P38A What mods, if any do you have? 🤔

Mark Piercy · Jul 29, 2023

As said above, if you have any mods that make a difference to handling, upgrade or other ?
A provisional repair that turned out better than the original design?
Spill the beans and share the wine gums

pwood999 · Jul 29, 2023

Best handling mod for me was replacing worn & squidgy trailing arm bushes with correct type. Same for ball joints & steering rods.

Best upgrade was Android stereo & DAB receiver, plus balancing transformers to feed the door amps.

Datatek · Jul 29, 2023

Not much, electric cooling so no viscous fan, modified boot button that looks original, is ice proof and cost a fraction of the OEM part and I run both cars with the EKA and immobiliser turned off for reliability.
I forgot, I also have USB charge sockets and volt meter and the Mobiltron 14.7 volt set point regulator.
I never get caught out with flat batteries as all my vehicles are on solar chargers when parked.

Henry_b · Jul 29, 2023

EKA and immobiliser turned off, easily the best upgrade i've done..

Rubberknees · Jul 29, 2023

The Nokia blue tooth system for mobile phone use is a god send. Especially with all the medical calls I get

DanClarke · Jul 29, 2023

The Ctek charge-state tell-tale and easy charger connect is a really nice and easy upgrade.
Never be caught out with a discharged battery, especially in winter; which is coming.

kermit_rr · Jul 29, 2023

DanClarke said:
The Ctek charge-state tell-tale and easy charger connect is a really nice and easy upgrade.
Never be caught out with a discharged battery, especially in winter; which is coming.

Sounds good for any car.
Swapping the voltage regulator for the mobiltrom at 14.7v is a good call if you're still in 13.8v

300bhp/ton · Jul 30, 2023

Henry_b said:
EKA and immobiliser turned off, easily the best upgrade i've done..

What is the best/easiest way of doing this? I see some settings on the Nanocom, but the guide is a little cryptic in what they actually do and the outcome of changing the settings.

300bhp/ton · Jul 30, 2023

Mark Piercy said:
As said above, if you have any mods that make a difference to handling, upgrade or other ?
A provisional repair that turned out better than the original design?
Spill the beans and share the wine gums

Fitted a Grom Bluetooth unit. Keeps the stock stereo and just replaced the CD changer so you can stream music or digital radio from your phone or take phone calls.

Longer shocks and brake lines make a nice difference off road with coils. I liked the idea of the EAS but in many ways it actually handles better on coils and rides 50x better off road instead of bouncing along with the stiff air springs in their raised mode.

High output halogen bulbs made a nice difference to the headlight performance.

Straight thru exhaust to uncork the V8’s sound track.

Resetting the gearbox learning made a big difference to how it drives and responds on road. Although I’d still love it if you could default it to be set to Sports mode by default.

Grrrrrr · Jul 30, 2023

Parking sensors front and rear plus a reversing camera probably best for the missus. Auxiliary lower sockets in rear ashtray and boot probably best for the kid. Arnott 3 bags and stainless steel exhaust and foglights also added. I rather like the LED spot hidden by the wheel well that lights up the countryside when I throw it into reverse!

pete12345 · Jul 30, 2023

Dumped the x fat bird got newer skiny model much better on the airbags and compressor oh and also got rid of the side steps because newer model can step into the car without it being lowered all the time

Flossie · Jul 30, 2023

Grrrrrr said:
Parking sensors front and rear plus a reversing camera probably best for the missus. Auxiliary lower sockets in rear ashtray and boot probably best for the kid. Arnott 3 bags and stainless steel exhaust and foglights also added. I rather like the LED spot hidden by the wheel well that lights up the countryside when I throw it into reverse!

Sounds interesting. I fitted led replacement rev bulbs but the difference is barely noticeable. Got a pics of this wheelwell set up young man?

kermit_rr · Jul 30, 2023

300bhp/ton said:
What is the best/easiest way of doing this? I see some settings on the Nanocom, but the guide is a little cryptic in what they actually do and the outcome of changing the settings.

You just turn them off and save the config.. becm.. settings.. alarm.. change then write

Datatek · Jul 30, 2023

300bhp/ton said:
What is the best/easiest way of doing this? I see some settings on the Nanocom, but the guide is a little cryptic in what they actually do and the outcome of changing the settings.

In the BECM settings, just toggle the EKA and immobiliser settings. I can't tell you exactly as I don't have a Nanocom, I yse Fautmate and the screens info is different.

kermit_rr · Jul 30, 2023

You can play on the emulator , thought you can't really break anything, it doesn't give you that much power

nigelbb · Jul 31, 2023

Datatek said:
In the BECM settings, just toggle the EKA and immobiliser settings. I can't tell you exactly as I don't have a Nanocom, I yse Fautmate and the screens info is different.

As far as I know it's only possible to use a Nanocom/Faultmate to turn off EKA and immobiliser on the diesel. It is possible to disable the immobiliser on the V8 but that involves soldering a board onto the engine ECU. https://www.rangerovers.net/threads...-never-be-stranded-again.349421/#post-2350905

kermit_rr · Jul 31, 2023

nigelbb said:
As far as I know it's only possible to use a Nanocom/Faultmate to turn off EKA and immobiliser on the diesel. It is possible to disable the immobiliser on the V8 but that involves soldering a board onto the engine ECU. https://www.rangerovers.net/threads...-never-be-stranded-again.349421/#post-2350905

No you can do it on the petrol too, at least the Thor one. Don't know about gems
Or maybe the nanocom had been updated since

Datatek · Jul 31, 2023

nigelbb said:
As far as I know it's only possible to use a Nanocom/Faultmate to turn off EKA and immobiliser on the diesel. It is possible to disable the immobiliser on the V8 but that involves soldering a board onto the engine ECU. https://www.rangerovers.net/threads...-never-be-stranded-again.349421/#post-2350905

You can turn off EKA on all cars and as far as I'm aware the immobiliser can also be turned off on the V8, see the post by Henry_b above. The Immobiliser is not actually an immobiliser, it's a re-mobiliser, the BECM sends a code to the engine ECU to Re--mobilise it. Turning off the immobiliser in the BECM actually changes the function from being dependent on receipt of a valid FOB code to being automatic so no reason it shouldn't work on all cars.

kermit_rr · Jul 31, 2023

Datatek said:
You can turn off EKA on all cars and as far as I'm aware the immobiliser can also be turned off on the V8, see the post by Henry_b above. The Immobiliser is not actually an immobiliser, it's a re-mobiliser, the BECM sends a code to the engine ECU to Re--mobilise it. Turning off the immobiliser in the BECM actually changes the function from being dependent on receipt of a valid FOB code to being automatic so no reason it shouldn't work on all cars.

I turned them both off on mine and never had an issue, tried all sorts of things to trigger an issue but failed, it simply never needed the eka and just started up straight away.
Guy who bought it from me reckons he got stuck because it was asking for eka but i don't know how it why it what he'd done in the mean time

Grrrrrr · Jul 31, 2023

Flossie said:
Sounds interesting. I fitted led replacement rev bulbs but the difference is barely noticeable. Got a pics of this wheelwell set up young man?

I'll take a photo next time I am out. Spliced the relay into the reversing wire behind the rear cluster. I ised the Halfords off-road LED reversing bulbs - excellent!

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