Recent content by Peasemould

Checked the fuses this morning. Fuses 20 and 21 cover the seats. Fuse 21 was missing. Not guilty plea from me. Fitted a fuse and the seats now work as expected. I'm sticking to my not guilty plea so it's a bit of a puzzle as to why the seats appeared to work before all this. No matter, all is...

Battery replaced successfully but I'm not quite out of the woods yet, the seats no longer work! I'll need to get those moving or develop longer legs as I'd moved the driver's seat right back.

Doo, see my reply to Brian. You confirmed it was right for me to resist the temptation to reach for the WD40 can and get the proper stuff. I take your point about the bunch of keys, I'll be removing mine forthwith. By the looks of the scratches below the ignition previous owners must have had...

Brian, hereafter to be known as "Genius Brian". Thanks for the suggestion, I'm just back from town with my horribly expensive new battery and clutching a can of switch cleaner. It's dark and not conducive to battery replacement so I reconnected the recharged old one and sprayed the switch...

Thanks for the suggestion but the battery was of course disconnected while being recharged which took some 12 hours. I've ordered a replacement since it died again whilst trying the various procedures suggested for resetting the key fobs. I'm not convinced the key fobs are the issue here as I've...

L322 TDV8 2007 Vogue Since recharging a dead battery the message "key in ignition" appears even when the key is removed. The gong sounds when I open the driver's door as if the key was still in the ignition. Systems such as the A/V etc remain on and it continues to play with its fans/computers...

Picked up the car from Mackie in Glasgow last week and the gearbox seems to be working well. The total cost was £2515 ex vat, a little more than quoted since they had to fit a new selector cable as well. So far so good and their 3 year warranty gives me more than a little peace of mind. Many...

You're right Datatek but they suggested Mackie Automatic and Manual Transmission in Glasgow. They've given me a price to refurb the TC and transmission and replace the oil cooler for just under £2400 ex vat with a 3 year warranty. This is about half the money I was quoted by the dealer for a new...

Thanks for that. The folks on this forum never fail to impress me! Just 15 minutes for a reply at this hour, you simply can't get that sort of service anywhere else.

My 2004 TD6 transmission just croaked, as widely predicted on these pages so I wasn't that surprised, 120k miles is pretty good going by the anecdotes here. The LR dealer says that I need a replacement box and torque converter. They want to fit new which is just too much £. I'm in central...

Well done and many thanks to all of you for your help. Special mentions to Wammers and Datatek who helped us focus on the real problem and prevented unwarranted adjustments to the innocent ignition switch. The fusebox was removed and one of the connectors (purple) found to be corroded and full...

Good point, must have been thinking of a different bitch;). I'll get in about the fusebox right now.

Freshly charged battery and the engine fired first time after the heater coil light went out. Ran it for a few minutes then turned off the ignition. Still won't stop. A good slap on top of the engine fuse box stops it very reliably! Swapped relay 19 for a different one but no change. Measured...

We checked relay 19, this time swapping for another. This brought back my two favourite lights and appears to have sorted the stop issue. We tried starting it but now, after all the messing about, we have a battery issue so it wouldn't turn over. That's on charge, as are the two ace mechanics...

Hadn't thought of that one. If I disconnect the stop solenoid on the injection pump it does stop but other things remain on. It does seem to be running on the right can of oil at least.