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Thread: D3 Auto Cutout On Impact?

  1. 7th April 2010, 12:36 PM #1
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    Question D3 Auto Cutout On Impact?

    Greets... took my just bought '05 D3 HSE into the scrub yesterday and marveled at how ridiculously good it is with all those flash traction control options. VERY impressive truck.

    Anyway, I managed to bottom the whole D3 out and it smacked itself very hard onto an embedded rock (which broke!) and it appears to have broken about a 4 inch weld on a smallish bracing piece of steel near the rear bush of part of the suspension. Photo attached.

    Question is, I presume the engine management is what turned the motor off? Completely turned the truck off after a brief pause after the 'bump'.

    Thanks for any insight.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mully View Post
    Question is, I presume the engine management is what turned the motor off? Completely turned the truck off after a brief pause after the 'bump'.

    Thanks for any insight.

    It probably tripped the inertia switch. I don't know where it is on the D3 but it's probably built into one of the control units.
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  3. 7th April 2010, 04:07 PM #3
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    Ahhh... that makes perfect sense... I'm so old school I didn't even think of it. Bound to be in there somewhere...
    Thanks.
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    it'll be up on the fire wall on the engine bay side where its easy to get to.

    it looks like a rubber covered push button
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    Quote Originally Posted by Blknight.aus View Post
    it'll be up on the fire wall on the engine bay side where its easy to get to.

    it looks like a rubber covered push button
    Thats how it is on a D2,manual reset ,but it sounds like the D3 is an auto reset,if it was triggered at all.
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  6. 8th April 2010, 09:57 AM #6
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    I remember the Freelander had one of these on the firewall... (sure don;t miss that truck)... but the D3 didn't need resetting at all. She just stopped dead but restarted with no problem much to my relief. Just a bent up bracket to show for it all.
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    Fuel Supply Shutdown

    Mully, another thing that a solid stop does is unlock all doors (as it also does in an accident). You might have noticed that it unlocked all doors but only if the doors were locked to start with.

    The engine stopping is associated with the fuel pump being shut down so that in event of fire unwanted fuel is not pumped onto damaged wiring, hot turbo or exhaust components.
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  8. 8th April 2010, 06:06 PM #8
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    Thanks Leigh.. makes sense i gues as it was a very solid impact. Thought I'd broken it for sure.
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