Archive for the ‘Technical’ category

Defender 110 TD5 will not rev

November 3rd, 2009

A frustrating one this as I asked the garage to check the fuel pump and then get back to me. As I had not heard anything I broke off from my system development and drove to halifax to plug in to the vehicle. The reported fault was that the engine would not rev very high. [...]

Last week I was asked to look at a Range Rover Sport TDV6 Diesel. The owner contacted me and wanted a diagnostic check as he thought that he had a gearbox fault. I used my Autologic box to query the faults on the gearbox. The only fault logged was a can bus missed message. This [...]

This is a serious one, it affects me! It has been an ongoing fault for about a month. it has been so intermittent that it has taken a bit of tracking down. At the end of September 2009 I was going away for the weekend up in the Lakes. We were planning a bit of [...]

Took a look at a P38 with a rough running engine today. It was a late model P38 Range Rover with the Bosch management system. It had a fresh engine rebuild so there was no mechanical faults with the car. The engine was a little rough and wouldn’t rev past 3000 rpm. When I plugged [...]