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Barb fitting hose worked no coolant leaks or from anything i touched

Front bumper complete foglights and pdc working all round!

Having issues bleeding this thing

There are 3 bleed points?

Heating on to max heat lowest fan front and rear

Expansion tank prefilled to max start engine

Open front metal pipe with the bung till coolant flows put pipe gets hot close it

Open expansion bleeded till flow close

Open rear left corner hardpipe bleed for hvac system till it flows and close

But i had pressure build up and temp went just past 12 0 clock wtf any full fat nerd help?

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what a special service you have given the old girl there, much respect from me also

Thanks mate its getting there !

Just need to figure out how to bleed her front heating is now piping hot but no luck for the rear yet

After this its 1 front shock and worlds of cleaning for the most part

The instructions in the manual say that you need to hold the revs at 2k rpm or something like that whilst bleeding. It's been a while since I did mine. I followed the manual but didn't have any issues bleeding it.

The other option you have is to use a vacuum bleeder. I bought one to do mine but ended up not using it.

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior
2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Black Edition in Santorini Black with Ebony Interior

Thanks david, where can i find this manual, surely you dont mean the book itself?

I had to use a vacuum purge & refill kit to successfully bleed my 5.0. Tried and tried with the bleed ports but these things are a notorious PITA to bleed manually.

Apologies, the workshop manual. I'll try and find it just now. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior
2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Black Edition in Santorini Black with Ebony Interior

Thank you that would be amazing

I've managed to get the cooling system bleeding instructions from the entire workshop manual into a 4 page document. Here's the instructions:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8mc1rsyxqlh...a&dl=0

David. 2002 4.6 Vogue SE - Alveston Red with Lightstone Leather
2012 Range Rover 5.0 SC Autobiography in Indus Silver with Jet/Ivory Interior
2012 Range Rover 4.4 TDV8 Autobiography in Baltic Blue with Sand Interior
2013 Range Rover Sport SDV6 HSE Black Edition in Santorini Black with Ebony Interior

Thank u soo much that looks like different car but i just found a working link to procedures!

https://charm.li/Land%20Rover/2011/Range%2...%20Repair/

I will have to wait till morning to retry as it needs to be done from dead cold i believe 2 to 3 hours wont be enough

Edit that is the expansion tank

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Here goes nothing

Same result with rear remaining cold and car starts to overheat

Sick of mess car now outside with hose handy

Hopefully the angle will help it bleed bubbles to top

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Car is now fully bled all 4 zones primed with hot air. I needed quite the incline to get the air out

Car ran for 20 mins at 2k rpm with no max engine fan or overheating.

20kg of crazy audio removed who ever did this was a artist with all custom fabricated brackets and PO musta spent a few K

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Guys any idea where this green plug goes? Im guessing its somthing do with factory audio