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     Jason McCombs (Jasonmc) Member Username: Jasonmc Post Number: 94 Registered: 06-2003 |
Hey guys I have a question about a diagnosis that has been made on my bosses 97 range rover 4.0. (i already posted on the ronge rover board but you guys are more active) He is not at all a DIY type of guy, he is not mechanically ignorant but he is just not interested in wrenching on it. So that being said a rover was probably not the best choice for him to begin with but all that aside. My question revolves around a lengthy series of problems he has had with it. in the past three months his RangeRover has been at the dealer 5 times for like a week or more at a time. He's had endless fault codes, the OBD computer wsa replaced with a new one, his engine light goes on and off intermittantly, and his air ride suspension system has went out 3 times in this same period. He took it in to get the air ride sytem repaired and they replaced one of the units, when he went to pick it up they were lowering it down of the lift and as the suspension became load bearing another unit failed in front of him. OK this is to give you the recent history. now for the latest incident and the one that my question revolves around. He was drinving with his family up to his cabin and in route he stoped for gas and after filling up he went to restart the engine and it didnt want to turn over. he tried it a few times and finally it started, then as he finished the drive he started to notice that the automatic trans was not shitfing properly. He made it to the cabins drive way and it is an incline, he slowed down and turned off onto it and it went down into first and it had no power at all. he said he actually had to back up far enough to get a " running start" to obtain the momentum to roll up the driveway. he had it taken to the dealer and they told him that at last they had found the big problem, the problem that caused the poor shifting and the complete loss of power and the root of all the check engine lights and fault codes. and they said it waas just a bad battery. the battery was less than a year old. so i know a bad battery can cause problems but i would think not to this extent, and further more wouldn't something else have caused the battery to fail so soon? and if the battery had been causing fault codes? wouldn't the fault codes have indicated the battery as the cause in the first place? Also isn't there a "check battery" light on the console? if so it never came on. I am just curious about this diagnosis and I think it sounds fishy. anybody got any ideas on this? | ||
| Andy Thoma (Andythoma) Senior Member Username: Andythoma Post Number: 394 Registered: 01-2003 |
What about a bad alternator? My 95 would stall for no reason while turning. Then the tach stopped and the truck died. New alternator and I was good. Get him to load test the alternator at someone like pepboys or autozone. |
