Crank Sensor didn’t fix anything 🙁 However, on my life mission of looking on the bright side, it did work for nearly eight weeks straight. Before refusing to start while parked outside a client office in San Francisco, which is only really a minor embarrassment. I suppose it could have happened half way across the

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Courtesy of the very nice chaps at Kensington Motor Cars here in Las Vegas: A new engine crank sensor! The LR3 crank sensor Now… this might seem like a tiny little bit of plastic and metal but is it the savior or haunted LR3 engines everywhere? After many, many, many discussions with the garage owner (Bill)

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Bloody thing.. after working nicely for just over a week, leading me to think the problem was all down to blocked injectors… the starting *problem* is back with a vengeance. The long landrover saga or engine Demons are back with a vengeance… FIRKING THING! /me takes a deep calming breath….. So, 80% of the time

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I’ve never had such a love hate relationship with a damn car!! Boris the Landrover LR3 is my daily driver and I really do genuinely enjoy driving it. But this vehicle’s reliability is down in the swamp. Why is the Landrover LR3 unreliable? I can’t tell you – and I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying

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Two days after dropping a couple of grand on a new starter motor, new transmission shifter (and two weeks of rental cars) trying to *fix* the ‘refusing-to-start’ problem… The very naughty Boris had driven like a dream over the weekend and I was finally enjoying the Landrover experience again thinking it was solved… this morning

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Before I start raging about this car I need to take a deep breath. This Problem Landrover LR3 is a particularly naughty example of landrovers utter rubbishness. This bloody thing is making my head EXPLOOOODEEDEE with frustration. Just to reduce the chances of my head exploding in frustration, I am going to amuse myself by

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WARNING – NON-TECHNICAL BLOG ALERT! WOOP WOOP! Before leaving the old country (UK) a few years back I was the proud owner of the ultimate road going work horse… a Landrover Defender 110. It was an early 1994 model with a 2.5 Liter Turbo Diesel engine and a hand painted exterior I used it for

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