Thread: Centre Console & Dash Off & Not Starting

Originally Posted by nat_89

On an unrelated thing i was chatting to a bloke last night at work who said his wife has a D2 the last model before they changed to D3 any way she went to a big hospital to see her sick father got a park quite close to the hospital anyway came back out and the car alarm was going off it brain and the car wouldn't start and was playing up hell bound!! Called RACQ he couldn't sort it put it on the tow truck anyway about 5 minutes down the road he stopped and said let me check something and got in the car and it started perfectly the alarm had stopped and not an issue at all!! Apparently its something to do with the hospitals electronics or something as the RACQ fella had heard of it before has anyone else??

Hi Nat, this is quite a common fault with the D2s.

If you parked to close to the entrance of an Amcal chemist, you had the same problems.

I had a set of Sennheiser wireless head phones connected to my TV.

These headphones automatically turned off 15 minutes after the TV was turned off.

It took weeks of annoying problems of not being able to get into my D2, for about 15 minutes, then all of a sudden, everything was fine.

On one occasion, even had a tow truck on it's way to take the D2 back to the dealers.

Finally the penny dropped and I simply turned the head phones off when ever I wanted to get into my D2.

Originally Posted by drivesafe

Hi Nat, please don't take this as a Land Rover ONLY problem.

It happens to other makes as well but being as we are LR owners on here, the D2s seem to be the ones effected the most.

It has something to do with the Public Assess radio frequencies.

Most security systems use to use that given band width, things like car security systems, remote controlled roller doors and gates.

Things are a little more restricted now and things don't get locked up as much, but you can still jam the remote keys for most vehicles.

No i certainly wasn't taking it as just a Land Rover problem as my mate was saying from the way the tow truck driver was talking he had heard of it before and it was just limited to LR, I guess he only told me as he has a D2 and i have a D4 so I'm guessing thats why he told me but still very interesting as id never myself heard of it before!!