Hi there, I hope I am doing this right as it is my first proper post. Have been using your brilliant site for several months now for advice etc, and have bitten the bullet and joined as need a bit more help if that's OK. Have P38 Vogue 4.6 which we were practically 'given' - RHD - knew that there is a problem with EAS.
Have bought the software and lead and have cleared various faults, including RR valve closed - were advised this was probably leak from rear airbags, re-run the car and hubby replaced the two rear air springs, but still ongoing. The car seems to like going up into wading mode much of the time and last fault read that exhaust valve was closed - car stayed in high, did not drop to bumper stops - cleared fault, levelled out and then it went to 'normal' at the back and high at the front. EAS hard fault and then it dropped to bumper stops. Have cleared fault again, cleaned out exhaust valve (lots of white chalky limescale powder stuff dropped out) and it's running fine again. This time fault said that it was the FL valve closed. Went out for a run in it again - for the moment it's fine - played with access mode in the car park - it will only drop at the back, front stays in normal height. Any advice would be really gratefully received. We are thinking that at the minute we may need to replace the exhaust valve, maybe some/all of the valve blocks, or is there a leak in the system? Certainly the two short tubes from the cruise crontrol are cracked and these are on the change list for this week - could these have an effect also please? Not sure if these work with the EAS - certainly cruise control isn't working at the moment. We don't think it's the compressor as this isn't noisy and it comes straight back up or goes back down easily enough, except when it's messing around in wading mode. ANY advice would be really really gratefully received. We're in the south of France and there aren't really any bods here that know what they're talking about - especially the main dealer which is 100 km away anyway!
On average, have managed between 50 and 150 miles before it goes into EAS hard fault modes, no more, hence can't go very far in it.
Have bought the software and lead and have cleared various faults, including RR valve closed - were advised this was probably leak from rear airbags, re-run the car and hubby replaced the two rear air springs, but still ongoing. The car seems to like going up into wading mode much of the time and last fault read that exhaust valve was closed - car stayed in high, did not drop to bumper stops - cleared fault, levelled out and then it went to 'normal' at the back and high at the front. EAS hard fault and then it dropped to bumper stops. Have cleared fault again, cleaned out exhaust valve (lots of white chalky limescale powder stuff dropped out) and it's running fine again. This time fault said that it was the FL valve closed. Went out for a run in it again - for the moment it's fine - played with access mode in the car park - it will only drop at the back, front stays in normal height. Any advice would be really gratefully received. We are thinking that at the minute we may need to replace the exhaust valve, maybe some/all of the valve blocks, or is there a leak in the system? Certainly the two short tubes from the cruise crontrol are cracked and these are on the change list for this week - could these have an effect also please? Not sure if these work with the EAS - certainly cruise control isn't working at the moment. We don't think it's the compressor as this isn't noisy and it comes straight back up or goes back down easily enough, except when it's messing around in wading mode. ANY advice would be really really gratefully received. We're in the south of France and there aren't really any bods here that know what they're talking about - especially the main dealer which is 100 km away anyway!
On average, have managed between 50 and 150 miles before it goes into EAS hard fault modes, no more, hence can't go very far in it.