Recent content by old freelander 1.8

Good Morning One and All, I have had the dreaded 3 Amigos on for a while now on my 98 1.8 Freelander. I've gone through carried out the usual basic tests and have come to the conclusion that i might need to go and get her plugged in. I'm in Rugby and the closest place to me quoted £66 just...

i'm sorry to hear that Dan. Like you said second hand ones are 12 years old and unless they've been stripped and rebuilt there are no guarantees they'll work. I'm not sure how correct it is but when i've been trying to find details on this system it comes back as being used on a Discovery2...

how did you get on with the plugging in of your car and the diagnostics? did you get some good results?

I found this while looking throug things. It's a paperclip test on the Discovery which apparently share the same ABS module, i think it's the WABCO one. I know the paperclip method works because i used it on my 1998 Vauxhall Omega which again was pre-obd2. I'm going to have a go at the...

i've driven around in forward and reverse and it makes no difference on mine, my lights stay permananently on from ignition on to ignition off. I checked my BPS again as a double check and the brake lights come on and off as and when they should do. I might check while my undertray is off...

Lately ours has been becoming a bit more frequent with issues but she does have 151,000 on the clock so we're putting a lot down to general wear and tear, aging and mileage. My other half says that i have to fix it as she misses going out in here :(. I wouldn't mind but the 3 amigos...

My boss wrote something which i plugged in to the OBD with one of our EEpod box of tricks. We have body and powertrain connectors on OBD so i tried both. I got some readings and an error message, i need to get my boss to translate all of the hex and see if the error message was EEpod related...

Thanks for the feedback Dan. It's annoying as i had fixed all of the issues from the failed MOT and was booked in for a retest then the day before they raise there ugly heads for the first time. The garage that quoted me nearly £70 is the only one i have found nearby that has the Testbook...

Good Morning One and All, I have browsed and searched this forum and other Land Rover Forums before posting here before anybody asks. :) The other day before my 98 1.8 Freelander1 was going back to the MOT station for its retest the 3 Amigos suddenly decided to show there ugly faces..good...

Good Morning, I had a problem with my VCU and the rear diff ate itself one morning going down the dual carriage way...oops. I replaced the diff and removed the rear propshaft. I found i was able to lie under the car without jacking it up at all so it remained on all four wheels. It's now...

i did some more tinkering over the weekend - 1. Changed inlet manifold gasket. 2. Changed expansion bottle for bigger one, removed the silly plastic screw. 3. Changed anti-roll bar bushes. 4. Changed coolant properly and flushed out pipes. 5. Replaced some of the background illumination...

I left the fuel rail connected and removed the inlet manifold. I was expecting something but got nothing fuel wise so jobs a good un.

Sounds good to me. I might go with that method then, of not doing anything :) i like those sort. Cheers :)

Good Morning all fellow hippo owners :) I'm looking at changing my inlet manifold gasket at the end of the week and one of the initial tasks according to the 'Haynes' book is to depressurize the fuel rail first. Of course according to 'Haynes' it says press the sides of the 'quick release'...

We have a 98 1.8 5 door with now nearly 150,000 on the clock. She's not had a head gasket change or anything. :) The bodywork is very sound with no rust apart from a small piece the size of a 5p on the tailgate, compared to my old Disco1 :( We had an issue with the VCU so removed it and...