Yeah, better to have a failure in Europe than having one in the sand dunes, I was taking some rubbish down the farm today to go and burn, 110 started up, drove for 1 mile and just switched itself off, hmmm, I thought it cant be that hard to fix whilst sitting on a grass verge. I have no coil lights or engine management light and the engine just spins over, no fuel pomp sound either. I set about wiggling fuses and s checking them, same with the relays and the fuel pump inertia switch all were fine. Immobiliser? Had my wife bring me the spare set of keys, no joy then disconnected the batt and left for 10 mins to clear the ECU, still joy. Had to phone the AA who sent out Land Rover Assist the guy checked all what I had checked then found that the sensors around the engine that can cut it were powered up but not getting a signal from the ECU deduced that the ECU was dead, WTF? Took a tow of shame to my mates garage (the mate who came to Morocco with me), got him out of bed to come and diagnose the issue, spent a couple of hours checking the loom, earths. sensors with some oscilloscope thing and sure enough the ECU is getting power but putting out no signals and hence why its dead. I have Mike from Dynachip coming out on Tuesday to fit a new ECU and to reprogram, tune etc. but if that of happened in some remote dust pan near the Algeria border we would have had a right drama.
Seems that the Motorola ECU's last about 7-10 years and then can just die suddenly, oh well.
