What did you do with your Range Rover today

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Gave my 4.2sc it’s first oil change, hardest bit was getting the corroded 10mm screws out holding the front part of the plastic under tray off to access filter, bit of a silly place for the filter compared to the TD6 which was right on top, used to take 20 mins change the oil on that one.
 
What's it like using l322 diagnostic like the IID?
I've been playing with SDD for a while and quite like it, but for anything more than reading live values, clearing codes etc, you need a power supply to keep the battery at 12.5v with the ignition on. Are other diags the same? What do you all do?
I can see if a job takes more than a few seconds, you don't want the voltage going to low and corrupting a write process.
Power supplies aren't cheap and you need at least 35A, JLR recommend 50A the unit they use is £1000!!!
 
kermit_rr said:
What's it like using l322 diagnostic like the IID?
I've been playing with SDD for a while and quite like it, but for anything more than reading live values, clearing codes etc, you need a power supply to keep the battery at 12.5v with the ignition on. Are other diags the same? What do you all do?
I can see if a job takes more than a few seconds, you don't want the voltage going to low and corrupting a write process.
Power supplies aren't cheap and you need at least 35A, JLR recommend 50A the unit they use is £1000!!!
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I don't use anything personally as a lot of my work with the diag uses live data and the engine running. I suppose a battery charger could be connected🤔
 
doriz said:
Cheers @kermit_rr i have got it out but phoobared it in doing so. New one on order. The job is fighting back. Today was strip back ready for the new parts. Got all the bolts out (albeit rusted in) and now the hub won’t come away from the yolk. Is there a top tip? I suspected a blow with a hammer would crack the seal but no!
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Now we know why the garage refused to do it for me :vb-bouncy3:
 
My Old Landy said:
Now we know why the garage refused to do it for me :vb-bouncy3:
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I’ll get it done, I’ll increase the size of my tool box with one off tools, I’ll save some money (quoted £850) by a LR specialist mate to do it on the drive if it goes easy, I’ll end up replacing parts that were never knackered, I’ll break more things than I fix and the list goes on :banana:
 
Rear shocks, that's what I did. Fitting them is a lot easier than paying for them 🥲
"Constant Variable Damping" is a phrase that I A) don't want to know when ordering the shocks and B) I think is stupid because the damping is surely always varying?!?!?

Anyhoo, the first quote shock was a Euro Wrong Parts for £475 per leg at the rear which made £480 for a pair delivered seem like an absolute bargain!.

I had an annoying muffled sound coming from the OSR which I can only describe as hearing someone listening to a radio talkshow loudly in their car with the windows up at the end of the street, you know the sound? Anyway, I'd convinced myself I would need a couple (read about 496 bushes) per side on the back of these things and took the wheel off to investigate. All bushes looked fine but the shock had a LOT of really greasy mud stuck all around the bottom of it. I had a blown/weeping shock leg.

Got a text from DPD this morning to tell me the shocks would be arriving before 10:30 so I skipped out to the driveway to start the dismantling, it's a dead easy job as it happens so that was great, until... I'd got the bottom bolt out but the shock locates on a sleeve slightly inside the lower arm, I grabbed it firmly by the oil reservoir and gave it a bit of tug which released it without any real hesitation, only, well... the shock was still attached to the arm and now this little cylinder was peeing oil all over my driveway!

Resolved that and went to the other side to find that the "Previous B@stard" had replaced the NSR shock and not the OSR one (probably due to the cost). So I had one perfect working Bilstein and one (probably original) LR shock with over 160k, zero damping and rotten reservoir. We don't need to be told that you replace in pairs, everyone knows that unless it's expensive I guess. Anybody want to buy a secondhand shock leg?

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Took mine for all 4 wheel balance, £28 👍🏻 rear 2 are slightly bent, he'd seen worse. Feels much better on the motorway, had a fair ol shake going on, not thru the wheel, whole car. Could see loads of weights missing on one of the rears

When its due tyres I'll get wheels refurbed and trued up i think 🤔
 
Well the new battery arrived from batterymegastore and put it on charge tested it first and it was 12.5v and my load tester was saying charge it,
just goes to show never just buy a battery and sling it on i will test it again before fitting when it says its charged

also changed the fuel filter and tested the intank pump result no fuel out so new pump on order £180 vdo one, and changed the inlet manifold gaskets as they were weeping and found the map pipe was a bit split, oil change tomorrow and grease the props

hope the pump arrives early next week not looking forward to dropping the tank, at least i have some new tank filler hose ready and waiting:vb-biggrin:

all this to get the car ready to tow the tin tent to wales next weekend :rolleyes: will cost more than the holiday:(
 
brianp38dse said:
Well the new battery arrived from batterymegastore and put it on charge tested it first and it was 12.5v and my load tester was saying charge it,
just goes to show never just buy a battery and sling it on i will test it again before fitting when it says its charged

also changed the fuel filter and tested the intank pump result no fuel out so new pump on order £180 vdo one, and changed the inlet manifold gaskets as they were weeping and found the map pipe was a bit split, oil change tomorrow and grease the props

hope the pump arrives early next week not looking forward to dropping the tank, at least i have some new tank filler hose ready and waiting:vb-biggrin:

all this to get the car ready to tow the tin tent to wales next weekend :rolleyes: will cost more than the holiday:(
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Been busy!👍🏻
 
Fixed the non working light in the time clock and fixed the non working left indicator tell tale yesterday. Fitted a new zebra strip to the hvac today but still got a pixel or 2 missing, redid it and still the same, faulty screen?
Started the job of fitting new cam kits to the front doors, finished the passenger one and got the handle off the drivers to do tomorrow .
Not a pleasant job them cam kits but I'm chuffed with how smooth the action is now and no sticky out handle.
 
Flossie said:
Fixed the non working light in the time clock and fixed the non working left indicator tell tale yesterday. Fitted a new zebra strip to the hvac today but still got a pixel or 2 missing, redid it and still the same, faulty screen?
Started the job of fitting new cam kits to the front doors, finished the passenger one and got the handle off the drivers to do tomorrow .
Not a pleasant job them cam kits but I'm chuffed with how smooth the action is now and no sticky out handle.
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Have you made extra sure the contacts on the board and screen are clean, every last bit of glue gone?
 
kermit_rr said:
Have you made extra sure the contacts on the board and screen are clean, every last bit of glue gone?
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Absolutely spotless, took me an hour or so to do the board , it was shiny, I even cleaned the faces of the zebra strip incase that had something on it.
3 times I've had it apart with the same result.
 
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