"How can that be?!" you think, they have nothing to do with each other?!

Read on to enjoy someone elses suffering or maybe for a clue if you've had a similar problems..

Not an easy story to keep brief, so get comfy...

Minor issue:
About 2 months ago, I noticed my P38's rear end on the bump stops in the mornings. The rear bags are in rough shape, so I wasn't too surprised. Just a slow leak and a reminder to fork out for the new Gen III's i've had my eye on.
With some hindsight, I decided to order Bundalene's air suspension emergency inflate kit, just in case!


Major issue:
1 week after the EAS inflate kit arrived, I drove from Sydney to Thredbo for a skiing weekend. Halfway down, my passenger, playing with buttons, hit the manual air suspension button and selected the lowest setting "access mode" (?). I immediately set it back, explaining that the ECU wouldn't let it go to that on the freeway doing 120 but best not to tempt fate so put it back to normal.

10 minutes later, the suspension started feeling like i was almost on the bump stops (at 120!) and then the EAS fault appeared. First time for me so was a little nervous...

Feeling very proud of my hindsight I continued on for about an hour with a slightly rough but not too bad a ride on the bump stops until we pulled up at the next servo and began the process of attaching the inflate kit and re inflating the system. For a first time effort, at midnight, in 2 degree weather, I was extremely happy with the simplicity and result. Took about 1/2 an hour but will only take about 10 mins next time i think.

Problem solved (fault still reading on the dash) we headed off relieved that we could still go skiing.

Russians!
Driving up to our hotel about 1am, we found a 2007 Land Cruiser bogged in the drain next to the hotel driveway (over shot the entry i guess). It was 2 Russian families all wearing huge mink coats and dripping in gold - a very bizarre scene and with the freezing conditions, it felt like it was us that were out of place!
We pulled out the snatch strap but they were pretty irate at the situation and had no faith in the P38 pulling them out as the front end was 3/4 up the front tires in mud! (sorry, no pics, didn't want to offend the russians..)
We pulled them out in one go and they began ranting eccstatically in Russian and broken english telling us what a fantastic car we have (very happy with that ). 2 of their girls (hot as you like!!) gave us a double cheek kiss each, and the father (massive) forced a $50 on us for our trouble. After trying to knock him back on the $50 a few times, we realised we were insulting his honour so added it to the beer fund (really didn't feel right but made him feel good about the issue i guess).


28L/100kms? Terrible power?
The ride home after skiing was great aside from the car running very poorly, no guts on the hills, idling at about 400 rpm, spitting out black soot on the LHS and burning through even more fuel than usual...
This carried on until the day before the land rover expo and i was really worried something terrible was going on inside.

Results!
The day before the Land Rover Expo at Castle hill, I gave the old girl a really good spruce up and decided to have a good look underneath. Hazzah! The O2 sensor on the LHS had a red wire damaged.
From the look of it, the cable from the O2 sensor had come away from it's mount and was sagging down a little. Not usually too much of a worry unless you drive on the bump stops for an extended period

After a bit of work with some speaker wire and some electrical tape, i had it back where it should be, went for a cruise and, wallah! a new car!

Funny how all the little things build up into these crazy little cluster f*#ks

I'm about to head off to Jaycar to get an OBD cable now. Need to clear the fault again.. fun times.

Best of luck!

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