I have a very nice 2001 4.6 Rangie. It has never been very fast but drives very smoothly, quietly and sedately.

Having had various Rover engined TVRs with loads more power I am wondering if like TVRs is camshaft wear a problem with these engines? My experience is that 70–100 K miles is about the limit for a camshaft. Wear is hard to detect due to the hydraulic tappets so my question is: is this a common occurrence with the 4.0 –4.6 L engines?

Symptoms: when you plant your right foot, the car accelerates but seems very slightly hesitant and very slow for the revs to rise. On my private airfield, I clocked a maximum of 100 miles an hour and that took a while to achieve!

Car has done a genuine 80K

Of course it could be something else but I am at a loss as to what it could be.

Any ideas would be great!

New regulator fitted today.

Bit of a faff as it is a pattern part but works fine.............watch this space!

Cheers guys.

Thanks for the help, most useful.

Can I add to this for the collective experience.

Bought my P38 last year, a/c not working.

Had it regassed and all was good, ice cold.

I have been using it the last few days and it has become less effective and the book symbol has appeared. My guess is that I may have a leak.

Should I be looking elsewhere?

Does the book symbol disappear when the problem is solved?

Thanks for that.

I will order one up first thing in the morning.

I stupidly let the battery go flat on my 2001 P38, (don’t ask).

When the dash requested me to reset sunroof and windows, I did but when the drivers window reached its full height it went into this clicking Ratchet type sound which I’m sure isn’t very good!

Does this mean that I have a worn component? If so, Can someone tell me so I can order the part pre-stripping down.

Of course it might just be an adjust or other repair.

Interested to know if someone has had this experience.

Cheers.

Just seen the above reply!

I have just disconnected the connector, gave it a squirt of contact cleaner and all the same.

Looks like I'll order a sensor.......cheers.

Thanks for that.

I thought it may be a dodgy sensor! I will have a look later.

The location advise is very useful!

Used the Rangie first time for several days yesterday.

Strangely, after about 3-4 miles, dash bonged and it displayed, “overheating gearbox, consult handbook “.

It can’t be overheating in this weather after a few miles.

For the rest of the journey it bonged and displayed about every 10 minutes.

Any idea?

All wiring checked and tightened, all OK

Swapped for another adapter and all Hokey Cokey!

Thanks for your help :) Thought I was going mad......

Thanks for that! Very useful info.

Mug of tea in hand and back outside......

Good point regarding both!

I will check it out later on.

Right brake was overheating and it pulled severely left.

My diagnosis was a seized R/H calliper that was slightly on to generate heat and the L/H only doing the braking. Maybe!

Was an nteresting dance braking with the car trailer on.....

I used the car the other day, first time in a couple of weeks. Car was pulling left for several miles and hot smell from O/S calliper.

Logic states that it was temporarily seized.

Car is always garaged, 77K miles.

Is it worth stripping or go straight for a new calliper, (I guess they are fairly reasonable?).

I am trying to sort out why there isn't a power supply working at my tow socket for the R/H indicator

It has the Euro multi pin socket. R/H indicator works on the car but not at the socket.

It seems that the correct wire at the car is a blue feed which is dead at the socket.

Just wondering, are the trailer indicators fused separately?

If so, where will I find the fuse?

If not, where is this blue wire fed from? All connections in the socket are sound, no corrosion so.......

Thanks in advance........

I ordered an Ebay set that leaked.

Ordered another set from X8R and all was good.

:) I do that with my Boxster in summer.

Tier 4 in Dorking and the weather is awful!

BTW, thanks for the info.

I believe this is a common problem.

I have partial numerals some of the time and occasionally it goes back to full numerals but is getting worse.

Is there a cure?

Also, Merry Christmas to everyone and thanks for all the help so far. I must admit having retired at the beginning this year and with Covid, my fuel consumption through lack of use is amazing!

Exactly what I thought.

Do you think the pressure switch is dodgy?

Well! What happened there?

I had the Bonnet open and my hand on the compressor.

When I first fitted all the O-rings and the piston ring in the compressor it would bring it up to speed in a number of seconds but now there seems to be some delay before the compressor switches on and therefore the light flashes on the dashboard for several minutes.