Monday, July 25th, 2011
Not much to report, really. The refurb will have to be delayed again due to a house move, but the car is generally running well. It’s still down on power and torque since the new injection pump was fitted, and I think it’s because the pump’s boost diaphragm or plunger is seized, preventing the pump [...]
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
A little while ago, an annoying glitch occurred on the RRC. When arming and disarming the alarm/immobiliser, it all functioned correctly but the hazard lights no longer flashed (3 short flashes arming and one long flash disarming is normal). The guys at Rogers of Bedford quickly advised that this was very common and the fault [...]
Saturday, June 4th, 2011
I finally found the time to sort a bunch of minor issues with the Range Rovers doors, namely a faulty electric window switch on a rear door, rattling lock mechanisms, a rattling and loose (stripped threads) upper tail gate handle, rattling tail gate trims and squeaking (maladjusted) tailgate catches.
The doors were straight forward (sorry, no [...]
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011
Not a lot to report here other than that the overhauled brakes are performing really well with no more ABS or ETC warning lights (the HD front drive flanges are probably partly responsible for that too).
The hazard lights stopped flashing on alarm arming/disarming. Apparently, this is not an uncommon fault and is usually due to [...]
Friday, April 8th, 2011
The Range Rover’s brakes were becoming less effective and I was getting frequent ABS and ETC warning lights, so I had to make time to fit the Zeus stainless steel calliper pistons I bought a while back (identical to those I fitted to the callipers on the brakes of the new axles for the 109).
The [...]
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