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Greetings one and all

Vehicle : Discovery V8i ES - Nov 94 (95M/Y)

Hocus pocus surrounding the braking - see earlier thread - has been laid
to rest. Until further evidence rears its ugly head I'm gonna put it down
to the vehicle having been standing for months (based on notes in HBOL).

First impressions of a new owner: Overall I'm quite pleased with the
Discovery - it's a wildly different animal to the 110 - although I'm none
too keen on the front 'spoiler' what's that for? is it standard? - and the
electrickery gremlins have definately taken up residence. Several fuses
went at more or less the same time - do they 'go off' if not used for a
while? I don't think so. Then there's a fuse that the book says controls
the n/s side lights - well they work without it - replaced it anyway but
no idea if that's a good thing (tm). Wiring loom around the fuses appears
to have escaped the attentions of over-enthusiastic amateurs.

Been working my way round the vehicle - the gremlins can't have many
places left to hide. Don't want to scare them off while it's in the drive
though - they might jump over to the 110.

Wheels are fitted with locking wheel nuts - could do with a supplier of
the unlocking gizmo and clues on how to identify which one to ask for.

Rear electric windows stubbonly refuse to work - fuse ok. I suspect
there's a control box someplace - f/f clues welcome.

Anyone breaking a similar vehicle? Would be good to source ...

o All the parts for the tailgate lock - has been 'repaired' by a monkey
with only two left handed hammers and a roll of sticky plasters.

o O/S electric mirror assembly.

o Front seats in beige leather - if the cost is right it would save me a
repair / reupholstery job.

o Engine oil filler cap - ours is cracked.

Finally - although I now have the relevant HBOL - I think a workshop
manual and exploded parts diagrams would be helpful. I know there's loads
on eb*y - anyone with experience of a reliable source for such things?

Thanks for reading.
--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

> Rear electric windows stubbonly refuse to work - fuse ok. I suspect
> there's a control box someplace - f/f clues welcome.

That's an easy one - as you suspect there is a control box. It is
hidden behind the glove box. Take it out - one of the solder joints
on the board is prone to failure - re-solder the joint and replace the
unit - all will be ok! There is an article on it somewhere on the
Internet, but can't remember exactly where now. Discoweb? I think?!
If I remember correctly the control box can be a bit of a bugger to
get out unless you have the right technique - at which point it comes
out easily!

Matt

"William Tasso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]...
> Greetings one and all
>
> Vehicle : Discovery V8i ES - Nov 94 (95M/Y)
>
> Hocus pocus surrounding the braking - see earlier thread - has been laid
> to rest. Until further evidence rears its ugly head I'm gonna put it down
> to the vehicle having been standing for months (based on notes in HBOL).
>
> First impressions of a new owner: Overall I'm quite pleased with the
> Discovery - it's a wildly different animal to the 110 - although I'm none
> too keen on the front 'spoiler' what's that for? is it standard? - and the
> electrickery gremlins have definately taken up residence. Several fuses
> went at more or less the same time - do they 'go off' if not used for a
> while? I don't think so. Then there's a fuse that the book says controls
> the n/s side lights - well they work without it - replaced it anyway but
> no idea if that's a good thing (tm). Wiring loom around the fuses appears
> to have escaped the attentions of over-enthusiastic amateurs.
>
> Been working my way round the vehicle - the gremlins can't have many
> places left to hide. Don't want to scare them off while it's in the drive
> though - they might jump over to the 110.
>
> Wheels are fitted with locking wheel nuts - could do with a supplier of
> the unlocking gizmo and clues on how to identify which one to ask for.
>
> Rear electric windows stubbonly refuse to work - fuse ok. I suspect
> there's a control box someplace - f/f clues welcome.
>
> Anyone breaking a similar vehicle? Would be good to source ...
>
> o All the parts for the tailgate lock - has been 'repaired' by a monkey
> with only two left handed hammers and a roll of sticky plasters.
>
> o O/S electric mirror assembly.
>
> o Front seats in beige leather - if the cost is right it would save me a
> repair / reupholstery job.
>
> o Engine oil filler cap - ours is cracked.
>
> Finally - although I now have the relevant HBOL - I think a workshop
> manual and exploded parts diagrams would be helpful. I know there's loads
> on eb*y - anyone with experience of a reliable source for such things?
>
> Thanks for reading.
> --
> William Tasso
>
> Land Rover - 110 V8
> Discovery - V8

Drop me an email Will and I'll hunt out the links for the Disco manuals (
hope you have broadband its a big file) btw if you get offered an EPC the
exploded component diagrams are rather better than those in Rave or the
workshop manual.
Land rover electrics are a wonderful thing I've been sorting out the
central locking the passenger door and tail gate were not working so I tried
replacing the drivers side ( actuator ) which controls them nope turns out
both slaves were cooked but the passenger still would not not lock
consistantly (Maplins supplied kit exactly right size although actuator is
different) I gave up after 2 hours put the door back together and locked
the drivers door buggerme the passenger door locked too?
Derek

(btw if anyone wants a deal for a two door C/L kit I got one!- we were
discussing it a few weeks back )

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:42:55 +0100, Matthew Maddock
<[email protected]> wrote:

>> Rear electric windows stubbonly refuse to work - fuse ok. I suspect
>> there's a control box someplace - f/f clues welcome.
>
> That's an easy one - as you suspect there is a control box. It is
> hidden behind the glove box.

