desertdude
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First of all a Big Hello to from the Land of Sand here in Dubai, UAE, secondly I was kinda surprised I'm not registered here on Land Zone ! Almost every Landy Forum on the interwebz I am a member off, been visiting this site for year, guess I've been just lurking then. Sorry about that!
Anyways hate to say hello and get right down to business but gotta, the issue is of a dead p38. Not mine, but a friends. It finally rained here after what seemed like decades, anyway friend just bought a 1998 4.6 HSE that I knew, it was owned by pretty rich bloke and after the dealers, was maintained by my buddy mechanic so I know it was a great car. Never been abused always driven gently and everything save the EAS replaced with new original Land Rover bits
Anyways, somehow during the night the rear right window opened up by itself ( it was by itself as it did open up two times on it own later aswell and RH window not set message come up ) and let some rain in, not heavly soaked or drowned by any means but the carpet is wet to the touch on that side. Now it won't start at all. The dash is dead with only the SRS light on and the message display. Won't crank, won't click, won't do anything. Checked all the obvious, fuses battery etc etc. The Key Fob works, locks and unlocks and the windows also work. Tried various sync procedures and still nothing.
Noticed some moisture in the Becm fuses, so pulled it out, opened it up, there were traces of previous moisture intrusion in it. Cleaned it up with some CRC electrical cleaner, and left it to air dry overnight, today put it back toghter hoping it will fire up but nothing, same SRS light and now the message display also seems to be going out. Ripped it out again and is now drying some more.
Is there anything else we are overlooking ? I personally feel bad as he really isn't a well off fella and really took our word and a leap of faith buying this RR on our word. Its only been two weeks and now this has happened.
Would it be possible to just swap in a Becm, without any programming ? As Middle East market cars really don't have any real security settings, no EKA, hooked up to a nano com, almost all codes fields are blank. Maybe loose remote functionality but thats a small compromise.
Thanks in advance for any advice or help
Cheers
Anyways hate to say hello and get right down to business but gotta, the issue is of a dead p38. Not mine, but a friends. It finally rained here after what seemed like decades, anyway friend just bought a 1998 4.6 HSE that I knew, it was owned by pretty rich bloke and after the dealers, was maintained by my buddy mechanic so I know it was a great car. Never been abused always driven gently and everything save the EAS replaced with new original Land Rover bits
Anyways, somehow during the night the rear right window opened up by itself ( it was by itself as it did open up two times on it own later aswell and RH window not set message come up ) and let some rain in, not heavly soaked or drowned by any means but the carpet is wet to the touch on that side. Now it won't start at all. The dash is dead with only the SRS light on and the message display. Won't crank, won't click, won't do anything. Checked all the obvious, fuses battery etc etc. The Key Fob works, locks and unlocks and the windows also work. Tried various sync procedures and still nothing.
Noticed some moisture in the Becm fuses, so pulled it out, opened it up, there were traces of previous moisture intrusion in it. Cleaned it up with some CRC electrical cleaner, and left it to air dry overnight, today put it back toghter hoping it will fire up but nothing, same SRS light and now the message display also seems to be going out. Ripped it out again and is now drying some more.
Is there anything else we are overlooking ? I personally feel bad as he really isn't a well off fella and really took our word and a leap of faith buying this RR on our word. Its only been two weeks and now this has happened.
Would it be possible to just swap in a Becm, without any programming ? As Middle East market cars really don't have any real security settings, no EKA, hooked up to a nano com, almost all codes fields are blank. Maybe loose remote functionality but thats a small compromise.
Thanks in advance for any advice or help
Cheers