Kirsty0929
New Member
Posting on behalf of my Dad. Sorry, this is a long one!
Basically, his Automatic LR seems to be losing power. Whilst driving it illuminates different faults on the dashboard, lights begin to flicker and the electronic break doesn’t work. He turns off the engine when this happens and goes to start up again and all the lights on the dash are just flickering and a ticking noise is there. When jump started, the engine will restart fine however all the faults on dashboard stay on and if engine is switched off again it will need another jump start to restart. We have noticed that the suspension light and break light appears before all of the other lights come on. Not sure if this triggers the rest of them? May I add, the car radio has not been working either and used to come on when the car was unlocked and up full blast! It has had new batteries fitted and voltage has been tested - all fine. Been to specialists in electronics and they can’t find anything wrong. Car faults and codes got cleared in garage and car was running ok for 2 weeks. He got it washed yesterday and tonight when parked up the suspension lowered and then when restarted and driving for about 10 mins the lights on the dash came back up again and surprise, couldn’t be put into reverse, drive, park due to lack of power and parking break would not go on car had to be stopped, engine off and jump started. Could this be water getting into the electrics? I have searched loads of forums and no one seems to have anything similar that’s happened to them.
Thank you for reading and hopefully someone put there knows a cause.
Basically, his Automatic LR seems to be losing power. Whilst driving it illuminates different faults on the dashboard, lights begin to flicker and the electronic break doesn’t work. He turns off the engine when this happens and goes to start up again and all the lights on the dash are just flickering and a ticking noise is there. When jump started, the engine will restart fine however all the faults on dashboard stay on and if engine is switched off again it will need another jump start to restart. We have noticed that the suspension light and break light appears before all of the other lights come on. Not sure if this triggers the rest of them? May I add, the car radio has not been working either and used to come on when the car was unlocked and up full blast! It has had new batteries fitted and voltage has been tested - all fine. Been to specialists in electronics and they can’t find anything wrong. Car faults and codes got cleared in garage and car was running ok for 2 weeks. He got it washed yesterday and tonight when parked up the suspension lowered and then when restarted and driving for about 10 mins the lights on the dash came back up again and surprise, couldn’t be put into reverse, drive, park due to lack of power and parking break would not go on car had to be stopped, engine off and jump started. Could this be water getting into the electrics? I have searched loads of forums and no one seems to have anything similar that’s happened to them.
Thank you for reading and hopefully someone put there knows a cause.
