You should have got him to tarmac your new driveway while he was there!
Rangey sounds like it's got a lot of potential :) I'm sure a man of your skills will have it purring very soon. Congrats!
at least he'll have the sweet sweet sound of the gold-plated Alpine system to sooth him... or will he? ;)
Hurrah! Time to press all the buttons and see what actually happens....Best of luck :)
I hope those brakes clean up....
I'm genuinely excited at the prospect of a Range Rover arriving at the other end of the country.
What is going on?
Good Luck! And we need photos of the grand arrival :)
mymysteri wrote:
Just because I am new to the forum and figure you guys should know: If a RR with a "new" battery is parked- say- for a month- should the battery be drained? I am concerned with the BECM needing to be re-programmed after all of the nightmare I went through a few months ago. Anyone?
In your position I'd loosen off the battery terminals, lock unlock the car and unhook the battery within 20 secs (I think it is?) of the unlock. That way the BECM won't go into lockout mode, you can store the battery somewhere safe and hook it up to a charger after you remove it and before you put it back. That way your Range Rover is locked, pretty well immobilised and your battery is safe from harm.
Of course, if you try that with mine it does the full screaming siren thing, but that's just The Duchess and her paranoia :)
Fascinating stuff Marty, thank you! Good catch on the BECM communication - I did it in posn 2 on the key so that can't have helped. Oops.
and is it safe to assume that the fob needs a battery to transmit back to the coil? From the behaviour I saw I guess it does actually have to transmit rather then being passively detected in some way.
Anyway, it's happy now but the back of the fob does need to be tweaked right round clockwise to make sure the contacts engage otherwise it's "no red light, no locky locky" and frustration ensues. It's better than it was with the rubber grommet in place, no amount of tweaking could make the fob light up when that was still in.
Best of luck with the rest of the trip, when you get back you'll find that winter is well and truly here!
If only we could all drive down there and surround the place in P38s
I'd be up for it, except I can't see out of the windows in this weather!
Well that's all quite helpful, Orangebean gets the "most useful" vote. Honestly I can't afford to actually buy the thing, and that's a lot to slap on a credit card... but mmmmm... green leather :)
I wonder what happened to the one on ebog that was up for 9k?
Apart from the weird looking exhaust, the wrong alloys, the "easily repairable DVD" and the LPG system of unknown provenance... I'm still weirdly drawn to the greenness of it!
Also it's 168 miles away, which is about par for the course whenever I buy a new car!
Then you're welcome :D
Drop it in their yard! The lying bastards.
If only you knew a Range Rover enthusiast with a car trailer and towing experience... who could maybe undercut shiply by a couple quid in return for overnight accommodation...
No, it's sleeping in a layby with some other man!
10 pages and still no money shot of Monsieur L'Orange and his new Beast.
Dissapoint.
Is it downhill to Leicester? ;)
Stick the petrol in it, you may as well give yourself two chances of starting :)
Exciting times!
How did you get in touch with him in the first place? Ebay? a specialist site?
Hmmm, I wonder... my front end is quite wobbly (mainly noticed on surface changes and bumps) and nothing appears to be broken but Marty drove it and said the steering did feel light.
Wow, visiting Royalty - we must be a proper forum now!
oooooh, you naughty boy!
of course SSB and AM are legal now on the CB frequencies so you can actually do quite a lot more than was originally legal. There's only one radio that is genuinely type approved but the one I have can be programmed to transmit in a legal manner (12W USB/LSB) you just don't want to turn the wrong knob up to 50 :)
fixed the fob... took the O ring out. Problem solved.
nnnnggggghhhhhhhrrrgaaaaaaaaaaAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
ahem
well, now I've got a spare set of batteries, holder and rubber bit in the man drawer for emergencies.
Glass overflowing!