It's the speed controller on the blower itself, the bit with two big power transistors on it. One of them has gone short circuit. You can replace the transistors or swap the speed controller from another blower (or just swap the whole blower).

If anyone does get one, make sure you get the BC30 complete kit (https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/p/501486) as you can also buy an additional camera which is usually around £95. However, the full kit comes with a replacement power cable for your existing Garmin sat nav that includes the receiver for the camera, the additional camera doesn't come with this as the system can have up to 4 cameras tied to the one sat nav.

I'd suspect exhaust mountings. The exhaust might move when the engine stops. Check right at the very rear too. One of my rear boxes is very close to the end of the chassis so could touch if it had shifted on the hangers.

I'm aware of the different gearbox and have been assured, as Henry says, as long as it isn't thrashed mercilessly will cope with the small amount of extra power. I did have one other thought though, what about the ECU? However, according to the Nanocom documentation, I can change the engine type from 4.0 litre to 4.6. Never tried it but I don't suppose t will make much difference anyway.

Dave is asking £650 for the 4.6 complete with all ancilliaries so we'll be going for that one. No exchange either, an outright sale so he may be able to get some money back flogging off the good bits from the old engine. Might even pull the old one apart and see if it would be worth doing anything with it.

No, because it is a wireless unit and you need to buy the camera to get the transmitter and receiver that goes with the sat nav.

I've spoken to Dave at East Coast. He had a 4.0 litre that came in last week that he wasn't sure what the engine was like so he checked it and reckoned it sounded like a bag of spanners, had over 200k on it and oil in it that looked like it hadn't been changed for half of that 200k. However, he has a 4.6 with a supposedly perfect, low mileage, engine coming in later this week which I've told Mick about. The only thing that would need changing would be the flywheel spacers to make it mate up to the 4.0 litre torque converter, everything else being the same. So any GEMS engine will be fine. A Thor could be modified and fitted with the GEMS ancilliaries but the most difficult bit would be the different CPS mounting so not straightforward and I would think a GEMS would be easier to find anyway.

Don't see why not, video is video in most cases (1V p to p). Only variation is NTSC or PAL but most displays will handle both.

I've got a Garmin sat nav that comes with free lifetime map and speed camera updates and also has the capability of connecting a wireless reversing camera. You have to use the genuine Garmin camera kit which costs as much again as the sat nav but works perfectly. If powered from the reversing light feed, as soon as you select reverse the display shows what the camera can see.

This one, https://www.rangerovers.net/threads/the-unicorn-lives-low-mileage-2001-rr-4-6l-trip-report.333988/#post-2254594, there was a lot of discussion when it first appeared with numerous things that suggested the mileage wasn't correct and it had been rebuilt. Tried to find the original thread but search is so shit on there these days, I started losing the will to live. Would you believe a search for "Low Mileage" brings up things like Blower motor not working?

If that is worth $55k, that means your Linley must be worth at least $150k........

Prog puts the blend motors to full heat, the diverter up to the screen and the fans on flat out. Does the same as putting the heater on Hi but with one single button push rather than poking the two temp buttons lots of times and hoping that the outside temperature is low enough for the fans to go on full.

In warm weather the viscous is locked up as soon as you start the engine so you'll hear the rushing noise over the normal engine noises, once moving for a short time it goes quiet so you can listen to the V8 rumble instead.

Water pump with corroded impeller so less flow, partially clogged radiator and knackered viscous are the usual causes. If the rad is clogged a good test is to poke the Prog button on the HEVAC, if the temperature starts to come down, it's the rad. I've got an Airtex water pump, a fairly new OEM viscous and a Direnza high capacity alloy rad on mine and I sat in heavy traffic for over 30 minutes coming through Lyon a few weeks ago. This was after cruising at 65-70 mph for 250 miles, with a trailer on the back loaded with a '69 Ford Mustang and an ambient temperature of 39 degrees C. Gauge didn't move from the centre. So, if the cooling system is in good shape, there's no need to avoid traffic in hot weather but it will certainly show up any weaknesses if there are any. I only fitted the Direnza rad as it wasn't that much more expensive than a standard one and there's no telling what the quality will be like on a standard one these days.

Orange/Pink

No, not for me but for our latest new member, Mick. Those of you that still keep an eye on the dark side, will have seen that a new owner had a rather expensive introduction to P38 ownership (https://www.rangerovers.net/threads/engine-issue-newbie-please-help.338546/). Despite those that thought it could just be filled with coolant and it would happily fire up again, I've been and had a look at it today and can confirm it is probably the most damaged engine I have seen, short of one with a rod poking out the side of the block. I rebuilt one that had suffered a similar fate and that at least still ran on 6 cylinders, this one tried to run on 2 but with an almost complete lack of compression on the other 6 pots, it ain't going to run again. Basically, it's phuqued..... I'm going to make a couple of calls tomorrow and see if I can find him a decent 4.0 litre motor and someone to fit it but if that fails I reckon the next best option is to get an engine and fit it for him (although I'm not sure when I'll have time to do it, my employers keep expecting me to go to work for them for some odd reason).

He's actually bought a very tidy motor, body and paintwork is all good, underside is in good nick, EAS all works (needs calibrating as one corner sits lower than the other 3 but that's no biggie) and the air springs look recent, interior is in excellent condition too (it even has a new headlining). Just a shame that someone replaced the throttle body hose with a bit of totally unsuitable pipe......

davew wrote:

I did wonder what would happen to a 'stock; P38 though !

i suspect a lot of the interior trim would drop off......

The handbrake light isn't a handbrake light, it's a brake issue light. It'll come on if you are low on brake fluid or any other fault.

Having found it and watched the first 10 minutes I'm not sure if I'm going to bother with the rest. I wasn't aware what a Merc X class was but now I've seen that it's the recently announced Merc badged Nissan Navara, a standard P38 with no mods at all would beat it anyway......

I use the Euro one when in Europe but filllpg over here. My tablet tells me whenever it updates anything and just recently filllpg has been updated with prices every couple of days, there's been a couple of stations added too but only seen it delete one.

Series 1, episode 6, Mercedes X Class. If you have an Android device you should be able to get Dave using Mobdro.