I know people have been caught out recently by Photobucket deciding that it's actually time to earn some money.
I don't know how competitive it is but I use hosting from easily.co.uk
I have the 5gb package which is way over the top for my needs but the 1Gb thing is £25 a year which should be OK for quite a few How-Tos :)
https://easily.co.uk/linuxhosting.php
what you don't get is any kind of web interface or app to integrate with uploads from your phone, but if you can handle FTP then it's a piece of piss to upload stuff and link to it.
Cheers!
Morat
I just changed the oil on The Duchess. Too late I saw that she has a copper washer for the sump plug (unlike my Jeep). 31p from Paddocks. OK...
£6 postage!!!!
So after the inevitable loss of the old sump washer, I'm running without a washer at all. I suspect this will be a rather short lasting oil change :(
Just dived in with the Nano to disable the alarm and had a look at the Airbag ECU. There have been some Airbag fault messages on the dash recently.
Errors are
Passenger airbag open circuit
Left airbag open circuit
Right airbag open circuit.
All marked "intermittent"
It seems like coincidence to have wiring faults on all three - is this going to be the plug to the ECU? If so.. where is it? :)
Thanks again....
So, just sitting in the house, doing not much and suddenly WEEP WEEP WEEEP
The Duchess decides that someone has opened the front left door. Yes the same one that had a new (ebay) outstation a couple of weeks ago and a Marty refurbished door lock a few months ago. I silenced the alarm, "Alarm Triggered LH-F" and drive her forward and back a few yards. "Door Open LH-F" showed up. It's intermittent, but that's clearly enough to mean I can't lock the car. All other functions are fine (windows, mirrors, central locking).
On a normal car I'd be looking for one of those rubber covered pin switch things, but I can't see one on the Range Rover.
What's the most likely cause?
Cheers!
Morat
http://tinyurl.com/kygblh9
Seems a little too good to be true?
But my Range Rover thinks it is!
Does anyone know what I should do about the Sat Nav in The Duchess deciding that we're in NW9? I'm not sure what all the little logos mean but there's a globe and stars thing which looks to me like "I can see satellites". Or it might mean "I'm seeing stars, wibble wobble"
It's only happened recently, and it only matters now because M. L'Orange (of this parish) has sent me a spiffy new Sat Nav disk or which I'd like to take full advantage.
Cheers!
Folks,
The Duchess is whining! It's not terrible, but it does sound like it might be expensive later on. Under power, the transmission is very quiet. When coasting, not so much. There's a whine which sounds diff like and is the same whether running straight or turning. The front diff is new/recon and the whine started well after it was replaced. Where should I be looking and is there a way to narrow down the source?
All answers gratefully received :)
A couple of days ago, the dash told me the front passenger window wasn't set. I ignored it then tried to set it. It wouldn't move. Hmm. No biggie, will get round to it.
Then I noticed that the passenger wing mirror didn't dip when reverse gear was selected and.. oh, it doesn't move at all. Then I realised that the door won't unlock.
So, all the electrics in that door are dead. What should I try first, oh gurus? I haven't done anything silly, like fill the door with water or fix something that wasn't broken or anything like that.
I was filling up the Jeep and up rolled a rather tidy looking x reg Vogue in that dark metallic red on what I think what lightstone. Turns out the guy has had it since 2005, it had a rebuilt engine after HG failure at 107k and now has 117k. He's also looking at "tidying up a couple of bits" before getting an L322. I nearly asked him what he wanted for it!
Sadly his talk of how it's now a classic and going up in price sounded the alarm bells, even if I did have the space, money, time, etc etc :)
Still, it was nice to see another good looking one :)
Hi, just had a call from my wife who needed talking through the EKA unlock procedure. I sense strife when she gets home!
There is only one fob with the car, and it seems flakey. Sometimes the key fob seems to be transmitting fine (flashy red light etc) but the car won't unlock. You can hold it next to the rear windows, point it at the antenna, dance on one leg - nothing.
So you open the door using the key and the BECM demands the EKA before allowing the engine to start.
What's going on? I've had it happen to me when I'm sure I haven't pressed any fob buttons at all between lock and unlock, but I will admit it never seems to happen immediately after locking.
I just drove to Swindon from Yorkshire so I can help* Marty replace the heater core in The Duchess.
The gauge on the dash showed 1 degree pretty much all the way and my feet had nearly fallen off by the time I got to the hotel.
Holy crap, I can still feel my toes warming up, three hours after arriving!
If it wasn't for the heated screens, it would have been lethal. As it was I had to wipe the drivers window when I got to a roundabout. I'm looking forward to a nice warm drive back North!
... changed a headlight bulb, one of the H4s AND it was the driver's side one which is slightly masked by the uber-battery.
I'm feeling smug :-)
Gordon,
not sure if you've noticed but Firefox is freaking out over the site cert....
Cheers!
Morat
My engine bay was lovely and clean not long ago but some enthusiastic splashing through muddy puddles has made it a bit grubby. The final straw was following a slurry tanker today which was as slurry-tight as it should have been and the whiff is now pretty grim.
Can I get away with just hosing it down? Do I need to take any precautions? I know some cars really hate water under the bonnet (I've owned a Fiat in the past!) and some don't seem to mind. I'm thinking that a bucket of dilute degreaser, some scrubbing brush agitation and then a good rinse with the hose would be my plan A but I thought I'd better check.
What is the collective wisdom of the forum?
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!
Is there a correct tool for removing the back of the keyfob? I'm totally unable to remove it without knackering the slot which means I need to buy a new one each time for fear of being left with something that will be stuck forever.
Also, I've been getting intermittent Key Battery Low warnings recently, and now the damn thing won't work at all. No red light, nothing. I finally got the back off and tested the batteries at... 6.02V. Gah.
The contacts look to be springy and in the right place, is there another fault that could cause this? (I suspect there will be several options).
Time to bend over for the Landrover dealer and shower him in money for a second fob :(
More fun!
I came home late from work and noticed a familar vehicle parked up at the entrance to the village. Uh oh. The Range Rover has decided to release its coolant, not sure if it's all coming from the rad, but the slam panel had a good coating of coolant and the little plastic stub for the expansion bottle is still leaking. My Wife parked it up within a hundred metres or so of noticing the red light come up on the dash (She's not sure if it was temp or level, no beep) and the temp gauge was in the red. She had checked it a mile before hand at it was fine.
So, hoping it hasn't popped a head gasket....
I'm going bypass the leaking heater core and replace the radiator. I've had good results with Nissens in the past, are there any specific recommendations for P38s?
@Marty - guess it wouldn't have reached you anyway!!
Gordon mentioned he might start a thread like this, but he hasn't yet. So without wishing to step on toes, here's my attempt.
What could we attempt as a group?
I'd be in for:
Headlining
Possibly Ball Joints
Slung it in for an MOT at erm... short notice this morning
The garage (excellent work, but notoriously picky on MOTs) came back with rear pads (not a surprise) and front to rear brake pipes x2 6 hrs to replace.
Am I being rinsed? I know these can be a git on some cars but I see varying reports from 1.5hrs each.
Folks,
my wife has failed to start the Range Rover again!
I'm not infront of the vehice right now (being at work) but...
If you can't open the car on the remote and then open it with the key would you expect the alarm the chirp? (and then do it again when you close the door?)
She bottled out and didn't want to try and start the thing in case the sounder went off properly.
Is this likely a case of flat batteries? (they're only about 4 months old)
Or something more sinister?