Flossie
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I used osram ones, poor really.
P38A What mods, if any do you have? 🤔
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It's only the passive immobiliser that you switch off with the Nanocom ie the one that switches on if you don't start within thirty seconds of unlocking with the fob. You can switch off the EKA but this isn't necessarily a good idea https://www.landyzone.co.uk/land-rover/p38-alarm-immobiliser-removal.313538/page-2
Why would a hardware modification to the ECU be necessary to switch off the immobiliser (or the re-mobiliser) if all that is required is to switch off the immobiliser with a Nanocom/Faultmate?
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A hardware mod is not needed but some maybe ignorant of the actual workings of the BECM. Passive refers to the alarm not the immobiliser, I do not turn off the alarm, passive or active.
BEMC immobiliser and EKA disabled.
Daytime running lights switched on
Arnott 3 bags (a little stiff at road height in my view, but fine in off road position)
High lift cam in the V8
Top hat liners
all interior bulbs are LEDs
Everything else is standard
Daytime running lights switched on
Arnott 3 bags (a little stiff at road height in my view, but fine in off road position)
High lift cam in the V8
Top hat liners
all interior bulbs are LEDs
Everything else is standard
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DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322
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DRL is from the age when dim dip was the obligatory daylight running light.DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
I upgraded everything on my p38!!! Apart from the engine!! It's now a diesesed L322
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Never seemed to be anything dim about it, just regular dipped headlight, only dim when the engine wasn't running
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Never tried it so cannot really say what is normal on the P38. Swedish research years ago suggested the DRL's became pointless once the majority of vehicles had them, it was the vehicles without DRL's that were more noticed.
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Which goes to prove the 'hi vis' argument is flawed
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Of course it is, most of this safety stuff is decreed by desk jockeys that have no life experience outside a government office. the reverse bleepers on truck and tractors annoy me, if you cannot hear a truck reversing you shouldn't be let out on your own.
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but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?
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but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?
As I said, if you can't hear the truck you shouldn't be out alone and if you cannot hear a truck, how will you hear the bludy bleeper? what about deaf people?but but what if you're completely blind and just happened to walk behind a reversing truck without assistance? And you're dead so you can't hear the big naughty truck?
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Fitted a bilge pump to drain the water from the footwells 
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That was my attempt at humour.. reversing beepers for deaf people
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Good ideaFitted a bilge pump to drain the water from the footwells
Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.DRL turns the headlights on, not the sides.. you can't change that for some reason
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Like every bugger else you mean?Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.
With my daylight running lights enabled the tail lights are also permanently on.Don't get lulled into false sense of security when it gets dark as, you'll have no tail lights.
It's only the dash and side light that aren't on.
A lot of cars I see with DRLs, tail lights are off, thought they were all the same, my mistake.
Mine:
1. Main beam selection goes via relay hooked to cigar socket so that I cant leave full.beam on and flatten the battery
2. Solar panel wired into LH rear wiring ( not much use for UK) but I use it for a fridge too
3. cigar socket replaced by USB and voltmeter
4. Eka and immob disabled
5. Upgraded voltage regulator
On my last i'd
1.added a relay between the ac compressor and hevac, and then I also
2. grounded out the ac grant line as I had probs at one point getting the ecm to give ac grant even when hevac requested it
3. Reversing sensors, simple kind, buzzer in the wheel well...still plucking up the courage to attempt to redrill the bumper on the "new" one
4. Kenwood BT DAB single din and incartech harness, with steering controls
1. Main beam selection goes via relay hooked to cigar socket so that I cant leave full.beam on and flatten the battery
2. Solar panel wired into LH rear wiring ( not much use for UK) but I use it for a fridge too
3. cigar socket replaced by USB and voltmeter
4. Eka and immob disabled
5. Upgraded voltage regulator
On my last i'd
1.added a relay between the ac compressor and hevac, and then I also
2. grounded out the ac grant line as I had probs at one point getting the ecm to give ac grant even when hevac requested it
3. Reversing sensors, simple kind, buzzer in the wheel well...still plucking up the courage to attempt to redrill the bumper on the "new" one
4. Kenwood BT DAB single din and incartech harness, with steering controls
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