Thread: What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Said goodbye to the mighty D4 SDV6SE today.

It has been an interesting 8 years. One of the most comfortable, capable and best looking cars I have owned. Pita to work on in some cases, but thoroughly enjoyable. An absolute pleasure to drive, and despite being 11yo this year, still one of the best looking 4WD's on the road IMHO.

We have toured, towed and done countless school runs, we have crossed this wide brown land east to west and north to south, and plenty of weekend camping trips, making great memories along the way. It has never let us down and always gotten us home. I hope the new owner gets as much enjoyment out of it as we have.

I hope that the collective on this great forum will continue to allow me to be a part of the LR story. We are "keeping it in the family" so to speak, can't wait for the arrival of the newest family member, L663 Defender SE in Carpathian Grey is on order...

Thank you D4 SDV6SE for fantastic memories and the diesel oil stains on my garage floor....

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Originally Posted by Eric SDV6SE

Said goodbye to the mighty D4 SDV6SE today.

It has been an interesting 8 years. One of the most comfortable, capable and best looking cars I have owned. Pita to work on in some cases, but thoroughly enjoyable. An absolute pleasure to drive, and despite being 11yo this year, still one of the best looking 4WD's on the road IMHO.

We have toured, towed and done countless school runs, we have crossed this wide brown land east to west and north to south, and plenty of weekend camping trips, making great memories along the way. It has never let us down and always gotten us home. I hope the new owner gets as much enjoyment out of it as we have.

I hope that the collective on this great forum will continue to allow me to be a part of the LR story. We are "keeping it in the family" so to speak, can't wait for the arrival of the newest family member, L663 Defender SE in Carpathian Grey is on order...

Thank you D4 SDV6SE for fantastic memories and the diesel oil stains on my garage floor....

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I hope you listed that vehicle as new Eric!! Who ever bought it for lucky, not many are that maintained, good luck with the new ride

Might have dodged a bullet. Washer bottle was leaking and emptying. On inspection looks like there is no split on the tank but a drip from the rubber boot of the main pump. Pulled all the pumps and level sensor out and their boots and smeared some Vaseline and put them all back in.

Also put a bead of glue around the plastic splitter seam that sends water to L and R washers.

A few hours on and no drips under car.

Originally Posted by josh.huber

I hope you listed that vehicle as new Eric!! Who ever bought it for lucky, not many are that maintained, good luck with the new ride

Cheers, thanks mate, was a labour of love....mostly.

You dodge a bullet one day and get one the next. Being chauffeured in the passenger seat last two cold nights I’ve just realised there’s absolutely no warm air on the passenger side with temp on maximum! Plenty of warm at the driver’s feet.

Seems this is a super common problem with heater matrix blocking. I’m going to try back flushing and getting some CLR in there at the pipes in the engine bay. Has anyone had any luck doing this before considering replacing the heater matrix?

There are all the sounds of flaps opening and closing when you change the temperature setting.

Originally Posted by PerthDisco

You dodge a bullet one day and get one the next. Being chauffeured in the passenger seat last two cold nights I’ve just realised there’s absolutely no warm air on the passenger side with temp on maximum! Plenty of warm at the driver’s feet.

Seems this is a super common problem with heater matrix blocking. I’m going to try back flushing and getting some CLR in there at the pipes in the engine bay. Has anyone had any luck doing this before considering replacing the heater matrix?

Yes, I had the same problem last year. Stay away from the chemicals. The crap that sits in there seems to be resistant to pretty much anything that isn't going to eat either the matrix or heads.

I built a pressure flusher and used a garden hose backed up with 100PSI of compressed air to blast slugs of water back and forward through the matrix. I probably went back and forward for the best part of an hour before crud stopped coming out and it's been great all winter. Because the matrix enters and exists on the drivers side, the crud gradually blocks up the channels from the passenger end back, and any form of flow based flushing just circulates through the open channels.

I would put something like a 6" slug of water in the hose then blast it through with compressed air and inertia allowed it to slam into the end of the matrix gradually pushing the crud out of the channels. Flush it with water until it ran clear, blew the water out with compressed air and then did it again.

This is the sort of crud that was still coming out 15 minutes into the process. A straight water flush would flush clear, but after another slug it'd look like this :

It ticked over a young 182,000km as it pulled into the driveway.

Originally Posted by Tombie

It ticked over a young 182,000km as it pulled into the driveway.

A pup. Cheers