.... Two Hire cars , 7 Days without the Rangie and a somewhat frustrating holiday in France, Italy -Lake Como , Switzerland - Interlaken and back up through France.
What did we miss?
Rangie had a failed injector.. intermittent at first then complete failure... knock on is a flat battery. Now Can't get in to Low Box. Get prompted to select Nutral when starting and then get told to "Slow Down" as soon as I select Drive. You've got to love these Landies!
Came home , jumped in 110 and went and fetched the Dogs.
Ooooh that's rare. I did a lot of work with Lucas sorting out torque values and equipment for their production lines in Sudbury and Gillingham ... and injector failure was almost unheard of, other than through 'home mechanic' feckups and normal wear and tear!
Sounds like a cough to me! Assume the position Mr triple X ;0)
Has Lucas kit found its way on to the 2003 Rangies? The one with the Beemer Engine... I can't see as its all wrapped up in Landrover packing. No spanners been around it since I had it so I guess this is wear and tear.
Dunno, to be honest. We did the production line torque tooling for Lucas, then part of the L322 line at Landrover ... I don't know for absolutely certain that the bits that came from Lucas were what went into LR ... but the tooling was identical!
Mind, that doesn't mean it would be marked or badged Lucas, they were having issues at the time and various names were dealt with at one time or another, certainly at the Gillingham plant anyway .. ;)
Sussed the Errors - weren't errors... My little french garage friends had left in fuse number 37... which disabled the 4x4. Once removed all is fine.. errors disappear and can now select low box again. Technically its not an error but a design fetaure so the car can be towed. Its a first for me... removing a fuse to "fix" something.
Also whilst I was at is.. what I thought may have been a warped disc (apparently no such thing according to an engineers write up I read) or failing bearing on the Drivers wheel turned out to be crud on the sliders and caliper. Stripped it down and cleaned it all up. Copper slipped in all the right places and its now back to normal. It sounded like it was running on a flat tyre or over rumble strips before. Whilst the wheel was off noticed a 3cm cut in the tyre down to the ply on one of the best origional remaining tyres , still has around 5 to 6mm of tread.... BUM!
Also picked up a screw in a sidewall of the new tyre I fitted 1000 miles back (thats three weeks ago due to the holiday!). Tyre has had to be sent to a specialist for repair.
I didn't think sidewall damage was repairable at all. I know you can't do the simple plug 'n patch type. How much is the sending away and specialist repair going to cost, not far short of a new tyre I would have thought, unless the place you brought it from has some form of free replacement/repair in the first x thousand miles.
I don't know the name of the process but I do know it involves baking the tyre for a period. Its been sent by my Local chaps Vantage Tyres, to Stone Tyres a few miles away. Costs just under £25 for the repair then I guess fitting and balance. New tyre comes in at £200. When I say side wall it is just on the side about 1 to 2 cm off the tread. Normally if its in the tread they do them on site while u wait.
It will become a spare I guess as I now need another tyre to replace the one with the gash in. I always try and replace in pairs.
On the bright side Mr Goodyear laid claim to the process of Vulcanising rubber and it is a Goodyear Wrangler... but yeah.. I too share your concern with anything that is in effect a life support device at 69.9 mph ....ahem.
Depends a bit on the damage and what has happened (or not) to the steels/fibres. You don't see as many shed treads from truck remoulds as you used to, I suspect the process has got better.
Personally I wouldn't routinely use a remould or a hot vulcanised repaired tyre. As a spare though...
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