My wife has a Rover 220SDi, which uses the same 2L L-series engine as the original Freelander (pre-TD4), hence me posting a question in here.
The engine's always been bombproof, apart from a couple of failed glow plugs. It's been serviced on schedule and recently I changed the fuel filter and re-primed it. However, just over the last couple of days, it starts fine, then stalls a couple of seconds later, and is hard to restart, with a lot of turning over and dark grey smoke before it fires up again.
It doesn't do this every time; sometimes it fires up and runs perfectly.
Any suggestions? It has done about 85,000 miles, is 11 years old and has had a cambelt change in the last 6,000 miles.
