I just bought a 1997 Range Rover, Wont even turn over next day of sale.

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Looks like diagnostics is your only hope if you have checked everything yourself and found no faults.. as has been said before in this forum don't start throwing money at parts that you don't need fuse box is a service item and is not cheap and neither is a becm repair...
 
AudioInstigator said:
I want to share something very important, Iam 41 yrs of age and been installing stereos for shops out here ie. Future Shop and BestBuy since i was 16. Iam an electronic god for stereo systems and car starters. I even did a full stereo install on a 2017 Rangy. Here are some pics of my installs than tell me iam a retard.
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Yeah you're a retard. you fell in love with a Range Rover.

Welcome to the club with the rest of us Retards.

Seriously though, i have a P38 4.6, an L322 Supercharged, restored 1 classic (thread on here) restoring, well stalled at the moment, a CSK and a 1971 Suffix A.

I didn't have the knowledge or confidence to buy an L322 or restore the classics without the support of those on here. when i got my P38 i knew chuff all about them. but since worked through the EAS, top end, front end rebuild, and still value the support of the group.

As you know from installs undoing random work from various installers, owners have a go heros is tough and probably been the cause of many of these being scrapped.

Like i said, we'll get you running and maybe a range rover god too..
 
AudioInstigator said:
And outa my depths are right, no one on here even get this thing either i guess, looks like it need to be hooked to a computer at an expensive shop to diagnose it.
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No when you buy a P38 you buy a diagnostic piece of kit that costs a lot of money but sorts your problems or you pay someone else...we all understand our P38s and their foibles...you fit audio... I've got a financial share in a garage with a friend who is a diagnostic auto\tech...i just make chocolate in the mornings and then head down to sort cars in the afternoon with him...but have I learned a lot recently tracing faults oh yes...
 
I think @martyuk is away at the moment. he knows the electrics on the P38 he had my dash out to do the heater matrix and blend motors.

As ive tagged him he'll see the thread and be along shortly.
 
Shippers said:
As in ignition switch?...at some point it's either had a new switch or door lock fitted as two keys don't match... I've already asked twice...
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same here, from the answers to the questions I posed it seems to be drivers door lock as the key opens the doors by remove and starts the ignition, but the odd key shaft only opens the door.
 
The thing is, I don't think he can afford to do it, either buy one or take it in, but its not worth taking it in, you might as well buy one, do it 3 times and you could have paid for a diagnostics kit
 
Dopey said:
The thing is, I don't think he can afford to do it, either buy one or take it in, but its not worth taking it in, you might as well buy one, do it 3 times and you could have paid for a diagnostics kit
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Taking it in somewhere is not going to get him someone with dedicated p38 diagnostics. they'll put it on a generic diagnostics unit telling him it does everything for everything. we know that's B/S for range rovers. Its w hy many of us have our own. Besides this fella has just started working for himself and hard pushed to spring for a battery, let alone 600 bucks for dedicated diagnostics

I dont think diagnostics is going to tell much as it reads from the modules. if a wire is disconnected ignition wise there's not going to be much to be read.

I really think the answer is in the wiring diagram
 
If he's good at sparks then I agree, the best bet is the diagram and to start tracking it down for himself, you know as well as me, when you buy a RR you think its like any other car and ok things might go wrong, but a RR is a whole heap of hurt, its a crule learning curve when you get one, I'm hoping to buy one soon, but I know I have to put 2k to one side to sort things out "just in case" and have to buy a diagnostics kit to go with it!!
 
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