Well I did check the battery again about 2 hours after getting home again and the check tool registered only 50% charge. Now that does not seem right to me after a good 50 mile round trip on the Motorway cruising at 70 I would expect the battery to be tip top, so it does seem like there's...

Hi chaps, well a very enlightening day! Before heading off to Rovertune in Reading, I boosted the battery with my charger. I have a hefty ABSAAR unit that does either 20A or 180A for starting from a deaden. Dead handy bit of kit. So, off I went but with the same old problem as soon as I...

Further update - first thing this morning I went out and checked the battery with an AVO and a simple battery check tool with 5 LEDs indicating the basic state of charge conditions. With nothing running the AVO showed 11.98 V and the check tool showed 0-15% charge, so definitely looks as though...

Thanks for the further insight chaps! If the rain lets up I'll go check the age of the battery and the voltage. I have both an avo and a bettery tester. If I recall correctly it should be about 14v @ 2k rpm I read in one thread. So from what you say, just running it at a fast idle...

Thanks Saint.V8 - I'll keep that in mind. I've spoken with the dealer now and he is arranging for the vehicle to be looked at by this guru at Rovertune - tomorrow hopefully. He told me an interesting tip to get it back into normal driving mode: start her up and immediately put it in drive...

Thanks for further pointers Datatek - yes good point, need to get the seller to address the problem. The chap did tell me about an indy LR guru about 20 miles from me in Reading - Rovertune. Apparently he lives, breathes, & dreams LR. Hopefully he will get him to look at it.

Thanks Datatek, but I purchased it from an standalone car sales place. I do have a stealer and an indy local to me - Stealer about 1.5 miles, Indy about 3 miles. I will be phoning the place I bought it from later. It's not going anywhere at the moment - limp home mode with limited gears is OK...

Just taken the big step of pxing a 2005 BMW X5 3.0D for a RR TDV8 - amazing bit of kit- but last night I was just heading home the scenic route (small roads) to get some fuel (according to computer had 85 miles range left). Had just gone down a hill and round a roundabout when the message centre...

Hi there, finally got round to signing up, even though I've visited a couple of times as a guest! :rolleyes: Her-indoors runs an all black 2004 TD4 HSE - had it from almost new, n it's done just over 75k now. It's been a pretty reliable workhorse up to now, n it's taken a fair bit of abuse...