Jul 25, 2010. #3. As Dave says, it depends what you want the remap for. Boy racers tend to want extra speed, others want better low end power and torque. Talk to the mapper and say what you want to do, if he can do it, then you are on to a good bloke. If it's just a standard remap, then it's probably a copy file off E bay.
Nov 13, 2013. #4. Run a temporary earth direct from the battery -ve to the ECU earth point. Also run a heavy temporary earth cable (you can use a boost cable) from the battery -ve to the engine block. If it solves your starting problem then you need to clean and tighten all the main earth points. Most Common Land Rover Td5 Engine Problems Head Gasket Failure. The most common problem with the Td5 engines is head gasket failure. LR used plastic dowels to Rough Running, Bad Starting, Misfiring. Sometimes a Td5 can start to run very rough, misfire, or be relatively hard to Engine 245. Jun 28, 2009. #10. Mine's started doing this more and mre frequently now - turn the ignition to start and just a click. After a few times it turns over. I noticed though that you can't hear the fuel pump priming when it won't start. When you hear the fuel pump spin you know it's going to work on the next go. Apr 1, 2019. #11. If the BCU is not programmed well it will not work at all, the engine immobilised or some warning lamps will not work but would not give such symptoms, if you are 100% certain that the interior fusebox is OK (eyeballing it is irrelevant) rule out the engine bay fusebox too. C.3 Answers. Likely to be the xyz switch on the side of the gearbox (if it is an auto). When faulty it seems it sends conflicting messages as to which gear has been selected, causing the ecu to go into limp mode (M+S lights flash and the gearbox allows only limited operation). The aircon drain is is located immediately above it and causesHi I'm on my 2nd TD5, couldn't cope without after I sold the last one! The old one had an airbag problem, where the back end dropped one side which would inflate when starting the car, but got it fixed as soon as this happened. Now this one has dropped completely at the back, both sides - happened last night.
Theres a sheet somewhere on the Internet about this issued by Land Rover. I had the same problem with mine, The windscreen was refitted 3 times and it still leaked! The sheet says to reseal the top of the window behind the window seal cover along the top. The plastic cover is just to look at and serves no purpose.
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