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110MGD

Member Since: 17 Oct 2013
Location: Wear Valley
Posts: 153

Constantly Going into limp mode

As much as I love my old 90 I Am totally losing confidence in it at the moment.

At least one in five times I drive it the EML light comes on and I have no throttle control and have to limp it home or get a recovery out. This is extremely frustrating at quite frankly at the moment I could sell my daily car, and the defender and by another big modern 4x4 or perhaps even go Japanese (X5,Touareg, Land Cruiser, Shogun) as I am losing confidence in Land Rover

However I love the defender and really want to keep it. Does anyone know a definitive list of what could be putting the EML light on? I thought I had cured it with a new fuel filter and the water in fuel sensor disconnected. What other things should I check

Regards 2001 Td5 CSW (weekend and snow mobile) Plenty of lights, M/T tyres EGR delete, roofrack, swing away wheel carrier, snorkel.
2016 E220 CDI Night Edition Estate
2014 VW UP!
2x D3 and 1x D4 GONE

21st Sep 2015 8:26am

derbywill

Member Since: 25 Mar 2010
Location: Derbyshire
Posts: 540

Ideally you need to plug into a diagnostic machine to read the codes but is sound like a throttle pedal wiring fault, most people use five core wiring to bypass the original loom from the pedal to the ECU, not to big a repair and definitely not something to make you lose confidence as its a easyish one to sort.
Kind regards
Will 2005 90 XS
1954 86'' Series 1 tilt

21st Sep 2015 8:57am

JWL

Member Since: 26 Oct 2011
Location: Hereford
Posts: 3443

To save yourself a whole load of heartache it really needs to have a diagnostic kit plugged in. There might be someone in your area who'd be prepared to meet up and plug theirs in or give a good independant garage a call. Otherwise you could be chasing a simple fault round at great expense plus the time wasted.

21st Sep 2015 8:58am

roel

Member Since: 08 Aug 2009
Location: Lelystad
Posts: 2039

If you want to keep it, buy an Nanocom. I bought an old one for very little money as it doesn't want to talk to a laptop naymore but it works in standalone so I can read faults and values.

It cost me less than one visit to a Laro Doctor.

Roel

1984 90 2.5 na Diesel - RR V8 (1994-2001)
1997 Camel Trophy Discovery 300TDI (2001-2009)
2005 G4 Discovery III 4.4 V8 (2008-2018) It's gone but it still hurts.
2003 90 Td5 (2009-now)

21st Sep 2015 9:16am

Daisy90

Member Since: 01 Feb 2015
Location: Hampshire
Posts: 843

Mine did similar, more and more often, usually on a wet day,
I checked the loom from everywhere I could see it, including using a jet wash on the connectors and wiring, but could not reproduce the fault,
So as a fix / elimination I also required the pedal and bypassed the loom untill it went into the ecu, I used trailer cable,
Since then never missed a beat

So although I have never found the problem it appears cured

21st Sep 2015 5:01pm

110MGD

Member Since: 17 Oct 2013
Location: Wear Valley
Posts: 153

Thanks for the quick response guys. Doesn't sound too bad then, was sick as a chip and utterly annoyed with it before. Maybe I won't be so hasty now!

2001 Td5 CSW (weekend and snow mobile) Plenty of lights, M/T tyres EGR delete, roofrack, swing away wheel carrier, snorkel.
2016 E220 CDI Night Edition Estate
2014 VW UP!
2x D3 and 1x D4 GONE

21st Sep 2015 5:52pm

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