Thanks Richard.
Yep the HVAC needs a ribbon, I reckon I could do that.
Cruise control sounds an easy fix, i'll get on that.
The AMP idea would be fun, mine is missing the DSP after it self combusted and caused no end of BECM issues,
I ain't giving up on it, fixing it sounds like fun...
Maybe if there is another "summer camp" i'll chug over and ya'll can feast your eyes on the old beast LOL
H
Thanks Richard..
To answer you question "does anything in your car work as it should" the answer to that is no not really.
To be fair I've spent the entirety of my ownership doing bits underneath to make her mechanically reliable, the interior creature comforts have had to wait.
Radio doesn't work.
Hvac doesn't really function
Cruise doesn't
Heated seats don't function
Heated windscreen doesn't
I need to get stuck in to be fair.
I bought her for £600 so can't really complain a student with no money and a want for the P38 that stemmed from reading LR mags when I was a nipper I knew nowt about them and bought the cheapest I could find, Not ignorent to the issues though I knew it would be a pain in the arse to be fair to it mechanically apart from a few EAS faults that were easy to fix with RRpub help she has never left me stranded. .
The chap I bought her off wasn't very car oriented so he hoon'd the living fuck out of it at every opportunity, at one point he admitted to driving to London everyday and averaging 100mph on the M'way..
I'd love to get another P38 in better nick, but the way prices are going that is an impossibility, and to be fair where is the fun in one that works LOL
I have the devil I know lol no use getting someone else's problem
Oh thanks Richard..
Most of the time the A/C light is on so yes it is off the majority of the time.
I think she has a blend motor and blower fault, is it possible to do the blend motors without taking out the entire dash?
AND can a HVAC fault be cleared without a nano?
Thanks
H
driven home from work in my P38 I parked it in direct sunlight so I had a little play around with the Air-con in the old bus..
I've been operating under the assumption that it didn't work, mostly due to the feeble blower output...
Anyway I turned the aircon on and the if the hieroglyphs on my HVAC are to be believed it was set to "low" the air coming out the dash seemed to be very cool, definitely colder than the ambient air outside, however upon inspection the clutch on the compressor isn't spinning with the pump when the air-con is engaged.
HOWEVER whenever I put the A/C on the engine note changes and she seems to bog down slightly, exactly what would happen when the clutch engages, however I can't see it doing much..
She does have the notebook on the HVAC panel, I've read some place that if the HVAC is in a fault condition it won't allow the compressor to operate?
BUT surely the engine wouldn't change note if nowt was happening??
Any ideas gents?
H
Developed a nice steering shudder under braking recently, very bad if I accelerate hard then immediately stomp on the brakes, the wheel shakes badly and the entire car seems to vibrate violently
There is also a nice pulsation through the brake pedal.
Oh and the weird bit if I brake very gently from say 70 it's fine until I reach around 35mph and she starts to pulsate the pedal . grr!!!
If I ease into the brakes the car is fine but I get the pulsating pedal,
If i'm doing over 60mph the car behaves fine under braking however once i'm under 35mph the pedal starts to pulsate and the other issue is hard to describe but i'll give it a go - it kind of feels like the brakes are being put on/off quickly - like the car is rocking forward and backward like it would if you were on/off the brakes but this only appears when going under 40mph.
I should stress that these issues only appear when braking, driving normally she drives beautifully.
Very odd.
Any ideas gents?
H
Ride quality depends greatly on the condition of the bushes and shocks.
A well sorted L322 should ride quite well, however as said the seats are quite stiff I had a 2002 M62 L322 and found the ride to be quite good however the seats left a lot to be desired.
My P38's ride was simply hideous with TF shocks, however since fitting Black body Britpart units the ride is transformed it now goes over bumps with the refinement i'd expect of a RR and the seats being much softer makes it a very nice cruising companion, I imagine on 16" wheels the ride would be even better, ride wise on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being bad and 10 being excellent
L322 Gets a 6
P38 Gets a 8
RRC gets a 2
thanks JMC
I'll have a look at them
Decent late Vogue and VSE models are going for £5000 and up.
