The IGG100030 is the auto gearbox controller and the other one is the transfer box ECU. If earthing the Purple/Green does nothing, that suggests it has died.
If you don't like the contrasting piping, you can always sit in the left rear seat instead as that doesn't have it. Only has 3 bars compared with the 5 on the other seats too.....
Should have and somebody has nicked your sub.......
I've got a spare little spinny thing kicking around somewhere if you get stuck. That one is the aspirator temperature and shows you the temperature in the car. If it thinks that is -38 degrees the heater will be going flat out all the time trying to warm it up. The heater core temperature sensor is the one that should be clipped to the pipe going into the heater matrix. They do fall off (small tie wraps are the usual answer) but even then would be showing ambient temperature so if that is showing -38 it is dead or disconnected.
But the weekend is only just starting, you've got two whole days in front of you for many more things to go wrong.......
Still free on the RSW website even if it is well hidden and not accessible from the menu http://www.rswsolutions.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=53&Itemid=56 and there's even instructions on how to make the cable rather than buying one for £20 or so from eBay http://www.rswsolutions.com/index.php/p38a-eas-unlock-videos/167-range-rover-p38a-making-the-eas-serial-cable although it will cost you a bit for a plug https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/automotive-connectors/8010991/ or https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/262782690314 unless you have one kicking around from a dead OBD reader.
davew wrote:
They forgot to add "has the special fade-to-grey plastic grille option" though..
Genuine question; What is it about a 'Limited Edition' that makes them think it is so valuable; Contrasting Piping on the seats maybe ??
I showed it to my missus and her comment was that it looks identical to the SE sitting on the driveway (which I really must do something with). Same colour, same wheels, Lightstone interior where mine is grey but other than that, the only real difference is mine doesn't have the faded grey grille. I'm not even sure it is a Limited Edition of any sort anyway, looks like a bog standard '98 HSE to me.
Getting back on topic, here's an ad full of contradictions https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Range-Rover-1996-Rare-BMW-Engine/142679255820. It's finished in Epson Green with grey leather interior but the cream leather interior is immaculate. The air suspension works perfectly (but you can't alter the height) and the heating is in perfect working order but does have the book symbol on it at times......
davew wrote:
and don't get me started on Autonomously-Driving Cars either
My view on these things is they may well be able to avoid other vehicles but how about the other way round? It could be quite entertaining to give one a little tap on a rear corner and spin it off the road......
Won't run for long then......
As Morat tries tro steer the thread back on topic but continuing with the EV argument. I've been on Pistonheads for years and it used to be for people like us, people that weren't afraid to get their hands dirty, drove real cars and had an interest in real cars (blimey, it started off as a TVR owners forum and if you run a TVR you've no option but to get your hands dirty on a regular basis). These days there's people on there discussing how wonderful their EV is, how wonderful their diesel is, how much their PCP is costing them and wouldn't know a spanner if one leapt out and slapped them in the face. How can an EV (or diesel for that matter) have any appeal at all to someone who is into cars? When they produce an EV that can tow a 3.5 tonne trailer and do 1500 miles in 25 hours, then I might consider that they have come of age.
One other point, I know someone who very briefly had a BMW i8. Considering most of his cars usually do mid teens in mpg, I queried why he had bought it. It had to be done was the reply but after having it 2 days he was trying to find someone that would take it off his hands. Part of the fun of driving something with a bit of grunt is the noise it makes (think C63 AMG Merc, Aston Martin Vantage, just about anything expensive and Italian, etc) and with the i8 running around 350 bhp it should have the soundtrack to go with it. The i8 is so quiet that you can programme the stereo to give you engine noises (and select what car you want it to sound like) but what you can't do is open the windows and floor it through a tunnel to give everyone else the benefit.......
That's near to the shift switch so you might have dislodged something, maybe the earth to the switch?
Clive603 wrote:
and you have a 300,000 mile motor. But you know that.
I certainly do, this was last Sunday evening.
My car has done 6,500 miles in the last month and the only failure has been a blown front sidelight bulb.
I get what you are saying but you could pick up a low mileage car, with a checkable MoT history so you have an idea of what has been done to it, for half what they are asking for that one. It may have been regularly serviced, but equally it could have spent months at a time parked up going nowhere and still has the same oil in the sump it left Solihull with.
I now they are ugly, it is not without reason that the Disco 3/4 is known in some circles as the Land Rover Brinks Mat. The boxy shape and slab sides do make it look a bit like an armoured cash delivery van.
Not on eBay but I spotted this today and thought it worth sharing. Reasonably tidy looking but has to be the most expensive GEMS in the country.
Dealers blurb on it is here http://www.buckworthsgarage.co.uk/car-image-page-17.html so you can't even check the MoT history as it's a Japanese import.
Quite why anyone would buy it over the Discovery parked next to it for only a grand more (unless it was someone that really wanted a P38 of unknown history) is anybody's guess.....
You probably won't be able to see anything just by looking at it, unless the plug has come out of course. It's under the passenger seat towards the back of the car. If you find pin 33, on the top row of pins with the Purple/Green wire on it, and connect that to earth, that simulates moving the lever across the gate to low range. With the engine running and the gearlever in neutral, that should cause the beeping and changeover to happen.
If it was the motor it would still beep at you and flash the light on the dash, it just wouldn't change over (and would beep forever until low moved the lever back). As it isn't doing that, it doesn't even know that you are trying to select low range so the only thing left is the switch. I suppose it might be the ECU that's died but not that likely. Simple enough to check that the earth is getting to the ECU though.
Even more curiouser. Mine, apparently registered after yours, was VIN SALLHBM33KA635501, so appears to be two years older. The K in mine showing 92-93 build date (93MY), the M in yours showing 94-95 build date (95MY so one of the very last Classics when they were sold alongside the P38). Mine being a hard dash would verify that it was definitely older. Microcat shows yours as KIJ 26 and that usually shows the registration when supplied new. L reg is from 1 August 1993 to 31 July 1994 so mine would have been built between late 92 and the year change which was usually around September, 1993. Yours however, with the M in the VIN, shouldn't have been built before roughly September 94 but appears to have been. It probably had the personal plate put on it from new and DVLA would have allocated it a normal plate so it had an age related plate when/if the personal plate was taken off but even then, how can a car that has a VIN showing it to be built in late 1994 have been registered in May???? Really weird.....
Doesn't help with trying to trace where it is now though
If you have a sub, which you should have if you have the CD changer, it lives above the CD changer and is intended to squirt the noise out through the grille/vent looking thing in the shelf. It may be there but not working (speaker cones can seize or the amp built into it can die) or someone has nicked it in the past but I suspect you will find the door amps. Yes, head unit is modern day speak for radio but as they all do much more than just radio these days then they became head units.
With the door amps rather than the DSP system, you've a lot less preparation work to do other than knock up the attenuators.
Never having had need to get inside the centre console to get to the bottom of the gear lever, I can't tell you exactly what you will find but the switch is just a microswitch that is operated when you move the lever over to the low range side. It has two wires, a Purple/Green (not Pink/Green as I said in my previous) and a Black. If these are shorted together it should engage low range as long as fuse 4 is OK although if it was blown I would have expected the dash to have told you.