EGR valves were standard and original, never replaced. They did the squeaky thing on shutdown the same way through my six years’ of ownership, never threw a fault code. I was always careful to allow the turbos to cool down, particularly after long motorway runs where the car would idle for a couple of minutes before being switched off. I guess we should just consider turbochargers to be wear items with a finite life and replace them at a short enough interval - maybe every 100,000 miles if cared for? Less if ragged. But I got 172,000 out of mine, and I’m sure others have done more; but more yet have done less.

I think it’s too much of a coincidence that I was running with a split intercooler hose on the failed (right) side for a couple of weeks prior to the failure. I replaced it the day before it failed, there was a misting of oil in the failed hose showing that some oil was making it past the about-to-fail turbo oil seal.

For what it's worth I put together this checklist when I did the pre-buy inspection on my new 4.2SC Rangie, it's based on one on the wiki but reformatted as a one-page checklist with tickboxes and has a few SC-specific items on there. It might be helpful for someone looking at a used L322:

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Managed to get a few nice pictures of the new 4.2SC today in the sunshine. Next step will be to detail the paint, which is ok as is but has a lot of small swirls in the lacquer layer:

Enjoy I have had mine for 5 yrs and put over 120k on it - its now on 185k- and it is still going strong
Rear diff problem comes from the paint they used inside the diff delaminates and gets chewed into a paste in the diff so change the oil anyway I did mine a couple of times and it came out like treacle eventually changed mine as a bearing went but picked up a breaker from an 80k vehicle for 350 quid straight swap and it has been good
I also do the gearbox filter and fluid every 30k and engine oil every 10k
Looks great sure you will enjoy it

Thanks Sandyt, I was reading about yours when I was deciding what type of L322 to buy when the TDV8 died. Sounds like you have a good one too. I will be doing all the routine servicing on this new 4.2SC (my old TDV8 went to my local LR Indy for regular servicing), and am planning the following oil/fluid service intervals:

Almost there with stripping the old TDV8 of useful parts before it goes off to the scrappy before Christmas on a trailer, just need to remove the window regulators, windows including front screen and the electric park brake unit.

I have to say it's been a most instructive and enjoyable (when it didn't rain) process, knowing that I have a decent spares pool now and having taken a lot of it apart. As it didn't matter if I broke a few clips etc when removing parts, it went quite quickly and I only ended up breaking two parts - the steering angle sensor when removing the steering column assembly, and a tab off the sunroof gearbox. I hope I won't be repeating this with the 4.2SC! That has been very well behaved so far, and the next jobs on it are repairing the driver's heated/cooled seat with spare Peltier units from the TDV8 and corrosion protecting the sills/wheelarches, a job for the Christmas break.

fanders

WOW well striped

Hey friend, don't suppose that you still have the longitudinal air tank under the driver side twixt sill and chassis.

It is about 3ft long, should be stainless, .....

We can sort delivery.

Best, Rich

Hi Rich, yep it’s still there. I’ll pull it out and send you some pics. If you want it I can drop with your chum in Petersfield.

Sounds good to me. I do need one. (send me PM etc).

As per always; when breaking a car, we always have a whole carrier bag of fixings and fixtures, washers and nuts, under chassis plastic plate screws....

Be in touch soon.

Best, Rich

Fateful day came yesterday when it was time to take the dead TDV8 L322 off to the great car graveyard. Sad but nice to have the driveway space back. Good job I have another L322 to tow it with:

It seems a crying shame to have skipped what looked like a fairly straight shell still with panels and some glass in!

I can't believe you wouldn't have got more than £231 on ebay for it as it stood even those wheels must have been worth £150! 2005 E60 M5
2006 L322 4.2 SC
2020 Tesla Model S Long Range
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2004 L322 4.4 Vogue, 2019 NP300 Navara, 2016 NP300 Navara, 2002 L322 4.4 HSE, 2006 (MY07) L322 S/C ,2001 330Ci Sport Track Car, 2005 650i Coupe, 2001 P38 Vogue, 2003 530i Sport Touring, 1999 P38 4.6 HSE, 2002 E39 M5, 1995 300zx TT Slicktop, 1997 M3 Evo, 1992 300zx TT Targa, 1998 323i Coupe

Yep shame to see it go although it was fairly rusty underneath/sills/rear arches. The doors were generally ok but at £45 per door skin the shipping on top of that was way more that they were worth. Alloys fairly crusty too and the bonnet was corroding all around the edge due to a priming defect from new. Scrappies - it’s the way they all go in the end!

fanders

With a bit of time free over the Christmas break I though I'd have a look at the sills and rear arches on the new 4.2SC, and rectify any defects found. As the vehicle is generally very rust free, I was hoping not to find too many horrors. So, up on jacks and off with the sill trims and rear arch liners:

Looking good and rust free.