OldShep56
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OK this is going to seem rather dumb, what is IIRC?
IIRC, it means 'if I recall'
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I have a '96 2.5 DSE and I had the suspension collapse on me within 3 months of buying it. Naively, I took it to LR and although it cost m3 £1,400 it ha snever give me any problems since. For that 1400, I got a full new air suspension. If I had known then what I know now ....... ie this site, LRO and rangerover.net, I would have done the job myself.
But I love my RR and it's air suspension.
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I'd consider that a bonus!!!
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We have similar lights on the top of our trucks ........... four huge spots. They come on when Main Beam is activated BUT we also have to have a switch inside the cab so as to be able to turn them off when Main Beam on. I would assume this applies to cars too.
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Sounds like you now have an air supspension fault! If you can work out what the fault is, then have a good read of these Forums and also here http://www.rangerovers.net/fixindex.html
Don't go running to a dealer with it as it will cost you £1500 like mine did. If I knew then what I know now........
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Well, the prognosis after going on the machine was the worse
One recon gearbox and a new torque convertor coming up.
Thanx to the guys that recommended ............. I am more than happy with Chichester 4x4 especially as his labour charges are less than half the dealers. Will be hit with a bill for nearly 2k when we collect next week
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Thanx for the replies, guys. Have spoken to Chichester 4x4 and when it returns, that's where she will be going. Will update when I know more.
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I bet you were told if you had got the problem fixed in April that you wouldn't be in this situation! Seriously, a good move to have have taken out the breakdown cover, if you hadn't you would be seriously in the doghouse out of pocket.
Actually no LOL ................ wifey knows it is her fault as I had asked her 3 or 4 days before we went away if the car had been behaving and she would NOT let me take it out for a 'test drive' the day before. But needless to say, I haven't quite reminded her off this as I am sure she knows
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I'm no expert but had the same problems in a 2002 td4 with 70k miles from 4th to 5th gear and lower when going up hills , for me is was a recon gearbox.Is it due for an oil change and don't know fully whether an oil change would help at this stage, if the damage isn't already done.
as i say i am no expert so don't want to be the bearer of bad news just my experience.
Nelly
I have been told by the little garage that it 'is a major problem' but no way was I going to be turned over by a French dealer hence having it returned to England.
As an aside, if anyone ever travels to Europe with their LR, then I would recommend the AA cover big time. They have been brilliant!!! Within 20 minutes of phoning their Euro HQ in Lyon, the tow truck arrived and took us to the garage. Fifteen minutes later and a taxi picked us up and took us along with all our luggage to Europcar where we were given a brand new hire car. Kept us fully informed since as to the state of play although we have had to change cars for one that is allowed to leave the country to enable us to get home. Has not cost us a penny YET. That will come when the car is repaired lol
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A few weeks ago, I posted on here about a problem my wife had.
http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopic=41731
Well, the **** has really hit the fan now.
Wifey said the car was running ok and thus I believed her. We left last Saturday morning for our bi-annual trip to Brittany. As soon as I drove out of the ferry port at Caen, I sensed a problem and was not amused.
As I drove around the ring road, I lost the drive a couple of times. When we were on a series of long hills and on cruise control, the revs suddenly flew up as the drive was lost and then as the revs dropped the drive would kick back in but by then the speed had dropped so the kick down would work and the drive was lost again.
When we left the hills the car behaved perfectly, and for the next three hours there was no problem.
Then just 11 kms from our destination, as I came off a roundabout, I lost the drive completely.
The result is her beloved Hippo is now in a small garage over in Brittany awaiting the AA to arrange its collection and return to the UK. Luckily the wife, as always, had arranged for full Euro cover from the AA and I have had the VERY dubious distinction of driving around all week in a Renault Kangoo (have told wifey to shoot me if I ever look like buying one!!)
The help I need now is this ........ I have the AA returning the car straight to a LR Dealer in Chichester as it obviously needs to go onto a diagnostic machine and find the fault as the French garage did not have the equipment to faultfind on it.
Is there anyone in the Petersfield/Portsmouth/Chichester area that has the equipment to do this?? How about the repairs once it is known what is wrong?? I have the facility to move the car once it is back by pick up.
I am not trying to get a job done on the cheap BUT I bloody object to putting money into a dealers pocket if the same job can be carried out by a small operation that isn't going to turn me over on labour costs.
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Thanks for the reply.....I would like to think the VCU has been checked, it has been to HBH Caerphilly x3 and Stratstone, Cardiff x2 !!!!!!!
Have you tried writing direct to LR HQ?? As you say, for a 3 yr old car, this is not good mechanics.
