Here is my very unique situation:
My 2005 4.4 LR3 was in perfect running condition, no issues at all. I parked my car at the airport, left for a trip, and when I was on that trip I lost my key. Fast forward 1.5 months later I get a new key from factory Land Rover, and then have a guy come and program the key. This is when things went haywire. The car started throwing all kinds of errors, alarm wouldn't turn off, wouldn't even try to turn over, was completely immobilized.
I took it to a Land Rover specialist they noticed some water in my floor board and told me it was likely water leaking from the sunroof onto the CJB, so I tore it apart and the CJB was completely fine, no corrosion and all the wires were still functioning. So then they told me it was likely the cluster, so I started to inspect that, here's what I've found so far:
Symptoms that support the cluster being the problem:
- The car will not start, even if the key is not programmed the car should start for brief moment then turn off
- Since the first attempt to program the key the emergency flashers and alarm have continuously gone off when the battery is connected, this even after I disconnected, removed, and reinstalled the central junction box
- The door locks will no operate
- No communication with cluster error on the scanner
- Turn signals will not function
Things that make me think it's something else:
- I have played with the harness connector on the cluster to see if it was a connection issue there, it didn't help
- The cluster is still showing my millage, and displaying "System Check In Progress" when I turn the ignition
- The gas gauge functions
I'm getting pretty desperate here, not really sure what else to do. Land Rover and my local specialist told me to junk the car because I'll spend more than its worth trying to figure out the problem, but I love this car, before it stopped running it was in amazing shape body and mechanically, only 120k miles.
I'm open to suggestions!
My 2005 4.4 LR3 was in perfect running condition, no issues at all. I parked my car at the airport, left for a trip, and when I was on that trip I lost my key. Fast forward 1.5 months later I get a new key from factory Land Rover, and then have a guy come and program the key. This is when things went haywire. The car started throwing all kinds of errors, alarm wouldn't turn off, wouldn't even try to turn over, was completely immobilized.
I took it to a Land Rover specialist they noticed some water in my floor board and told me it was likely water leaking from the sunroof onto the CJB, so I tore it apart and the CJB was completely fine, no corrosion and all the wires were still functioning. So then they told me it was likely the cluster, so I started to inspect that, here's what I've found so far:
Symptoms that support the cluster being the problem:
- The car will not start, even if the key is not programmed the car should start for brief moment then turn off
- Since the first attempt to program the key the emergency flashers and alarm have continuously gone off when the battery is connected, this even after I disconnected, removed, and reinstalled the central junction box
- The door locks will no operate
- No communication with cluster error on the scanner
- Turn signals will not function
Things that make me think it's something else:
- I have played with the harness connector on the cluster to see if it was a connection issue there, it didn't help
- The cluster is still showing my millage, and displaying "System Check In Progress" when I turn the ignition
- The gas gauge functions
I'm getting pretty desperate here, not really sure what else to do. Land Rover and my local specialist told me to junk the car because I'll spend more than its worth trying to figure out the problem, but I love this car, before it stopped running it was in amazing shape body and mechanically, only 120k miles.
I'm open to suggestions!
