P38 Steering left, any ideas & Other questions

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Datatek said:
The nose will lift after you release the brakes when you stop and then it may level down a little. If the whole car goes up could be the driver pack, unlikely to be the ECU as they seem to be reliable.
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The compressor is new. First thing I changed on the car since the old one was too noisy, WAY TOO NOISY!
 
Hmmm Ok. How can we find out if these £210+ plastic box (found on p38spares) is faulty?

Coz beside what I just describe the Suspension work just fine to me, maybe it may need to be adusjted... Good lord I wish I could be a mecanic!
 
SpacePig said:
Hmmm Ok. How can we find out if these £210+ plastic box (found on p38spares) is faulty?

Coz beside what I just describe the Suspension work just fine to me, maybe it may need to be adusjted... Good lord I wish I could be a mecanic!
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Look at Island 4x4. A lot cheaper for same thing. P38 spares are top dollar for everything. It's not plastic the case is metal.
 
wammers said:
Look at Island 4x4. A lot cheaper for same thing. P38 spares are top dollar for everything. It's not plastic the case is metal.
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Thanks will check Island 4x4! And as price is concerned I will make a new thread on how lucky U are guys to be in the UK, part price in Japan are just... Mental!

And for the plastic box I was trying to be ironic ;)
 
SpacePig said:
Thanks will check Island 4x4! And as price is concerned I will make a new thread on how lucky U are guys to be in the UK, part price in Japan are just... Mental!

And for the plastic box I was trying to be ironic ;)
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If the suspension is working fine, I would leave well alone, I think you are worrying too much. Just check all the heights are correct and see how it goes:)
 
Datatek said:
If the suspension is working fine, I would leave well alone, I think you are worrying too much. Just check all the heights are correct and see how it goes:)
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Yep I am this kind of guys who worries too much and will spent the night to find where a strange noise is coming from... Anyway will enjoy my ski trip with daughter and wife and then nuke this left steerting problem next week by

1 Checking Height
2 Cheking alignment
 
So I have checked the height an there is around a 40mm (4cm this is "huge") difference between the FR and FL (Front left is the lowest where the car steer). I went to Land Rover this morning and for them this is normal (the difference) and should not influence despite the fact that the Car visually lean on the left. I explained them that on Highway mode the car stay straight but not in regular mode, but they insisted again that it is normal. Please remember that the AIR Suspension are just 500km old.

Just in case I sent an email at Land Rover Japan Communication and Public affairs manager that give me press car to test, for help and to get to the bottom of this. But am I right that I should insist in them checking this? Or is this something "normal" from a 1995 P38 Range Rover with 80,000km?

Thanks for your advise
 
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I have no idea what effect an unbalanced suspenssion would do to driving feel but can't see how it can't be detrimental. Both of our sit pretty much level (give or take a few mil.)
 
SpacePig said:
So I have checked the height an there is around a 40mm (4cm this is "huge") difference between the FR and FL (Front left is the lowest where the car steer). I went to Land Rover this morning and for them this is normal (the difference) and should not influence despite the fact that the Car visually lean on the left. I explained them that on Highway mode the car stay straight but not in regular mode, but they insisted again that it is normal. Please remember that the AIR Suspension are just 500km old.

Just in case I sent an email at Land Rover Japan Communication and Public affairs manager that give me press car to test, for help and to get to the bottom of this. But am I right that I should insist in them checking this? Or is this something "normal" from a 1995 P38 Range Rover with 80,000km?

Thanks for your advise
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That is NOT normal you need the suspension calibrating. At standard height it should be 470mm from centre of wheel to wheel arch. +- 7mm. 40 mm is far to much differential.
 
Thanks guys, I will wait for my Contact at Land Rover Japan to get back to me and if they don't will find either another Dealer willing to get it calibrated or someone who can.
 
SpacePig said:
Thanks guys, I will wait for my Contact at Land Rover Japan to get back to me and if they don't will find either another Dealer willing to get it calibrated or someone who can.
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Dead easy to do it yourself with the free EAS software and a cable if you have a laptop, why pay a dealer?:D
 
The garage found that swapping the front wheels on mine now makes it pull to the right so I've clearly got a dodgy tyre (I even know which one as I had a puncture and it carried on as before with the spare on).

This was suggested earlier but I discounted it as my tyres were in goof nick.
 
Datatek said:
Dead easy to do it yourself with the free EAS software and a cable if you have a laptop, why pay a dealer?:D
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I will check this at a last resort...

kooky_guy said:
The garage found that swapping the front wheels on mine now makes it pull to the right so I've clearly got a dodgy tyre (I even know which one as I had a puncture and it carried on as before with the spare on).

This was suggested earlier but I discounted it as my tyres were in goof nick.
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Good for you! Happy you find the problem! As for myself I am not sure it will bet like this... It did before I change the tires and with new Tires the same.
 
Ok so I can now finally (almost) close this thread.

The culprit? Alignment! After having sent my car to be check where I bought it, a so call Range Rover specialist, then Land Rover Japan, then another so call specialist I found a small garage here in Japan named ranGenius -ranGenius- that is owned by Range Rover Enthusiast and dead cheap when it comes to reparation.

Anyway in just 3h they fixed my car and the good old Range Rover no longer steer to the left!

The only problem that I realized coming back from their store is on heavy brake the car still pull hard on the left I will let them know that for the next round of maintenance.

Finally happy to have found a place that cares more about my car that my wallet.
 
Oh and one more things. FIY they told me that the steering damper is most of the time the culprit. Depending on the brand the car will either go straight, left or right, mine is a"Britpart" steering damper, they are not so kind with Britpart since their quality seems to differ a lot from parts to parts but their experience with Britpart is that the car steer to the left (most of the time) they are very found of Bilstein for damper, but these ones seems to steer on the right...

Any thoughts on this guys?
 
I presume the Bilstein one costs more than OEM, which is fine in my experience. Yes Britpart has a legendary awfulness around here.

Stu
 
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