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hi i am ovidiu from romania
excuse my english !
i just had the same ,or something like that with my freelander, after i run in to some big holes in the road, and i hit them hard.road are in romania in some parts . i have the 1.8 k , sw,.and many times it did not shows all lights on board and car canot start. it hapend also during driving on road, city roads, that the engine stops and cut off all power. after many key turns, i was able to restart the car. for 3 weeks i live with this. i went to a mecanic and he said ,that if the engine stop during drive, is from the contact,. so i find out that, on my one, that the fuse box in the car had not been well put, it was moving up and down, just enough when i hit the holes , to pull a little the cabels from the contact, under the steering wheel,. soo i unpluged the contact C028-, spray some contact oil, tight the heads of end wire,and pluged back in . and no priblme since then. all the lights are ok, it does not make any problems when i turn the key.
i told you what hapend to me, and hope is so easy at you too. just a bad contact wire.
when you turn the key and shows nothing, or just very week some light, touch the wires belongs to the contact,underside of steering column, they are about 7 wires, female is brown , and you will see if the respond and shows all lights.
if you have the rave , look for in connector, and find C028 conector , there you have a picture with it.
hope it helps. by
I thought your English was very good and I fully understood your explanation!! Well done
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Wow. Just replaced both front springs ( complete springs not just bladders ). After a bad start breaking the pins on the locking wheel nut it was done and dusted in 20 minutes a spring.
1a Undo wheel nuts
1b Jack car up on chassis until wheel is off ground
1c Remove wheel
2. Deflate spring if required ( one had a hole already, the other we drilled some in )
3. Remove air line by pushing down brass ring while pulling pipe up ( used a screwdriver to push it down )
4. Remove clips top and bottom if they haven't rusted away to nothing already
5. Squash spring ( with hands ) and remove
6. Insert new spring
7. Put on top locator peg E clips or similar
8. Refit wheel
9. Lower jack and locate bottom spring pegs in holes.
10. Tighten wheel nuts
I didn't disconnect the ECU or battery. A lot easier than replacing a steel spring. I didn't need to drop the axle beyond its normal range of motion so the sensors stayed happy. Seems easy enough to squash the spring to get it in.
My springs came "pre-lowered" That is to say the spring seemed at normal ride height size rather than full height making it very easy to slot in.
I'd be very tempted to change whole springs again in the future rather than attempt bladder changes but I like an easy life :-)
You lucky man!!! About a month after I bought my first RR last March, I got the dreaded fault message. It cost me £1,500 down at the LR dealer at Port Solent!!! Four new springs and a compressor.
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Wifey phoned today. She had been out in her '52 TD4 diesel automatic.
She described something along the lines off clutch slip. Not good thought I.
So when I got home tonight, I took it for a drive. We have some large hills around here so I got it on a few hills but nothing happened.
We were meandering home with no pressure on the throttle when it happened!! It was not 'clutch slip' as described by wifey but more off 'slipping into neutral'.
It was doing 2000 rpm when I suddenly heard the engine note increase and the revs shot up to 3000 with no increase in speed. As soon as I lifted my foot, the revs dropped and it was back in gear. It would seem this has happened about 3 times over the winter ............ any clues please, guys??
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Wifey changed her sports jobbie 2 years ago for a '52 TD4 ........ a three door 2 litre thing with the detachable roof. All I can say is she loves it, and I am very impressed by it's performance. We use it for a week in France twice a year and I was amazed the first time I loaded it up!! We go from Caen across towards Rennes on our journey and there are some monster hills en route. Even fully loaded and little old me driving it (I am 21 stone lol), it still holds top gear all the way up on cruise control.
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Oooooooooops, sorry, Steve and Fridge ............ profile now amended. I had forgotten to fill it in.
I was really looking for someone to do its services etc ( I am a first time RR owner ) who isn't going to charge me the ridiculous rates Guy Salmon does. I have just had the classic EAS fault which according to Mr. Salmons darling little operatives required 4 new airbags and a compressor. Hence the £1600 bill. I know I could have got it done a bit cheaper and if I had the time, could have done it myself but I work away in Europe a lot. I shall have a look at the Shires Club asap. Thanx for the tip.
Sorry for hijacking your thread, Mucdup
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Steve_D, I notice you're from Waterlooville.... as you can see I am just up the road and I am looking for someone who knows about P38's so I don't have to pay Guy Salmon's down at Pompey another £1600 next time it goes wrong. Do you know anyone local to us? Or even yourself?
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I have a '96 with the BMW engine and I have found it fine. It's the same engine as in their 325's apparrently. I get good fuel consumption on a steady run ....... 28.9 which was 2 hours of motorway and then 2 hours across A roads back home. In fact I love my P38 and am just waiting to win the lottery so I can buy an all singing all dancing one lol
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My build is in the tech archive http://forums.lr4x4.com/index.php?showtopi...l=whats+the+BHP
Ian
I have just read this post, BBC ........... what patience you must have and what a wonderful post describing the said work. Thank you for the time and effort you put into the post.
Noise after tyre change
in Freelander Forum
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I have just changed wifeys tyres on her 56 HSE. It had Synchros on but I put Pirelli Scorpions on and she has reported no problems at all.