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custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19568

I sympathise, I really do.

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17th Mar 2017 10:09pm

Miggit

Member Since: 09 Mar 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 72

So LR have improved the bad earth fault then... may years ago bad earths would result in orange lights, we found the best way to cure was to run the headlamp earth's direct to the engine block, or battery, depending on how involved you want to get.. Now it looks like LR have sorted the orange light issue and they are now either on or off

Of cause LED don't do the system any favours as they are a little more voltage critical... there is not much scope for dim led's in less than a volt they can go from fully on to totally off... at least a filament light bulb will do it's very best to glow no matter how poor the voltage gets. RRC 2.4 TD... it's either a stretched 90 or shrunken 110!!
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18th Mar 2017 5:00pm

JustFX

Member Since: 10 Nov 2016
Location: Mendip Hills
Posts: 190

2000 Defender 110 Td5 CSW Coniston Green

Whether the failure is, it is connected to all of the lights. Left and Right Headlights are on separate fuses so take a look at the wiring diagram and find the common failure point.

Is it blowing fuses or just not working?

As a temp solution hook up a cheap set of fogs to a switch but not using any of the Land Rover wiring. They can be a get to work/home until you can fix it properly. This may not be legal way to drive, it isn't any worse than other car users on the road these days.

18th Mar 2017 6:58pm

Miggit

Member Since: 09 Mar 2017
Location: Milton Keynes
Posts: 72

It's highly unlikely that 4 separate circuits have failed simultaneously, it's more likely to be the 2 most common things... the earth or the fact that it's made by Land Rover and you got it wet... afterall they are trying to follow in the tradition that they gained with Lucas components.. they must spend days try to find components of equally poor quality

And I don't know why I'm laughing... my car is riddled with Lucas parts...D'OH!

RRC 2.4 TD... it's either a stretched 90 or shrunken 110!!
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18th Mar 2017 8:34pm

monk

Member Since: 02 Mar 2017
Location: east yorkshire
Posts: 39

2000 Defender 110 Td5 DCPU Java Black (black Hood)

Right! Basically i gave up, id had enough and called an auto electrician, if this makes any sense to anyone, the live feed back to the switch had failed somewhere he couldnt find where he said it would be a pain to find but said it would be a large connector block probably and a bad connection so just fed the live from somewhere else and chopped the old feed off!

19th Mar 2017 8:37pm

custom90

Member Since: 21 Jan 2010
Location: South West, England.
Posts: 19568

Chopped the old feed off.

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19th Mar 2017 8:55pm

Balvaig

Member Since: 19 Feb 2016
Location: Fife
Posts: 719

2016 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 Landmark LE Corris Grey

Glad you got it sorted and hope it wasn't too expensive

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19th Mar 2017 9:09pm

monk

Member Since: 02 Mar 2017
Location: east yorkshire
Posts: 39

60quid! But i must have spent 4+ hours trying to find it, i know the guy who fixed it until yesterday couldnt get his number, know hes been an auto spark 25+ years so he knows what hes doing!

20th Mar 2017 12:13am

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