Thread: Stupid Land Rover Earths

My Digital dash clock went crazy one day and wouldn't show the numbers correctly. It has annoyed me for months and I was going to buy another.
Since I had access to the rear of the engine I found 2 black flimsy earth wires that bolt to the rear of the let head. One was broken off, I reattached it.
Today I noticed my clock is working again. Seems another stupid LR earthing, did the clock need a solid earth from the engine?

Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!

My Digital dash clock went crazy one day and wouldn't show the numbers correctly. It has annoyed me for months and I was going to buy another.
Since I had access to the rear of the engine I found 2 black flimsy earth wires that bolt to the rear of the let head. One was broken off, I reattached it.
Today I noticed my clock is working again. Seems another stupid LR earthing, did the clock need a solid earth from the engine?

can sympathise with this...had loss of starter action recently, so pulled it - took hours as one of the allen key sockets stripped...only to find the starter was new, but the earth lead had sheared. Seems the aluminium ends will not suffer flexing for long. I've doubled up on engine earths now, and the body earth near the battery on a D1 needs doubling too. Good old British engineering