Adding switch for air suspension

[Moosen]

Hello all,

Finally took the plunge of owning a LR after many years, and settled on a '99 Discovery ES TD5. After having loads of mags and bits of paper spread out on the table with a large cup of tea, many hours scouring the web and much ohhhing and ahhing... the mind starts wandering to "what can I do to it?" On browsing through the 'tinternet I found out you can get a keyfob that allows the rear of the vehicle to lower for ease of access (yes, I'm still on air ), which seems a damned good idea, however the price brought on a nervous twitch (circa £200) and the thought of loosing another keyfob that actually does summit important worries me (I worry easy ) so I was wondering if it was possible, as Im going to be at the vehicle at the time of needing it, to fit a switch to the Disco to allow it to "sit down". I've tried the search thing and as many help pages as I can find but to no avail, I'm pretty sure that after all the wireless stuff, and stabbing of buttons, it comes down to a switch being toggled somewhere or some of those volts things being sent somewhere... does anyone know of a way to wire in such a switch, or can point me in a direction of somewhere that might? I used to mess about with old LR's and loved the banging and crashing to get stuff to work, and the general ability to fix stuff with some string and bluetack, but after looking under the skin of this Disco I'm not going to risk any "suck it and see" type stuff... don't want to let the smoke out of the electrical bits... it'll never work then

Thanking you in advance, and congratulations on a very rewarding forum!

P.

[cipx2]

Technically it is possible. But it's not a case of fitting a simple switch and some pieces of wire. The circuit is a bit more complex (relays, diodes, fuses) and it will have to trigger the air valves on the suspension (including the exhaust valve).

You can get an idea on how to manually trigger the valves on Range Rovers here.

If I were you, I'd forget the whole thing, it's not that useful as you might think. Or, if it's really that important to you and you'll use it often, go buy the device. The time and amount of work required to make and implement the circuit can be spent to do something else (in your line of work maybe) that could probably worth more than £200.

[Moosen]

thanks for the reply cipx2,

yeah youre probably right, had a look at the suspension specs and the maintenace/overhaul and it explained and detailed the conections to "switch" to deflate/ reinflate the system, but then again, youd have to stop the system from trying to inflate it as you deflate it, then tell it where it was and that it was ok for it to be there and stuff... as ya say, it looks like alot of work... would of been a nice addition though Never know.. one dark winters night i might give it a go.. and completly fuse the system

thanks anyway...