2002 Land Rover Freelander Intermittent power loss

2002 LAND ROVER FREELANDER
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COLM85
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2002 Land Rover Freelander Four Wheel Drive Manual 102000 miles

Hi,

I have a 2002 freelander TD4 and I keep losing power intermittently, the car will run fine and then for no apparent reason i lose acceleration, if i let off the accelerator and apply it again i can get back to the speed where i started to lose power but no further, the acceleration is slower. It usualy gets as far as 3000rpm but then levels off at this. I have recently had full service at an official land rover dealer but they found no problem during service or on the diagnostics, the problem has been intermittent for the past 8 weeks. Any ideas would be much appreciated.

Regards,
Colm
Sep 25, 2009 at 4:37 AM
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DAVE H
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sounds like the car is going into limp home mode .. the only way to find this intermittent fault is to have the car plugged into a diagnostic computer whilst the fault is occuring !
Sep 29, 2009 at 5:26 AM
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