Absolutely not - not that stupid. Please read all my notes above. Anyway there is no power getting to the important parts of the car.

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RRSTDV8 wrote:

This is one reason I recommend people get the LR warranty if the vehicle is eligible. They just deal with it all and give you a loan car too. Sure, others are cheaper but that isn't always a good thing.

Hopefully your issue will be one of those "simple to sort even though it was a nightmare at the time" things that Land Rovers seem to like to try our patience with.

nigel52 wrote:

Absolutely not - not that stupid. Please read all my notes above. Anyway there is no power getting to the important parts of the car.

Sorted it? Visitor from fullfatrr.com
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Update - Tuesday 30th June.
Dealer diagnostics after 3 hours is that the electrical ECU failed not the engine ECU. They will replace and need to re-programme both keys. Having second key posted from home to dealer to complete work. Price of diagnostic 263.5 euros ,ie 3.1 hours at 85 euros an hour. Price of electrics ECU. LR prt no. LR032733 518.84 euros. 40 minutes to fit. 51 euros.
Total incl. TVA/VAT. 1,000 euros.

Suggested to Warranty Direct that at FX1.4. The labour rate would be £60/hr and total bill in pounds would be £714 . They have agreed to pay this less excess.

Still alarmed that failure could be so catastrophic on a 2011 vehicle with 32,000 miles and fully maintained. Confidence completely shocked with RRS as since November had over £3.5 K in repairs. Got to do some serious thinking on whether to stay with this marque. Conversely my FL2 was trouble free although only had it for 14 months.

I'd stick with it for a while longer as you've spent that much already.....
Glad its sorted and WD paying up 😊
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Glad that you are now heading in the right direction and WD is coughing up! I think you have had some pretty warm temps in La Rochelle! I recently returned from Noirmoutiers before it heated up.
I wonder, purely speculatively, whether the auto tag readers on the autoroutes have had a bearing in this situation. Some years ago, I had a Shogun which used to go into limp home mode going through some auto tag readers. It could be that the beam has jiggered the electrical ecu. I've no idea, but it's a theory, especially as your issue is pretty unusual I think.

Not been down any toll roads where tag readers would be in the last three weeks. However, you are quite correct the day I parked the car it was very hot and when we came back three hours later the alarm was going off. Obviously some
Ink but no idea what.

Thermal expansion of circuit board could have caused bad joint or connection - hence the issue. Probability of that happening goes up with the number of thermal cycles. I just had similar failure on my daughters mercedes w204 - so it is not just a jlr issue - similar cost to fix as well - Id blame on global warming or just more complex electronics in cars these days ! Btw , toyota has some of the most stringent specs and tests in the industry for this sort of thing - so I think the only way to minimize those sort of issues is to get a land cruiser ! Bmw or Mercedes would be just as bad ....

very frustrating indeed. It does seem though that talking to WD and others in the Motor Trade they all love the RRS for driveability, comfort and all the other things we love about the cars but then they say "Except Reliability" to me that is an awful reputation to have.

nigel52 wrote:

Update - Tuesday 30th June.
Dealer diagnostics after 3 hours is that the electrical ECU failed not the engine ECU. They will replace and need to re-programme both keys. Having second key posted from home to dealer to complete work. Price of diagnostic 263.5 euros ,ie 3.1 hours at 85 euros an hour. Price of electrics ECU. LR prt no. LR032733 518.84 euros. 40 minutes to fit. 51 euros.
Total incl. TVA/VAT. 1,000 euros.

Suggested to Warranty Direct that at FX1.4. The labour rate would be £60/hr and total bill in pounds would be £714 . They have agreed to pay this less excess.

Still alarmed that failure could be so catastrophic on a 2011 vehicle with 32,000 miles and fully maintained. Confidence completely shocked with RRS as since November had over £3.5 K in repairs. Got to do some serious thinking on whether to stay with this marque. Conversely my FL2 was trouble free although only had it for 14 months.

Cant understand how the dignostics takes 3.1 hours. I thought as soon as it is plugged in it comes up with all the fault codes? Did it have so many it took 3.1 hours to read them all? Lucky it wasn't Stratstones doing the job,their labour is £150 + vat an Hour. Thats £558 for diognostics  itisme

Fault codes are quick, but there are other sides to diagnostics that are more complex/time consuming. Fully diagnosing and attempting to recover a corrupted ECU is not such a simple process and, as is evident, the results can cause all sorts of symptoms which can be misleading. If the BCM is dead/the software crashes, it won't communicate with the diagnostic tool in the first place.  Visiting from DISCO3.CO.UK
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Update Wednesday 8th July.phoned Land Rover La Rochelle to enquire if car was ready and quote they said they were talking to LR UK as there was some issue in requiring an electronic key module in order that the key would talk to the new electrical ECU they have fitted. They say that we must reclaim that part from LR UK. Firstly we don't understand why this was not mentioned in the quite we originally got and Warranty Direct signed off on. secondly we do not understand why we then have to claim that part back off LR UK.

By the time we get the car back we will have waited two weeks which is crazy when abroad. LR note when our five year Merc broke down on. Saturday in the Alps Merc picked us and the car up put us in a hotel at their cost for three nights and shipped the coil springs across France in order that we could continue our journey on the Tuesday.

Perhaps Pete of LR Customer Service can explain how we get compensated for the electronic key module that LR La Rochelle are talking about.

Would like technical input if anyone can explain this please.
So out of frustration went in to see the chief engineer at the Land Rovet dealer in La Rochelle to try and understand a two week hold up having broken down in our 2011 RRS with 32,000 miles near La Rochellecwith everything coked up and no electrical response on anything. Originally they diagnosed a replacement electrical ECU and the reprogramming of both keys. Land Rover part No.LR 032733. They are now saying that when they went to fit the new part that it was incompatible with an electrical item behind this ECU and that LR UK were sending a new compatible module. This is supposed to arrive Tomorrow or Saturday and hopefully we get the car back Monday.

Anybody got any ideas what this is all about and why LR UK had not made them aware of this issue with the above electrical ECU part?