Rcutler wrote:

Well popped out and had passive immobilisation turned off, and the battery finally gave in. Trip to halfrauds

Halfrauds: Sir you need this one for your car..
Me : No I want the biggest that will fit in the tray.
Halfrauds : No sir you must use this one, it could damage the electrics in your car if you use the wrong one.
Me : Well I am buying this one.
Halfrauds : That sir will be £15 to fit it!!!
Me : I will buy a 13mm and 10mm spanner for £9 then

I used to work for Halfords (a long time ago) and I seem to remember something about the warranty on batteries being voided if fitted to the "wrong" vehicle. Also, when I was there the battery their book insisted would fit the P38 didn't. The terminals were in the wrong place as Morat said above. This didn't work well with their warranty policy.

I don't miss that place.

I think it was "only" £5.99 to fit a battery when I was there too! They used to hound us to sell as many fits as possible as it's pure profit for them. There's no cost of buying in stock, storage etc. They also had a sort of commission scheme for selling fits. The staff would be paid a certain amount for each one they sold, leading to some quite pushy behaviour and scare tactics about what could wrong if you did yourself etc.

There was also little to no training involved for anything that they fitted. Having seen some of the things the people I worked with managed to do, I'd only let someone I actually knew fit anything for me at Halfords!

erroneousbosh?

Orangebean wrote:

It'll catch fire, leak and fall to bits within 2 weeks...

And the folded up bit will fall down and block vision at the least opportune moment

Solved it?

blueplasticsoulman wrote:

I was going to ask you about the flow patch for the automation rule. I'll give it a go on mine. Nice one.

I found a problem with doing it this way - I can no longer turn off my WiFi.

The rule runs endlessly and is always checking for the presence of the bluetooth connection. Bluetooth connection = WiFi off and hotspot on, no bluetooth = hotspot off and WiFi on.

If I'm in an area with available WiFi networks that I can't connect to (various BT WiFi connections, other free WiFI provided by shops etc) I turn my WiFi off to stop my phone attempting to connect - as I won't be able to connect. The rule just turns the WiFi back on :(

That's a shame :(

I managed to get the automation rule to enable and disable the hotspot as necessary:

Mine doesn't have the extra grommet. I struggled to get the wire (with a plug on it!) through the rubber tube. I'm hoping I haven't damaged it as I had to pull on it quite hard to get it through.

I'll try your idea Marty, connecting the spur at the headunit end to the BECM and grounding the camera at the camera end. It will leave a loose power spur at the camera end but I can cover that off with something to stop it shorting.

Gilbertd, I figured I could tap in to the reverse light wiring somewhere before the lights themselves but I really don't want to have to force more wires through the rubber tube for the upper tailgate wiring. It's a pain in the arse and I already had to cut a slit in it at the top to let the camera wire out. I think if I try to get more wires through it I'll risk tearing that slit more and introducing a higher risk of water getting in there.

Thanks for the frequencies, I'll give them a go. I know the Radio 1 signal I found was a different frequency to the one you gave, hopefully the others give me something. I've found Heart FM Peterborough on 102.7.

For the hotspot automation, I've got it switching it on but not off again when the bluetooth network goes away. I need to tweak my rule in the app.

DIY DAB antenna sounds interesting. Certainly something I'll look into if/when I get a DAB tuner.

I was playing around with my FM radio last night and found out how to manually tune it in 0.05 increments instead of letting it scan and find its own stations. Managed to find Radio 1 - not my first choice but better than nothing :P

So now I'm thinking my aerials are fine but for some reason the radio can't identify the stations on an auto scan - again, this is something I found with the factory radio too. Not sure why, the Radio 1 signal I found sounds perfect so I don't think it's a signal strength issue.

As for the idea of having my mobile hotspot activate automatically when I'm in the car, I've gone off the NFC tag idea and think I've found a free way to do it. I've installed an app on my phone called "Automate" and I've set up a rule to activate the hotspot when connected to the bluetooth in the radio. I've not been out to check if it works yet though.

For the reverse camera I think I'm going to wire the power connections at the camera end to the number plate lights. It means I'll have to have my lights on for the camera to work and the camera will be powered up permanently but I think that will be easier than trying to run power and earth from the reverse lights in the lower tailgate, up a rear pillar, across the roof, through the rubber cable conduit in the upper tailgate and then down to the camera, I'll then connect the reverse trigger on the headunit to the BECM reverse wire as initially planned, this should then kick the headunit in to reverse mode as needed.

