I had this happen to me on a Td5 Defender in lane 2 of the M5 many years ago.

Managed to get over to the hard shoulder (remember them) and turned off the ignition, engine carried on running.

Pulled the battery off, engine carried on running.

Highways agency guy told me afterwards, the way to stop it way to put it in top gear and drop the clutch to stall the engine. The one I was driving stopped after it ran out of oil

Oh well, you live and learn...

It was given back to Land Rover and they strapped a new turbo on it and we had it back a couple of days later. It ran fine after that for the next 3 months or so while we had it. Discovery 4 HSE - Aintree Green
Freelander 2 TD4 SE Automatic - Tonga Green
Defender XS - Tonga Green - Gone Now
Freelander 1 Td4 ES Manual - Epsom Green - Gone Now *
Freelander 1 Td4 Kalahari SE - Epsom Green - Gone Now
Freelander 1 XEi - Epsom Green - Gone Now

www.greenlandrover.uk

Update regarding the my freelander2 runaway condition, I stripped the engine down today and I found 1- blown turbo 2- 2 piston damage. I will rebuild the engine with new turbo hopefully it run fine again. Too much work to drop the engine down. 10 hrs. Oil cooler with filled with oil & diesel.

Pictures please.
Did the piston look like mine?

Click image to enlarge

Saw a runaway on a Chieftain tank engine moons ago and the whole pack was dancing down the workshop
Only cure Co2 fire extinguisher into the inlet  MY18 D5 HSE LUX 😎
MY12 FL2 SD4 HSE
Ex D4
Ex D3
Ex D2
Ex D1
Ex FREELANDER 1

Nodge68 wrote:

Pictures please.
Did the piston look like mine?

Click image to enlarge

SHARKYSHARKS wrote:

Saw a runaway on a Chieftain tank engine moons ago and the whole pack was dancing down the workshop
Only cure Co2 fire extinguisher into the inlet

Easier said than done when the engine bay is full of smoke, the engine is revving its balls off and your expecting something to go bang any second.  Jules

To stop oil induced diesel runaway, all you need to do is cut a boost pipe, it doesn't matter which one. This will stop the fuel (getting to the engine), and stop the high pressure air at the same time.

The easiest pipe to get at quickly is the elbow pipe at the turbo exit, but this does require getting behind the RH front wheel with a suitable cutting implement.

Unfortunately the Freel 2 does show off its boost pipes like many vehicles do, so cutting a boost pipe quickly isn't easy.

I always keep a cheap retractable craft in the engine bay fuse box of a diesel engine vehicle for this very purpose, as you never know when a turbo compressor seal might fail, and stalling isn't always an option a manual, and impossible on an automatic. 2009 Rimini Red SE TD4. Soon to be sold.
Hyundai Ioniq 5 Ultimate on order.
Gone. 2006 Tonga Green i6 HSE.

Here some pictures,, 2 pistons melted and broken rocker arm ( follower )

Had this happen to me on a Spainish motorway when I was driving a Renault Trafic ,I managed to stop engine by blocking the air intake I was lucky as all I had to have fitted was a new turbo and an oil change 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