Bultacosherpa
New Member
All - just to flag up ( and raise a few serious question marks) over a P38 occurrence that I have just resolved.
Scenario:
I am owner of a 2001 P38 DHSE.
Its a great car: luxurious, durable and attractive.
The dashboard tells me everything I need to know and more: from bulb failures to the status of the doors, split interior temperatures to the name of the song I am listening to .
SO WHY WHY WHY ....WHY doesnt it tell me that the brake lights have failed when the switch has packed up?????????
OK so I drive to Wales from London in torrential rain. Driving back (again in rain of biblical proportions) she bleeps at me twice and flashes a message "ABS Fault Traction Failure" and two small warning lights come on.
I pull over - brakes working fine and vehicle has plenty of traction. So I proceed carefully down the M4 in difficult conditions until home reached. No change - fault still showing. Hmm sounds like a ££££ experience at the garage.
So i research on this site and find a couple of postings about this subject. Brake light switch failing can cause ABS Fault etc £5.70 XKB100170 etc etc Check your brake lights etc etc.
Sure enough lo and behold I have driven 130 miles on a flooded motorway with NO brake lights and no bulb failure or other alert from my "clever" car.
2 days later XKB100170 courtesy of RST Landrover spares drops through my letter box and 10 mins later the brakelights are working and the faults have all cleared.
Thanks LR for a monumentally flawed piece of designed obsolescence and the most mental piece of electrical engineering I have ever encountered!
Moral of the tale:
If you P38 shows "ABS FAULT TRACTION FAILURE" then there is a very high chance that you have NO BRAKELIGHTS!
STOP - get a new switch fitted asap. Its a dirt cheap part that controls a critical function of your car. But your car wont tell you it has failed!!!
It will however tell you that you are nice and warm and listening to Radio 2.
So that's alright then!!
Scenario:
I am owner of a 2001 P38 DHSE.
Its a great car: luxurious, durable and attractive.
The dashboard tells me everything I need to know and more: from bulb failures to the status of the doors, split interior temperatures to the name of the song I am listening to .
SO WHY WHY WHY ....WHY doesnt it tell me that the brake lights have failed when the switch has packed up?????????
OK so I drive to Wales from London in torrential rain. Driving back (again in rain of biblical proportions) she bleeps at me twice and flashes a message "ABS Fault Traction Failure" and two small warning lights come on.
I pull over - brakes working fine and vehicle has plenty of traction. So I proceed carefully down the M4 in difficult conditions until home reached. No change - fault still showing. Hmm sounds like a ££££ experience at the garage.
So i research on this site and find a couple of postings about this subject. Brake light switch failing can cause ABS Fault etc £5.70 XKB100170 etc etc Check your brake lights etc etc.
Sure enough lo and behold I have driven 130 miles on a flooded motorway with NO brake lights and no bulb failure or other alert from my "clever" car.
2 days later XKB100170 courtesy of RST Landrover spares drops through my letter box and 10 mins later the brakelights are working and the faults have all cleared.
Thanks LR for a monumentally flawed piece of designed obsolescence and the most mental piece of electrical engineering I have ever encountered!
Moral of the tale:
If you P38 shows "ABS FAULT TRACTION FAILURE" then there is a very high chance that you have NO BRAKELIGHTS!
STOP - get a new switch fitted asap. Its a dirt cheap part that controls a critical function of your car. But your car wont tell you it has failed!!!
It will however tell you that you are nice and warm and listening to Radio 2.
So that's alright then!!