Thread: Land Rover dealership blew up my engine!

The biggest issue here by a country mile is hoping the vehicle goes back together properly,after it has been pulled apart.

That is what will affect long term reliability,and resale.

Originally Posted by Boeing727

Thanks for the advice, and more importantly are you a RR tech? Just trying to establish what’s genuine and what’s BS.

Can you please qualify your statement that it wouldn’t fail in one hit? Or tell me more in detail what your thoughts are what contributed to this? Much appreciated.

No Im not a LR tech - Im a fitter but work in condition monitoring of industrial machines - so very much in the reliability field. As much as possible we try to change out equipment before a component fails as when something does let go it normally damages more of the machines - example lets take a conveyor belt and we detect a bearing fault and have the bearing changed out in a shut down - nice and simple its just a dud bearing. Or we leave the bearing in place, it fails and destroys the shaft its mounted on and the bearing housing, pulley moves belt drifts away from centre and the belt gets destroyed as well (or at the very best a section is damaged). So you see everything after the bearing failing is secondary damage. Same thing happens in a motor, one part fails and things are not moving the way they are supposed to and more gets damaged, which is my original point in that not everything would have failed at the same time but was a direct result of just one piece falling down. Trouble with big secondary damage is it can be hard to find what the original cause was.

Sounds to me like they drained the oil and forgot to refill it

The D2's wont start until the oil pressure switch lets them,, surely the later D's had the same sort of thing?

To reassure the OP, a prominent member had the same thing happen to their quite new D4 a number of years ago. They are owners of more than one Land Rover, know their mechanicals and are well known to the Land Rover hierarchy here in Aus. There has been no reported issues with the vehicle since the engine swap and never any expression of concern over its future value.

There nature of failure could have happened at anytime and more than likely had nothing to do with the dealer doing anything wrong. Give the dealer a chance to do the the work and make it right. If you handle this right with them, they will look after you well.

BTW, they majority of people people offering you advice have a wealth of knowledge and experience with these vehicles and their engines. Being, or not being a LR tech has nothing to do with the quality of advice being provided. That's the beauty of this forum, you can tap into a wealth of information and become informed so that these situations become less daunting.

Do yourself a favour, keep asking questions here and don't jump to conclusions. Second guessing the cause of events is not going to help you or change the outcome.

Originally Posted by SBD4

To reassure the OP, a prominent member had the same thing happen to their quite new D4 a number of years ago. They are owners of more than one Land Rover, know their mechanicals and are well known to the Land Rover hierarchy here in Aus. There has been no reported issues with the vehicle since the engine swap and never any expression of concern over its future value.

There nature of failure could have happened at anytime and more than likely had nothing to do with the dealer doing anything wrong. Give the dealer a chance to do the the work and make it right. If you handle this right with them, they will look after you well.

BTW, they majority of people people offering you advice have a wealth of knowledge and experience with these vehicles and their engines. Being, or not being a LR tech has nothing to do with the quality of advice being provided. That's the beauty of this forum, you can tap into a wealth of information and become informed so that these situations become less daunting.

Do yourself a favour, keep asking questions here and don't jump to conclusions. Second guessing the cause of events is not going to help you or change the outcome.

Sage advice. A new engine under warranty is no big deal...that’s what the warranty is for. A new 0km engine can be a good thing. Just make sure registration is all clear as discomick says above. Stay cool. Enjoy your new vehicle when you get it back.

Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

The D2's wont start until the oil pressure switch lets them,, surely the later D's had the same sort of thing?

Correct... a bit smarter too!

Originally Posted by knares

Sounds to me like they drained the oil and forgot to refill it

I would think the electronic dipstick would go into all sorts of christmas tree light displays if it could not find an oil level when the ignition was turned on...