Should do. On the Nanocom you look under the BeCM settings and it shows what is fitted and what isn't (things like front fogs, cruise control, sunroof, etc) and you set sunroof to Disabled so it no longer beeps and tells you it is unset.
Do you have a copy of the BeCM SID? pages 10-15 give a list of all the inputs that will keep a BeCM awake and a checking flowchart.
Was it only the HEVAC you had out or have you had the blowers out or disconnected? They have an additional black wire as well as the 4 or 5 in the plug to the controller. They do nothing at all if that isn't connected.
So all you've done is taken the HEVAC out and put it back in and now neither blower works? A second (known working?) HEVAC gives the same result? Your diagnostics are showing 25.5V at the blowers which isn't possible. Usual symptom of a dead blower controller is the blowers run flat out all the time as soon as the ignition is turned on. So it doesn't look to be the controllers and for both to fail simultaneously is pretty unlikely. It's almost as if you haven't plugged the blowers back into the HEVAC.
You mean there's going to be a next time?
The Matra Enthusiasts Club. I had a Bagheera, an M530 and ran a Murena 2.2 as a daily car for almost 15 years before replacing it with a 1990 Maserati Biturbo Spider E. I bought my first Matra in 1982 then in 84 bought the Murena (which I still have and will get around to doing something with it one day). The owners club had it's first club meeting in 1982, not long after I'd bought my first one and I ended up as club Chairman, magazine editor, chief contributor, meeting organiser, show coordinator, etc. from 83 until 91.
See if the seller will post directly to you or get them to send to your freight forwarder if they won't. I know there used to be restrictions sending stuff to SA years ago (during the time of sanctions I think) but not sure how it is theses days. I used to run the owners club for a different make of car and an owner in SA was rebuilding his engine. He wasn't sure about the restrictions so I phoned the SA embassy in London to be told that an SA resident could receive gifts up to the value of around £20. I ended up getting everything he needed and sending it to a hotel in London where it was split amongst the crew of an SAA aircraft so they could all bring a bit in at a time. I often wondered what the excuse would have been if anyone had found a stewardess with a set of big end shells, another with a set of main bearings, a pilot with a set of piston rings, etc.
This one looks like it is the correct one for your car, not expensive either https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224464962586
Drove mine back from just outside of Paris with a 20 foot powerboat hanging off the back.....
I've always used the kits from X8R, not had a problem with them. You get the seal and sleeve with those.
Not today but Friday took mine for MoT. Knowing me and the car he was determined to find something as nobody would believe a car with 428,673 miles on the clock can have nothing at all wrong with it. Bastard did too, a tiny bit of play in one anti-roll bar drop link. Replaced later the same day.
Paul, that looks superb. My tailgate mounted boot light was broken so would sometimes fall out when I closed the tailgate and the light from it was pretty pathetic anyway. I replaced it with an LED panel similar to what you have but not in a housing. That works fine but I keep my toolbox on the LHS of the boot in the indent where the sub would be if I had one, so I am always in my own shadow when trying to get anything out. I've been meaning to fit another on the other side of the tailgate but putting them where you have yours, might be a better idea.
I've struggled with those constant tension clips for years with Mole grips or pliers until there was a job I had to do on the other half's previous Merc. That involved a 150mm diameter clip that had to be taken off and there was no way I could do it with either of the above so dived off out to my local motor factors to see what they had. Bought the tool, did the job, have used it a couple of times on other cars and have since put it somewhere safe in the garage and have no idea where it is now. Had to resort to the Mole grips when changing Nigel's radiator. I'm sure I'll find it one day when looking for something totally different.......
- With a pair of pliers, pipe pliers seem to work best. If that doesn't work, you'll need to drill it out.
- Squeeze with your fingers and give it a wiggle while pulling.
- Which ones?
How to post photos https://rangerovers.pub/topic/1877-how-to-topic
Aragorn wrote:
You may well be one of the edge cases, but given your driving an LPG powered range rover, which can probably not do much more than 200miles per fill anyway, i suspect your stretching the reality a little. Ofcourse, if your doing a lot of towing for instance then you've got a perfectly valid arguement against them currently, as there arent a great deal of options for models that can tow. Its more about keeping an open mind!
True but yes, I do a lot of towing. Most of my long journeys are with a couple of tonnes (at least) hanging off the back. Last time I looked I think only the bigger Tesla is capable of towing and even then it isn't capable of towing any realistic (for me) weight. The other thing is charging points and the time taken. Yes I have to stop for 10 minutes every 2-3 hours to fill up, and the rapid chargers don't take much longer than that, but only if there are some rapid chargers where I'm going. For instance there are none to the north or east of Warsaw and the Tesla Model X takes 52 hours to charge from a standard power point.
One advantage of smart meters is it enables time of use metering. What the national grid dont want, is everyone driving home from work, plugging their car in at 6pm, when the grid is already under maximum load. By offering cheaper tarrifs at other times of day, you can encourage people to charge at a time when the grid is not stressed, like at 1am. The grid is perfectly capable of handling EV charging, just so long as the bulk of its not done during the evening peak!
