EAS fault

My p38 has come up with the "EAS Fault ,drive at 35 mph max ".

I think this is due to a leaking rear airbag.

Is there a way to reset this to allow the Eas to operate again to see where the leak is ?

Sorry if this has been asked before

Regards

Anna

Anna Grant said:

My p38 has come up with the "EAS Fault ,drive at 35 mph max ".

I think this is due to a leaking rear airbag.

Is there a way to reset this to allow the Eas to operate again to see where the leak is ?

Sorry if this has been asked before

Regards

Anna

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I don't know about resetting the EAS, but if you jack up the car to extend the airbag you will see if the airbags are perished. Could also be the pump. You don't say how old your P38 is, but it seems to me that the airbags have a life of 8 to 10 years on average, so if you want reliability they are sure to need changing.
Someone with more experience than me will be along with more detailed advice I'm sure

Hi- does the suspension inflate at all? if it does inflate to normal you can remove the delay relay located under the passenger seat -it wont clear the fault but at least you can drive it, but you have to put it back in to inflate it every time it goes down! Hope this helps.

You've got what's known as a 'soft-fault' which is the prelude to a 'hard fault' when it will drop you down on to the bump stops for a very 'interesting' drive home. If you have a bad leak you're goin to wear out your compressor pretty soon. You need to get the fault read and cleared first chance you get.
The LR dealer will charge you around £50 for the pleasure of telling you that 'the pressure switch is not changing state' which actually means your compressor is staying on too long as a) its knackered or b) you've got a bad leak.
If you do go to a dealer don't let him fix the problem there and then unless its a leaking hose or collet (they'll either try to sell you a new compressor or airbags). Get it reset and come back on here with the fault and you'll get good honest advice. Almost everything with EAS can be sorted by yourself and step by step instructions are here if you use the search function.

There is a free sofware download available on Rangerovers.net that allows you to sort out any of the faults with EAS using your laptop and a lead that can be bought off ebay or made by yourself. Its a bit tricky to set up but very good when you get it going.
Alternatively there are two off the shelf products that you can throw in your glove box and always have with you: the EAS Buddy from the USA (sold through rover-renovations.com) and Blackbox Solutions EAS Kicker from Cyprus.

The Buddy is a very easy to use simple fault resetter. The Kicker is the most sophisticated of the standalone systems giving you exactly the same fault code reading and resetting capability as the main LR dealer (but only for EAS) in a package the same size as an old mobile phone.
I have a Kicker for sale if you're interested, check them out on blackbox-solutions.com (Its surplus to requirements as I've bought their faultmate extreme MSV2 which allows you read and reset all faults, not just EAS)

Hi spudH,what sort of money do you want for your kicker? Thanks

If you put your location in a message...town/city...someone on here will probably have the software to reset it for a beer or 2.