The rear wiper on my P38 is on the blink. It's very sluggish when it wipes. That's if it wipes as often it won't move or it does move then dies stuck halfway across the screen. I have had it operating both with the wiper stalk & with the Nanocom so think that all is good regarding BECM & controls. I think that it points to an issue with the wiper motor. I found a couple of posts on other forums where guys have cleaned up the motor & applied plenty of WD40 to get them going again. At the moment I just try & resist using the rear wiper as I know it will stop mid stroke & hang down until sometime later when it will decide to park hidden away.
What is involved in taking out the wiper motor as I cannot find a guide online?
Where can I buy new brushes for the wiper motor? I can't find any listed.
My rear wiper has been a bit reluctant to park & then sluggish while working. It has now stopped in the middle of the rear window & does not park or wipe. The symptoms point to the wiper motor (still available new from JLR for £255 or from Island 4x4 for £180 or as little as £12.99 used from a breaker) but is there anything else I need to consider. I have read that it's controlled direct from the BECM without a relay.
Clive603 wrote:
Opie Oils sent me Mahle filters the last couple of times.
As its 9+ miles to a factor (or, whisper it, Halfrauds) I switched to Opie kits a couple or three services ago as being decent value and more convenient with everything coming in one box. Bit hit'n miss on drain plug washers, but I stock Dowty seals and use them rather than the usual alloy washers so that matters not. They tend to send two boxes of two pollen filters rather than one box of two. So getting overstocked there.
Clive
I didn't realise that Opie Oils sold service kits. I have bought Valvoline VR1 20w/50 from them previously as they have good value prices. I think that I have enough sump plug washers for my next ten services.
Do you have a link to their service kits? I can't find them on the Opie Oils website. When I enter details of my P38 it lists lots of different oils but no service kit. There is a slick webpage that looks up your registration number to get details of the car but then it lists lots of parts that very clearly aren't for a P38.
Island 4x4 have genuine Land Rover oil filters part number ERR3340 for just £6.49+VAT (£7.78) which is less than half the price elsewhere. I just bought a couple of them as the shipping cost is the same for one or two. Total cost for the two including shipping was £22.78. Rimmers have genuine oil filters for £21.24 each plus shipping.
Pierre3 wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I am going to buy a new one and hopefully that will sort out the problem.
I am surprised how noisy the vibration noise is !!
One other question, if you happen to know the answer - I buy my parts from Landrover in Belgium as this saves any extra duty when arriving in Ireland, although, admittedly, I am paying it in Belgium - but looking at the description for the drivers' side door latch, RHD, there are a number of different part numbers. Is there any chance that you might happen to have a listing for a 2001 P38, with the VIN nr. being W3 1 A452327 ? I read through an older post where you listed the various VIN numbers and the relevant years, but on the LR Direct website there is no part number relating to a VIN 1A452327.
Pierre3.
I noticed that Rimmer Bros now do an EU VAT All Inclusive Service. When I am in France I have several times ordered from RLD Autos who have good stocks of parts & very rapid delivery.
https://www.rld-autos.com/fr/pieces-land-rover/range-rover-p38
Marty , I've sent you a PM
I have just retired so it's a bit of a cliche but we have bought a caravan which I collected yesterday. My wife is very happy that finally the P38 is going to earn its living. I used to tow my Dad's caravan with his Datsun about forty years ago & I have regularly towed trailers & a horse box but the last time was over 25 years ago. It's a big van that looks twice the size of my Dad's old one. It's about 1500kg loaded & the P38 towed it easily. Two tons of steel stops the tail wagging the dog & the 4.6L V8 pulls it easily. You are aware that you have the van on the back but it still accelerates nicely. I only had to drive it for about 30 minutes on the A14 & A12 but it felt pretty comfortable. I recalled Richard's recommendation for towing & put in sport mode. We have to keep it at a caravan storage place as we have no room at home but it's only a 30 minute drive just off the A12. We plan on going away fro a couple of nights at the weekend.
I thought that this might be a solution in search of a problem when paper filters are so cheap.
I was just pricing up oil & air filters prior to doing a service & happened upon this one at Rimmers. It's claimed to be not only better breathing but also is cleanable by air or water. At £27.90 it's even more expensive than a genuine JLR filter (£23.49) & much more expensive than an OEM (£6.95) or a cheap aftermarket (£3.15) so would take quite a few years before you saved money with it. Has anyone experience or an opinion?
