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woods767

woods767

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Hi guys,

Not been on here a while, im normaly in the muddy oily sections of this forum, this place looks abit more shiny!

Can anyone tell me how to use my cruse control? The guy i bought it off showed me it working but i cant figour it. :eek: I also have what could be a problem, when i try and engage the low range by moving the shifter to the left, i just get manual normal ratios, it tells me to sellect neutral, there is a flashing orange broken gears light and a warning buzzer.:eek: Not good. Any ideas? I presume it has high/low on the transfer box?

Thanks, Richard.
 
push the CC button next to the hazard switch and then go to desired speed then puch the button on the lower left hand side of the steering wheel

the high to low or low to high does that. You have to select neutral for it to changed over. not broken so you're ok mate
 
OK just went out and tryed both and failed. I can see how the cruse control should work but it doesent, and the light on the switch never come on, maybe a fuse or somthing im not worried about CC anyway. Still cnat make the lows work. Even in neutral low range it just beeps at me. perhaps it needs a hand engaging after never being used its whole life?

Rich.
 
woods767 said:
Ok thanks, ill crawl under it tomorrow.

Rich.
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This seems to come up every so often. Hopefully it's just user error.

When you go to Low Range, make sure the vehicle is stationary.
When you move the lever over to low range, wait until it stops beeping, before selecting a gear. It will beep and the light will flash on the dash until it has completed the selection. It can take a couple of seconds.
Only when the light has stopped flashing and the beeping stopped, should you select a gear.

Cruise Control rarely seems to work on these things. I've still not debugged mine yet.

Hope that helps.

Guy
 
kooky_guy said:
This seems to come up every so often. Hopefully it's just user error.

When you go to Low Range, make sure the vehicle is stationary.
When you move the lever over to low range, wait until it stops beeping, before selecting a gear. It will beep and the light will flash on the dash until it has completed the selection. It can take a couple of seconds.
Only when the light has stopped flashing and the beeping stopped, should you select a gear.

Cruise Control rarely seems to work on these things. I've still not debugged mine yet.

Hope that helps.

Guy
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It is broken unfortunatly, i dont know whats wrong with it and its too fidley so im not gona touch it. I bought it from a dealer and it has a warrenty, so they can fix it for me. Its going in tomorrow. Also, what does the button on the dash, the one with a circle with a line in the middle do? Next to the suspension ajusting buttons.

Cheers, Rich.
 
  1. The button next to the height switch is the inhibitor, it allows you to select a height and have the car stay there, rather than adjusting itself dependent on speed.
  2. Is your car petrol or diesel, cause if I remember rightly the diesel cruise control won't engage below 55mph, so unless you were faster than that you'll not get it to engage?
  3. It does have a centre diff in the transfer box but rather than a hard 'lock' it has a viscous coupling that locks itself if it senses too great a speed differential between the front and rear wheels.
  4. You don't say what year you have but you do have traction control, pre '99 it only acts on the rear wheels, post '99 it acts on all 4 wheels. It is a development of the ABS system and uses the brakes to lock up a spinning wheel and transfer drive to the other wheel/s.
 
kernowdragon said:
  1. Is your car petrol or diesel, cause if I remember rightly the diesel cruise control won't engage below 55mph, so unless you were faster than that you'll not get it to engage?
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Not sure about that, on my year 2000 DHSE cruise engages at around 40mph with the caravan on, I haven't checked it exactly or tried it slower than that but I use it in 70kph limits.
 
Datatek said:
Not sure about that, on my year 2000 DHSE cruise engages at around 40mph with the caravan on, I haven't checked it exactly or tried it slower than that but I use it in 70kph limits.
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It's not something I've tried either as my cruise control is too flakey most of the time, it's just something I recall reading somewhere (manual:confused:).
 
Ok thanks that awnsers some questions. Its a 4.6 hse, '98. So with the right tyres, it could be better off road than the defender? With traction control on the rear and the viscous coupling, its almost like a diff lock in the middle and in the rear axle right? Not that i plan to put it in the mud or anything! :eek:
 
woods767 said:
Ok thanks that awnsers some questions. Its a 4.6 hse, '98. So with the right tyres, it could be better off road than the defender? With traction control on the rear and the viscous coupling, its almost like a diff lock in the middle and in the rear axle right? Not that i plan to put it in the mud or anything! :eek:
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As i understand it the viscous coupling works after a bit of slip, ie traction is lost.Diff lock is better cos it is applied manually, ie if ya think traction will be lost not in reaction to traction loss therefore givng you better momentum.
 
woods767 said:
Ok thanks that awnsers some questions. Its a 4.6 hse, '98. So with the right tyres, it could be better off road than the defender? With traction control on the rear and the viscous coupling, its almost like a diff lock in the middle and in the rear axle right? Not that i plan to put it in the mud or anything! :eek:
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Not sure you could say it's better than a defender (certainly more comfortable though!), but they are very very good off road. Even with the original Scorpions on mine didn't get stuck once. With the General Grabbers it's just excellent.

Guy
 
A while back one of the LR mags ran an off-road contest between a p38 and the then current model 90, the p38 won in almost all respects, EXCEPT in situations where the 90's better approach,breakover and departure angles came into play. Now Defenders have some of the electronic goodies too I suspect balance as been restored, although I think the L322 fairs pretty well against Defenders, but again looses out in the angles department.
 
kernowdragon said:
EXCEPT in situations where the 90's better approach,breakover and departure angles came into play.
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Isnt that about 90% of off road tasks? :rolleyes: My defender will rarly loose traction, even in clay, unless its got some wheels in the air. Doing axle tricks going up an incline is its weekness, a rear diff axle diff lock or traction control like the P38 would be a masive aid.
 
going back to CC mine has never worked. the pump is broken or something. i dunno. is it hard to fix. I often go visit mates in far away lands an CC is nice on a 4 hour journey.
 
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