There was a VSE the exact same as yours that sold for 8k I believe, so yeah..
values aren't what they once were!
Never really liked Aston Martins, only the UK and some Euro shitholes are doing this manic switch to EV and even so it isn't rapid so i'm guessing there is still a massive market for some nice sounding performance vehicles LOL
As for Tesla and their 0-60 times yes 0-60 is their main advantage if you stripped that away what you got left to enjoy?
As I said i've driven one, a 2017 Model S and while it was nice to drive there was absolutely no excitement from behind the wheel it was exactly like a nissan leaf normally noiseless souless etc
the 0-60 is great but I wouldn't want to matt it too often, I do recall that in ludicrous mode it does warn you that excessive use will damage the vehicle lol
Morat wrote:
StrangeRover wrote:
Taxing the fuel will be mandatory though, once you remove the free fuel and tax what benefits do you have to driving electric?
Lord High Elon is predicting that he'll have self-driving tech so well sorted "soon" that you'll be able to send your Tesla off to be part of a driverless fleet of Ubers (except, not Ubers but Teslas) when you're not using it. This will mean you earn money from your car while you're at work or asleep. He's so confident that he has put the price of Autopilot up to about £6k even though is isn't ready yet.
Will he be right? Who knows. I can't imagine they'll plug themselves in to recharge though.
Yep some/most of the stuff he says seems rather odd.
I wouldn't send my car off to do stuff like that regardless.
I've tightened mine with a spanner and a little tap with the hammer, never sheared one ;)
Gilbertd wrote:
StrangeRover wrote:
I dunno, but to be fair EV charging points are more plentiful than LPG points!!
But at least we don't clog them up for an hour at a time......
Yep that is true, the pile up of cars at charging points will be an issue.
I've had people point and moan when I spend 3mins filling up my 22gall tank on the P38 I can't imagine what it would be like if I was there for 10mins charging a tesla or even longer for a lesser car.
I do find it funny how they advertise a 350mi range in 15mins as impressive, I can get twice that range out of my Mondeo in 2mins LOL
Morat wrote:
Yep, I'm not sure they're ready yet - but they're coming so I'm conditioning myself to enjoy the changeover.
What I'm also interested in is whether EVs themselves will be a stepping stone towards Hydrogen which seems to be the runner up every time we look at clean fuel.
They're already here and have been for a while,
to be fair I bet in 10yrs time we'll still be saying "there time is coming!!" with current car sales the way they are, even if they were selling 2 million EV's per year "which they are not" they won't tip the scales by 2030.
Taxing the fuel will be mandatory though, once you remove the free fuel and tax what benefits do you have to driving electric?
I dunno, but to be fair EV charging points are more plentiful than LPG points!!
to be fair if you find driving a chore or just a way of going A to B without any occasion then they're perfect,
Whats going to be funny is in the future when all major manufacturers have gone EV how will you differentiate them..?
By rights they'll all drive the same.
Same power delivery characteristics
Handling will be similar
no nice exhaust noise to separate the models,
Self driving
same weird styling
fitted new wipers.
I've driven one, to be fair once you get used to the acceleration it's just plain boring to be honest.
No real occasion to driving one, you just point and go.
Yep.
The speedo is odd.
sometimes it does it other times not, today when it happened the speedo was fine, however other times if for ex i'm doing 60 it'll drop/wave down quickly to 20mph and then straight back up to 60...
no tracs fault yet!
She was ok today
Right up until the point I got it to activate the T/C and the three bastards re appeared!
Same thing happens if I stand on the brakes and make the ABS work.
odd.
Defo like you say Richard leaning towards the ECU however the only fault displayed on the message centre is "ABS FAULT" not "Tracs Fault" which is weird considering all the lights are on.
Mine sits at 97c
But from what I recall the Thor runs hotter, for efficiency and emissions reasons.
Oh right..
cheers