Budget was a big factor though for this. I have to admit on the face of it, I would have gone for a Nanocom, but the app on my phone for the Lynx Evolution looks promising. I can't wait for it to turn up now. But now can't get near the car until Monday :(

Budget was a big factor though for this. I have to admit on the face of it, I would have gone for a Nanocom, but the app on my phone for the Lynx Evolution looks promising. I can't wait for it to turn up now. But now can't get near the car until Monday :(

After doing a lot of research, I found that apparently a lot of the latest garage OBD readers can't connect to the port. I decided against both the Hawkeye and the basic Lynx, I bought a Lynx Evolution, awaiting delivery. But I have got some switch cleaner, so if the Lynx refuses to connect when it turns up, then I will get the plugs apart for the OBD port and clean it all up and try and check the wiring.

The garage cannot get there device to connect to it. And I would rather have something I can use long term myself anyway instead of keep paying someone

My budget is a top end of £300 which puts the Nanocom out of my price range,
I have a 1996 Range Rover 4.6 P38.

I am looking at the Lynx Evolution and Hawkeye, I desperately need to get one asap as my car is stuck at the garage with an ABS and Traction fault. And the garage can't connect to the diagnostics with there device.

All opinions and advice really appreciated. Thank you.

I dropped the car in for an MOT on Monday evening, it was supposed be tested Tuesday, but for some reason ended up being MOT'd today instead. It failed on the ABS light being on, Rear fog lights not working, no warning light illuminating on the clocks, headlight aim too low on both sides, passenger front door not opening from the inside, 1 reg light bulb and 1 rear brake pipe being excessively corroded. It had 3 advisories, Rear lights being flyeye tinted, and 1 rear brake pipe.

The fog lights worked perfectly 6 weeks ago when I parked the car up as I replaced the light units with the ones I had fitted the flyeye kit to, and had replaced most of the bulbs in the lights. I don't have front fog lights fitted anymore, so wonder if they were pressing the wrong button, or mistaking the fog lights for tail lights in the centre panel?

As the car is already in the garage who took it to another garage to get it MOT'd, I am not happy to drive it home as it is to carry out any work. So Tuesday next week, I will be going down to the garage and doing some investigating myself.

Sadly the car can't have any diagnostics plugged into it as the readers all come up with unable to connect. So the ABS fault is going to fun to hunt down.

The door is just winding me up now, I replaced the catch and had it working, then it stopped working on the central locking, So for the MOT I left it unlocked. But checked it opened from inside and out, And sods law says, it packed up again, specially for the MOT tester.

Still onwards and upwards, will some how see my way through this and get it back on the road within 10 working days.

Saturday, I spent all afternoon lavishing attention on the P38. New oil, window switch pack which solved the window fault, brake pedal switch which didn't solve the ABS and Traction control light fault, but annoyingly the misfire is still very much present. I could only get to 4 HT leads. The misfire got more profound after I went for a drive. But there is now absolutely no blue smoke. No coolant loss either. I found that the sump is weeping but not badly, and the passenger door is playing up again despite a new catch being fitted. And I tried to remove the window tint off the front windows with only partial success. But despite the misfire, it is driving beautifully albeit slightly under powered.

I cannot get to the coil packs either.

I am throwing it in for an MOT later this week anyway to see what happens.

At the beginning of the month, I had a failed operation which is being corrected at the end of the month so having another operation, so been very limited to what I have been able to do. As my OBD port isn't working I am going to have to go through the list the old fashioned way. So next on the list I guess will be to replace the coil packs and ht leads, if that doesn't solve it, I will try new spark plugs after they have been tested as they are under warranty still.

I have found the offending part for the coolant leak which was the thermostat to waterpump hose, it was badly perished. The central locking motor I received was the wrong side even though I ordered the correct one. Honest mistake by the seller who is sending me the correct one on Tuesday. Had it running for the first time in at the very least 3 or 4 weeks, it ran like a bag of poo. Misfired on several cylinders, after a while and some revving, got it down to misfiring on 1 cylinder. It had a minor random misfire before it was parked up, now it is a noticeable misfire throughout the rev range although once above 2500 rpm seems to disappear. Took it for a run and had it video'd, no blue smoke at all anymore, so it was just breather pipes that caused the blue smoke. Hoping I can resolve the misfire quickly.

Lol, no it didn't come from Yorkshire. It has spent the last 5 plus years hovering around Kent and the last 1 of those years in Sussex with me.

