Diesel Hot Starting Fault P38

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sorry cant remember i did not say my brain could retain anything well apart from cars,it could be dehli but who cares if i want an indian i go to my local takeaway,i love culture dont you,just to make you guys and girls a bit green drove a new baby range rover sport out today supercharged,did i like it well lets just say im still smilling like tony blair pre election of course.
 
i have mailed 2 lots of diagrams and hand written notes for the hot start problem 2 2 members yesterday so i hope this is soon posted on the site and i do hope it works for you all, otherwise i can see an angry mob at my door.
 
to quote a great philosopher...."you lucky lucky baaaaastard" :)

do you think the owner would notice if you whipped out its 4.4 and stuck in my rip roaring 2.5D? tell him it just needs a tune! hehe

btw soon as i get the diagrams ill post up here...depending on when royal mail can be arsed to turn up.
 
Julian
got your mail thanks a lot
I'll let you know how I get on
I tried scanning them to post to the site but as they are photostats of handwritten one's
the qual;ities crap
I will get the wife to take into work to see if she can enhance them
thanks again
PeterLR
 
i might scan them in high-res, then zip them up and put them on the web for download, im guessing that each page could be a few mb in size, so hopefully after being zipped the whole zip should be around 1 to 2 megs.

will do tonight (Thursday)
 
hi glad you all got the copies i sent sorry about the quality,im hoping to buy a new scanner soon so if you boys dont have much luck i will resubmit,was you happy with the description and detail,are you able to follow this do you think many thanks tiga
 
Hi Bigstoo & Tiga
went into Bigstoo's post and merely copied them then pasted into word document (Page lay out Landscape)
Done it in seconds and it worked a treat.
(I got wife to photostat at work but didn't help much)
Will let you know how I get on, but at moment Tiga's instructions appear to answer a lot of questions.
Peter LR
 
Hi Tiga,
I have been trying to sort out the above mod to my DSE, the relay is easy to get hold of, but I am having trouble locating a resistor, I have trawled through the yellow pages for electronic suppliers but nobody seems to have them, somebody suggested RS Components, I looked on their website and was baffled by the different versions available, and I had to buy a minimum of 50, I may be lucky enough to have 1 RR but not 50!! Any suggestions would be welcome
thanks KSG
 
how much does 50 cost, have you tried tandys or called radio shack,if not wh smiths sell a catolouge called maplins electrical and they sell bits,we have not got any at work yet and i could not find any in my shed so thats the best i can do at the moment cheers tiga.
 
Hi Tiga,
thanks for the info on suppliers, I got the resistor off Maplins web site, the resistor arrived today, followed your instructions and the vehicle is now sorted, thanks very much for the knowledge on the mod, greatly appreciated, Its a shame that the dealers won't acknowledge the problem according to them you have to live with it when the vehicle has done approx 70k
 
ksg said:
Hi Tiga,
thanks for the info on suppliers, I got the resistor off Maplins web site, the resistor arrived today, followed your instructions and the vehicle is now sorted, thanks very much for the knowledge on the mod, greatly appreciated, Its a shame that the dealers won't acknowledge the problem according to them you have to live with it when the vehicle has done approx 70k
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well i must say that i am disolusioned with some main dealers and i suppose the technitions that work for the dealears at the end of the day,i go into work with the head on that i want to fix cars and keep people happy as i would be with my own car,it comes down to how much you care about getting the job done right,i was lucky i suppose i joined landrover 3.5 years ago just doing freelander recalls for £7.15 an hour i was a manager in a steel fabriction/powder coating workshop for almost 8 years,god i hated the job but the £25k a year was nice,so know i have supassed myself and others and am a very up in the field now or hope i am,all i try and do is help people,best thing you can do is go into your dealers and say i fixed it with the help of my friends,just debating about starting my own buisness in landrovers of course just not sure if i have the guts to do it,you just get fed up earning £75 an hour for the garage and not even £9 for myself,im glad it worked for you chers tiga.
 
Hello I am new to this forum but have the same hot start problem as others here -m namely when the engine is warm the heater plugs do not operate.

My vehilce had been fitted with a relay that would simply operate the heater plugs regardless of engine temperature - aparantly (by the quality of the work) by someone who knew about auto electrics but not p38 Rangies. the fix did not address the timing and extra fuel that goes with a cold start.

I have started to down load your relay and resistor fix - and would like to know if it will trick the ecu into thinking the engine is cold or (as my current fix) just add pre heat- any help you can offer is greatly appreciated

Jools.
 
Hi There

I used Tigapiglets fix and it has worked perfect. No more embarrasing 30 second turn overs. I think it tells the glow plug sensor to come in every time even if the engine is hot.

Anyway, who cares how it works, it just works!

Mycash
 
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