Landrovers are NOT cars they are Hobbies! Pls Help

**horsepower** · 2010/08/11, 10:49 AM

Brief Case History:
Discovery 1
287000Km
Manual
Beautiful condition. However.....
Very unpredictable - Recent experiences: stood for 2 weeks and turned over first time without hesitation - was driven for , say , 30km and then parked for a bit and wouldn't start - appears to be no spark.
Left it for a bit and it started perfectly - drove it home.
3 weeks later decided to try again - turned over first time - ok could hear the battery needed a run but no problem with the start.
Took it out for a 50 km run with out turning off the engine. Got home parked it the driveway for 30 mins if that - wouldn't start.
Has now stood for almost a month - just went into garage, turned it over battery taking strain but it fired and then died and wouldn't restart.
Also when is running - and usually starts when the engine is warmed up it starts to jerk - not alot and not all the time but definately "rukking" a bit.
I've had it fully serviced and these problems looked at and "supposedly" sorted out before but it appears they are starting again.
When it runs it runs beautifully but i am now at my wits end regarding this - not keen to take it back to the original guys that "fixed" the problem initially but who do i take to then - or in this case TOW! it to??

Thanx!

**Henris** · 2010/08/11, 10:50 AM

Condenser or coil.

**Landyluvver** · 2010/08/11, 11:27 AM

coil!

**Buxton** · 2010/08/11, 01:08 PM

Bad earth

**Landyluvver** · 2010/08/11, 03:12 PM

as a coil gradually heats up it will start misbehaving more and more to the point where it cuts out completely.
as it is oil filled, it will remain warm for quite a while before cooling down. once cool, it will fire up again and operate reasonably till hot again.
an earth is likely to play up irrespective of hot or cold.

**horsepower** · 2010/08/13, 08:21 AM

Quick update.
Thanx for all the info - I replaced the coil yesterday and so far so good (ok i broke 2 nails but i will live!) Started first time even with a dodgy battery - and it wudn't start at all prev. Didn't have time to take it for a drive to see what would happen but left it idling in the driveway for 20mins and the switched it off 4 20mins to see if it would infact restart and IT DID!!

Partner is home on saturday so I will let him run it out ( cos then i can go and rescue him) and see how far we are with sorting out all these issues.
I couldn't tell whether the coil was old or new when i took it out but surely if we had been having these problems before, the guys that fixed it the firstime should have investigated that as a possibility.
Anyway thanx again - i can't believe how quickly one can sort somethings out just by asking