P38A What mods, if any do you have? 🤔

Grrrrrr said:

I'll take a photo next time I am out. Spliced the relay into the reversing wire behind the rear cluster. I ised the Halfords off-road LED reversing bulbs - excellent!

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I used osram ones, poor really.

Datatek said:

You can turn off EKA on all cars and as far as I'm aware the immobiliser can also be turned off on the V8, see the post by Henry_b above. The Immobiliser is not actually an immobiliser, it's a re-mobiliser, the BECM sends a code to the engine ECU to Re--mobilise it. Turning off the immobiliser in the BECM actually changes the function from being dependent on receipt of a valid FOB code to being automatic so no reason it shouldn't work on all cars.

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It's only the passive immobiliser that you switch off with the Nanocom ie the one that switches on if you don't start within thirty seconds of unlocking with the fob. You can switch off the EKA but this isn't necessarily a good idea https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/p38-alarm-immobiliser-removal.313538/page-2

Why would a hardware modification to the ECU be necessary to switch off the immobiliser (or the re-mobiliser) if all that is required is to switch off the immobiliser with a Nanocom/Faultmate?

nigelbb said:

It's only the passive immobiliser that you switch off with the Nanocom ie the one that switches on if you don't start within thirty seconds of unlocking with the fob. You can switch off the EKA but this isn't necessarily a good idea https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/p38-alarm-immobiliser-removal.313538/page-2

Why would a hardware modification to the ECU be necessary to switch off the immobiliser (or the re-mobiliser) if all that is required is to switch off the immobiliser with a Nanocom/Faultmate?

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A hardware mod is not needed but some maybe ignorant of the actual workings of the BECM. Passive refers to the alarm not the immobiliser, I do not turn off the alarm, passive or active.

BEMC immobiliser and EKA disabled.
Daytime running lights switched on
Arnott 3 bags (a little stiff at road height in my view, but fine in off road position)
High lift cam in the V8
Top hat liners
all interior bulbs are LEDs

Everything else is standard

DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322

kermit_rr said:

DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322

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DRL is from the age when dim dip was the obligatory daylight running light.

Datatek said:

DRL is from the age when dim dip was the obligatory daylight running light.

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Never seemed to be anything dim about it, just regular dipped headlight, only dim when the engine wasn't running

kermit_rr said:

Never seemed to be anything dim about it, just regular dipped headlight, only dim when the engine wasn't running

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Never tried it so cannot really say what is normal on the P38. Swedish research years ago suggested the DRL's became pointless once the majority of vehicles had them, it was the vehicles without DRL's that were more noticed.

Datatek said:

Never tried it so cannot really say what is normal on the P38. Swedish research years ago suggested the DRL's became pointless once the majority of vehicles had them, it was the vehicles without DRL's that were more noticed.

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Which goes to prove the 'hi vis' argument is flawed

kermit_rr said:

Which goes to prove the 'hi vis' argument is flawed

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Of course it is, most of this safety stuff is decreed by desk jockeys that have no life experience outside a government office. the reverse bleepers on truck and tractors annoy me, if you cannot hear a truck reversing you shouldn't be let out on your own.

Datatek said:

Of course it is, most of this safety stuff is decreed by desk jockeys that have no life experience outside a government office. the reverse bleepers on truck and tractors annoy me, if you cannot hear a truck reversing you shouldn't be let out on your own.

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but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?

kermit_rr said:

but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?

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kermit_rr said:

but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?

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As I said, if you can't hear the truck you shouldn't be out alone and if you cannot hear a truck, how will you hear the bludy bleeper? what about deaf people?

Fitted a bilge pump to drain the water from the footwells

Datatek said:

As I said, if you can't hear the truck you shouldn't be out alone and if you cannot hear a truck, how will you hear the bludy bleeper? what about deaf people?

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That was my attempt at humour.. reversing beepers for deaf people

doriz said:

Fitted a bilge pump to drain the water from the footwells

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Good idea

kermit_rr said:

DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322

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Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.

aj1954 said:

Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.

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Like every bugger else you mean?

aj1954 said:

Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.

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With my daylight running lights enabled the tail lights are also permanently on.
It's only the dash and side light that aren't on.

Montyjohn said:

With my daylight running lights enabled the tail lights are also permanently on.
It's only the dash and side light that aren't on.

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A lot of cars I see with DRLs, tail lights are off, thought they were all the same, my mistake.

Mine:
1. Main beam selection goes via relay hooked to cigar socket so that I cant leave full.beam on and flatten the battery
2. Solar panel wired into LH rear wiring ( not much use for UK) but I use it for a fridge too
3. cigar socket replaced by USB and voltmeter
4. Eka and immob disabled
5. Upgraded voltage regulator

On my last i'd
1.added a relay between the ac compressor and hevac, and then I also
2. grounded out the ac grant line as I had probs at one point getting the ecm to give ac grant even when hevac requested it
3. Reversing sensors, simple kind, buzzer in the wheel well...still plucking up the courage to attempt to redrill the bumper on the "new" one
4. Kenwood BT DAB single din and incartech harness, with steering controls