GladystheL322
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I was just driving down the m25 when I got the dreaded “air suspension inactive” message… Thankfully, each spring looked inflated okay so I drove back home.
Fault reader stated a strange air suspension code: “Too much force on front axle”.
So I cleared the code, restarted the engine, and now the front of the car has raised itself as high as possible. Height mode selector won’t allow the car to drop to normal height.
Compressor was replaced recently, and reservoir is filling to a healthy 11 bar. All four ride-height sensors have also been replaced within last year (bought from JGS4x4). Strangely enough, along with this issue the car won’t also now won’t start (turn over). It started again once after clearing the fault, then I power/cycled the battery and nada. When engaging the ignition there is no attempt by the engine to start! Now this starter issue has happened a few times before in the past couple of months but generally just turning back to off position and attempting to start again fixes the issue. When the starter motor is engaged the engine starts no problem (within 1 second). This is the first time it’s completely refusing to start, and weird air suspension issue on top.
My thoughts:
- Battery is low? I’ll check voltage tomorrow morning. Battery is around 2 years old and was a cheap Amazon Prime job so I wouldn’t be surprised. could this explain both issues if it’s interfering with the electronics?
- Starter Motor? Poor connection or unit just dead? Not sure how that affects the air suspension.
- Ignition housing? Poor contacts on the ignition system perhaps, seems to be a problem. Again, not sure if this affects the air suspension
- Some computer/ECU issue? Causing the air suspension to go haywire and the starter not engaging too.
Any help would be massively appreciated, thanks!
L322 2002 TDI 3.0 diesel
Fault reader stated a strange air suspension code: “Too much force on front axle”.
So I cleared the code, restarted the engine, and now the front of the car has raised itself as high as possible. Height mode selector won’t allow the car to drop to normal height.
Compressor was replaced recently, and reservoir is filling to a healthy 11 bar. All four ride-height sensors have also been replaced within last year (bought from JGS4x4). Strangely enough, along with this issue the car won’t also now won’t start (turn over). It started again once after clearing the fault, then I power/cycled the battery and nada. When engaging the ignition there is no attempt by the engine to start! Now this starter issue has happened a few times before in the past couple of months but generally just turning back to off position and attempting to start again fixes the issue. When the starter motor is engaged the engine starts no problem (within 1 second). This is the first time it’s completely refusing to start, and weird air suspension issue on top.
My thoughts:
- Battery is low? I’ll check voltage tomorrow morning. Battery is around 2 years old and was a cheap Amazon Prime job so I wouldn’t be surprised. could this explain both issues if it’s interfering with the electronics?
- Starter Motor? Poor connection or unit just dead? Not sure how that affects the air suspension.
- Ignition housing? Poor contacts on the ignition system perhaps, seems to be a problem. Again, not sure if this affects the air suspension
- Some computer/ECU issue? Causing the air suspension to go haywire and the starter not engaging too.
Any help would be massively appreciated, thanks!
L322 2002 TDI 3.0 diesel
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