M and S lights are now on every time I drive her. Sometimes it takes a little while but then you can feel a 'bump' almost like its changing gear and on they come. Replaced the box about 9 years ago when it happened last time but its only done about 10,000 miles since. Is it time to consign it to the scrap heap - our local garage has it at the moment but its got them stumped. We are in Lincolnshire if anyone knows any Landrover magicians!
Disco 2 M and S Lights 2003 Auto TD5 Diesel
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There was a very famous magician on here who hailed from Louth who was a man of the box. But he has not been on here for a while now so I think he may have ceased trading.
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XYZ switch or transmission harness loom chafed where it goes through the P clip over the TC. Best get the fault code read. Do you have a Nanocom/Foxwell etc? The bump is it going into limp home mode. If you were moving it would change into 4th at max pressure giving "harsh changes", to quote the WSM. Almost certainly not the box itself.
Good luck.
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I second that, P clip would be the first place I'd look.
Bastid bloody thing.
Think if it was the XYZ switch it'd be a problem from the off every time, but then.....
You have checked the wastegate and actuator are both sound?
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There are a couple of threads on Anything goes wondering where JM is, https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/james-martin-is-james-all-okay.371779/ and https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/james-martin.372629/There was a very famous magician on here who hailed from Louth who was a man of the box. But he has not been on here for a while now so I think he may have ceased trading.
I hope he returns!
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As do I.
Consensus seems to be he is just stuck into his smallholding and house renovations.
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Have the fault codes read with dedicated reader nanocom etc.
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Check standing battery voltage is at 12.6VDC.
Thank you all so much for your replies. Well the consensus at the garage is she is RIP needs a new gearbox and XYZ switch - the second gear solenoid is FOOBAR too. They cant find a decent donor gearbox anywhere - the ones that they have had in the past have failed after a while. Going to MOT it I think and then see - struggling to part with it but think the time has come
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Advice was to check the wiring very closely going to the xyx switch, did the garage actually do anything? I'd be taking a second opinion.
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+1 on that.
Sounds like they got the fault code read, got P0758, solenoid 2, and did nothing else. I would bet it's the wiring harness, not the box.
Second opinion time.
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Sorry but that sounds like bollix to me. Doubt the gear box is that fooked.
As @PopPops said, do check, or get someone to check the famous P clip area for chafing. It isn't obvious until you take that part of the loom off and have a really good deep look at it.
As it drives OK for a while before it throws its toys out of the pram, it can't be the box. So don't throw it out with the bath water as it were.
Hope you get to the bottom of it.
Xyz switches c an be mended. there are threads on here and elsewhere all it takes is 5 min Googling.
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+1 again, and put better than I did
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Doesn’t sound right to me either.
Get a 2nd opinion mate.
Get a 2nd opinion mate.
We are based in Lincolnshire and I am a teacher and my husband a software developer and so fixing this is out of both our comfort zones. Does anyone know where I could take it to be looked and hopefully fixed at that is fairly local - it goes everywhere in 3rd gear!! The only independent Landrover garage I know of called OFG Lincoln told me it was only fit to scrap three years ago. Main dealers just shook their heads and looked confused muttered something about antique and asked me if I wanted to test drive a new one
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Hey I'm a retired teacher too! MFL. dosen't stop you learning about cars!We are based in Lincolnshire and I am a teacher and my husband a software developer and so fixing this is out of both our comfort zones. Does anyone know where I could take it to be looked and hopefully fixed at that is fairly local - it goes everywhere in 3rd gear!! The only independent Landrover garage I know of called OFG Lincoln told me it was only fit to scrap three years ago. Main dealers just shook their heads and looked confused muttered something about antique and asked me if I wanted to test drive a new one
Here is a thread that talksa bout this problem and contains a link to yet another.
It really is not that difficult to take that part of the loom off, check it out repair it and put it back on.
No special tools required, just a bit of common sense.
https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/checking-wiring-loom-from-xyz-switch.364617/#post-4992520
