Rcutler wrote:
Also who buys a matt black car, they are a nightmare to keep clean.
Tell me about it, this is one that I had the pleasure of looking after for a couple of months last year while I put it through an IVA test and got it registered onto UK plates. Not a wrap either but ordered in that paint from the factory by a Russian with little taste. The interior was white leather. Yes, an absolute bastard to keep looking like that, one raindrop and it started to look dirty.
Although the Russian registered Audi RS7 (de-catted and chipped to 720 bhp) that came after this one was wrapped but with a clear wrap purely to protect the paintwork. You really had to look very closely to see the wrap and it was only really noticeable where a small piece of it had peeled off the front spoiler. The de-cat caused me a lot of grief when it came to getting it through the emissions test. Fortunately the cats were in the boot when it was bought so was simply a case of fitting them for the test. Unfortunately, they sit between the back of the engine and the bulkhead....
Leave it connected or all you are doing is applying the earth to the other side of the switch. You need to let the ECU see the earth so it thinks the switch has been operated.
Coil springs? Oh dear. If the compressor is still there then chances are the valve block is too as it's bolted to the top of it. No point in removing the EAS ECU, you'd only have to put it back when you see the light. Once you get the opportunity to drive one on EAS, you'll know you just have to......
My god that's horrible......
It isn't completely dead as it can still put the transfer box into neutral but it definitely sounds like it isn't responding to the switch. There'a few on eBay for around a tenner.
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.....