I think the way this particular camera is supposed to work is to connect the camera end to the reverse lights and then it sends a 12v signal back along the video cable to a spur that I should connect to the headunit. This would make the camera power up with the reverse lights and use that same connection to activate reverse mode in the headunit.

I'm wondering if a previous owner might have disconnected the amps by mistake thinking he was disconnecting the fob receiver to stop the battery drain.

I've thought about putting a different aerial on the roof but i don't like the idea of cutting holes in the car and I'm equally against the idea of a visible cable running through a door shut :(

Might have to give and do one or the other though

I've no idea if they're connected but if they're already amplified I guess there's no point in adding any kind of signal booster.

I'll have to dismantle the boot again to check the aerial. Is the little blue box by the window the FM aerial?

Looks like I might be mistaken on the aerial thing then :)

It's weird, I could have sworn there was a page in the handbook mentioning it too.

Is there an easy way to test my aerial? I'm getting literally nothing from the FM radio now, regardless of where I am.

Rcutler wrote:

I doubt 115C would kill it, as hoses are at the top there should have been water still in the block. Imaging when the head gasket goes and water is replaced with oil, They can live after that too.

I have a full set of hoses to replace on mine as a precaution. £25 but haven't got round to fitting them as the knocking has taken it off the road for now.

Top right fuse on the drivers seat is the one I believe.

Where do you get a full set of hoses for £25? I'd quite like to replace all of mine once it warms up a bit outside.

I thought UK cars got the FM aerial on one side and the key fob aerial on the other?

This is what the RAVE ETM says: "The high line (NAS/JAPAN) radio has the following
features: Electronically tuned AM/FM cassette radio
(Z111), RH antenna amplifier (Z178) for AM/FM
signals, LH antenna amplifier (Z177) for FM signals
only, a subwoofer amplifier (Z176), a CD changer
(Z114) a Digital Signal Processor (DSP) amplifier
(Z293) and 10 speakers plus a subwoofer speaker
(K146)."

I took that to mean that UK cars didn't get the dual FM aerials.

I remember having problems with a CB radio on my last P38 and I was told it was due to the amount of aluminium in the car not giving a good enough ground. No idea if it's true but maybe this is the same thing?

I saw while looking through the ETM that one of the international markets (can't remember if it's Japan or NAS) got a radio aerial on both rear windows to reduce drop outs. Seems like Land Rover were aware of the issues of having the aerial on only one side of the car but decided they didn't care enough to fix it for everyone lol.

Sorry, I was referring to the adhesive ones that come with the tuners. Was mid-baby feed while posting and forgot you'd swapped aerials lol

Where have you stuck the aerial?

Looks a bit large to put on the windscreen. Did you run it to one of the side windows in the boot?

Further down in the description it says it has DAB if you buy their adapter. It doesn't have a connection for the aerial.

The DAB tuner connects to one of the USB connections.

The manufacturers bumf says it ONLY works with their own adapter but I'm hoping that as it connects to the USB port any tuner with a USB connection will work. Their one is nearly £50 and I've seen others for around £20.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F362102406915

That's the one I got. It can accept a DAB tuner but I didn't get one yet. I probably will though. I can't pick up at radio stations bit that was the same with the factory radio. Pretty much all I could get was Radio 4.

I'll need either an FM aerial booster or the DAB tuner.

Ah, mine has a single "reverse signal" wire at the the end that connects to the head unit but at the camera end it has power and ground wires

Cheers, I'll add the link to your thread and post it up later today.

So far so good. Steering wheel controls are programmed and currently installing a bunch of apps (Audible, Amazon Music etc).

Not using a 3G/4G dongle, just tethering to my phone as it has 20gb data allowance.

Next on the list is an extension for the reverse camera so it reaches the head unit, a longer mic so I can run it up to the map light and a single din funky hole with a closable door. I plan to fit a wireless charging pad on the bottom of the cubby to charge my phone and an NFC tag that will automatically enable Bluetooth and the Wi-Fi hotspot.

When you ran your reverse camera to the handle on the boot how did you connect the power and ground cables to the reverse lights?

Here's the unit being installed:

And here it is finished and working. Needs a bit of stray silicon removing:

I've also made a proper Imgur album that I was planning on posting to the Land Rover subreddit: https://imgur.com/a/XITzy

I've not done that yet though, I wanted to check with you if you're happy for me to do so since it mentions you, links to your website and the DSP replacement stuff is all your ideas and work.