What have you done to your Freelander today

Had the weirdest experience this morning - flip the (head) lights on and the Becker display inverted colours to green-on-black. Turn the lights off, back to black-on-green.

It's never done that since I bought it, and did it reliably until I turned the car off and on again, then it did what it's always done and stayed as black-on-green.

So was that a feature working for the first time ever or something very wrong going on

Bounty said:

Had the weirdest experience this morning - flip the (head) lights on and the Becker display inverted colours to green-on-black. Turn the lights off, back to black-on-green.

It's never done that since I bought it, and did it reliably until I turned the car off and on again, then it did what it's always done and stayed as black-on-green.

So was that a feature working for the first time ever or something very wrong going on

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I had a similar thing a couple of years ago. The Becker HU display colours randomly inverted a few times over a few days. Then it stopped and hasn't done it since. Most odd! No idea what was going on.

Changed the fob battery

Fitted new tailgate gas struts.

kernowsvenski said:

I had a similar thing a couple of years ago. The Becker HU display colours randomly inverted a few times over a few days. Then it stopped and hasn't done it since. Most odd! No idea what was going on.

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I want it back I think

Bounty said:

I want it back I think

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Interesting yours says phone on it. How've you done that?

Replaced my fob case. Nice new rubber buttons now.

Rotated all the wheels
Hoovered half a Labrador out of the back
Removed 1 back seat completely (usually have them folded up for the dog anyway)… I think I prefer it. Will see when shooting tomorrow - might remove the other one. Then need to think where to store to bloody things!

Another year another win over the MOT, though it took a new exhaust box to get it

kernowsvenski said:

Interesting yours says phone on it. How've you done that?

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When I'm playing audio through my phone the parrot unit uses the Becker's phone pins to overrule the default radio/CD, and the display reflects that. If I stop playing it goes back to what was previously selected

Bounty said:

Another year another win over the MOT, though it took a new exhaust box to get it



When I'm playing audio through my phone the parrot unit uses the Becker's phone pins to overrule the default radio/CD, and the display reflects that. If I stop playing it goes back to what was previously selected

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That sounds a bit better than my set up. I've got Bluetooth into the changer aux in. Might investigate doing that.

Failed the mot today on a bulb and number plate so not too bad at all! A couple of advisories to deal with though including cloudy headlights which I recently sorted!

kernowsvenski said:

Failed the mot today on a bulb and number plate so not too bad at all! A couple of advisories to deal with though including cloudy headlights which I recently sorted!

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Are they fussy? Mine is OK bulb and headlamp wise, but I've only ever had an advisory for cloudy headlamps on my FL1 facelift.

Nodge68 said:

Are they fussy? Mine is OK bulb and headlamp wise, but I've only ever had an advisory for cloudy headlamps on my FL1 facelift.

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Not particularly. The bulb is my number plate lamp out, and my light bar slightly obscures the front number plate, which i was expecting. I guess my headlights aren't crystal clear but they're pretty good and a million miles better than they were so maybe they're being a bit fussy on that one. It's only advisory though so no big deal.

kernowsvenski said:

Not particularly. The bulb is my number plate lamp out, and my light bar slightly obscures the front number plate, which i was expecting. I guess my headlights aren't crystal clear but they're pretty good and a million miles better than they were so maybe they're being a bit fussy on that one. It's only advisory though so no big deal.

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Technically if the vehicle has 2 number plate lights, and only one is lit, then it should be an advisory as the number plate is still illuminated.
Mine has LED number plate lights, as I prefer the colour of the light.
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I've just checked the MOT regs, apparently they should both work. What's odd is I've had advisories for number plate lights out, but they still passed them. Odd.

Nodge68 said:

Technically if the vehicle has 2 number plate lights, and only one is lit, then it should be an advisory as the number plate is still illuminated.
Mine has LED number plate lights, as I prefer the colour of the light.
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I've just checked the MOT regs, apparently they should both work. What's odd is I've had advisories for number plate lights out, but they still passed them. Odd.

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Yep the wording is "lamp inoperative in the case of single lamp or all lamps rear". I think there is only one on the FL1 isn't there? Never changed it!

kernowsvenski said:

Yep the wording is "lamp inoperative in the case of single lamp or all lamps rear". I think there is only one on the FL1 isn't there? Never changed it!

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There are 2 bulbs in a single housing IIRC. My FL2 has 2 separate lamp units, which I changed to LED as one bulb had fallen out of the fitting. LED lamp assemblies can't do that.
It's strange why the wife's Audi was passed with only 1 lamp of the 2 operating, but was given an advisory for the failed 1. My daughter's Fiat 500 was the same, only one worked for the test, but it also passed with an advisory. This is the same place I've been going to for about 10 years, but they've got very picky on corrosion, advising or failing for reasons I don't think are valid. They've just failed my other daughter's car on a rusty rear axle, but it's not holed, just corroded. I'm tempted to take it to another test centre for a second opinion.

The rear number plate lamps fail sometimes due to corroded brass lugs and rivets making a bad connection. Where the spade plugs on. Check these as well as the bulb itself while you have the board out.

andyfreelandy said:

The rear number plate lamps fail sometimes due to corroded brass lugs and rivets making a bad connection. Where the spade plugs on. Check these as well as the bulb itself while you have the board out.

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I'm hoping that there won't be any corrosion in there because on one of the mots a few years ago the handle came off in the tester's hand so they replaced it with a genuine one at their cost, which I was glad about- knowing that they are a weak point, and expensive

kernowsvenski said:

I'm hoping that there won't be any corrosion in there because on one of the mots a few years ago the handle came off in the tester's hand so they replaced it with a genuine one at their cost, which I was glad about- knowing that they are a weak point, and expensive

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I've never seen MOT testers here in NI open the boot of any car. Maybe if the battery was in the boot but why would they need to do that in a Freelander?

They like to check for rot in the rear door and bugger up the window glass