What did you do with your Range Rover today

Rubberknees · Monday at 10:40

SRS and air bag warning now gone. Uncoupled connector under drivers seat , sprayed with electric spray . For now all gone

Datatek · Monday at 11:21

Rubberknees said:
SRS and air bag warning now gone. Uncoupled connector under drivers seat , sprayed with electric spray . For now all gone

I got rid of the side airbags as they were well past their use by date and soldered a resistor across the wires in place of the connector so that problem will never recur.

Rubberknees · Monday at 14:22

Datatek said:
I got rid of the side airbags as they were well past their use by date and soldered a resistor across the wires in place of the connector so that problem will never recur.

I like the sound of doing that. Do you have a bit more info please like which resistor and which wires

Scotiawhiskers · Monday at 15:37

Otto did us proud, stable and comfortable wafting for 350 miles over 3 days, including central town traffic for a bit, doing 47mph and 21.3mpg average.
Then the 1.5 miles home from the petrol station averaged 12.9mpg...
Taillight bulb had blown, rear wiper is poor as barely seems to make glass contact and just feels a bit wobbly on the spindle or mounts.

gold rover · Monday at 15:47

I did drive her

Not far and never above 40mph but drive her I did. I went out of the house, filled with trepidation, as she has sat for a week. Threw the Defib, etc, in back as I'm on standby, and in that moment my heart dropped - I'd left the dashcam plugged in

I put the key in with the last of Pandora's box items struggling to get out. I turned the key and a little stutter and vrooooommmm she started

kermit_rr · Monday at 16:33

Mine is keeping guard on carpark duty for the next few days, while I'm away

Grrrrrr · Monday at 17:34

Driven her, a lot.

Jag has failed its MoT and requires a shed load of welding which I haven't got the skill or time for so I have laid her up. It seems criminal to scrap her (she probably has the only galvanized subframe in the country) but enough is enough. Ideally I would pass her to an enthusiast but failing that it is the scrappy. :-(

Datatek · Monday at 17:49

Grrrrrr said:
Driven her, a lot.

Jag has failed its MoT and requires a shed load of welding which I haven't got the skill or time for so I have laid her up. It seems criminal to scrap her (she probably has the only galvanized subframe in the country) but enough is enough. Ideally I would pass her to an enthusiast but failing that it is the scrappy. :-(

I don't know what model Jag you have but surely an add in an enthusiasts mag would result in a sale?

gold rover · Monday at 18:39

Grrrrrr said:
Driven her, a lot.

Jag has failed its MoT and requires a shed load of welding which I haven't got the skill or time for so I have laid her up. It seems criminal to scrap her (she probably has the only galvanized subframe in the country) but enough is enough. Ideally I would pass her to an enthusiast but failing that it is the scrappy. :-(

No-one on the Jag forums want to take her?

Henry_b · Monday at 19:16

Drove it to work...

spent the aft driving around in a mitsubishi shogun sport with my knees around my ears, always taken the space in the p38 for granted,,

Datatek · Monday at 19:34

Henry_b said:
Drove it to work...

spent the aft driving around in a mitsubishi shogun sport with my knees around my ears, always taken the space in the p38 for granted,,

The full size Shogun is OK.

Datatek · Monday at 19:35

Rubberknees said:
I like the sound of doing that. Do you have a bit more info please like which resistor and which wires

I'll send the info ASAP, it has been posted on LZ. Bit busy with Christmas at the moment.

Rubberknees · Monday at 21:05

Datatek said:
I'll send the info ASAP, it has been posted on LZ. Bit busy with Christmas at the moment.

Thanks Keith it will be something to do in the New Year

Rubberknees · Monday at 21:07

Dam been out this evening and SRS come on after driving but goes off when stops and restarts then comes back on after about a mile or so. Will try that connector under dash drivers side

Grrrrrr · Tuesday at 08:27

gold rover said:
No-one on the Jag forums want to take her?

Maybe. I'll put it up there once I have managed to make the emotional detachment. I'm still on the cudp of laying her up until I have the time to sort her out but in my heart I know that is madness.

Meanwhile the Rangie clutch has started slipping at max torque ...

Grrrrrr · Tuesday at 08:34

Datatek said:
I don't know what model Jag you have but surely an add in an enthusiasts mag would result in a sale?

S-type. The 4 litre v8 with the last real Jag engine.

I also have a v12 engine out the back from an XJS that has never been run. My back yard is starting to become a bit cluttered!

roythebus · Tuesday at 10:02

I'll have to have a look round for the Webasto in mine! Maybe read the handbook??

Datatek · Tuesday at 10:55

Rubberknees said:
Thanks Keith it will be something to do in the New Year

OK, I made up resistor packs to replace side airbags using 8 off 12 Ohm 0.5 watt 1% resistors in parallel. which = 1.5 ohms as that was what I had in stock. You can buy special resistor packs for the job on the web but be careful, many are 1.2 ohms and do not work on the P38 side airbag, Ordinary 1.5 Ohm 2 watt resistors seemed to be hard to come by when I did the job.

You need to buy 8 12 ohm 0.5watt 1% resistors for each side, connect these in parallel with 2short wires attached to the ends and carefully insulate. As an optionyou can use a single 2 watt 1.5 ohm resistor, but these are hard tocome by. Disconnect the battery, wait 10 minutes and then unplug theside air bag, cut off the connector that goes to the ECU solder theresistor pack to the wire ends or use crimp connectors, Insulate thejoints if soldered, preferably with heatshrink tubing. Reconnect thebattery and clear any SRS faults with diagnostics. If theairbag has fired, you will need a new SRS ECU.

YOU USETHIS INFORMATION ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK NO LIABILITY ACCEPTEDEXPRESS OR IMPLIED.

Happy Christmas john and a healthy New Year
@Rubberknees

kermit_rr · Tuesday at 12:49

Needless to say, don't try at home...

Rubberknees · Tuesday at 13:20

Datatek said:
OK, I made up resistor packs to replace side airbags using 8 off 12 Ohm 0.5 watt 1% resistors in parallel. which = 1.5 ohms as that was what I had in stock. You can buy special resistor packs for the job on the web but be careful, many are 1.2 ohms and do not work on the P38 side airbag, Ordinary 1.5 Ohm 2 watt resistors seemed to be hard to come by when I did the job.

You need to buy 8 12 ohm 0.5watt 1% resistors for each side, connect these in parallel with 2short wires attached to the ends and carefully insulate. As an optionyou can use a single 2 watt 1.5 ohm resistor, but these are hard tocome by. Disconnect the battery, wait 10 minutes and then unplug theside air bag, cut off the connector that goes to the ECU solder theresistor pack to the wire ends or use crimp connectors, Insulate thejoints if soldered, preferably with heatshrink tubing. Reconnect thebattery and clear any SRS faults with diagnostics. If theairbag has fired, you will need a new SRS ECU.

YOU USETHIS INFORMATION ENTIRELY AT YOUR OWN RISK NO LIABILITY ACCEPTEDEXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
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Happy Christmas john and a healthy New Year
@Rubberknees

Many thanks again Keith
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and all your loved ones

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