Land Rover Discovery ES Premium Auto - Landrover Disco chugging engine

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Tue 5 Apr 2011 13:46
Land Rover Discovery ES Premium Auto - Landrover Disco chugging engine - James Collard

My Landy (75000 miles) has an 'interesting' chugging effect on the entire car, but this only happens after having gone 5-10 miles. If I stop in traffic or at lights it feels like the whole car is shaking with an engine effect. It's remarkably similar to an engine not firing on all cylinders. A similar effect is felt if I try to accelerate harshly. I've had the torbo renewed recently, but the car was doing this before the turbo change. Do I have a fault that develops only after some sort of heat expansion? Does anyone have any helpful clues?

Jim COLLARD

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Tue 5 Apr 2011 14:09
Land Rover Discovery ES Premium Auto - Landrover Disco chugging engine - injection doc

They do suffer with EGR valve faults and oil inpregnated wiring looms. The best thing to do is to have fault codes read to see if any faults stored. If so then 1st is check the ECU plug to the ECU to see if there is any engine oil around the connection! if there is then it needs a new injection loom and may be the |ECU cleaning. I have done many on TD5's

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