Reflow the solder on the board behind the glove box...

 

Sarcasm I hope.

For the less well informed, Landrover (and its one time parent company Rover) are owned by India's TATA group of companies, along with their stablemate Jaguar. They are lumped together into the Jaguar LandRover group - known as JLR for short.

 

It was a genuine quest for information because I have been (blissfully) out of Landrover issues for twenty years until three months ago.

 

I was reflecting on how aweful the OP thinks LR are. My other car is a M3 ZCP BMW. Most would agree BMW makes a fine automobile. The M division is even better quality IMHO.
Just for the record. I had the car towed 5 times and in and out of shops until a shade tree mechanic (aka "real mechanic" not a computer reader) finally traced down the problem and fixed it.

Moral of the story, all automobiles are metal and plastic. They are going to fail. How much you want to toll over them is up to the owner. If you love your car/truck as I do you do whatever it takes to keep them running.

I have a 20 year old english SUV. Yeah it's going to break and I'm going to keep fixing it.
I can't wait for my nearly perfect motor to fail. It's going to a speed shop and I will tell them this is a Buick. Now build it for slightly more power and much better fuel economy.

It will cost some bucks sure but the alternative is a new automobile. If I had my choice, that would be an X5 V8 or Range Rover. For those kind of bucks I'll completely restore this old truck. The M3, you wouldn't pry that one out of my dead hands!

 

Hammerfit - did I see that you have a 95?. Did you get lucky and find a 5 speed? If so look at hemming motors, they have a restored 95 manual that they are asking $22,000 for. I can relate to your post cause up till last Saturday my daily driver was a 91 e30 318 that was the closest I could get to an m3 e30. Had it for 15 years and it is now in the hands of a collector. I will miss that car for many years to come.

 

You know, one can only compare with previous experience. BMW has never ever been on a par with say Mercedes Benz, Toyota, Mitsubishi or Mazda in my home land, but that has mostly to do with the silly unionized "industrial actions" where the factory is situated and the irresolute weak management style of BMW in this regard.

I have rarely been without a MB in my life and never had a break down. Neither with Toyota or Mitsubishi. (presently still two Mitsubishi trucks and one SUV in the family and these regularly travel to the distant hunting and safari destinations as single vehicles. Not once in their 20, 16 and 13 years life a single hiccup). And we attend to them ourselves; none of us know really much about their electronic control systems because we never had any reason to do so as nothing ever goes wrong with it.

My own history there with Landrover is to cry about, and mine is a drop in the ocean of Landrover tears; even the safari manuals warn against taking this type into the wilderness unless you are in a group. It is a vehicle for enthusiasts who have time and money to continually tinker. Landrover is a hobby, almost a collectively-suffering brotherhood, and not a serious, reliable, only car for the family, as no doubt one day it will fail on you way out west where its design philosphy said you could get away to and then you foolishly did.

Oh, sure as I am sitting here, If I had another vehicle I would have kept this Discovery 1 as a hobby because when it does run it simply is a pleasure to drive - and the tinkering, and thinking, and discussing of issues on a forum like this brings one in contact with other sufferers, and aso with truly knowledgeable experts who add to the general pool of knowledge (or not add - as the prevalent sarcastic style of particular members indicate). At least there is some consolation in knowing that the severe problems you experience are widely suffered (and even accepted as normal!), and that eases the frustration because it is but a hobby.

 

Yup, this is what I am shooting for, except with some slight modifications to motor.

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