Did you here that noise...

[richc]

Well our trip to portugal was a great success (I'll post photos in another thread), well till one day before we joined the ferry.

Lisa driving , me asleep in the passenger seat, i turn over and hear a tinkling sound, just at the point Lisa had no power ... oh dear this doesn't look good ..........

So we pull in , open the bonnet and stare at the engine as is traditional, then i have a play, the starter motor goes round but the engine doesn't. If put in gear we can drive it on the starter but don't think we had enough juice for 170 miles to Santander.

So after many phone calls we arrange a recovery truck to santander. We drop the truck off in the port (very helpfull port police) but we cannot stay in the truck so they point us to a hotel. Next morning we wander over to checkin and britany ferries are not pleased with us as we are in the wrong place so another recovery company came to move us 100 metres and then came back to put us on the boat at 8pm

Then we had the fun of explaining this to green flag, that their recovery truck was going to have to go onboard to load us and get us off the ferry, thankfully it was a local firm so they loaded us and then gave us a car to drive home, the truck arrived on the friday

So now to drop it at the garage down the road and see what they say, I suspect cam belt but who knows and what other damage may be done so there may be an l200 for spares or repair on ebay soon

Rich

[Bookend]

That's not good I hope it didn't spoil your trip too much.

[Gary W]

Well our trip to portugal was a great success (I'll post photos in another thread), well till one day before we joined the ferry.

Lisa driving , me asleep in the passenger seat, i turn over and hear a tinkling sound, just at the point Lisa had no power ... oh dear this doesn't look good ..........

So we pull in , open the bonnet and stare at the engine as is traditional, then i have a play, the starter motor goes round but the engine doesn't. If put in gear we can drive it on the starter but don't think we had enough juice for 170 miles to Santander.

So after many phone calls we arrange a recovery truck to santander. We drop the truck off in the port (very helpfull port police) but we cannot stay in the truck so they point us to a hotel. Next morning we wander over to checkin and britany ferries are not pleased with us as we are in the wrong place so another recovery company came to move us 100 metres and then came back to put us on the boat at 8pm

Then we had the fun of explaining this to green flag, that their recovery truck was going to have to go onboard to load us and get us off the ferry, thankfully it was a local firm so they loaded us and then gave us a car to drive home, the truck arrived on the friday

So now to drop it at the garage down the road and see what they say, I suspect cam belt but who knows and what other damage may be done so there may be an l200 for spares or repair on ebay soon

Rich

L200 motors are prone to the cast iron pre-combustion chambers falling out the (alloy) head which can give these symptoms. You can get a new genuine OEM bare head for 2 or 3 hundred quid off the net (about ⅓ the price it would be through from a Mitsubishi dealer) and it's not a difficult job to fit, and although the piston crown will be bashed about a bit, often they're still serviceable. The real problem is that in our experience this is the start of a long line of problems (injection pump, crank pulley, gearbox). When our truck got to this stage (2004 model with 40 something thousand miles, much of it off-road, but still less than 50k) we asked the mechanic at our local Mitsubishi garage what he recommended - he told us we should sell it and buy a Toyota!

Good luck anyway

Gary

[martinjdover]

Rich

Really sorry to hear of your probs - but at least they were when you were on your way home! See, its not just Land Rovers that break down. Good European breakdown cover is well worth the expense even if you never actually need it.

Portugal is great as a destination isn't it?

Martin

[richc]

upgrading our green flag just got forgotten. i have now handed paperwork responsibilities for trips to lisa as a professional manager / coordinator / administrator

we love portugal, pull into a fortified village and there is a free parking area for campers, sand dunes and dirt roads galore cheap (beer in a bar on a main square - less tha a quid)

What more do you want

rich

[zildjian]

Hilux obviously

[richc]

yes i know... I keep looking

got to get rid of the yellow camper and the l200 before i worry about any more motors anyway