Turns over, smells like gas, no spark

 

Coils don't seem or smell burnt

 

Are you sure you installed the sensor in straight, didn't bend it?
I would say the next step would be to get either an Ohm meter or a good scanner and get a voltage reading from the sensor when the engine is turning.

 

If I crank it over for a bit and then let up on the key after it charges (jumping) for a while, the second I release the key, it farts once.
Sensor is straight as far as I can tell, I didn't force it in or anything and torqued the two nuts the same

 

Ahhh the town of Amherst in a parking lot.....

 

Well... I was playing with the door locks and hit them three times, the horn beeped, I turned the key ad it started right up! Only to mysteriously die again after about a minute. Only cranks now...

 

This this is an ecu issue?

 

I'm almost in the dark here before I have to take that 1.5 hour trip back. Any suggestions? Have I stumped everyone?

 

Anybody want to buy a 2000 d2?

 

I think you have an immobilizer problem, based on what you said about the locks.

Is your ignition key flat metal, or is it the Land Rover radio fob key?

(Sorry, you actually picked a day while I was oot and aboot, and right after my Internet-on-a-rope broke in a Linux kernel upgrade.)