Thank you all for your very kind comments of appreciation about your first impressions of the FCR.
It always pleases me and my team no end to know our efforts are being appreciated and that we are making a real difference to any and all LR entusiasts.
As you are discovering, the photos hardly do any justice at all to the real thing.
In pictures it may well be the usualy flimsy plastic toy for all anyone can tell, but when you get it, instantly you apreciate that it is actually so well built, you could probably drive over it and cause only a few scratches.
Mind you that would be a shame as that would spoil its lovely metallic electric Blue finish, which again is something lost in a Photo.
Also lost in the so often used "really easy to use" cliche, is exactly that.
I note your not instantly realising that you simply need to select a fault code to display its Text Meaning Dean.
I can't remember if we specifically detail that in the user guide, but will look into it and try to make it a bit more obvious. So i thank you for that unwitting bit of positive first time user feedback, and hope i can use it to improve things for others;-)
I note with great interest and a unique understanding, MHM's humorous comment based on his observation and Dean's smug retort. You see, quite unwittingly, as a direct result of the unique situation of seeing the impact of quite a few folk getting equipment at the same time, MHM has noted something happening that hitherto only i may have ever been familiar with. And so brings into focus a significant positive side effect of equipment ownership that i think is worth further highlighting.
Everyone who owns a Land Rover such as the P38, knows that it has a lot of on board technology and most have some appreciation that there is an awful amount of built in self diagnostic technology provided in order to counter problems with it.
However, as owners typically have no way to access and capitalise on that themselves, that technology is therefore typically not regarded as being freindly or beneficial to the owner in any way. As a result, it gets be be regarded as quite the opposite, and with dealers etc charging so much, just to access the built in technology for owners, and read / decode the fault codes the vehicle technology is providing, let alone get into attempts to repair them, who can blame them.
But, the very second that you have your own bit or equipment that can then freely read and clear fault codes just as well as theirs, as and whenever and as often as you wish, that situation is instantly and quite dramatically reversed. Victims become Victors and what was once regarded as a dis advantage to ownership, is now suddenly an extremely powerful advantage.
I therefore offer my heartiest congratulations to all participants of this group buy event. Not only have you so very wisely invested in a really good bit of equipment that will certainly transform your LR ownership experience, and was already one hell of a bargain to start with, but by trusting in Paul and I to deliver the goods as agreed, you have got it at a price that i sincerely doubt will ever be matched, although i think paul and i might yet join forces again to produce an almost as good opportunity if enough demand is shown.
