Suspension panic!

Help please! I'm new to the forum, driven here in panic because I have just returned from one of the main franchised dealerships in Glasgow having been told I could be looking at a £5000 bill long-term to replace the air suspension on my 2000 Range Rover 4.6.
Two days ago it rose to off-road height and remained there, screaming fault warnings at me. The dealers have cancelled out the fault and the car is back to normal ride height, but they reckon it won't stay that way. Their diagnostics showed the control block needs to be replaced at £1000 plus labour, but they warn that once work begins on the system, it generally leads to faults elsewhere - hence the threat of £5000.
Does anyone know of an independent repairer (in Scotland if possible, thought that's not essential) who could put matters right at a more sane price?

At £5K I'll fly up to you,stay in a nice hotel,get very drunk,(more than once)do a week's shooting,buy the wife something nice AND fix your EAS.
The parts are not that expensive,
Air springs x4 at £60-80 ea
Drive pack is £170
Height sensors x4 at £50 odd ea
The ECU's rarely fail and I have a few s/h ones on the shelf.
Other than that its bits of pipe or maybe a compressor or a few O rings.Whatever I cant think how it could cost five grand - or are they trying to sell you a new one ?

Thanks, eightinavee ... yes, I suspect the dealers saw me coming (not like 'em, eh?) What I must do now is find an independent here in the Glasgow area who is willing to take on the job - I'm short of contacts. Or perhaps I should set course for Bath, check into a hotel myself and let you do the work. We can get drunk together!

I recomend the latter,Eightinavee is good, He sorted my RR out luckily for me i live near

This is the man you want :-
MME 4X4
Unit 1
Shawbridge Industrial Estate
239 Shawbridge Street
Pollokshaws
G43 1QN
0141 636 0444
Has all the diagnostic equipment and full workshop Facilities - sorted out my brother in laws P38 last year - don't let it put you off but the chap has a bit of a stutter when he answers the phone !
Why not do it yourself as eightinavee suggests or let him fix it if he was serious !

v8kenny, you're a star! I'll give this guy a call tomorrow. Even with a stutter, I bet he does more straight talking than the dealership

Well he only works on range rovers so I'm sure he can help - let us know how you get on
Eightinavee - I hope I ain't just done you outta some work !

No disrespect to eightinavee, but I don't relish the thought of driving on dodgy suspension from Glasgow to Bath. I fear I could be down to the bump stops before Carlisle. That's why I'll give this local guy a shout first.

PS: So glad I joined this forum - I may not end up bankrupt after all. Will keep you all in touch ...

Update for those of you who have kindly assisted me in my dilemma ... I spoke with MME 4x4 this morning and will take the car to him in two weeks' time after I return from holiday. Now I just pray the temporarily corrected suspension does not pack up when taking family and luggage the 40 miles or so to the airport where the car will remain parked up while we are gone

Can you clear faults on the Range ECU's by disconnecting the battery for 5 minutes? I know other ECU setups will allow this. It could buy you some miles if it packs up on the way to the airport!

Not sure if disconnecting battery will clear ECU and keep me on road ... does anyone know for certain one way or the other?

The EAS setup is driven by an ECU under the passenger seat. It has TWO fault modes, one known as a soft fault and one as a hard fault.

A soft fault will be something like height sensors most commonly. This will be accompanied by the EAS Fault warning on the dash. This sort of fault will clear once you turn the vehicle off and restart, it will however remain logged in the ECU.

The hard fault is the bad one to get, you will end up on the bump stops, have all the suspension lights lit up like a christmas tree, EAS Fault on the message centre followed by the SLOW: 35MPH MAX message.

Once you have a hard fault message the ONLY way to clear it is to hook it up to testbook/autologic/rovacom to clear the fault. Disconnecting the battery wont clear a fault.

-Wills

Thanks Wills ... I had the flashing lights, the 35mph warning but the suspension remained pumped up. The lightshow remained after I stopped and restarted but again the suspension stayed high. The EAS warning was cleared by the dealership and remains clear for now.

have you tried Brian at Landrover Diagnostics

http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f20/brian-landrover-diagnostics-45380.html

Many thanks, burtonboy. Brian contacted me by Private Message this afternoon. He certainly appears to know his stuff (and there was no bull**** about £5k to fix it!), so I'll take the car to him in a couple of weeks when I return from holiday. He's not far from home either.