dangerous-dave-land-rovers
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On 15th October 2012 my Range Rover P38 DSE failed to start after momentarily switching off.It cranked over fine but failed to start.It was eventually taken to a main Land Rover Dealer Harwoods of Crawley.The vehicle was diagnosed with a BeCM fault,and it was discovered that windows, heating,air-con and radio failed to work.The unit was sent to BBA Reman for repair and returned , but still failed to work. The unit was again sent to Reman,and it was returned as working fine.It failed to correct the problems.Again it was returned to Reman,who exchanged it for another unit.That too failed to solve the problem.I was informed by Harwoods that their technician had even tried fitting another unit from a cutomers vehicle which was working,but even this item failed to correct my problems.
Upon it`s return the unit was then forwarded to Turner Automotive for investigation and was returned as repaired,but again this failed to correct the problems.
Harwoods have informed me that there is input into the unit,but no output.
Eventually after nearly four months,yes 4 months!!! Harwoods contacted Jaguar Land Rover Technical advice,who after speaking to a P38 expert (their words) was informed that JLR could obtain a new unit from the original suppliers,which would take a minimum of three months to be delivered,at a cost of £2079.00 fitted inc. VAT.
My question is,is there anyone out there who can resolve my issues??
JLR apparently stated that the equipment being used by these other companies was not sufficiently capable of carrying out the required tests.
Obviously after so many failures experienced, I now suspect the BeCM itself may be in fact OK! Is there anything else that could cause these problems??
Is it possible that something simple is being overlooked.
Surely in this day and age a car should not take this long to fix!!
Even if I take up the new unit,what guarentees are there that it should work.After so many failures with so called `fixed` units,from companies that rely on fixing BeCMs as part of their business I am at a loss to trust what I`m told.
Please help !!!!!
DDLR
Upon it`s return the unit was then forwarded to Turner Automotive for investigation and was returned as repaired,but again this failed to correct the problems.
Harwoods have informed me that there is input into the unit,but no output.
Eventually after nearly four months,yes 4 months!!! Harwoods contacted Jaguar Land Rover Technical advice,who after speaking to a P38 expert (their words) was informed that JLR could obtain a new unit from the original suppliers,which would take a minimum of three months to be delivered,at a cost of £2079.00 fitted inc. VAT.
My question is,is there anyone out there who can resolve my issues??
JLR apparently stated that the equipment being used by these other companies was not sufficiently capable of carrying out the required tests.
Obviously after so many failures experienced, I now suspect the BeCM itself may be in fact OK! Is there anything else that could cause these problems??
Is it possible that something simple is being overlooked.
Surely in this day and age a car should not take this long to fix!!
Even if I take up the new unit,what guarentees are there that it should work.After so many failures with so called `fixed` units,from companies that rely on fixing BeCMs as part of their business I am at a loss to trust what I`m told.
Please help !!!!!
DDLR
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