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This is not LR related, but may resonate with some of you...
On one of my other vehicules, I have been doing some work which has taken rather longer than expected.
It involved removal of multiple plastic panels, and when I came to put back the bumper (last major item) I set out the special bumper-holding shoulder screws that were left in the screws pot. There were eighteen.
"Crickey!" i thought "Thats a lot...", and so I counted the holes... There were seven...
But after half an hour of swearing, googling and head scratching, followed by another half an hour removing some of the other trim pieces already fitted just to be certain, I finally realised that, right at the start of the job (several months ago), I had bought a load of new screws and put them in the screws pot with the old ones.
So now - after allowing for the ten new screws I bought, I just have one left over from the job.... Close enough for government work
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If you want to cut to the chase: If you get the above message, and have an error code on a parking sensor, change the sensor... 🙂
Sorry if this has already been covered, I did a couple of searches but they seemed very slow and unproductive this morning...
I got the headline message a few months ago now, so I put the Gap IID tool on it and found no faults on the camera.
Next did a few searches (here and other places) and google pulled up loads of horror stories... "£600 for main dealer to investigate - still not fixed", "replace camera loom", "replace camera" etc etc.
But my camera sometimes worked for just a few seconds so I didn't think it was actually a problem with the camera..
Then I remembered that there was as fault code on one of the rear parking sensors, so I changed that (cost £11 ish, I think) and that fixed it.
I would strongly advise washing the car thoroughly before starting this job (the bumper traps a lot of mud), and arm yourself with some anti-rust products before removing the bumper 😉😆. Youtube shows where all the gotchas are (hiddent trim pins for example), but for me the most difficult aspect of the job was separating the parking sensor loom connector while balancing an ungainly bumper on my knees...
Further googling would appear to indicate the the camera is 'dumb' and can't throw any codes, but that if any of the sensors a faulty then the whole of the system is deemed faulty and stops working. So in my case a single faulty rear sensor stopped all other sensors, and the camera from working. I earn my beer tokens as a programmer, and boy, is this lazy exception handling!
Oh and one more thing - it appears that the reversing lights may be included in the "reversing system" since even after replacing the faulty sensor, the camera didn't work until I plugged the rear light units back in...
Hope this helps somebody.
Rog
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On 1/16/2021 at 8:42 AM, missingsid said:
Aliquat is in this old video from my era plus a couple of StrangeRover2.
Land Rover on one side (passenger side down)...
Marshall: "Are you ok?"
Driver: "yes ok - no problem"
Marshall: "Is you co-driver ok down there?"
<little squeeky sound from the passenger seat>
Driver (firmly): "She's fine"
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15 hours ago, landroversforever said:
You are
Well of course I know that, but I meant with regard to liking that Land Rover
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On 2/16/2021 at 3:01 PM, RedLineMike said:
& to follow up the previous Hoopty
I must be weird - I quite like this
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On 10/17/2020 at 1:12 PM, FridgeFreezer said:
Can yours not be repaired? I didn't think there was much to really go wrong in them?
I had it apart and examined it for dry joints etc, the switch looked worn, but cleaned up nicely but that was the limit of my attempts and it made no difference. Maybe it could be repaired, but I need a clamp meter anyway for a future project and so it gave me the excuse to buy a good one
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Another point of interest (to me anyway) is that I have several sets of leads - including the ones that came with the 325 which are very plasticy and stiff, and some brand new modern 'silicon' ones, but the best ones I have (for being flexible and heavy) are the ones that came with the old 75. So part of it will live on
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After 35 years of use and abuse, my old faithful Fluke 75 gave up the ghost...
I wonder if it knew that I had been browsing clamp meters recently? Anyway, thoughts of augmenting my old fluke with a cheap clampmeter soon gave way to the feeling that, out of respect, I had to replace it with another Fluke.
A little research soon landed me on the Fluke 325 - here they are side by side... The king is dead - long live the king!
The old Fluke 75 was proudly made in America, and I liked that (I generally like American tools), but I wondered when I ordered it, if the new one would be made in China?
I didn't have to unwrap it far to find out
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9 minutes ago, monkie said:
Maybe now people will realise it can actually be quite productive working from home with no twice daily commute to and from the office as well as less sick days because you aren't catching and spreading other people's colds added to the fact you might still be able to work from home if you feel under the weather a bit where otherwise you might not have bothered to go into the office because you can't face sitting in traffic or sitting in a room with a person you don't really like very much
Excellent little rant there... You should carry on while you have the momentum
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48 minutes ago, Eightpot said:jumping down from a roof rack, getting my ring stuck on a bolt and pulling most of my finger off 🤮
made me cringe until I realised it was on your finger...
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On 3/24/2020 at 2:59 PM, Snagger said:
It’s not, if it’s at your home address, but unless you’re only doing minor tasks, you’re engaging in a task that risks injury
So is it you assertion that anything other than a minor task can not be carried out safely?
