2016 Discovery 4 SDV6 - broken crankshaft?

[Smocky]

Little bit of misadventure on the weekend and interested in any helpful feedback from the group. My mechanic has assessed the vehicle and it seems I have broken the crankshaft! I was driving up a hill, nothing too unusual, lost power, some rattling with the engine still running and I had about 15 seconds to pull over to the side of the road and the engine died. No warning lights, Oil level still normal (at OK). No oil leaks, no obvious sign of damage.

Car has done just over 100,000 (WAY too low for a catastrophic engine failure) and has been serviced at the dealer. Has not missed a service.

So has anyone heard of the 3L SDV6 breaking a crankshaft? I was going up a hill at 100kmh towing a 900kg camper trailer. Not exactly racing it through the rockies. Apparently I am up for a new engine and a $25k - $30k repair bill. On a 6 year old car, that has done 100k.

All helpful advice welcome in replies or PMs. Thanks forum. I'm just off to see if I can find any solutions in the bottom of a bottle of scotch.

Jason.

[loanrangie]

You must be new here, have a search and you'll find it's not uncommon.
Unfortunately it's a 30k plus repair.

[simonmelb]

Bugger!

You can add yours to the list here: Engine Failure on 3.0lt SDV6 help.

Good luck with your repair and hopefully a response from LR.

[Discodicky]

Little bit of misadventure on the weekend and interested in any helpful feedback from the group. My mechanic has assessed the vehicle and it seems I have broken the crankshaft! I was driving up a hill, nothing too unusual, lost power, some rattling with the engine still running and I had about 15 seconds to pull over to the side of the road and the engine died. No warning lights, Oil level still normal (at OK). No oil leaks, no obvious sign of damage.

Car has done just over 100,000 (WAY too low for a catastrophic engine failure) and has been serviced at the dealer. Has not missed a service.



So has anyone heard of the 3L SDV6 breaking a crankshaft? I was going up a hill at 100kmh towing a 900kg camper trailer. Not exactly racing it through the rockies. Apparently I am up for a new engine and a $25k - $30k repair bill. On a 6 year old car, that has done 100k.

All helpful advice welcome in replies or PMs. Thanks forum. I'm just off to see if I can find any solutions in the bottom of a bottle of scotch.

Jason.

Google: SSM71816 and SSM72928
Talk to your dealer and request him to contact LRA for pro rata warranty/financial assistance. Some people here have been successful, particularly at such low klms.
You mention serviced by Dealer, was that at the scheduled 22,000 klm services or more frequently??
Also mention ACCC if they try to fob you off.
I think that persistence will help.
Maybe suggest that LRA provide a new engine assembly and you'll pay for labour?

Good luck!!

[Smocky]

Google: SSM71816 and SSM72928
Talk to your dealer and request him to contact LRA for pro rata warranty/financial assistance. Some people here have been successful, particularly at such low klms.
You mention serviced by Dealer, was that at the scheduled 22,000 klm services or more frequently??
Also mention ACCC if they try to fob you off.
I think that persistence will help.
Maybe suggest that LRA provide a new engine assembly and you'll pay for labour?

Good luck!!

I'm doing a bit of reading and playing catch up, but thanks for the pointers. Service was more frequent than the 22,000 kms, which always annoyed me! They were doing an 80,000 service at 50,000.

I'm going to ring the dealer tomorrow and start the ball rolling. Hoping for others with experience with this particular problem to share their advice. It just cannot be OK that an expensive deisel engine can have a complete meltdown at 100,000 kms. That's not OK under any circumstances so long as it is maintained.

[goldey]

I'm doing a bit of reading and playing catch up, but thanks for the pointers. Service was more frequent than the 22,000 kms, which always annoyed me! They were doing an 80,000 service at 50,000.

I'm going to ring the dealer tomorrow and start the ball rolling. Hoping for others with experience with this particular problem to share their advice. It just cannot be OK that an expensive deisel engine can have a complete meltdown at 100,000 kms. That's not OK under any circumstances so long as it is maintained.

Smocky

My experience is we had an SDV6 also break the crankshaft at about 180,000kms in a similar fashion, knock knock knock, pull over and car died on side of the road. Our fix was to source a lower km second hand motor (ours is a 2012 Disco 4, so it was well out of warranty) after our quote from LR Australia was given to us ($40k). So far we have had no issues withe current donk, but we didn't with the previous one either.

Hopefully in your case you'll have a bit better dealings with LR Australia, given its much younger, LR serviced etc.

Regards

Goldey

[Keegan]

Happens way to often. Especially on the 3 litre. Should be able to start a class action against LR . They continually build these pieces of junk.

[nevik51]

Just get on U Tube & type in that problem & you can see the cause of it.Watch all the videos i forget the channel name.

[scarry]

Happens way to often. Especially on the 3 litre. Should be able to start a class action against LR . They continually build these pieces of junk.

Sure,and with the 3.0L, its going to happen more often as they get older.Way more actually fail than are seen on here.

Its also a Ford issue,they designed and built the engine,for LR.But i suppose,bottom line is its a LR problem.

I cant believe a manufacturer ran the same engine for so many years and across so many models with the issue,then didnt help many customers when they failed.It was even used in the D5,with failures.

And with the failures on the 3.0L,many vehicles are low mileage,and have been serviced correctly, more often than the rediculous LR service schedule,and are one owners,bought new.

Just imagine if one of the big vehicle manufacturers had this sort of problem,we would be hearing about it all day.

[nevik51]

The U Tube channel is LR Time go to episode 1 & look at the videos.