Try LV. I have just put my P38 back on UK plates. When I last insured it in the UK in 2020 it was £309 (also from LV) & this year it's £368 which seemed reasonable to me. Using the comparison websites the cheapest quote was £459 from eSure with most around £550 or more. To be fair when I inquired about adding my wife who only passed her test last year LV wouldn't insure her whereas I could get insurance for £600+ from Quote Me Happy or £650 from Aviva. I estimated my annual mileage as 10,000.
Gilbertd wrote:
It's listed as a sealant pack, and the subsequent picture of it appears to show a couple of tubes of something. Whether it is for installing the screen or for sealing it when it leaks, I've no idea https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/lr078295-adhesive-and-sealer.html
LOL So not a small intricate irreplaceable plastic part?
Gilbertd wrote:
How to release the top screen finisher clips is in RAVE, you slide them to one side with an old credit car or similar. You will break at least some of them but they are still available in packs of 5 (https://parts.jaguarlandroverclassic.com/dce10038l-clip-retaining.html). One pack should be enough but I think you need something like 8 to replace them all. They are probably used on other cars as when I bought two packs, they came in a pack with Rover markings. In fact I've just checked my drawer of assorted small parts and have an unopened pack of 5.
Richard, out of interest do you know what the part labelled number 7 is on that diagram? It's difficult to understand where it fits with the rest of the parts & there is no scale so even estimating size isn't easy. It's obviously smaller than the windscreen but is it bigger than a retaining clip? It looks like quite a complex moulding.
On my way to the ferry at Saint-Malo yesterday I was travelling along at 50mph (80kph) on a single carriageway road. It was still dark just before 08:00 when a full grown fallow deer shot out from the roadside straight into my path. I braked hard which must have surprised the car on my tail but there was no way to avoid hitting the deer. Luckily it wasn't thrown in the air to land on my windscreen but went under the car after a resounding thump as I caught it with the middle of the bumper. I stopped a couple of miles on when I was able to pull off the road to inspect the car. There was no evidence of any damage.
In over fifty years of motoring I have struck several varieties of wildlife but nothing as big as this deer. I'm grateful that we were in the Range Rover as I suspect a less robust vehicle would have sustained quite a bit of damage. I recall running over a rabbit in my Audi A6 Quattro. The animal went through the front grill & snapped the serpentine belt leaving a not so lucky rabbit's foot stuck on one of the pulleys.
Over the course of a couple of days the tailgate button became 'crunchy'. Then I could only open the upper half of the tailgate. I also frequently on switching on getting the message that the tailgate was open & had to slam it shut hard each time. The button didn't spring out like it used to do.
The problem was the switch of course. The spring was rusty & the o ring the consistency of dry pasta in several pieces. I have ordered the service kit with the stainless steel spring but in the meantime cleaning the spring & applying loads of WD40 revived the spring & switch enough that I can now open the lower tailgate with the button.
Impressive milestone!
Gilbertd wrote:
Not just Ireland, if you pick the wrong MoT test centre here, you can run into problems.
At least in the UK if you don't like the MOT result there are plenty of other centres where you can take the vehicle for a second or third or fourth opinion.
In France there are plenty of CT stations & you only need a test every two years (motorcycles don't need any test). Even if you fail unless it's a dangerous fault you get issued a CT for two months giving you time to get the repair done & return for a retest just on the failure points.
It sounds like test centres are thin on the ground in Ireland.
An interesting story & slightly worrying as a THOR fuse box is NLA as a new part although those for the diesel & GEMS are still available (the latter 3x the price of the former).
My wife's Smart FourTwo has the stop/start system. She doesn't mind it so much as her driving instructor's car also had it so she didn't know any better & thought it normal for all cars.😀 I find it incredibly dangerous to sit at a junction or roundabout & not be certain when you put your foot on the accelerator whether the car is going to pull away cleanly or hesitate. If you remember you can press a button to switch it off every time you power on the car but happily there is some nifty software called DDT4All that allows you to reprogram all sorts of parameters on the car including permanently switching off the stop/start system.
In both UK for MOT & France for CT if you disagree with the opinion of the tester who failed your vehicle it's easy enough to take it for a test at another more friendly place as there are loads of alternative testing stations. In the UK most garages do MOTs & in France the CT stations just do CTs but they are all independent & there are loads to choose from.