Fooked up disco 2

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Devon.salmon

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Hi all, I'm brand spanking new to this forum in need of much help.
I accidentally (of course) ran out of deisel, put fuel in and then battery went flat whilst turning it over. The car is now rejecting the key, does anyone in Devon near Plymouth have a nanocom? The long and short of it is, it's an automatic, stuck up a narrow drive to my friends house. So recovery will be difficult. I assume I need to reprogram the key to BCU. Thanks in advance. Also my only car so stuck.
 
OK, does the fob work? does the little red led light on the fob when you press either button?

Is the car battery now fully charged? D2's do not like low batteries.

Cheers
 
Hi the fob has a new battery in not so long ago. It is transmitting. It has never open on the buttons. But did open with key in door and started an ran fine, since this incident it opens in door but alarm sounds also nothing happens when I turn the key apart from Blackpool illuminations
 
So the car alarm is working correctly. At least to how it should work if it was std.
If it is immobilised , which it sound slike it is , ( the LED on the dash will be flashing) then a nanocom will not talk with the car.
Do you have the EKA code?
Use the link and have a read of this attachment, alarm issues. Also will tell you how to get the EKA code. until you have that and you maybe lucky and be able to jump it, but you probably need to fully charge the battery. You are stuck.

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/handy-buying-alarm-info.311291/
Cheers
 
So the car alarm is working correctly. At least to how it should work if it was std.
If it is immobilised , which it sound slike it is , ( the LED on the dash will be flashing) then a nanocom will not talk with the car.
Do you have the EKA code?
Use the link and have a read of this attachment, alarm issues. Also will tell you how to get the EKA code. until you have that and you maybe lucky and be able to jump it, but you probably need to fully charge the battery. You are stuck.

https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/handy-buying-alarm-info.311291/
Cheers
Don't have the EKA code as no handbook, have looked at that recently. Thanks
 
OK, does the fob work? does the little red led light on the fob when you press either button?

Is the car battery now fully charged? D2's do not like low batteries.

Cheers

so the d2 s also throws a tantrum, lol when my battery went low on mine the dashboard lit up like blackpool illuminations then just shut down

showing fault after fault on the display

nothing would work, then after fitting the new battery is like a new car, all the previous little faults have gone and starts immediately the glow plug lamp goes out
 
OK, I'm just speculating here now, but as has already been said, the D2 isn't particularly fond of low battery volts, for instance, below 10.5 volts or so, it might turn over slowly, but the engine ECU is quite likely not to work, so the injectors will be off.
You say that you've always been able to open the door and start the vehicle with the key without trouble in the past, this says to me that the intruder alarm and immobiliser system might have been "reprogrammed" (quite legally) using a code reader to accept that method of working instead of the default settings, possibly because of a fault in the central locking system.
If that is the case, the recent low volts incident might have reset the intruder alarm/immobiliser system to the default condition as a security measure.
If that is what has happened then you will need the EKA even to use a code reader. While the vehicle is immobilised it will not communicate with any make of diagnostics kit.
 
OK, I'm just speculating here now, but as has already been said, the D2 isn't particularly fond of low battery volts, for instance, below 10.5 volts or so, it might turn over slowly, but the engine ECU is quite likely not to work, so the injectors will be off.
You say that you've always been able to open the door and start the vehicle with the key without trouble in the past, this says to me that the intruder alarm and immobiliser system might have been "reprogrammed" (quite legally) using a code reader to accept that method of working instead of the default settings, possibly because of a fault in the central locking system.
If that is the case, the recent low volts incident might have reset the intruder alarm/immobiliser system to the default condition as a security measure.
If that is what has happened then you will need the EKA even to use a code reader. While the vehicle is immobilised it will not communicate with any make of diagnostics kit.

Thanks ok, I don't have the eka code so will speak to land rover tomorrow, at least with that I should be able to drive the vehicle to a garage is that correct. The battery is reading 13.5volts so no issue with battery now. Thank you
 
Provided that the EKA which Land Rover holds on their database is the one that's on the vehicle and it hasn't been changed then by carefully following the method of entry shown in the pages by @neilly then yes you should be able to drive the vehicle.
Every time you lock it after that you'll have to use the EKA again to regain access.
 
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