Thread: RRS 3.0 blowing smoke (lots of it)

Originally Posted by jonesy63

Could your RRS have a DPF and it only smokes when regenerating?

Er...DPF? Getting way out of my league now

Originally Posted by Disco4SE

Greg, I noticed that your RRS is 'Superchip enhanced'.
Was the vehicle smoking before the installation of the chip??

Cheers, Craig

It wasn't chipped as such Craig, it was remapped when it was new, and only started smoking recently, 18 months later.
In any case, just heard from the dealer and they're bringing in a new turbo for me. Thankfully.

Originally Posted by jonesy63

Could your RRS have a DPF and it only smokes when regenerating?

I have a DPF on my 3.0l D4 and it has regenerated a couple of times in the 2 years + that I've had the car.......no noticeable smoke or performance issues.

Light comes on in the dash with the warning notice and turns off after a few minutes of normal driving. Does register a fault code however, according to LR.

Cheers,

Kev.

Originally Posted by stig0000

" ever since you serviced my car"

id like to see how changing oil would kill a turbo just like that, unless it was serviced some were other then a dealer.

There was a guy a while ago....many, many threads ago.....that had just had his new D4 HSE (3.0l) serviced. He was cursing all things LR, the D4 and the 3.0l engine. He couldn't turn the engine off.

I can't remember exactly but I think he'd had an oil level indicator issue after the service and then the 'runaway' problem. I don't think he ever came back on the forum and fully explained the outcome but the concensus was that LR had overfilled the engine and this had overpressurised and had blown a seal into one or both turbos, thus feeding the engine with it's own oil instead of diesel.

Hi
Sorry , I don't read all , but : what about EGR ?
No message on the dash ?.......

Marc.

Well, this will be interesting. Local LR dealer has had the car for three days now, it's due back today with replacement turbo. Fingers crossed everything's back to normal.

I would be suspecting the chip.

Here's the deal. Diesel engines, particularly high performance ones run a maximum amount of fuel that can be burnt cleanly and safely with the air available. To increase the power (as chips or remaps do) the maximum fuelling is increased, this can result in smoke and exhaust temperatures that are dangerously hot for pistons and turbochargers. If the turbo boost pressure is raised at the same time then the exhaust is cooled back down to safe levels, but the loads on the turbochargers increase and they may now have to work outside safe limits of turbocharger rpm and pressure ratios.

Either way, your remap has made life a lot harder for your engine and turbochargers, not to mention the driveline which has to take the extra torque.
I suspect if the dealer finds out about the remap (quite easy for a clued up dealer, they simply read the ECU map and compare to what it should have) then you would be paying for this turbocharger yourself and any future problems related to the engine, turbochargers or driveline.

Good advice, thanks Dougal. Might be time to reverse the remap.