Thanks - it would never have occured to me to put the rear window control
box there - what were they thinking of?

> Take it out - one of the solder joints
> on the board is prone to failure - re-solder the joint and replace the
> unit - all will be ok!

sounds too much like magic

> There is an article on it somewhere on the
> Internet, but can't remember exactly where now. Discoweb? I think?!

Not that I can see/find - but then again the mighty goog is showing her
age these days.

> If I remember correctly the control box can be a bit of a bugger to
> get out unless you have the right technique - at which point it comes
> out easily!

All those years as a trainee gynaecologist won't be wasted then.

--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:07:15 +0100, Derek
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> "William Tasso" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]...
>> Greetings one and all
>>
>> Vehicle : Discovery V8i ES - Nov 94 (95M/Y)
>>
>> Hocus pocus surrounding the braking - see earlier thread - has been laid
>> to rest. Until further evidence rears its ugly head I'm gonna put it
>> down
>> to the vehicle having been standing for months (based on notes in HBOL).
>>
>> First impressions of a new owner: Overall I'm quite pleased with the
>> Discovery - it's a wildly different animal to the 110 - although I'm
>> none
>> too keen on the front 'spoiler' what's that for? is it standard? - and
>> the
>> electrickery gremlins have definately taken up residence. Several fuses
>> went at more or less the same time - do they 'go off' if not used for a
>> while? I don't think so. Then there's a fuse that the book says
>> controls
>> the n/s side lights - well they work without it - replaced it anyway but
>> no idea if that's a good thing (tm). Wiring loom around the fuses
>> appears
>> to have escaped the attentions of over-enthusiastic amateurs.
>>
>> Been working my way round the vehicle - the gremlins can't have many
>> places left to hide. Don't want to scare them off while it's in the
>> drive
>> though - they might jump over to the 110.
>>
>> Wheels are fitted with locking wheel nuts - could do with a supplier of
>> the unlocking gizmo and clues on how to identify which one to ask for.
>>
>> Rear electric windows stubbonly refuse to work - fuse ok. I suspect
>> there's a control box someplace - f/f clues welcome.
>>
>> Anyone breaking a similar vehicle? Would be good to source ...
>>
>> o All the parts for the tailgate lock - has been 'repaired' by a monkey
>> with only two left handed hammers and a roll of sticky plasters.
>>
>> o O/S electric mirror assembly.
>>
>> o Front seats in beige leather - if the cost is right it would save me a
>> repair / reupholstery job.
>>
>> o Engine oil filler cap - ours is cracked.
>>
>> Finally - although I now have the relevant HBOL - I think a workshop
>> manual and exploded parts diagrams would be helpful. I know there's
>> loads
>> on eb*y - anyone with experience of a reliable source for such things?
>>
>> Thanks for reading.
>> --
>> William Tasso
>>
>> Land Rover - 110 V8
>> Discovery - V8
>
> Drop me an email Will and I'll hunt out the links for the Disco manuals

YGM - assuming I de-munged correctly.

> ...
> I gave up after 2 hours put the door back together and locked
> the drivers door buggerme the passenger door locked too?

Those disco gremlins get everywhere.

ok - I've had some thoughts on this stuff.

Not too long ago I was presented with a dead server and the following
comprehensive fault report: it's broken.

and this brief: make it work.

Skipping past all the broken things that were quite trivial to fix the
last remaining job was fixing the time keeping. It would revert to
default (manufactured) date/time whenever power recycled. A new battery
seemed in order - yes, we'd tried the jumper to reset CMOS. We don't keep
m/b batteries in stock so I had to source a replacement - the P+P/courier
cost more than the battery. Made no difference. As a final desperate act
I lifted the bios chip from its seat, looked ok, replaced it and bingo -
all working fine.

Point is, I couldn't see any corrosion on those contacts but the simple
act of taking it apart and putting it back together was enough to 'clean'
the contact points.

I have no other explanation aside from releasing trapped gremlins

--
William Tasso

Land Rover - 110 V8
Discovery - V8

> Not that I can see/find - but then again the mighty goog is showing her
> age these days.

Found it...

http://www.discoweb.org/

Click 'tech' at the top and it is one of the articles down the left
hand side. Plenty of other good stuff in there as well.

Now I see the article, I think I remember why I had problems. You
either just take the board out, or you take the casing out with the
board still inside - I can't remember which now - but one of them
is a b*d to get out, the other is easy(er)!

Matt