thebruce
Active Member
Ok so I conquered the driver side drain. Far easier than I thought. They must have changed the driver side drain position in the LR4 vs the LR3...because it's not behind the wheel arch liner like the technical bulletin states. It's in fender intake vent, just like the passenger side. You use the exact same method as the passenger side drain....ugh. It's literally a 3 min job.
To get to that 3 min job took me days/weeks of research. LR has the single WORST documentation of any car manufacturer...
I took the trim thats under the steering wheel to try to trace where that hose went out, and confirm the ****** hadn't corroded. I had seen videos of people replacing theirs on an LR3, and looks pretty simple to find. I also thought I might be able to remove it from the inside and blow it out faster than taking the wheel arch liner off. However once I took it apart the hose was nowhere to be found. The LR4 has a bunch more wiring in there vs the LR3 so it's hidden behind 2 big wiring looms. I had to use my endoscope connected to my iPhone to finally find it. And when I found it it looked like it was exited right into that side vent. So I took it off and voila...there it was.
And the battery powered compressed air gun works perfectly for it. A couple shots of air and it was draining perfectly.
So much hassle would have been saved if this stuff was documented correctly.
To get to that 3 min job took me days/weeks of research. LR has the single WORST documentation of any car manufacturer...
I took the trim thats under the steering wheel to try to trace where that hose went out, and confirm the ****** hadn't corroded. I had seen videos of people replacing theirs on an LR3, and looks pretty simple to find. I also thought I might be able to remove it from the inside and blow it out faster than taking the wheel arch liner off. However once I took it apart the hose was nowhere to be found. The LR4 has a bunch more wiring in there vs the LR3 so it's hidden behind 2 big wiring looms. I had to use my endoscope connected to my iPhone to finally find it. And when I found it it looked like it was exited right into that side vent. So I took it off and voila...there it was.
And the battery powered compressed air gun works perfectly for it. A couple shots of air and it was draining perfectly.
So much hassle would have been saved if this stuff was documented correctly.