L button?

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On the manual P38's there is a button on the central switch panel with a large Cog and a Small Cog on it....this is the Range Selection button...

Into Neutral, press this button - wait for the message on the dash to indicate Low Range has been selected...then into a Drive gear and off you tootle...

Never heard of an 'L' button on the dash before...maybe a photo wouldn't go amiss...!!

EDIT: just looked at the manual...the button with the Cogs has got an 'L' in it!

So if yours does nothing and it is not connected to anything behind it....take the central panel off and look to see if it has fallen below....some times the Transfer Box ECU goes pop and previous owners may disconnect the switch to prevent it being used!!
 
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Saint.V8 said:
On the manual P38's there is a button on the central switch panel with a large Cog and a Small Cog on it....this is the Range Selection button...

Into Neutral, press this button - wait for the message on the dash to indicate Low Range has been selected...then into a Drive gear and off you tootle...

Never heard of an 'L' button on the dash before...maybe a photo wouldn't go amiss...!!

EDIT: just looked at the manual...the button with the Cogs has got an 'L' in it!

So if yours does nothing and it is not connected to anything behind it....take the central panel off and look to see if it has fallen below....some times the Transfer Box ECU goes pop and previous owners may disconnect the switch to prevent it being used!!
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I tell you what wouldn't go a miss, my punch landing of the person nose who nicked my phone.. hence no picture.

Yeah that's the button I'll have to have a look, I'm sure it use to work??? weird
 
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Just had a good look, there is defiantly nothing there.

Ill just put it all back for now.... but I will be thinking of sorting this out soon, so any thought's would be good
 
Strainge it should have low range! Operated by the switch if yours is a manual?
The auto it never had one just a switch blank
Ive put one in mine but used it to power the rear headrest monitors
The L is inside the big cog on the button
 
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thepipersson said:
Just had a good look, there is defiantly nothing there.

Ill just put it all back for now.... but I will be thinking of sorting this out soon, so any thought's would be good
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its not a converted auto to manual is it?
Thats the only thing I can think of as why the plug isn't there
Unless the plug has fallen to the back of the dash somewere
 
I wouldn't know if has been converted to be honest, starting to bug me now!! so where would that wire go?

I found a chopped off wire under the kick panel in the passenger side..... I think I need to do some serious investigation.... I want that power!! she may need it when towing her horse
 
gfromleeds said:
No you'll only ever need low range for climing serious hills or as I did the only time ive used it pulling a 30foot conifer out of the ground
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Low range is very useful on a manual to save slipping the clutch when reversing a loaded trailer into a confined space or on a slope. Not needed on the auto so much.
 
Datatek said:
Low range is very useful on a manual to save slipping the clutch when reversing a loaded trailer into a confined space or on a slope. Not needed on the auto so much.
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Needed mine towing the tin tent through Cuenca in Spain. The main road was closed and the diversion took us through the old part of town. What an experience, very narrow , very steep and balconies on the old houses that I thought were going to take the roof of the caravan off.:)
 
thepipersson said:
Ok, so any ideas where I start....
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Get urself rave and try bridging a wire to the transfer motor see if it works first
Then do the same at the becm and if that too works you could rewire it
The plug on the back is the with a little altering the same fitting as the rest on the dash so could get a replacement from a brakers to wire in
Shouldnt be a hard job if you know a little about electrics
But first job is check the becm can move the transfer motor
 
gfromleeds said:
Get urself rave and try bridging a wire to the transfer motor see if it works first
Then do the same at the becm and if that too works you could rewire it
The plug on the back is the with a little altering the same fitting as the rest on the dash so could get a replacement from a brakers to wire in
Shouldnt be a hard job if you know a little about electrics
But first job is check the becm can move the transfer motor
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Transfer Motor is driven via the transfer Box ECU - nowt to do wit the BeCM....the TB ECU tells the BeCM which ratio it is in and that's all
 
Saint.V8 said:
Transfer Motor is driven via the transfer Box ECU - nowt to do wit the BeCM....the TB ECU tells the BeCM which ratio it is in and that's all
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So all I will need to do then is find out what pins to bridge on the TB ECU and that should then communicate with the BeCM, which in turn would put some sort of message on the Dash, is that right?
 
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