pantherslover

Can i share that I have just been on this Journey. I took the switch off and checked out against lukes info. It seemed to be ok. Couldn't seem to get a voltage off the permanent live. Checked the fuse was ok. Then gave the permanent live a 12 volt feed from the fuse panel. That somehow got it to eneregize. All of this reinforces my desire to part company with this vehicle. Goes from bad to worse. Getting out before it sinks.

Don't throw the wheel brace away. Give it to me. I've had to do this with an open Face spanner. There was no jack or wheel brace with this vehicle.

Are you an aussie then mike ? Here in Spain it's called ITV which is kind of similar. The cap was on my driveway and had become covered by silt and debris in the heavy rains. My track turns into a river when this happens. I just happened to notice some black plastic and ventured to pick it up and it turned out to be the cap. God seems to be favouring me again as i was headbutted by a 500 kg bull last week and the horns didn't touch me , i think he did it with love. I think he realised he needs me to get the sacks of feed out of the van. Keys and locks are a bugger to operate with hooves.

Ta da ! Never ever give up. Neve

Thanks guys, yes, i got there eventually.

HiTim, got it finally, was two earth wires in the opposite side of the tbox to the big earth wire. If forgot to tighten them up. All sorted but now the trailer icon flashes with no indicators or hazards selected. And no trailer.

I think i need to remove the trailer wire from the flasher unit as someone had previous done, for good reason.

Ok on my td5 the trailer icon flashes when ignition turned on. Without indicators. When indicators of hazards in it flashes ass if the trailer is connected. However, i have no trailer. Tut tut tut..... Any ideas?

Ok well. I've found the problem. On the counterweight side of the transfer box is an earth connection with two wires. I obviously didn't do this up properly after the tbox issue. This is the earth connection for both rear ends. The only issue now is the trailer making the turn signal relay flash all the time when the indicators are not on. Almost there. It functions normally when the indicators are on our the hazards. All lights working ok. Now just this pesky trailer symbol flashing. Someone had previously just disconnected the trailer to flasher relay wire. Maybe i go back to that resolution?

This is the worst design vehicle I've ever had to do with by the way. The prior responsible should be in utter shame.

Nigel, I'm having this exact problem. I wasn't getting the trailer light at first because here in Spain the people like to disconnect stuff until the problem goes away. They had removed a wire from the flasher unit. If i give an earth to the trailer earth connection, the fuel pump runs and the problem goes away (fog lamp tell tale and flashing and glowing brake lights) but the trailer is flashing quickly without any trailer or indicators on. Did you ever find the earth's? I'm missing earth's here and don't want to be back feeding them through the trailer plug. Any ideas anyone. ?

when a fuse is melting it means that the live feed is shorting to earth or the appliance you are powering is shorted to earth.

Im thinking! mine is the fault of the bulb in the fog light being loose. I'm going to check it but this car is a disgrace and very badly engineered. bmw should have taken this and bmwfied it. then it might have a chance.

i have a similar problem. the fog light indicator lamp glows. as do all left hand side indicators and the l h brake light. the right hand works fine so it's not the flasher relay. im thinking a bad earth somewhere. did you get this fixed?

I'm having exactly the same problem.. the fog light indicator lamp glows dimly at the same time as the left hand rear tail and indicator lights glow. All my relays and fuse connections are somehow slightly corroded. It's definitely a loose wire causing this.

Got my truck stuck in the mud ,,😂😂😂😂😂😂

i can't actually believe that I've graduated to this level already. anyway i just had a look because I've got a track that goes around one of my hills that isn't flat i think at worse it's - 20 deg. but having never done it before, and if it does roll it will be a long way to fall and then increasing in angle. i agree with anyone here that days out scares the s... out of .anyway as I've just seen my newest mother with her calf, i don't need to take the risk but id like to have the use of that track. I'm near to fregenite in granada, Spain if any of you are passing by and want to camp. i can supply water and a place to pitch. t box still running nicely although I do drive like someone who doesn't want to break anything

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Im still holding out hope that it will still be found. It may have the useless td5 cap that can be lost without the keys, but it certainly doesn't have little legs which sprout and enable it to walk off. I'm going to go with the tether option when I've decided what to do.

For some reason i failed. I'm using a home made one utilising a jam jar lid, a plastic milk bottle top a small plastic bag and a Fanta bottle cap. I'm a bit daft. I'm still holding out how that it will show up in this square kilometre that the vehicle hasn't left yet. Still no insurance or itv (mot) instituto técnico vehículos

Reading this I'm beginning to feel extremely fortunate with my 4 month transfer box repair saga. Maybe I should sell this td5 long and look for a tesla and ten new solar panels. Heck and electric motor and a battery, like a scalextric car only bigger and without the braids and triggers. Why didn't they just redesign and place build quality at the top of the priorities. Britain is in many ways like Spain, the business mentality is just awful. I'm equally guilty. Make your money and escape and don't trade your life in exchange for material accoutrements. Couldn't think of an English word. Anyway I've got 6-7,000 euros of beef cattle on the loose and needing locating, worth more than the 5500 euros i paid for the defender. And the lost diesel filler cap? Uff, priorities priorities.

I know, i could have made a few hundred quid on the shares whilst looking for a small black lockable filter cap. What really gets me is that this is the first time to attempt to pour diesel in and i lose the fffing cap, what's worse is I didn't even put the diesel in it. I'm beating my self up for my own carelessness and stupidity. The cap must be somewhere, it couldn't just fly away. In going to put a similar item on the light guard and drive out of my 400 m track to the road and see where it falls off. These defenders are so damn stable that you wouldn't believe the cap didn't fall off the instant that i drove away. As I said, i don't give up hope, but maybe it's easier to get another one. I think they're only a few quid. ( land rover dealer?)

Hello, a few days ago I was thinking about filling up the diesel tank. I took the cap off and thought what a stupid design, no where to put the cap while filling. Anyhow, i decided to place it on top of the light guard on the rear stop/tail light lens. Then I set about looking for a funnel. When I finally found one and decided it was to dodgy to avoid spilling diesel, it had started raining so I decided to do it later on. Somehow I forgot to put the filler cap back on. Then I decided to go to the local bar 900m away to collect my dog. Suffice to say that next morning I noticed the filler cap missing. I have searched extensively for this without success. I need a psychiatrist to tell me why I'm bothered about this lockable cap. I don't lose hope of finding it but until now, nothing. Any psychiatrists out there? Please help its driving me crazy. Ashley.

Some fotos of chris stewart place. Right down in the valley. The green land in the very bottom.

Dude, peaklander you are awesome.IIt's all there. Looks like a single wire to chassis of t box. Starting to like my land rover finally. Will be needing a wheel brace and new seats. Back under there again then for the blue wire. Thank you.