later vehicles?

Given reports of 2016 vehicle failures and even D5, if they did, it was not completely successful. As no one still has a clear view of what the actual cause is, hard to say.

When speaking to my mechanic about this issue he said don't be to concerned because the only failures he had seen was from people who did LR service intervals and or had ignored the low water warning or temp rise with the thought of " not far to go it will be OK"
His opinion was the longer oil change and overheating the oil caused 99% of the failures , change oil and don't ignore basic mechanical common sense...

Originally Posted by discomatt69

When speaking to my mechanic about this issue he said don't be to concerned because the only failures he had seen was from people who did LR service intervals and or had ignored the low water warning or temp rise with the thought of " not far to go it will be OK"
His opinion was the longer oil change and overheating the oil caused 99% of the failures , change oil and don't ignore basic mechanical common sense...

I’m sure he has good intentions but this has already been done to death. Cars that have been serviced at half intervals have failed. Cars with next to no km have failed, cars with high km have failed. Cars serviced to interval have failed. Cars not serviced to interval have also not failed. Cars following the LR interval have not failed. There is no rhyme or reason based on the information from the UK, SA, and Aus, or at the least, servicing has no bearing on it based on the failures listed on the many forums. Unless many of the people who’ve had failures are lying, they receive little to no warning other than a dashful of errors then bang.

Some cases of failures have been traced back to lack of servicing,as per threads on UK and SA sites.
In SA,more frequent servicing is needed due to fuel quality.

But many have failed with correct servicing.

One owner on here had a new 2015 D4 that had an engine failure within about a year at 26,000km. JLR replaced it under warranty.

Originally Posted by scarry

Some cases of failures have been traced back to lack of servicing,as per threads on UK and SA sites.
In SA,more frequent servicing is needed due to fuel quality.

But many have failed with correct servicing.

And have failed running arduous interval as well which was my point.

Originally Posted by kelvo

Link doesn’t work for me, was it this petition https://www.thepetitionsite.com/en-g...crank-failure/ ?

Yes, that is the one.