l322 column tilt problem.

Hi all.

Can anyone help me. I have a 04 l322, the problem is, just taken it for a mot and on the advisory it mentioned the steering column had play when in the lowest position but ok when adjusted to the top position. (electric adjust)They say it could be a big job and a fail if the play was in all positions.


Any advice or guidunce would be appreciated.

Thank's in advance.

Bill.

See linky, already been done...

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f10/l322-steering-column-109211.html

p.s. my telescopic (in and out as opposed to up and down) has de'threaded and now stuck fully in. I've been quoted about 500 squid to get it fixed. At the moment it doens't bother me enough to spend half a K fixing it for it to probably break again (this is a well documented problem but LR refuse to do a recall on it).

Out of interest how many people on here have/have had this problem? - maybe we should start a petition to LR as it is outragous that this is STILL happening and they don't acknowledge it!

just thinking out loud here, but i wounder do they fail because of people getting out when there still retracting and using the wheel to pull them selves out of the seat? I noticed the other day that i do this and have now started waiting till be wheel stops before a get out....pity they dont have a grab handle on the a pillar like most other 4x4's
my last 4x4 a toyota landcruiser amazon had this and by the way the electric column on these give there fair share of problems too.

Is it possible to set the range rover column to where you want it and then just unplug it??

Thank's to all that replied and to those who viewed my post. Just going to live with it for the time being. Mick the diggers point of using the steering wheel as a grab handle, i will be taking note of that, thank's Mick will be careful when getting out in future now,not that i cause the problem as i never have it in the lowest position where the play is.

Regards,

Bill.

I bought my 03 L322 from new and within a couple of weeks one of the axis (i forget which) packed in. No noise and no motion either.
I had not written the diagnostic software for this model yet, but then that's one of the reasons i bought one.

As i have a Testbook and T4, i hooked it up and read the fault code memory of the seats module, as that is what controls the column motors. There was no faults showing at all which might have seemed odd to some, but i obviously have some experience of TB and it's Fault masking shinanigans and so i monitored it at raw data level requesting the fault codes from the ECU and i could see a couple being returned. I manually worked out their values and manually looked them up to discover they were motor over current related.

I tricked the TB into letting me clear the fault code memory and lo and behold that restored operationality. Well for a time anyway :doh:

When we wrote our own software, it was then much less hassle to read and clear the faults and after a few recurrences it seems the action got more worked and it happened less frequently.

Then one day a couple of years down the line, while getting out of the vehicle and pulling on the wheel as suggested here, something gave on the up and down motion leaving it flopping around.

My dealer confirmed this was not unknown, especially with ahemm, larger types. And he was not being diplomatically unkind, as although i am indeed a bit tubby round the middle, i am really quite a big framed guy anyway.

So i fitted a new Column (600 quid job) and saw the bit of cast ally that had broke and it was indeed well wimpy.

But what was interesting was that with the new column the old over current saga got re started all over again for me.

I know this does not seem to fit with the stripping threads aspect, but hopefully it will be of help to some.