I have a 2007 Freelander 2 Auto TD4 - I have owned it less than a year and it now has almost 106k miles on the clock. Its my first diesel and first Landrover.

While towing our 2 birth caravan up a fairly steep hill around September last year the engine management light came on and the car lost power. The AA reset the car and it got us home with no problem.
In February this year driving around 20-30mph on the flat it lost power very very briefly again, so briefly I would not have thought about it except that a week later it stalled as I was approaching junction. Yes its Auto I didn't think they stalled.

At the end of April this year I had a repeat of the engine management light coming on while towing the caravan up hill at around 50 mph. This time Green Flag repeated what the AA did and all was fine.

Today again up a small hill (no caravan) and very very close to home the car lost all power and sounded like it was going to stall. I hit the throttle which did nothing at all. I had to turn the car off and on again to no avail. As I was close to home I decided to turn the car around and limp it home which would have been all down hill. Suddenly the car righted itself and ran as normal for a brief trip around the village as a test.

Anyone any Ideas what the issuse my be? Somthing Small? or Expensive? or Terminal?

TIA

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TBH I don't know when the fuel filter was last changed. I assumed the seller serviced it before putting it on the forecourt but the dashboard says its a little over 2k miles past its service schedule I have done around 7k miles. In almost a year.
I did wonder about the crankshaft poition sensor.

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The throttle body is a butterfly valve in the air intake.
When you turn off the engine the butterfly closes to shut off the air and the engine then stops without the old fashioned run-on.
When you start the car the butterfly opens fully to let in as much air as the car can take.

The butterfly has a plastic gear that strips, so it can fail in almost any position - if fully open you would never know, if fully closed the car might catch but refuse to run. Partially open and the engine is strangled but runs.
To make matters worse it can fail /not fail / fail again. Tangiers Orange - gone, missing her
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