What happened to your D3/D4 today?

Found a front tire going down slowly so decided to put the spare on do a rotation at the same time, next day i noticed the spared had gone down :o.
Got a spray bottle of soapy water and checked for leaks and found it was leaking around the bead, the tire i replaced was also leaking around the bead.
I ran the spare up to the local tire place and was going to do a swap once i got it back the other wheel, went out this morning and the bloody thing has decided to hold air. Picked up the spare and they reseated it but didnt balance it and there are no weights on it !
So now i have to find somewhere to balance it near work so i can swap it.

Pulled the engine out of the D3 (body on) I'm wrecking last week. Not too bad a job, but there's a full days work in preparing it for removal.
https://youtu.be/ckQ8D96zNEc

Does anyone know for sure if the front and rear air valve blocks are interchangeable? They look the same but are sold under different part numbers.

Over the weekend I left the car in raised mode with the fuse out. After two days the front was evenly right down at access height.

This is chasing the intermittent “component failure” suspension fault I get.

I’ll pull out the front and make sure it’s clean but I do have a spare rear block sitting around also if a kit doesn’t fix it.

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Does anyone know for sure if the front and rear air valve blocks are interchangeable? They look the same but are sold under different part numbers.

Over the weekend I left the car in raised mode with the fuse out. After two days the front was evenly right down at access height.

This is chasing the intermittent “component failure” suspension fault I get.

I’ll pull out the front and make sure it’s clean but I do have a spare rear block sitting around also if a kit doesn’t fix it.

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If I was a betting man, I'd say no.

Not the same, however I retrofitted heated seats, which requires a controller module under each seat. I mixed them up, and whilst identical in appearance and plug layout etc, switching them meant when I pushed the left seat warmer button, the right seat would heat.

I dare say the suspension modules are the same - they have the same job to do front and back (ie, 2 springs, and a crossvalve), but each module is addressed differently internally so that the central computer knows which one it's talking to...?

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Does anyone know for sure if the front and rear air valve blocks are interchangeable? They look the same but are sold under different part numbers.

Over the weekend I left the car in raised mode with the fuse out. After two days the front was evenly right down at access height.

This is chasing the intermittent “component failure” suspension fault I get.

I’ll pull out the front and make sure it’s clean but I do have a spare rear block sitting around also if a kit doesn’t fix it.

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From what ive read they cant be swapped, will give weird issues if done so.

Weird issue, started car up today for a drive, let it warm up and put her into d. Went to accelerate and... literally no power.. car barely got to 30kmph and then decided to come alive. No errors on the screen nothing, got to the next set of lights and it did the same.. no power then just comes alive. Called local specialist and they reckon it might be the EGR valve.

I'm hoping its that nothing more sinister, anything you guys recommend i check before heading in?

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Originally Posted by PerthDisco

Does anyone know for sure if the front and rear air valve blocks are interchangeable? They look the same but are sold under different part numbers.

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They are different. They have different passage sizes.

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Originally Posted by Pokiou

Weird issue, started car up today for a drive, let it warm up and put her into d. Went to accelerate and... literally no power.. car barely got to 30kmph and then decided to come alive. No errors on the screen nothing, got to the next set of lights and it did the same.. no power then just comes alive. Called local specialist and they reckon it might be the EGR valve.

I'm hoping its that nothing more sinister, anything you guys recommend i check before heading in?

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Yes that’s the symptom of a sticky EGR valve.

Has anyone replaced a 3.0 litre diesel engine recently? Is the cost still around $30,000?

Is the 2.7 litre diesel still cheaper to replace than the 3.0 litre?

Last week I lent some maxtrax to a friend of mine who was going to the Yeagarup dunes with his family during the school holidays here in WA. Turns out I may have needed them after all. The day after I lent out the trax I got asked to take some Swiss exchange students staying with another friend of mine, on a quick tour up the coast to see the sights. So this morning, as arranged, I grabbed a shovel, some tools, tyre inflating gear, an esky of food and drinks and off we went. We planned on going to Lancelin for a play and then head back down the coast stopping at various spots along the way.

The dune driving went fine but I ran into an issue on the way back along the beach section. The sand is quite soft so I stayed high up the beach and all was good. Right up until I needed to turn around. I hit a patch of sand that had a whole bunch of weed underneath it, and down I went. Never mind, the trax should get us out in a jiffy... Ooops. Anyhow it took 5 mins of shovel work, putting the D3 in extended height mode, dropping the tyre pressure a little more, and out she popped...right at the same time as a photographer was driving past in an FJ Cruiser, which made me laugh. I'm sure there will be photo's popping up somewhere of a D3 self-extracting itself in Lancelin soon enough! I warned them about the weed near the high tide mark and they thanked me and went on their merry way.

After I dropped the two students off this afternoon, they said it was the perfect day trip, and their highlight was helping with the shovelwork. Go figure! They loved the coast and couldn't believe we had such nice beaches and were even allowed to drive on them. They thought Guilderton was a picturesque spot for lunch and are now planning to come back and do an extended driving tour after they finish their studies. So I guess it was a good day after all.