Not wishing to sound holier than thou, but realistically, if I thought that any task i was about to undertake could not be carried out safely, I would not do it...
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3 minutes ago, elbekko said:
Because for some reason in 2020 you lot still don't have pay at the pump
you still have to hold the nozzle...
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On 3/20/2020 at 4:54 PM, Nonimouse said:
If it's anything like the bulk of the 4x4 Responses in the UK, you won't last five minutes. The bulk of them are full of very well meaning individuals, but badly trained, <..>
not all - COTAG 4X4 Response are impressive in their training, with all members being advance drivers, with first aid and radio ( amateur) qualification...
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On 3/18/2020 at 12:47 PM, cackshifter said:
I think for us the problem is self isolation - I am working at home, but we both have enough miles on the clock to be at risk. But if one of us gets it we are suppose to stay put for 14 days. Yet the supermarkets online deliveries are completely overwhelmed. Short of going somewhere isolated and murdering a deer I'm not sure how we can avoid contact
You might need to ask for help from neighbours... Tomorrow morning I will be shopping for myself and two other households...
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On 10/4/2019 at 9:02 AM, daveturnbull said:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254378388005
Now this is interesting. Look closely, it's a light-wide-long-weight.
I've always fancied doing that....
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1 hour ago, garrycol said:
Well its a D4 not a D2
What a fool I am - I had forgotten that!
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1 minute ago, garrycol said:
noting that each brake has essentially its own brake circuit.
As it does in the D2, but when a single pipe burst in that, my peddle went to the floor again and again and each time it only slowed the car a bit.... Maybe the D2 ABS was faulty? but it was not showing any faults...
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On 9/28/2019 at 12:50 AM, garrycol said:
With these vehicles if you pull on the handbrake while the vehicle is moving <...> the emergency brake on these vehicles operates the disk brakes on all four wheels
Interesting! I didn't know that. I presume then, that when the EPB is set to whatever mode it is (can't remember) when you bed-in the pads, then that must be changed so that they DO work while rolling.
I find it interesting that use of the EPB whilst rolling uses the same bake system as the normal brakes, so if you suffer some sort of catastrophic brake failure in the normal brakes then you have nothing... not even throwing it into park like you could when you had a physical connection to the gearbox....
I'm not entirely sure that I am a fan of some of the 'progress' that has been made recently in the design of vehicles... I think that I feel more comfortable with the level of technology in the D2
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And so it goes on - after finding that the offside shoes were devoid of friction material, I opened up the nearside drum to find loads of friction material but they have been oiled (or greased) ie The shoes were heavily contaminated, but there was nowhere that the contamination could have come from...
Must have been a right cowboy outfit that 'maintained' that car!
Anyway, the D4 now has nice new shoes and drum/discs, and all I need to do tonight is degrease everything, remount the new disc/drums and pads and do the adjusting and bedding in process...
On 9/27/2019 at 1:32 PM, Bowie69 said:I *think* it would require use of a decelerometer test, not a roller brake tester (as it is 4x4)
That makes sense...
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11 minutes ago, Blanco said:
was it the local 4x4 dealer?
No - I got it from Spalding...
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39 minutes ago, Blanco said:
Wow that is a shocker, .... we have a car salesman in the family and I do trust him but can't afford any of his offerings anyway!
More worrying in a way (than the merits or otherwise of the salesman concerned) is that the situation arose on what is a relatively young vehicle, did the lining get frozen, or is it the salt do you think?
When I took the disc/drum off there was no lining inside there, and no scoring of the drum or the shoes either, so I am thinking that at some time in the past, the linings broke up and probably caused a horrible screeching, so somebody looked at it, found the problem, emptied out the bits (which would stop the screeching) and resolved to never use the EPB (since it's an auto that's ok, you can put it in park) I am pretty certain that somebody has emptied out the bits since there was nothing (no even dust) in the drum...
But how it got through the MoT last time i do not know... Unless uneven handbrake is not a fail? No surely it would fail for that...
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9pm bbc4: Spitfire (23/9/19)
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I bought my D4 18000 miles ago with a new MoT. Being an auto I virtually never use the parking brake, except a few days ago when checking it over for this MoT which is due in a couple of weeks.
I tried the EPB on a steep hill and it was obviously not working on the rhs.
So tonight I stripped the disc off and found this...
you know... I actually had to laugh when I saw it.
this car was so expensive that I broke my no1 rule - to always get my own MoT as soon as I buy a car.
Learn from my mistake people!
NEVER trust a car salesman...
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1 hour ago, mickeyw said:
A few heinous crimes on that there shelf 😮
And if you were referring to me, I claim the same excuse as Blanco except I wasn't always young...
Pulling wiring through chassis
in Defender Forum (1983 - 2016)
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I have used flexible curtain wire - the stuff that looks a bit like the outside of a Bowden cable?