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I'm just praying mine will unlock and start after leaving it in the airport car park for 5 days

I always reckon to have one niggling fault at any one time, but have found that left alone they resolve themselves (i.e intermittent fault on SRS for a couple of months disappeared, to be replaced by book sign on HEVAC during summer due to sticky blend motors, disappeared when the weather got...

Just found a cure for my aircon/ heating which has gone all summer with the passenger side blend motor stuck in one position. It's called winter!, came out to car at 05.00 the other day and 2C, after driving for a little while, noticed dreaded open book symbol had disappeared from display, and...

Going back to your original question, I have had the dubious pleasure of owning a 1999 P38 2.5 DSE for 15 months, and actually able to drive it for at least 12 months. I went for the diesel as I have no plans for towing, live in Italy where diesel is quite reasonably cheaper than petrol, and...

Useful phrases are "che succede" ( what's going on) "e pronto" (is it ready) to which the usual answer is " sere pronto dice giorni" (ready in 10 days or so)

As far as I understood he said the lift pump in the tank was fine, and the tank was almost empty, so from what I remeber of threads I've read before if the lift pump in the tank goes, you get real problems when the tank is less than a third full.

Just got my P38 back after prolonged lay up due to a cracked cylinder head (made worse by the appointed garage for the warranty arguing with the insurers about fitting a new or recon cylinder head), and as I picked up RR the mechanic tried to convince me that intermittent problem with engine not...

Must say, fitting instructions for "chips" are universally crap, when I bought a Van Aaken for my 1999 P38 2.5DSE I was sent fitting instructions for a BMW engine in a BMW 3 series, when I phoned up the company they said they hadn't had a P38 in to photo and assumed the engine looked the same!

Seem to remember seeing a thread on this before, which boiled down to a large bill from a Landrover dealer, as that is the only way this can be changed. I can sympathise as I live in Italy and have a LHD P38, but it has not taken long to learn the Italian for the most common fault messages...

Fan belt failure was 10 weeks before radiator problems, and water pump seems to be working OK as have had heater running at full blast and having been running in summer temperatures in Italy ( 39 degrees in shade) and have done long runs on motorway with no problem, with aircon at lowest temps...

Have had a run of problems, started with a fan belt giving out, had that replaced (and no the engine didn't boil), air suspension pipe being melted by cracked exhaust over rear axle then a crack across top of radiator. New radiator fitted, ran well for 2 weeks, all hoses behaving well no...

Course it could just be that most owners of RRs who subscribe to this forum tend to be people interested in the maintenance/running themselves, rather than just taking to the stealers every year and paying the bill (and are interested in the state of their bank balance). So the price range of...

Having bought an 8 year old P38 recently, well aware of the reliability problems, I have been pleasantly surpised that it took 8 months to come up with a problem, which of course is costing a couple of thou to resolve (EAS and exhaust), but that is only equivalent to 4 months lease-hire costs...

Thanks, as I say I'm hoping that the work will be covered by the warranty I got when I bought the car. Thinking back over the last few months the compressor seemed to be working a lot when I was driving; i.e. I could hear it running every couple of minutes if stationary in traffic, so it...

I've found even better product: I leave the RR out it rains and its clean.

Of course the other answer is to have another Landrover to renew your faith in the make. I've got a 1980 Series 3 lightweight, which sits around for weeks on end, starts first time every time, and lets me go off and work off my frustrations with my 1999 Range Rover.

In answer to questions: has done 150,000 kms from new, bought from Alfa Romeo dealer, but currently with Landrover authorised garage, running on bump stops showing defective air suspension and all height lights flashing, but no mention of speed limit. When put through diagnostic computer...

Beware, some of the "portable" GPS units have problems locking on to satellites if you have the heated front screen option, they need a supplementary aerial. (same problem with Renaults which have a special anti-glare treatment).

Oh dear, and it was all going so well. They say third time lucky, but what about trouble in three's. First time was my own silly fault went to collect wife from airport, didn't get back home til past 1 a.m and when I got up at 5 a.m to catch a plane found headlamps still on and not enough...

I know there's a thread running about heating/air con only working on drivers side on a P38, but I have a similar but unrelated problem. Bearing in mind my RR P38 is LHD ( being bought and run in Italy), I have noticed that my Left foot is always cold, so there must be a draught coming in the...