Delta Engines is an independent Range Rover, Land Rover and Jaguar engine specialist based in Grays, Essex. Not a salvage yard with a website — a workshop that rebuilds these engines every week.
Our story
Delta Engines Ltd was established in 2020 and works on one thing: JLR engines. That focus is deliberate. Rebuilding the same engine families week in and week out is how you come to know their weak points better than the factory manual does — and how you learn which failures are worth repairing and which aren’t.
We’re independent. We are not affiliated with, authorised by, or endorsed by Jaguar Land Rover Limited, and we don’t pretend to be. What we offer instead is specialism, honesty, and a warranty in writing.
How we test every engine
No engine leaves our workshop on trust alone:
- Pressure tested — to find leaks and cracks before they find you.
- Compression tested — with the results supplied to you in writing.
- Documented — every unit comes with its test report, so you know what you bought.
- Warranted — 12 months or 12,000 miles, parts and labour.
What we do differently
When we recondition a 3.0 TDV6, the component that caused the failure is upgraded, not replaced like-for-like. Fitting the same part that failed and calling it rebuilt is how an engine comes back to you a second time. We’d rather it didn’t.
And if your engine is repairable without replacement, we’ll tell you — even though it’s the smaller job.
This is the workshop
We are not a salvage yard with a website, and we are not a call centre that subcontracts your engine to someone you will never speak to. This is a working unit off the A13 with cars on the ramps and engines on the bench. You are welcome to come and see it — ring first so someone is free to walk you round.
Don’t take our word for it
Every garage says it’s honest. Here is how you can check ours without leaving your chair.
We are a real registered company
Delta Engines Ltd, company number 12702487. Look us up on Companies House — incorporated 2020, registered at the same Grays address we work from. Not a trading name, not a mobile number and a rented bay.
Your engine leaves with its own test report
Pressure tested and compression tested, with the figures written down and handed to you. If an engine has been tested properly, the numbers exist. Ask any supplier for them — we simply give you ours.
The warranty is in writing, before you pay
12 months or 12,000 miles, parts and labour. Not the engine only — the labour to put it right as well. It is set out in our terms, so you can read exactly what is covered before you commit a penny.
You never pay twice to find the fault
Diagnostics are £75 flat, deducted in full from your invoice if the work goes ahead. If it doesn’t, you have paid £75 for a straight answer and a written report, and you owe us nothing else.
The quoted price is the price
Our prices include VAT, so there is no 20% surprise at the end. And if strip-down uncovers something we could not have seen, we come back to you for a decision — we never simply add it to the bill.
Our reviews are not ours to edit
They live on our Google profile, where we cannot delete the ones we’d rather you didn’t read. One of them says a job cost more than we first estimated. It’s still up. Read them all.
One pair of hands
Mike
Your engine is built, tested and fitted by the same technician — ten years of these engines, and only these engines. Not a rotating cast of subcontractors, and not a name on a job sheet you never meet. When you ring and ask how your engine is getting on, you are speaking to someone who has had his hands on it.
It is also why we don’t sell engines on their own. When one firm supplies the engine and another fits it, a fault becomes an argument about whose fault it was. We do both — so if the warranty is ever called on, there is nobody to point at.
Company details
- Delta Engines Ltd · Company No. 12702487
- Unit 15D Askew Farm Lane, Grays, Essex RM17 5XR
- 02033 180532 · support@deltaenginesltd.co.uk
- Mon–Fri 8am–6pm · Sat 9am–1pm
- VAT registered — GB 502 3788 04
We’re minutes from the A13 and the Dartford Crossing. Customers come to us from across Essex, East London and Kent — and if you can’t get the car to us, we’ll collect it and bring it back.
We work across Essex, east London and Kent from the Grays workshop — see the areas we cover.