Just think how much the car has gained in value 🤣 Sell it and get something else.

I have an Aston Martin in order but still need the family motor. I need to give it a clean and blast tomorrow. See how it goes. It might be fixed. I mean the EML came on but I didn’t see the code Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Well least you got it back in a running condition mate despite the eml light. Think they've shown their true colours with how quick they wanted rid with the refund offer. Can only apologise for yhe recommendation mate and the headache.

Fancy selling it too me n I'll take it too Martin too see if he's happy seeing it back hahahhaa

Haha imagine. That would be funny. Take it back down there say u bought this lemon off some guy on the forum 😂😂😂
Apparently he drove to Cambridge to pick up fuel injectors. Not sure if he did it in my car or not. And if he called me I got fuel injectors.

I don’t know what work was done as was hoping for an invoice for work completed but as I didn’t pay hard to know what was done.

Going to draw a line under it. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
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Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE

Hahahahaha yea I can see how that would go down... pretty much along the lines of get rid of that lemon or I'll torch it lol

Hard to know what's been done and what's not as you'd expect he would at least want parts covered in cost. I guess either way tho you've got it back and not out of pocket massively now at least.

Offer still stands tho for you mate, if you need it dropping off further afield we can take it on the trailer.

Least I can do after a bad recommendation

Cheers buddy. It seemed to drive ok on the way back but then I didn’t go aggressive on it. If the EML comes on again I will plug in and see. Fingers crossed it just flipped out.

I did the right thing to start and paid half as they shouldn’t be out of pocket on parts however when the opportunity came to get a full refund only a madman would have said no.

I will keep all posted but really appreciate everyone getting me through a difficult and emotional time. It’s is totally respected from me. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
Ford Kuga
Nissan 350z
BMW 316
Porsche Boxster 2.5s
Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE

Pretty much mate. Least you can walk away with the moral high ground and say that you paid up fairly but it wasn't resolved still and when you approached them they said refund and don't come back. I think the biggest issue is Sean. Nice enough fella but seems like he ain't kept in the loop with what happens etc

This is why I didn’t go in all guns blazing. It would have been easy to do so but it’s not his fault perhaps although for a guy on the front desk his customer service needs a lot of improvement. I paid so know my side of the bargain was kept but then the engine light came on and to be fair it was the only logical option. They got space back I got the car and not a penny paid so level all round. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
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Nissan 350z
BMW 316
Porsche Boxster 2.5s
Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE

Fair play to you keeping your cool mate that's all i can say.

Well thats it I mean you'd be pretty hacked of if you went too harvester and the staff kept bring you the wrong food for the night, charged you silly amounts and then served your grub n then took it all away.

All you can do now I guess is go for a drive and be prepared to call the aa if you need too. Maybe on the other hand that won't be the case

Right Ash....

You’ve saved yourself £850-1600 now...

Buy one of these : AUTOOL Car Smoke Machine SDT-106... https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B074JMB6HK?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

And an iidtool you will still be massively quids in and you don’t really need to be a car wizard to use these two things at least you will be able to diagnose in a roughy sense at a minimum.

If your eml is on speaking from experience in the way yours is it’s probably a knackered cat which seem common on these (iid will report this or you can just kick the cat to hear of it rattles)
Or
A bad maf
Or bad o2 sensors
Those two are a bit more of a pita to diagnose but if you have no smoke I’d start there.

Or
A vacuum leak which if they really did do the injoectors is highly probable as from what I’m hearing I would t be surprised if they didn’t change the gaskets or have left a hose off somewhere.

If it’s running massively rich the only thing it’s likely to be that’s not sinister and luckily what mine was in the end was coils .

There you go a lockdown weekends things to look into.  Current stable:
2006 BMW M6
2007 4.2 V8 S/C FF
Gone:
2002 4.4 V8 FF

Car was rich and messed up when I bought it. Massive CO2 leak in cabin. Car has had new exhaust fitted so no errors on the cats or o2 sensors now.

MAF is clean one of the first things I checked. New sparks etc.

What Martin has since said was the wrong injectors were on the car when I bought it. They were yellow. I bought new ones and they were blue. Had them fitted but original garage just did 4 and not all 8. Martin has changed them yesterday the last thing he did.

The EML still came on but the car didn’t go in to reduced engine performance which was the issue. I need to give it a good blast see how it reacts.

Apparently timing chain was done as well. But I won’t know what was done unless I get inside it all to take a look. Martin also mentioned to replace the supercharger trumpets. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
Ford Kuga
Nissan 350z
BMW 316
Porsche Boxster 2.5s
Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE

That would make sense if that's the case with the injectors being the wrong ones hence when you give it the beans the flow ain't there and drops the power.

Timing chain should easily be picked up on some cheap obd reader. Mines slightly advanced and has been for a 2 years now and it picks it up on the usual £1.99 obd reader. I've got iid and that will clear it for a few days for mot day

Hopefully that work has been done and it's just the ecu playing silly

I’m more off with the dickheads who I bought the car off. I know what they have done now. They were a car racing mickymouse garage place. They did track days had a few track cars in the garage they were working on. I bet my life they took fuel injectors out of a bmw and fitted them in the Jaguar engine. Yellow injectors were on the car blue ones I bought only 4 were put on my garage should have done all 8 but the error was bank 1 only. I thought they were changed over. I’m confused but I trust Martin did all the injectors as he bought 8.

Let’s see. I got an ODB it’s not a fancy expensive one. Not sure I want to fork out for all this machinery. I am a driver not a mechanic. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

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Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
Ford Kuga
Nissan 350z
BMW 316
Porsche Boxster 2.5s
Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE

the mil may be coming on due to rapid change in the ECU now the car is working properly i have had this on a 2006 Grand Cherokee.
once cleared and the ECU sorts itself out it may never come on again.
be interesting to see what happens with use now. 2012 Vogue 4.4 TDV8 - Current
2014 Navara V6 - Gone
2004 Vogue TD6 - Gone
Grand Cherokee - Gone
Discovery V8 (LPG) - Gone
Discovery TD5 - Gone

Will the ECU learn and correct it automatically over time? I hope you are right mate. I know they come on for all reasons even when there is no reason at all. I will take it for a drive later and see what happens. Current Cars

2006 Range Rover Vogue 4.2 V8 Supercharged Petrol
1996 Williams Clio 2

Previous cars

Bentley GT Continental
Porsche Cayenne 4.5s
4.2 V8 Supercharged Range Rover
Porsche Boxster 3.2s
Ford Kuga
Nissan 350z
BMW 316
Porsche Boxster 2.5s
Golf 2.8 VR6 Highline
Renault Clio 16v
Vauxhall Nova GTE