My family and i were in line at a convience store. We lifted to emergency brake, first we lost the heater, then all the gauges, and then it died. No matter what we did, we couldn't even get anything to work or turn on besides the dome lights. We got towed home, and checked all the fuses, even the ones under the hood, and nothing. Please tell me what would cause this to happen. Our other vehicle is down at the moment, and the Land Rover is our only other vehicle.

 

Crawl under the truck and look in the area of the parking brake/parking brake cable.
There is a ground wire there, it must have come loose or got pinched or something.

 

Well i looked and i did not see the wire. but i hope your right.

 

Land Rover Troubleshooting - Ground-Based Electrical Problems

 

I do not see how one individual ground, other than the battery ground and alternator ground could cause total electrical system failure.

Was there any burning smell or smoke emitting anywhere?

Look at the main grounds (starter to frame and battery to frame) are they corroded?

Do you have a multimeter to troubleshoot with?

 

We did not smell nothing. looked at the frame ground looks good give it a good wiggle and nothing. And nothing so got my multimeter out and looked at all the fuses under the hood with my multimeter and all of thim have juice. i am not all that good with this so ples hang in there any thing i am over looking

 

did you look at the fuses under the dash?

 

Yes sir i did have not went over them with the multimeter yet its very cold out. well this wood. Be ok if it was worm outside

 

Open hood.
Near battery is the underhood fuse box. Take off lid.
Look at attached picture.
Put your meter on DC Volts. Put black meter lead on battery negative terminal.

Put red meter lead on (+) terminal of battery - should read 12.6 volts or close. If not, dead battery or very dirty battery terminals.

Put red meter lead on the big terminal in the front left of picture. Should read 12 volts, if not, wire connections from battery plus teminal are dirty.


Put red meter lead on each screw holding down the 100 amp fuse link (square blue thing) - should read 12 volts or better on each side. Repeat for every other fuse link block in the box. The 100 amp unit is the master fuse. If it is cracked or blown, no battery power goes most anywhere else.

 

so thank you for the info. On this thing .but i was out gofing with it. And if i hit the lights and the brakes all the heater stuff comes on. and all the lights on the dash. but if i try to trun the key onr of the relay makes some buzz sound and if let off the brakes all gose dead agen. so i think i know whats going on. not a big electrical fan. agen you guy are cool for helping me a long.With my landy trip it Has bin fun but dam these things Are a trip but love this thing.
this is not going to stop me in the land rover trip in life