Cheers kimlhati, I am not going to bother chasing small repairs on the gearbox in hopes of a cheap fix, as the mileage is 121000 miles, and the fact the engine oil was all black gunk from not being changed in a while, I am going to go for the safest option, a full gearbox rebuild. This will mean that the Range Rover will have to be limped about until after Christmas. I was going to park it up and leave it as I had only just got my other Range Rover back from the garage for a non starting issue, but the non starting issue on the other one has come back within 2 days so being forced into using this one during the week and a Mondeo at the weekends. I am waiting for some money to come in that I am owed which should be before Christmas, but a chance it may not come until January or February 2017.

I have by miracle managed to win a complete headlight unit on Ebay for just under £30 delivered, so that is soon to be ticked off of the list. I need to get a right hand catalytic converter for it and 2 reg plates, then put it in for an MOT test. I hate having cars that have MOT's that expire near Christmas and my Birthday. I also believe that I may need some work done to the suspension on the front passenger side for the MOT, but I am prepared to let the car fail first to find out for definite.

I need a dry weekend so I can do some work. I also need to take the button apart in the upper tailgate as the boot keeps opening itself which has gotten so much worse.

The display on the headunit is starting to play up too, so the list is starting to grow. But I do intend to keep this car for a few years hopefully.

I got bored last week and decided to take some more photo's of my car as well lol

I assume that as a V8 owner you are such a regular at the petrol station that they don't mind you using it as a location for photo shoots!

Lol, I wouldn't pay a penny for fuel from that particular garage as they are always about 10p a litre more expensive than everywhere else. They aren't aware of me using the site when they are closed for photo's, unless they have reviewed CCTV footages to see some fat weirdo appearing in different cars taking pictures

The only thing I occasionally use at that garage is the pressure washer as it is one you buy time for rather than a code with a limit to the time on each program to clean the car.

Oh and the toilet facilities lol.

Hopefully sourced a non BT IID tool from a kind member on here, not confirmed yet though, Range Dog will be going into the garage to have the suspension and steering noise diagnosed and exhaust repaired once I get Range Dog back.

Then it will be MOT time!

Feeling quite stressed to be honest about the MOT test. But only time will tell.

Woohoo, Thanks to rathbranV8 selling me his, I am now eagerly awaiting delivery of my non BT IID tool. As soon as it arrives I will get it registered for my car. Feeling very excited.

Great pics and lovely looking rangie Jae, hope you get it going right

Cheers mate

I am confused about the IID tool.

I thought it would tell me all the faults with my Range Rover, right down to which parking sensors were faulty. But it has brought up error messages for things that aren't faulty, and missed out information for things that are faulty.

It made the EAS go faulty, but after erasing the codes I managed to get that working again.

Passenger Occupancy Sensor less than 9.6v is one error, this is a truthful error.

I guess I have got a lot to learn about this tool.

What features can it activate on a Range Rover?

have you read the manual worth downloading and printing off

forget all the faults mate, you know you look good driving it and people are quietly jealous!

Welcome to the 16mpg club pal haha. Best year as well. Dan

2002 Zambezi Silver

Men And Motors RR Quote - It's like having wheels fitted to your living room!

builder1966 wrote:

have you read the manual worth downloading and printing off

DannyH wrote:

forget all the faults mate, you know you look good driving it and people are quietly jealous!

Welcome to the 16mpg club pal haha. Best year as well.

3 flash lane assist indicator function ????????????? never heard or seen that on the obd11 tool beware they are powerful tools you can mess up if you don't know what your doing

Give Pat a PM and he'll be able to tell you about the three flashes. I've heard of it but I've haven't seen it on my travels around the IIDtool.

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Range Rover Classic 3.5 efi - Gone
Range Rover Classic 3.9 efi - Gone
Range Rover Classic 4.2 LSE - Sadly gone
Land Rover 110 3.5 - Gone
Range Rover P38a 4.0 SE - Pleased it's gone
Range Rover P38a 2.5 DHSE - Just sold
Range Rover L322 4.4 v8 Petrol - Current

Thanks Uk marine.

I had the 3 flash function activated via bluetooth IID tool through another member on Disco3 forum on my Discovery 3, so had hoped that it would be able to be activated on my Range Rover. I have it on my Mondeo as well and is quite handy in a lazy way for coming off of roundabouts and changing lanes on the motorway and dual carriageways.