Thread: Jaguar Land Rover recall TDV6 engined vehicles

Just adding mine to the list. 2016 Discovery SE. About 100,000 on the clock. Driving uphill on the hwy, started to lose power, pulled over quickly to the side of the road, engine shut down. Would turn over (lots of clunking) but not start. No error codes ! No oil leaks, oil level check still said OK. Mechanic has confirmed broken crankshaft.

I don’t have tdv6 or sdv6 disco yet but planning to get one and reading this makes me nervous. What’s the failure rate of this engine? I saw a lot of high km tdv6 and sdv6 on the market. Thanks

Originally Posted by fourteen8

I don’t have tdv6 or sdv6 disco yet but planning to get one and reading this makes me nervous. What’s the failure rate of this engine? I saw a lot of high km tdv6 and sdv6 on the market. Thanks

No one really knows but while there have been a lot, it would still have to be sub 1% given the number of vehicles sold

I'm with fourteen8 on this.

if you want a late d4, is there any other engine choice than the v6?

it interests me that F1 use a v6 and I don't think there would be any other v6 in the world works so hard for so much power @ so many revs at such a small engine capacity for so much reliability.

some here say a v6 has inherent reliability due to its crank design...I call bull**** on that....why would F1 use an inherently unreliable piece of engineering?

Land Rover/ Ford....it's really time to accept liability for a basically **** motor you use in the d4.

the td5 is producing some incredible life now , without any crankshaft failures that I know of...now there's a good design.

Did the SCV6 3.0 (supercharged v6 petrol) get carried over to the later models (2014 >) ? There's only a handful in Oz, I've only seen 1 for sale and that vehicle was in Qld...

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Did the SCV6 3.0 (supercharged v6 petrol) get carried over to the later models (2014 >) ? There's only a handful in Oz, I've only seen 1 for sale and that vehicle was in Qld...

That's what I would buy. Yummy

Originally Posted by DiscoJeffster

No one really knows but while there have been a lot, it would still have to be sub 1% given the number of vehicles sold

Looking at 3.OL,ran for around 10 yrs in D4,D5,RRS.
Sales would have been around something like a generous, 25K, over that period,at a guess,at the most?

I doubt total engine failures were less than 250,over the 10yr period,and in the years once the engine was dropped.

From what i have seen,and the number that the two Indies i know are doing,that is way off the mark.Just the two of them would see more than 10 a year.

Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Did the SCV6 3.0 (supercharged v6 petrol) get carried over to the later models (2014 >) ? There's only a handful in Oz, I've only seen 1 for sale and that vehicle was in Qld...

The SCV6 was only sold in Aus between MY14 and MY16.