Thread: Today was a good day

Gday All,

Like many of us , I have been flat out the last few months , cant remember the last time I seen my house in daylight , well today was Range Rover day
Started with the fog and spot lights , neither of them were working so 4 lights , and thought it would be odd if 4 globes had blown , but the car was a yard hack for a couple of years before my purchase.
checked the relay first and that was working , so climb under the front of the car and all I can see is `spagetti junction`of wires pulled the 4 lights and test the globes and 3 work so that's a start. Several hours, several coffees, plenty of old wires on the ground and we have some sense to the lights. Funny , following the fog light wiring and I see a 2 core wire spliced in and it goes up on top of the chassis , so I thought I might see where it goes, follow it all the way to the back of the car and up into the rear drivers side and it goes to 2 very small 12v plugs, can only assume it was for a fridge. Not sure how the plugs were supposed to work as they were powered from the power wire after the relay so no lights on - no power to the plugs.

So decide after sorting out spaghetti junction ,that the carpets are pretty grubby and could do with a good clean, several hours later and a few more coffee`s and the front carpets are out , rear seats , rear carpets , etc etc , only carpet left is the piece over the trans tunnel. Got the carpet detergent we use on the boats out plus the water blaster and let loose. from what I could see after the water coming off the carpets was actually clear , not dark brown like the beginning, they came up pretty good.

So after that survey the floors and was impressed , some surface rust where the jack sits but the rest was in very good condition. All in all a good Range rover day

Cheers Ean

It's great to get outside and do some tinkering .... The list for my ****box that requires fixing it getting progressively longer. As of yesterday suddenly intermittent wipers have stopped working.... and if you turn the wipers full on they will not park (hey at least they still wipe the screen when required). You just have to keep trying to get them to stop in the right spot ....

seeya
Shane L.