I found the coolant leak problem, I think, The waterpump to thermostat hose. Of course I ordered it last Wednesday, forgetting what the coming 4 day weekend was lol. So still waiting for that. I managed to get the door open, and have the catch ready to fit, But Thursday night I became extremely ill, spent 2 days not being able to eat anything and was having to sip water, still very ill but feeling a bit better, sadly part of my disablities, this particular part can put me into hospital for up to a week some times, and if my other half wasn't already used to it and able to help deal with it, would have killed me a long time ago.

So 2 of the days I had planned to spend at least parts of working on Range Dog have failed to happen. I am hoping to escape the house tomorrow, but very little hopes of that. Although that does mean 2 more parts ordered for the car will have time to arrive before the next weekend meaning I can hopefully do all the work at once. But I will cry, if the water pump is in fact what is leaking. But really does just look like the hose. And I am dreading getting to it. Looks like I may have to take the viscous fan off. I really hope not. Also found the date that I purchased the battery so have been able to contact Euro Car Parts to ask for a duplicate so I can exchange the faulty battery for a new one.

Then once the 3 jobs are sorted, I can finally throw Range Dog in for an MOT, in the knowledge that it should pass. I will have to give is a damn good blast the short distance that it will be going to the MOT place though to clear any oil out of where it shouldn't be in hopes that my new breather pipes that are fitted have hopefully resolved the burning oil issue. Then after the MOT is done, I am having the stepper valve replaced on the LPG, and I will be hopefully making Range Dog my daily runner for a while, while I save up to get the gearbox rebuilt on my L322.

It has been jet washed 6 times, the rest of that paint really isn't shifting lol and I think it will surprise you when I say honestly, the roof rack makes no noise at all lol. The rack has been bolted directly to the car itself. It is very strong though as has had people standing on it doing photo shoots around charity events.

Thanks to 2 people on here so far with the help and info by PM for different things, I have already gained personal confidence again in attempting certain jobs on my car, Marty (door catch problem) Gilbertd who has taught me how to upload photo's. Everyones Range Rovers put mine to shame I think in the looks department, and probably right now in the mechanical department too lol. I know coil conversions aren't like on here, but hope the fact that my Range Rover came with the conversion already done and is on a 2 inch lift as well, lets me off the hook as I am not returning it to air lol.

Meet the beast I call Range Dog.

You can now see why I am not restoring it back to its former glory. And peaking in the background of 1 picture is my L322.

The roof rack is going to have it's height lowered, spot lights will be added, front window tints will be removed, modified grill going on, I am going to be bringing back from looking as rough as it is to something much more respectable, but got to get the coolant leak sorted and the door open to get it in for an MOT test lol.

I have to admit, it has been 2 weeks since I actually got in it until yesterday. Really can't wait to get it back in use.

My Range Rover broke down after the London 2 Brighton event lol. That was big for it, I covered I think around 300 miles in the 2 days as I didn't camp at the start line, I stayed in a Days Inn hotel.

Will happily do a swap Gilbertd, I have sent you a PM. Ignore the question about where you are lol, I have just seen on this post you are in Peterborough.

1996 is supposed to have Gems fitted. I definitely have the Gems air intake.

Oh, and to add insult to injury, No diagnostics machine seems to be able to connect to my OBDII port. Comes up with unable to connect message, so something not right there lol

All windows and mirrors are intermittent, I have never tried the sunroof, but not ever worked for me, but the garage who were working on it for 3 months said they had them working. Damn car lol. Oh and every so often the dipped mirror function when I select reverse works, sometimes 1 mirror, other times both, always returns to the right position in 1 mirror but not the other. The switch pack has been tried on another P38 about a year ago and it worked fine on that car, just not mine. The last owner had the windows working and they gradually stopped. And the rear windows don't open from the independent buttons on the door cards.

Isn't the water pump on the right hand side of the engine? I am not sure how to post pictures on this site.

All the fuses are fine, brand new fusebox with new relays and fuses were fitted in December professionally. I know it was a simple plug and play, but the garage already had the car and it was easier at the time to just deliver the part lol.

The coolant system isn't a standard set up either. Needs to be seen in person really to see what I mean. It is supposed to be a GEMS set up, but has ended up with some THOR / GEMS hybrid setup with I think at least 1 custom pipe. This car is thoroughly baffling me.

