As a newbie to this forum, I have noticed all the problems that posters have with getting their RRs engines to start and run.
I have a somewhat different problem - getting mine to stop!
I can stand beside the car (year 2000 P38DHSE - 104,000 miles) with the keys in my hand with the engine happily running. Yes, I can stop it by
pulling out the appropriate fuse but somehow that doesn't seem the right way to behave with a rangie.
The info center throws up 'ABS fault' and 'traction failure', but I suspect it only does this to entertain me. The test computer finds no fault, other
than showing the engine air temperature at some minus 38degrees. I really don't believe that, but equally I don't know if it's significant.
Also the panel of orange height status lights stay on when the engine is finally immobilized. I can then put the key in and start up the engine as
normal - except that it won't stop when I take the key out.
The alarm system works fine, and I can lock the car whilst the engine is still running. In fact everything else seems to work just as normal. It did
a dummy run on this problem about two weeks back, but then it suddenly seemed to sort itself out and worked okay until today.
So far the guys who look after my baby are mighty puzzled - but jubilant that I seem to have discovered what might be a new RR problem.
Does anyone else have experience of this sort of bad behaviour, or suggestions as to what could be causing it??
Chris A.
