Oliverryan96
Member
Hello Landy Zone,
A new defender owner here with little to no mechanical experience (soon to change for better or worse I imagine....). I've recently bought a 1996 300 TDI which is suffering from some electrical/starting issues so I'm looking for some assistance!
Hoping for some help with the issue I'm facing.
Backstory:
Last week the defender wouldn't start - when ignition was turned it would crank but wouldn't start and the lights and power were working fine, I am very new to mechanics so I resorted to utilising my AA breakdown cover - the man who attended done a number of checks re. the starter motor, battery health/charge, solenoid & others. He was getting rather stumped at what was causing the issue as all checks appeared fine, so I contacted the previous owner to double check there were no hidden immobilisers - they advised they had a similar issue that was linked to a broken/faulty relay. We then swapped the full beam relay into the starter relay and that worked - happy days!
This worked fine for a few days, then when I went to start the Landy a week later and it had the same issue - so I went and bought two new brand new relays from halfords to resolve the issue and replace the existing ones, this again worked for a couple of days. I've now just went to start landy this afternoon and I'm coming into the same issue again now with both of the new relays.
Can anyone assist in what could be causing this issue and a remedy? Its greatly appreciated!!
A new defender owner here with little to no mechanical experience (soon to change for better or worse I imagine....). I've recently bought a 1996 300 TDI which is suffering from some electrical/starting issues so I'm looking for some assistance!
Hoping for some help with the issue I'm facing.
Backstory:
Last week the defender wouldn't start - when ignition was turned it would crank but wouldn't start and the lights and power were working fine, I am very new to mechanics so I resorted to utilising my AA breakdown cover - the man who attended done a number of checks re. the starter motor, battery health/charge, solenoid & others. He was getting rather stumped at what was causing the issue as all checks appeared fine, so I contacted the previous owner to double check there were no hidden immobilisers - they advised they had a similar issue that was linked to a broken/faulty relay. We then swapped the full beam relay into the starter relay and that worked - happy days!
This worked fine for a few days, then when I went to start the Landy a week later and it had the same issue - so I went and bought two new brand new relays from halfords to resolve the issue and replace the existing ones, this again worked for a couple of days. I've now just went to start landy this afternoon and I'm coming into the same issue again now with both of the new relays.
Can anyone assist in what could be causing this issue and a remedy? Its greatly appreciated!!