I will try and get photo's of inside the door somehow, flat battery will mean I will have to try and get my other half to squeeze over from the drivers side and snap some pictures if the catch can be seen from that angle.

Thank you for your fast reply. I have photo's of the leaks etc... but not sure how to upload them on to this particular site.

Hi, I am from near Hastings, East Sussex. I have 2 Range Rovers, 1 L322 V8 petrol and 1 P38 4.6 V8 Petrol.

My P38 came out of the factory an Epsom Green 4.6 V8 petrol HSE, later down the line, someone fitted a long range LPG system with the pretty large twin tanks being hidden in the spare wheel well, it has been converted to coil springs with a 2 inch lift, Then 3 owners ago, they decided to fit a roof rack which looks very stupid, but the way it has been mounted, it cannot be removed, so I am going to modify it a bit, It has gained tinted windows, then 2 owners a go, they decided to roller paint paint the whole car in satin black hammerite paint, which looked ok until it started peeling off as the bodywork wasn't prepped at all, and since I have owned it, it has had a new fusebox, new custom professionally fitted exhaust system as the old one was pretty much just hanging on with each section maybe looking at each other rather than joined, I have flyeye tinted the rear lights.

I have used the car on 1 big journey which was the London 2 Brighton run last year, and after that it all went down hill, fusebox finished frying itself, 1 coolant leak after the other, It has eaten 2 batteries so far, now it has a huge coolant leak, the passenger door won't open and it has been burning oil.

I am disabled and young, but I do as much as I can, when I can. When I can't get out of the property on a bad day, I will sit in my garden if the weather is good and muck around with car parts and modify them and paint them.

I love Range Dog and really want to get it working and properly on the road again. I still have it insured and taxed, but not MOT'd and can't even get it to the MOT station at the moment to at least get a fail list if there is going to be one.

I plan to fit a modified P38 / RR Sport supercharged grill, reduce the height of the roof rack, add spot lights, repaint the entire car panel by panel if I have to, where this time it will be prepped properly, haven't decided fully what paint finish or colour I am going to do, but most likely going to go back to satin black, I would like to add a nudge bar, get the windows working properly, and fix the coolant leak. This Range Rover was involved in helping save my life during an off roading accident which was not my fault, and saved me from drowning, so when it came up for sale and my 2nd friend bought it, I was gutted, then he did a load of repairs and got sick of it being a money pit, put it ups for sale and I ended up not being able to resist the urge to own it.

I have opened a separate thread in the oily bits page about the faults I would like help with.

Thank you for reading my essay of a post lol.

Is anyone else from my neck of the woods in the UK?

I have 2 Range Rover's, I know, I must be insane. My P38 is the one I am in need of help with though please.
I have a few issues which I need to sort and pretty fast, and a cosmetic question that I know I will get ridiculed for.

Firstly before I go any further, Range Dog is a rough looking (at the moment) modified 1996 4.6 HSE with LPG.
These questions aren't in prioritised order, and I am limited with my disabilities which I have had from birth.

Problem 1.

My front passenger door card dropped stopping the door from shutting, it was raining, I was desperate to get home after picking my car up and driving for the 1st time in 3 months, so in a paddy (I don't have many, honest... lol), I yanked the door card off which bent the thing with the door lock pin on it that shows through the door card, slammed the door shut, and now it won't open from either the inside or outside. MOT has now run out, and it won't pass one for obvious reasons.

Problem 2.

Coolant loss from a location I can't quite see, (Above the oil filter housing), and the cooling system does not match that on the Rave manual for the Gems engine set up, although I have a Gems engine, and doesn't quite match the Thor engine set up but is closer to the Thor set up than anything.

Problem 3.

Using oil, I hope to have solved this, but not able to tell yet as I cannot drive the car, I found the breather was totally blocked and very thin and stretchy, I have bought new breathers already and the smoke that was coming out has more than halved, so hoping I just need to give it a good blast.

Problem 4.

Intermittent Electric Windows.

Problem 5.

ABS and Traction lights on despite new ABS sensors and replacement hubs on the rear.

The cosmetic thing.

Range Dog has a far from standard look anyway, and I love having it looking different, if I had bought it in factory condition, I would have kept it that way, but keeping it unique, I have been given a spare P38 Grill and have bought a very cheap RR Sport supercharged grill and like the look of the 2 combined, however I cannot see any guidelines on how to do it, does anyone on here have any photo's of one being built please?

Thank you for taking your time to read my post.