Great news Brian - very happy for you!
Jez
On 16 November 2013 09:23, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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