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Sorry found a thread with the solution. Re the indicators though, is that because of the radio change or just some random thing. The radio takes all power from the ignition I think so should be off when the car is off? I'm waiting on a key refurb kit so I'm not locking it at the moment, might...

Right, changed the radio for one that plays them silvery things and gets Radio 6 music. Laughing! 24 hours later the indicators are all glowing at me! Come on here find a few, unresolved, threads. Why do people do that, not close the thread with the solution? Perhaps because they never...

I had a 300 Tdi 3 door 1200 quid as I needed something when I blew the Freelander HG (L series 200K miles) I loved it but missus said it looked cheap and nasty inside. Already had a 300Tdi 90 so traded the disco for an MG ZS (L series) saloon. Loved it but i'm getting old and it's very low...

Got home and remembered the AA! Treked back to Barnsley Saturday and got it recovered to the garage. Stuck him with a letter rejecting the vehicle and we nave done a deal on a Range Rover diesel and cash back. Should pick it up next week. Wait to see how that goes.

Got all the way over the Woodhead pass and into Doncaster. Parked up popped the bonnet and there is 'water' (water and diesel?) all over the turbo side of the engine and its pouring out of the soundproof felt on the underside of the bonnet. No sign of a leak. Went and did the job and then...

Right put the fault reader on it and deliberately shorted the ambient sensor 5v supply. MIL light and no throttle response. Ambient sensor fault followed by driver input fault. exactly as the sensor was reading previously. Switch off switch on all well. Repeat, same effect. New wire from pin 8...

Ta for that. It would appear its fixed, until the next time. The wiring around the MAF appears to be the problem but when I messed with this I fixed it and can't make it fail again. Going with a theory that if one of the 5v sensor supplies goes to earth it will cause the rest of the supplies to...

Spend a few hours on it yesterday I can't get 5 volts at the ecu pin for the supply voltage. but the two sensor pins add up to approximately 5 volts. In desperation to prove something I cut the supply wire from the ecu and the sensor pins still had voltage on them? I'm in Africa now so I've...

Dropped to tickover again this morning just before motorway thank god. I now have a chance to check wires .ecu is only sending less than 1v to the tps not checked but what else might be affected by a bad earth to ecu that I can check? Its a shame because when it runs it runs well.

Got that thanks. Tested again today and it is spot on 5v on the supply, not too bothered about the balance as it is running. So what could cause the voltage on pin 14 to drop to less than 1v (not 0v) then magically come back up again? I'm not understanding how a bad earth would cause this or am...

Why would you do that? I can see the wisdom of the reverse process.

Sheds should be green.

Pin in TPS feed from ecu, earth to the battery terminal. I can get the logic of electrickery but not too experienced with electronic cars. Other cars are a 300tdi defender and a diesel VW T25. I suppose I really want to know , if the voltage to the TPS drops does it cause the symptoms...

Had the td5 for 5 weeks now 2 and a half of which it hasn't started. Got that sorted, as I predicted a combination of blocked tank filter and leaking fuel filter gasket. Should have done it myself but then I wouldn't now have a collection of electrical bits for free. Got back on saturday drove...

I'm so glad I kept the 300tdi defender when I decided to embark on the td5 journey I've been putting off for years. I recently was seduces by a nice clean , dryish, light green discovery 2. So far it's managed 550 miles failed to start once had a bad connection to the starter, and has now sat...

Take the seat base out that will drop it further down.

Me and the missus have driven round europe twice now sleeping in the 90, as said on here drop the seats forward, cut down the bulkhead to level with them (half bulkhead removal fit some sort of removable bracing bar across the dog guard fittings ( I used the dog guard and laid it flat over the...

swap the wheels around see if the problem moves, When you jack it up on the body most people rock the wheel top and bottom and side to side or left and right get hold of the wheel left and right and pull it towards the front of the car and back towards the rear. is there any movement there. If...

Just when you think you've learned all there is to learn........ Whent to mondo mode recently, better mpg and acceleration. but above 70 on a steady throttle there is a weird shake on the steering, lasts for about three seconds, then smooth for three and so on. If you accelerate not that...

Diesel? Run a wire from a live on the ignition to the fuel cut out soleniod. Should cure it and the imobiliser will still stop the starter turning over for a thief.