Congratulations, Brian. Sounds like some worthwhile research. :-)
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 11/16/2013 2:07 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Not really planning to hit any deer, but in my own way things are looking up.
>
> My Range Rover has been off the road for the last 2 years, the last year I
> have had the
> registration on hold to save more money.
> Now that we have sold, albeit at a significant loss, Maggie's country 2
> acres, I can and am
> steadily working to getting it back on the road.
> I have bought the first of 2 new tyres, and having tested the 2nd and just
> decided that it is
> losing air through the sidewalls, will get another.
> The main think that prevented me from getting the mandatory 6-monthly Warrant
> Of Fitness
> (WOF) roadworthness test was that the electronic air suspension (EAS) system
> failed totally,
> hence no WOF pass.
>
> I did a serious check out of fitting coil springs, and was coming to the
> decision that is was
> maybe not all is was cracked up to be.
>
> Then, following a search for local Landrover - 4x4 clubs etc I came across
> one based 200
> miles away and it had a full set of phone numbers.
>
> I phoned the President. Tuesday or Wednesday this week.
> He was a very chatty, enthusiastic, and knowledgeable chap.
>
> He eventually put me in touch with the self-styled 'invisible man' who has
> been a very
> knowledgeable LR and RR enthusiast, and is currently employed by an official
> agency. But
> he is scathing in his assessment of the skill at their people at interpreting
> the computer fault
> read-outs, and of their detailed knowledge in general.
> He has written a program for a tiny ?tablet? computer to read RR fault codes
> etc.
>
> To cut a long story short, where I was expecting to pay $2250 for replacement
> of compressor
> and valve block in the EAS, or $1100 + GST (15%) for fitting coil springs and
> the fitter taking
> away many of my car parts for re-sale, OR $750 for the invisible man to
> replace his repaired
> compressor and valve block, what he found was that not them, but a
> memory/control module
> in the same box was faulty. They rarely fail, and the Shop techo's never look
> at them
>
> 2 hours in the dusk and $350 and I have a fully functional EAS system !!!
>
> He was ready for it having listened to my description of the sequence of
> events around failure
> time.
>
> Turned out that he wanted for his own reasons to come past my place that day,
> and decided
> to heed my call for help The part is scarcely larger than my out-stretched
> hand.
>
> Next week, hopefully, a new tyre, a new WOF, re-registration, long overdue
> servicing of the
> motor and also of the gearbox. And all should be roses.
>
> Brian Swale. Daytime phone +64 03 449 2277
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/
> http://www.brianswale.com
> Mobile 021 145 4249
> 73 Fache Street, Clyde 9330, New Zealand
>
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