Driving along M4 at 70mph, heard a bong. Looked down to see HDC failure, then numerous warning lights and the suspension lowered to stops. Light in the suspension height selector disappeared.
Warning lights were ABS failure, dynamic response and suspension issue.
Pulled off m/way, turned off engine and locked car and walked away fir 10 mins, came back fired here up, transient warning and all ok for 1 min before same issue. Quick switch off restart and all ok until I got home 2 hrs later and failed as I pulled into drive. Dealers tomorrow......
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17th Sep 2009 8:57 pm
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17th Sep 2009 8:59 pm
SJR
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You should have called LR Assist, then you would have a loan vehicle, if you book directly with the dealer, you might get nothing I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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17th Sep 2009 9:35 pm
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Had same thing, it was the brake light filaments touching. Remove the brake light bulbs and see if it works ok, if so replace them with new one's anyway even if they appear to work.
Bet it will be the first thing the dealer looks for - have no idea of fault codes, but it is a really well documented fault "To finish first, one first has to finish ...."
Bulbs appear to work just fine. Still recon I should change both bulbs? Are there just 2?
17th Sep 2009 10:20 pm
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Would be worth swapping anyway for the sake of a couple of pound. Mine were working, but the filaments on one of them were touching. I did have a fault code which was brake pedal switch. This was caused by the filaments shorting and making the car think the brakes were on, I guess this disables the special programs, hill descent etc as they all rely on the brakes. Did the suspension also lower as well.
It could of course be loads of other things as well, like a sensor or something.
Blimey, please tell me them bulbs are easy to get to, looks like a pain!
Read manual seems easy.....off to dealers for bulbs........
18th Sep 2009 9:43 am
SJR
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A phillips screwdriver and <10 mins will see you do both sides, the hardest bit can be pulling the light cluster out, although some have used a plastic kitchen fish slice to help get leverage to get it out I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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