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Anyone have a guess at the cause of this?
Bought another p38 recently (4.0 auto) with a known EAS fault.
Basically it wasn't raising at the front. It was thought an air spring might be the culprit. There were a couple of faults on the Nanocom, but I think due to the compressor running a long time. Cleared these and they have not reappeared.
Three times (including today) I've started the vehicle and both front and back have raised. In fact today I could cycle through all ride heights, stop the engine and restart and the EAS appeared fine. On the previous occasion, dropping to entry height and then trying to raise only the rear would come up.
The first time both front & rear worked I parked it up for 4-5 days. After which the front had sunk, but the rear was still raised. However, on other occasions (today after I'd finished messing with it, but other times too), you can turn the engine off and within 20 secs or so you hear a valve opening under the bonnet and it'll drop all 4 corners.
I honestly don't think it is an air bag at fault, as I'd expect more consistency with the issue. I do have 2 new front air bags however. But looking for suggestions on what the actual cause might be?
This is what it normally does when running:
Although today for most of the time it was like this:
When I first got it, it was showing these errors, but they have not returned, even when the problem is happening.
Bought another p38 recently (4.0 auto) with a known EAS fault.
Basically it wasn't raising at the front. It was thought an air spring might be the culprit. There were a couple of faults on the Nanocom, but I think due to the compressor running a long time. Cleared these and they have not reappeared.
Three times (including today) I've started the vehicle and both front and back have raised. In fact today I could cycle through all ride heights, stop the engine and restart and the EAS appeared fine. On the previous occasion, dropping to entry height and then trying to raise only the rear would come up.
The first time both front & rear worked I parked it up for 4-5 days. After which the front had sunk, but the rear was still raised. However, on other occasions (today after I'd finished messing with it, but other times too), you can turn the engine off and within 20 secs or so you hear a valve opening under the bonnet and it'll drop all 4 corners.
I honestly don't think it is an air bag at fault, as I'd expect more consistency with the issue. I do have 2 new front air bags however. But looking for suggestions on what the actual cause might be?
This is what it normally does when running:
Although today for most of the time it was like this:
When I first got it, it was showing these errors, but they have not returned, even when the problem is happening.
I had a very similar issue on my previous P38, it was a long search and I would say i sort of stabilised it in the end. For the valve adjustments after you turn off then you can remove the EAS relay as suggested and replace with a normal one, this allows you to observe the car overnight. Forgetting the height sticks etc for a moment I would manually edit the bit counts so that you have less of a spread across each axle (esp. your rear) so that the ECU has less excuse to start self-levelling. I think the fact that the EAS was lifting rear and not front may well have been down to low pressure - when working on the EAS we tend to cycle it up and down way more than normal which will expose any system which is not 100% - the pump needs time (with the door open) to return to working pressure. I also had an issue in the LH passenger footwell with one pin from the white connector that had just crumbled away (before resoldering the whole lot. I also had a least one height sensor that was completely f***d and needed replacing, and then I had to replace its twin too... Good luck
