SRS light on dash stays on

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Sorcha

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I have just bought my first Land Rover a Freelander 2002 commercial woohoo!

Brought it for it's DOE test today and it failed :(

SRS light on the dashboard stays on (which I had noticed but thought nothing of).

I know SFA about jeeps but rang my mechanic (a general mechanic not a Land Rover specific one) who said "ahh a light in the dash, could be straightforward or cost you a thousand quid to fix".

Can anyone give me some basic things I could try checking myself? I've had the jeep about 3 weeks and the light has been on the whole time.

Ta x
 
Sorcha said:
I have just bought my first Land Rover a Freelander 2002 commercial woohoo!

Brought it for it's DOE test today and it failed :(

SRS light on the dashboard stays on (which I had noticed but thought nothing of).

I know SFA about jeeps but rang my mechanic (a general mechanic not a Land Rover specific one) who said "ahh a light in the dash, could be straightforward or cost you a thousand quid to fix".

Can anyone give me some basic things I could try checking myself? I've had the jeep about 3 weeks and the light has been on the whole time.

Ta x
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fookin 'ell - yu do like to stir trubble - dont ya. Best advice - take it back to where you bought it and tell em "its unfit for purpose" and get yo money back.




oh - and welcome to Loneyzone;)
 
About the same level of response I'm getting to perfectly reasonable questions as well....

Must be a recurring thing on here, or should that be "ting on eer"
 
not much help that was it.

srs is supplementary restraint system - light indicates a fault somewhere in the circuit. could be something stupid such as a wire undone under a seat.
 
If yu guys will buy a heap of **** and not bother to find out about it before-hand, you deserve wot you get.
A freelander is the biggest heap of poorly designed (I use the word advisedly) tat that has ever been called a Land Rover. It has NEVER been called a "JEEP" and if you go to a "mechanic" which fobs you off with such rubbish, I hope you have deep pockets, because you will need em.
 
The Mad Hat Man said:
If yu guys will buy a heap of **** and not bother to find out about it before-hand, you deserve wot you get.
A freelander is the biggest heap of poorly designed (I use the word advisedly) tat that has ever been called a Land Rover. It has NEVER been called a "JEEP" and if you go to a "mechanic" which fobs you off with such rubbish, I hope you have deep pockets, because you will need em.
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It is listed as a JEEP in the Registration Certificate.
 
only things you can realisticly check your self is all the connections, esp. ones under the seats (yellow). dunt do it with ignition on or you will get what you deserve.......

esp. if you've not long had the vehicle, and chances are you moved the seats backward and forward to the right position which has a habit of disturbing these connectors
 
ok guys fair's fair

you might not like the freelander - each to their own i guess!

however some of us want to help each other and don't appreciate the **** being taken. maybe we just wanted a freelander and not a 'proper' 4x 4 like wot u av

at least we cn tolk in engphlish n all

if you want to help us fine if not go insult someone on the discovery / series forums!

if you do discover an unplugged wire then you will need to reconnect (d'oh) but the error codes may need removing from the ecu. used to be able to do this on a rover 214 by unplugging haz light fuse in engine bay for over 20 seconds...don't know if it works on 'lander.
 
Rusty....
most of us that take the **** HAVE had Freelanders and have learnt the hard way what heaps they are. There is an element of fun, but honistly, they are more trouble than they are worth. Sure a few (and I mean a few), have been lucky, but when they cost several thousand pounds in repair costs a year, on top of servicing (regularly I might add). It is not surprising that we are jaundiced.
Have you read the recent thread from another newbie of a 2004 freelander which has had four - YES FOUR - head gasket failures in 4 years and is now only worth scrap value?

Take our advice - it is based on experience - or expect HUGE bills. If you dont like the **** taking - you are in the wrong forum:eek:.

do not say you havent been warned.....
 
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