So I have this switch on the drivers side back where the third row is… I have looked online and cannot find what it might do… and best I can tell.. it doesn’t do anything? Any idea?

 

Optional 'ludicrous speed' switch. They're very rare, you got lucky!

 

Added by previous owner
You'll have to trace wires and do some testing

But let us know if you figure it out
There are some interesting and useful mods that could help the community
Others . . . not so much

 

not OEM.. previous owner added that for something.... I have multimedia controls in that spot for my 3rd row

 

Oh boy oh boy…. I really did inherit someone’s project Rover.

I am pulling the front end apart this weekend and going through all of the lovely eBay boxes and misc boxes sitting in my garage from Atlantic British…

I will keep everyone posted on this.

I plan on doing a spray wrap on the bumper while it’s off… any color suggestions? It’s got some nasty marring from some off road adventures and a missing vanity plate which I’m going to bondo up and sand before hand.

 

So I figured out one of the switch’s functions… which I haven’t popped it out and done any tracing but it’s for some reason a kill switch for the rear hatch actuator, not the bottom part but just the top.

Admittedly I had flipped it a few times looking around the car for possible changes and didn’t pay attention to which way it was flipped.

Then at some point during all my assessment of things to fix on this Rover I thought the rear lock actuator had failed… one day this week I was going to crawl back there and mess up the trim and pull the cable and attempt to get it open… however… my five year old was helping me with a Home Depot trip and was waiting on me he tried the rear switch out of no where and it opened.

I flipped the mystery switch and nothing from the top latch. Flipped it back and it functioned. The rear release never lost functionality, just the top hatch release.

Looking at the fuse panel I don’t see anything specific to this rear hatch… I plan on toning it out since I finally got some other wires mended and the rear passenger door locking again.

Does anyone know of what this possibly could have been done for or what else runs on this circuit?

I’ll post updates when I do some more digging.

 

Odd. I can only think it was for some sorta safety? As in they did not drive with the doors locked, but did not want people running up in traffic and opening the hatch? I myself actually installed an interior switch to activate the upper gate. So when camping, I can press the button to pop it from the inside.

 

See that was a train of thought I had as well; maybe they like it as an extra layer of security while they were sleeping in the back of it? It doesn’t seem to affect anything else back there that I can tell; still planning on doing some more digging when time presents itself. It’s the tail end of the school year so free time is a little sparse in the household. Haha.

Did you know you can open it from the inside by pressing the Lock / Unlock buttons at the same time and holding them for a few seconds on the dash?

 

Yes, but the dash controls are useless unless someone is actually pulling on the hatch when those are pressed otherwise the safety catch is still holding on.

 

Facts.....but the same feature initiated by the key FOB (via the Land Rover symbol switch) is handy.