m and s lights flashing wont turn over!

Just got it back from garage. They couldnt find a fault as the m and s lights didnt flash at all during the day. They did find a leaking brake pipe and charged me £108 to fix it. At least it will stop if i ever get it to run consistently. As blackadder said, the phrase rhymes with clucking bells. Not sure what to do next.

bigdai said:

just got it back from garage. They couldnt find a fault as the m and s lights didnt flash at all during the day. They did find a leaking brake pipe and charged me £108 to fix it. At least it will stop if i ever get it to run consistently. As blackadder said, the phrase rhymes with clucking bells. Not sure what to do next.

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put your battery on charge overnight and then see what happens!

Well its been about 5 days since I charged the battery and so far no problems, thanks for the help and fingers crossed.

Cold and dark nights will suck the life out of a battery that is near the end of it's life, but it can be prolonged by weekly, overnight charging.

So i should probably get a new battery then? Had to borrow a mates charger. Thanks again.

didn't know M&S made lights

dellboy1959 said:

didn't know M&S made lights

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Yeah really nice flashing ones - or the flashing Father Christmas played by Gary Glitter.

bigdai said:

So i should probably get a new battery then? Had to borrow a mates charger. Thanks again.

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Hi Dai, if you can get yourself a battery charger/conditioner like an Optimate. It'll make any battery last the longest possible.

Re a new battery, have a look for Tayna Batteries and their 850cca model - really good starter battery.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Optimate-...20?pt=UK_Motorcycle_Parts&hash=item232574cca8

I too bought a disco2 TD5 a few months ago.
I got the M&S lights coming on and found that if I waggled the wiring harness on top of the auto gearbox then restarted , they went away.
What your truck is doing is it is going into "Limp Mode".
It is designed to only go into third gear to save your engine etc.
I have found I get a lot of help here in Australia from our forum at ALRO forum And of course from your forum there in UK.
As a new owner you will find lots of silly alarms lights and other nonsense happening to your Rover. Give a few hours on the net forums, asking people with huge amounts of owner knowledge. You will learn that these trucks are pretty good things and learn to love the Rover.
All the best Nick Viner.

BigDai, have a read of this.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/discovery-2-a/162615-causes-solutions-flashing-m-s-lights.html
(Not this forum but still jolly good and many contributors to it are also to be found here. Me for one!)

I kind'a doubt that a member who was last seen in 2014 would read that

Yeah, I think after over 6 years, he probably sorted the problem or his battery is well charged by now...

Bobdog said:

Yeah, I think after over 6 years, he probably sorted the problem or his battery is well charged by now...

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Have no idea how I came across such an old post!, still it helped me to find the thing on M&S!