Thread: D3 has gone a bit silly after a wash!!

prity much let it all dry adn do a hard reset,

Stig,
"hard reset" and by that you mean? Is this a disconnect the battery reset?

Hi Stig or anyone else out there in D3 land,
I let everything dry out, this morning everything is back to normal except the transmission which is still telling me I have a fault and that no special programs are available, any ideas??

Sounds like you may have got the Tranny control module in the battery housing wet. IIRC CaverD3 had that issue before - send him a PM. I think you have to remove the battery to get to the module and dry it out.

Cheers,

Gordon

It's days like these I bet you wish you still had the truck in your Avatar.
MMM....sounds like a problem in deep creeks.

Hi Buzz,
You are right to a point, the old truck yes I never had so much fun with my clothes on. Times have changed alittle bit now, when anything happened to my old Rangie if bits fell off I just used to throw them in the back. Nowadays I'm more into the touring "thing", towing the camper trailer and camping where I can. I'll more than liley get another toy at some point, my wife and I were only reflecting at the weekend how much fun it used to be, the old Rangie was more or less bomb proof despite what a lot of others say. Near standard it was apart from alift and a locker in the rear, great bus.

Gordon, aka ggHaggis,
Eternally greatful my good man, I didn't hear from Caver D3 but I went searching anyway. Took the battery out and found the tranny module, the multi pin sockets were full of water, and had also been soaked in some sort of silicon goo, this has obviously been a problem in the past going by the grubby fingerprints all over the module. Anyway I've now cleaned everything up and I'll asemble tonight hopefully no electrical damage has taken place inside the module due to the water ingress.
Right on the money Gordon, very greatful for your assistance, bloody good forum this.......

Hi Nomad, yours is actually a bit of a common problem and when you reassemble everything, make sure the loom plugs are firmly fitted together, otherwise you may end up with a new and different set of problems.

BTW, for those buying a D4 and finding that the auxiliary battery compartment is now full, it's the gear that Nomad is having problems with and has been moved into the auxiliary battery compartment to rectify this problem.