But surely that's when the majority will want to charge their car? Get in from work, plug it in and leave it. Not go outside just before going to bed to plug it in?
I suspect a big part of this is simply the faff. Aftermarket installs simply arent as clean and tidy as something OEM. And your carrying around two fuel tanks and are having to top up with petrol and LPG.
Some are, if done properly, but I will admit that many aren't. I don't think any of the LPG cars I've owned hasn't had the system taken out and put back in a manner I'm happy with. A lot of this can be blamed on the done-in-a-day installers who will chuck it in and leave it at that. They are also the ones that won't calibrate a system properly and when the customer mentions that the Check Engine light comes on when running on LPG, tell them that is normal.
Not really a workaround, just that in order to get the Crit Air sticker you have to send in a pdf of your registration document. If it said fuel type Petrol, I'd get a Classe 4 (Euro 3 vehicles), on LPG I get Classe 1 but they need to see proof. The sticker is valid for the life of the vehicle and costs €4.10 rather than paying every time you enter the ULEZ. It's done to keep the air clean and not to make money...... Germany is the same but their sticker costs €6.00.
davew wrote:
Back (more) on topic just why exactly are LPGs vehicles on the decline if they are effectively 'greener' than diesel/petrol ? Surely they should be encouraged more ? Or do we all have to buy electric/H2 cars soon because the car manufacturers are lobbying for this ?
Multiple reasons really. To many people it isn't mainstream enough to be considered and, there's a lot of old wives tales about how it is unreliable and will destroy your engine. That may have been the case 25 years ago, but a modern system is as refined as the petrol system. In fact, should you feel the need to buy a brand new Dacia, for an extra £500 on the purchase price you can have one running on LPG. The engine ECU has been programmed so when on LPG you get more power than on petrol and they push the difference in fuel cost too. No idea how many have been sold in the UK but in their home country they probably don't sell any petrol only versions. Once over the Channel, the further East you travel you will see LPG cars and diesel cars and hardly any petrol cars. You'll even see LPG only filling stations as well as an LPG pump on every filling station forecourt.
To convert a standard port injection petrol engine is pretty straightforward, you just put a nozzle in the inlet manifold as close to the petrol injector as you can and inject the gas in at that point. But in order to get better fuel efficiency, a lot of the more modern designed engines are direct injection where the fuel is injected straight into the combustion chamber. Nowhere to fit a second injector but it is possible to use the existing one to inject LPG as a liquid but as it is a dry fuel, you still need to inject around 25% petrol and while kits are available to do the conversion, they have to be specific to the engine model so not cheap.
More people are leasing cars these days so they aren't allowed to do any modifications.
The official figures show that it is in decline too. According to DVLA there are 150,000 cars running on LPG in the country, so any filling station owner that doesn't sell much (such as BP that never sold much anyway as they were always the most expensive), looks at that and decides it isn't worth it. Now I'm not sure what criteria DVLA used in their search that came up with this figure, but I've seen V5s that show the fuel type as Petrol/Gas, Dual Fuel, Bi-Fuel and Petrol/LPG so if they only checked one of those types the numbers would be low. In addition, of the 6 LPG fuelled vehicles I've owned, only one showed anything other than petrol as the fuel type because the V5 had never been changed. Even that isn't made easy. The first LPG car I owned came with an LPG safety inspection certificate but the V5 said Petrol, I informed DVLA of the change of fuel type and they did nothing. When I pointed out that I was supposed to inform them they simply said that I had but as the car was pre-2001, so on the flat rate VED rather than the sliding scale, I wouldn't get my £10 a year discount so there was no point in changing it. I registered an imported BMW that was already converted, put Petrol/Gas on the application and the V5 came back as petrol, so I sent it back and asked them to change it. I used the excuse that it was a rare model that was considered a classic and would be taken over to Paris to be displayed at Retromobile, a big classic car show, but if running on petrol wouldn't be able to be driven into Paris as the more clear thinking European countries appreciate the lower emissions and class a car running on LPG the same as a Hybrid. I used the same argument when I sent the V5 for my everyday car back to have the fuel type changed and they changed it (hence my Classe 1 Crit Air sticker in the windscreen). If 1 in 6 cars running on LPG here are shown in the V5 as running on petrol, then rather than the 150,000 DVLA say there are, that figure is probably over 500,000 so filling stations that have removed their pumps because there isn't likely to be the demand, are making decisions based on flawed arguments.
What really irks me is that TfL allow taxis that have been converted to run on LPG to enter the ULEZ without having to pay the charge but the same concession isn't given to privately owned LPG fuelled vehicles.
I'm not going to get into this one as I'm one of the ones where range and charging time really would make an EV a non-starter for me, but I find it highly ironic that they are pushing everyone to get a smart meter installed so they can monitor their energy usage and modify their way of life to save a bit. Then they want everyone to buy an EV so you use far more than you are saving.....