2pintsplease
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Gidday all. I've just acquired a 1997 p38 diesel automatic, my seventh and definitely most complicated Landy. There's a few things I'm unsure of.
1) Reticence to start off when effort required. Most notably in reverse, it will struggle to get moving on a steep hill or bump. It will rev just till the turbo starts to spool around 12-1500rpm then run out of ideas. Have had to engage low range in bad situations. Is this a sign of some expensive problems developing or just the nature of the beast?
2) It's hard to tell as I've only done 2000km so far, but it seems to have used a bit of oil and coolant. No sign of head gasket failure, no apparent radiator leaks ,no burning oil, no drips on the driveway (if it was my Series I would be certain that was a sign something was seriously wrong!). Is there an innocent explanation for this?
3)Without an owners manual, I have no idea what the buttons adjacent to the suspension adjuster do. One looks like a pair of tracks with a bar across, and I've noticed that the cruise control only works with it on, but is that all it does? The other is a wheel with little arrows, and haven't worked out what that means. I've also noticed that sometimes the suspension doesn't do what you tell it to straight away...is that just the compressor recharging?
4 ) I'm in New Zealand and the major auto stores don't stock the oil filter. Anyone else down this way been able to source one?
5) I've researched the odometer and found it differs from any other Landy or most cars for that matter, in that it is supplied by a pulse signal from the abs module. Does anybody know what the wire looks like that feeds the odo?
Thanks for reading, any advice much appreciated!
1) Reticence to start off when effort required. Most notably in reverse, it will struggle to get moving on a steep hill or bump. It will rev just till the turbo starts to spool around 12-1500rpm then run out of ideas. Have had to engage low range in bad situations. Is this a sign of some expensive problems developing or just the nature of the beast?
2) It's hard to tell as I've only done 2000km so far, but it seems to have used a bit of oil and coolant. No sign of head gasket failure, no apparent radiator leaks ,no burning oil, no drips on the driveway (if it was my Series I would be certain that was a sign something was seriously wrong!). Is there an innocent explanation for this?
3)Without an owners manual, I have no idea what the buttons adjacent to the suspension adjuster do. One looks like a pair of tracks with a bar across, and I've noticed that the cruise control only works with it on, but is that all it does? The other is a wheel with little arrows, and haven't worked out what that means. I've also noticed that sometimes the suspension doesn't do what you tell it to straight away...is that just the compressor recharging?
4 ) I'm in New Zealand and the major auto stores don't stock the oil filter. Anyone else down this way been able to source one?
5) I've researched the odometer and found it differs from any other Landy or most cars for that matter, in that it is supplied by a pulse signal from the abs module. Does anybody know what the wire looks like that feeds the odo?
Thanks for reading, any advice much appreciated!
