Momo68 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 Hello all, I am new to this forum, and I am sure this has been discussed before. I need help with a 1998 Discovery 1 my son and I have been working on. When we got the rover it would start no problem. But while we were workin on it the battery died several times. When we re-charge it it would start fine. One time my son tried to put the radio code in several times with no luck and from that point on the car wouldn’t start it turns over but it won’t fire. We checked all the fuses and all the relays everything seems to be fine I’m sure it’s a security issue and we can’t get the car to start no matter what. Doing research we found out about the spider immobilizer and how could be bypassed. I have purchased the bypass plug and thought it would be easy to find the spider box but we’ve taken everything apart and I have no idea where this box is none of the videos I see online are very helpful the only one I confined has already taken the box off and put the bypass plug on so it doesn’t show where the box is. Again this is a gasoline 1998 V8 land rover discovery any suggestions on how I can get it to fire would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierrafery Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 Hi. Is your fob working to unlock ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabre Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 I have a suspicion that the spider was only fitted to the diesel models ? The more knowledgeable folks here can confirm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted December 24, 2019 Share Posted December 24, 2019 The UK/ROW V8 models have a spider (I discovered it and wrote the post on the tech archive forum - mine was a 3.9 V8) but as far as I know the NAS models do not - the OP doesn't specify what his vehicle is but given his location is Kansas I assume that's US and thus a NAS model. The late NAS vehicles used the 4.0 and 4.6 Range Rover engines I think, so probably the associated engine management system and probably a completely different immob setup. I know nothing about them except for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallfry Posted December 26, 2019 Share Posted December 26, 2019 He stated that its a Disco 1 ……. 1998 As regards a fix, I have no idea. However, as it will be a distributor and Hotwire engine, should be easy to bypass in order to get it running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted December 27, 2019 Share Posted December 27, 2019 19 hours ago, smallfry said: He stated that its a Disco 1 ……. 1998 As regards a fix, I have no idea. However, as it will be a distributor and Hotwire engine, should be easy to bypass in order to get it running. Not if it is a NAS vehicle!! The later NAS spec vehicles had a GEMS system that was essentially the same as the Range Rover of the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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