I had the same thing happen just last week... no alarm or warning light for water in fuel, but the check engine light came on, blew a heap of really black unburnt diesel soot from exhaust, so I pulled over and turned off the engine. Bled lines and injectors on the side of the road and managed to restart it... but the check engine light came back on again so limped it home. Now I can only get the car to start if I squirt Aerostart or Start Ya Bastard into the air intake. It will idle nice and quiet and steady, however as soon as I put a load on the engine, the black soot starts again out the exhaust and runs like a bucket of crap. Have spoken to a few diesel "experts" here in Oz and also a Ssangyong service technician and they all said the same thing - sounds like one or more dodgy injectors.
$90 + GST each to have them tested or $460 each for brand new ones, so I think I'll save my $400 odd testing and just replace them all with new ones.
This is after the automatic gearbox died a year ago, which cost me $4,000 for a replacement second hand job... ($7,500 for a new Chinese made one from Ssangyong).
I do like this car, but it's become a money pit.
I honestly think if it had been a Toyota there would've been a global recall, but Ssangyong like to sweep everything under the carpet... their customer service and lack of empathy to their customers is appalling! I say let's all start a group action against them because I've had enough... I've spoken to a number of people who all had the automatic transmissions die on them too... and it's always once it's just out of warranty period.
3 year / 100,000 warranty here in Australia and mine died a month out of 3 years and only had 60,000 km on the clock!
18th Oct 2016, 10:48
I had the same thing happen just last week... no alarm or warning light for water in fuel, but the check engine light came on, blew a heap of really black unburnt diesel soot from exhaust, so I pulled over and turned off the engine. Bled lines and injectors on the side of the road and managed to restart it... but the check engine light came back on again so limped it home. Now I can only get the car to start if I squirt Aerostart or Start Ya Bastard into the air intake. It will idle nice and quiet and steady, however as soon as I put a load on the engine, the black soot starts again out the exhaust and runs like a bucket of crap. Have spoken to a few diesel "experts" here in Oz and also a Ssangyong service technician and they all said the same thing - sounds like one or more dodgy injectors.
$90 + GST each to have them tested or $460 each for brand new ones, so I think I'll save my $400 odd testing and just replace them all with new ones.
This is after the automatic gearbox died a year ago, which cost me $4,000 for a replacement second hand job... ($7,500 for a new Chinese made one from Ssangyong).
I do like this car, but it's become a money pit.
I honestly think if it had been a Toyota there would've been a global recall, but Ssangyong like to sweep everything under the carpet... their customer service and lack of empathy to their customers is appalling! I say let's all start a group action against them because I've had enough... I've spoken to a number of people who all had the automatic transmissions die on them too... and it's always once it's just out of warranty period.
3 year / 100,000 warranty here in Australia and mine died a month out of 3 years and only had 60,000 km on the clock!
I wouldn't buy another Ssangyong ever again!