I placed this thread in the introduction portion of this instead of the LR3 Technical portion.
my bad.
Hi everybody. I wanted to pass this bit of info on in case you may be experiencing the same problem.
My wife and I had been noticing that our 06 LR3-HSE was starting up a little slow from time to time. Of course, when the wife goes out on the weekly Sunday night grocery trip and she goes to start the Rover all heck breaks loose on the dash. You pick a light and it was on, the dash fault was on, the suspension was lowered....blah, blah, blah.
When I took the Rover in the first thing out of the service writers mouth was, it "must be the battery." Well after waiting for an hour in the lobby while the techs do their thing, the service writer comes back out and says, "let's put you in a loaner, it's not the battery."
Well long story short, the problem was fixed, here is what they found.
1. The starters was using 220A vs. the max 150.
2. Tested ground to engine and found that excessive resistance in ground. Cleaned refit, still excessive resistance.
3. Installed extra new ground directly to block next to starter, retested, within specs.
4. Tested starter, found to be bad starter, damage do to lack of good ground.
5. Replaced starter, problem no longer duplicated.
All covered under warranty!!
my bad.
Hi everybody. I wanted to pass this bit of info on in case you may be experiencing the same problem.
My wife and I had been noticing that our 06 LR3-HSE was starting up a little slow from time to time. Of course, when the wife goes out on the weekly Sunday night grocery trip and she goes to start the Rover all heck breaks loose on the dash. You pick a light and it was on, the dash fault was on, the suspension was lowered....blah, blah, blah.
When I took the Rover in the first thing out of the service writers mouth was, it "must be the battery." Well after waiting for an hour in the lobby while the techs do their thing, the service writer comes back out and says, "let's put you in a loaner, it's not the battery."
Well long story short, the problem was fixed, here is what they found.
1. The starters was using 220A vs. the max 150.
2. Tested ground to engine and found that excessive resistance in ground. Cleaned refit, still excessive resistance.
3. Installed extra new ground directly to block next to starter, retested, within specs.
4. Tested starter, found to be bad starter, damage do to lack of good ground.
5. Replaced starter, problem no longer duplicated.
All covered under warranty!!
