The car: L322 – 2004 Reg, 4.4 V8 Petrol heading towards 90k miles
Apologies if there is a thread already I have not found it……….
Last evening after being stood for two weeks battery left connected, jumped in stated first turn of the key - yeah, in the rear-view mirrors the garage door was a sight to behold.
Leaving the engine running I went to the rear of the car, then brake lights, were flashing at a fantastic rate, the fog lights were on and side lights dimly lit (nothing switched on within the car), the indictors when turned on came on and stayed on for about three seconds then went off for a while then came back on, repeating the 3 second duration, left and right same result, no hazard lights working.
At the front, the off side, side light flashed on, then circa 3 seconds later the near side did the same, then back to the off side, that carried on for the duration the engine was running, no lights turned on.
If I turned the lights on the dashboard, instrument binnacle and instrument lights flashed at the same rate as the rear fog lights! Now have an internal Christmas tree but all white lights......
Whilst the engine was still running I undertook an all-round check for water ingress, nothing anywhere, not even in the spare wheel well.
Buy now I had turned off the engine and all was calm again, then the stupid, stupid error, not realising the central locking had activated I yanked on the driver’s door handle and broke it! Anyway using the key I unlocked and held the unlock until the drivers windows opened and used the inner handle……
Restarted the engine same symptoms, to a tee. Remembering the old trick, I was given for the P38a I had, shut it down and disconnected the battery overnight, usually worked on the P38a.
Today – interesting: The nearside main beam comes on and stays on, engine running or not, and with the engine running: Both dip beams light up, the rear side and rear fog lights light up and have a very dim flash about them (nothing switched on in the car), brakes dimly flashing but slower. Indicators the same as last evening and the front main beam or fog lights do not activate with the switches.
A few questions if I may?
Any ideas what is causing this (I have no diagnostic tools)?
Is this a simple fix by any stretch of the imagination?
How do you get the driver’s door card off? So, I can fix the door handle, I have removed all the obvious screws in the door pocket and behind the door latch handle but can’t budge it.
Many thanks for reading and here’s hoping for some ideas on how to fix.
Cheers
Steve
Apologies if there is a thread already I have not found it……….
Last evening after being stood for two weeks battery left connected, jumped in stated first turn of the key - yeah, in the rear-view mirrors the garage door was a sight to behold.
Leaving the engine running I went to the rear of the car, then brake lights, were flashing at a fantastic rate, the fog lights were on and side lights dimly lit (nothing switched on within the car), the indictors when turned on came on and stayed on for about three seconds then went off for a while then came back on, repeating the 3 second duration, left and right same result, no hazard lights working.
At the front, the off side, side light flashed on, then circa 3 seconds later the near side did the same, then back to the off side, that carried on for the duration the engine was running, no lights turned on.
If I turned the lights on the dashboard, instrument binnacle and instrument lights flashed at the same rate as the rear fog lights! Now have an internal Christmas tree but all white lights......
Whilst the engine was still running I undertook an all-round check for water ingress, nothing anywhere, not even in the spare wheel well.
Buy now I had turned off the engine and all was calm again, then the stupid, stupid error, not realising the central locking had activated I yanked on the driver’s door handle and broke it! Anyway using the key I unlocked and held the unlock until the drivers windows opened and used the inner handle……
Restarted the engine same symptoms, to a tee. Remembering the old trick, I was given for the P38a I had, shut it down and disconnected the battery overnight, usually worked on the P38a.
Today – interesting: The nearside main beam comes on and stays on, engine running or not, and with the engine running: Both dip beams light up, the rear side and rear fog lights light up and have a very dim flash about them (nothing switched on in the car), brakes dimly flashing but slower. Indicators the same as last evening and the front main beam or fog lights do not activate with the switches.
A few questions if I may?
Any ideas what is causing this (I have no diagnostic tools)?
Is this a simple fix by any stretch of the imagination?
How do you get the driver’s door card off? So, I can fix the door handle, I have removed all the obvious screws in the door pocket and behind the door latch handle but can’t budge it.
Many thanks for reading and here’s hoping for some ideas on how to fix.
Cheers
Steve