Hi there,
I currently reside near Neath in South Wales and now have my first Landy, a project vehicle with a few issues which I will be addressing one by one in the coming weeks.
Mine is a 53 plate Discovery 2 TD5 Facelift, an MOT failure which I will put on the road if all goes to plan. Issues include welding, ABS (Three amigo's), porus sunroof (what a surprise) and a few other things including electrical issues..
The welding is a small section on the chassis, surprisingly little for the age and breed. I'm tooled up for this and plan to de-rust and treat the whole chassis while I'm at it, so not too worried about this yet.
Vehicle came to me with intermittent indicators, wipers etc and non operational central locking requiring EKA to disarm once immobilised. I started with the fusebox which showed evidence of corrosion once stripped. A service-able used replacement has so far as I can tell resolved most of the issues excluding the immo and c/l operating off a keyfob.. I have replaced the RF Receiver with a secondhand unit (on a very tight budget, violin music playing in background lol) hoping to eliminate that with no result.. Neither original or replacement showed any damage. Keyfob has new batteries and lights up when pressed.. Hoping not to have to splash out on a BCM rebuild as I'll have to save up for a while..
I am keen to get these electrical issues sorted before I get on with the rest. Any critique or advice appreciated
Thanks in advance, Mark XF
P.S. The sunroof leak was easily diagnosed once I removed the headlining as the two corners with the drain tubes.. Mastic has failed, plan to epoxy these in.. I bought a dessicant bag off ebay to dry out the vehicle which has done wonders, interior really dry now
I currently reside near Neath in South Wales and now have my first Landy, a project vehicle with a few issues which I will be addressing one by one in the coming weeks.
Mine is a 53 plate Discovery 2 TD5 Facelift, an MOT failure which I will put on the road if all goes to plan. Issues include welding, ABS (Three amigo's), porus sunroof (what a surprise) and a few other things including electrical issues..
The welding is a small section on the chassis, surprisingly little for the age and breed. I'm tooled up for this and plan to de-rust and treat the whole chassis while I'm at it, so not too worried about this yet.
Vehicle came to me with intermittent indicators, wipers etc and non operational central locking requiring EKA to disarm once immobilised. I started with the fusebox which showed evidence of corrosion once stripped. A service-able used replacement has so far as I can tell resolved most of the issues excluding the immo and c/l operating off a keyfob.. I have replaced the RF Receiver with a secondhand unit (on a very tight budget, violin music playing in background lol) hoping to eliminate that with no result.. Neither original or replacement showed any damage. Keyfob has new batteries and lights up when pressed.. Hoping not to have to splash out on a BCM rebuild as I'll have to save up for a while..
I am keen to get these electrical issues sorted before I get on with the rest. Any critique or advice appreciated
Thanks in advance, Mark XF
P.S. The sunroof leak was easily diagnosed once I removed the headlining as the two corners with the drain tubes.. Mastic has failed, plan to epoxy these in.. I bought a dessicant bag off ebay to dry out the vehicle which has done wonders, interior really dry now
