Great to see LR are still using customers to do its fault finding and development!

Lovely to see Land Rover hasn’t changed much, expensive vehicles that still have the same issues as all previous motors did. my d3 was a nightmare at time for faults ghost faults oddities and craps put on you when you need it most, but we still love the old green oval despite this

Land Rover offer an exorbitantly priced pair of seats called 'Event seats' (or something) accessory for the luggage area of the Discovery 5. That means the tailgate being open all day long at anything from your local sheepdog trials to a gymkhana or even just the village carnival! People will obviously go and eat or to the toilet or walk around and so you have constant opening and closing. A nice idea, but why haven't Land Rover put an 'Event' mode in tandem with this concept in the infotainment system which you can select upon arrival that switches off everything but central locking and the interior lights. Switching the engine back on would or could automatically cancel 'Event mode'.

i really like your channel as everytime i feel i want a landrover--- i watch one of your videos and then smack myself around the head and come to my senses, cheers brother, that swing out tow hitch in the uk models is a giggle, no one uses them in australia

Ha ha, I'm glad you're enjoying the true LR experience. I chuckled my way through that video, great content.

It seems modern vehicles need to be kept on a 'maintenance' charger when not being used for several days - especially if the doors/bonnet/boot/tailgate are repeatedly being opened and closed etc. Even switching on the ignition without starting the engine the battery voltage will drop considerably before slowly recovering when switched off - assuming the battery is still healthy enough. A discharged battery can leave various faults which may need to be cleared or the vehicle driven - with mine the windows also need to opened and closed to re-set one-touch operation.

I think what is missing on the dashboard is a big red emergency button call “RESET” 😂 …. That video is a treat for ASPW 😮😅😂

That alarm’s gonna terrify the baddies.

The alternator on my supercharged L494 failed a few months ago. I got about twenty minutes of driving from it before all kinds of warning lights start flashing up and superfluous systems began shutting down, including the gearbox locking itself into a high gear. Very Apollo 13! Made it home but didn't have enough volts left to select reverse to get it on the drive. 😆

Thanks Simon really helpful. I’ve been lucky so far with my D250 110 13k miles and no battery issue whatsoever. I certainly can’t say the same for my previous XC90 which was blighted so bad that the start stop function never worked. Additionally my wife had a beatle and needed to replace 2 batteries!! I’ve been meaning to look at setting up a trickle charge system for my 110 while the car is locked up and not in use but would be interested to see if you have a plan before I do anything. Looking at some of the other comments I think it’s far to easy to keep knocking LR about issues which happen to all manufacturers.

Considering the battery drain, and the number of actuators included with the vehicle for various functions, the Defender does indeed look like it would benefit from a dual battery setup, one for core functions and another for non core. I wonder how much more drain that main battery will suffer when higher power accessories are added/optioned to the vehicle like a sunroof, winch, overlanding lights etc. especially those that might need to work when the vehicle is switched off.

I thought for a moment Land Rover had changed their ways in turning out bad vehicles ,and started building reliable ones ! ,but thats been dashed !

Simon I was shouting at the phone to check the towbar!! Usually when started the sound last for around 20 Seconds then turns off till next restart, had my dealer fooled too till We saw the flashing light! No cameras- just soft reset the pivi pro by Holding down the volume button for thirty seconds reboots the system!!!

Once you stop the car, and before exiting, put the key into a farady bag (around AUD$12) . This stop the key talking the car and not initiate the Pivi-pro system etc that cause the battery to flatten. The car stays asleep so yo can open the close the doors as much as you like with no impact on the battery.

It happened for me last week The battery got flat And try to jump it Didn’t work Send it to dealer The battery was dead They changed it And test the car no drain Strange my car 2020 6000 mile only 😅

Could a faulty battery cause issues with the air conditioning? I’m having a weird issue with my air conditioner not blowing the same power setting in the back as the front. It also blows much hotter in the back as well.

need a decent constant voltage high current power supply - as you can see the house loads of these things are in the region of 10-15 amp, so doors open and filming for 30 mins will drain it quickly. I use modified server power supplies that will provide up to 50 amp. The dealers have these for when doing firmware updates to maintain a decent voltage level

Nice if it's outside and it's snowing/raining and you have 20 mins to get to work. I have a Freelander 2 (2008) which has had the same battery for 5 yrs with no problems but have just replaced it now for the winter. Way too many electrics on these new models to be reliable.

I stick with a good old P38 🤣

You and parking cameras 😂

With a high parasitic drain like that and just one battery, no wonder the ECU goes poopy in it's pants and need to be reset. Just a safety thing, not to damage the ECU.

How very strange! Might be an idea to have a word with the dealer to see if it’s a new thing or something they know about. Really stupid idea putting the battery under an electric seat, if you broke down,as we did in a 6 month old new car, all the dashboard died. But RAC man came eventually and said the battery was gone. But at least ours was under the bonnet, how would you replace yours if you can’t get to it cos the seat won’t move?

We don’t have a deployable tow bar in the USA. Seems like something else to go wrong.

Hello! I am waiting for the delivery of my Defender 110 X-Dynamic HSE P400. What battery charger should I use? Thanks for your help.

Sorry to ask a question on an older video. I have read about issues if the battery completely dies it cannot be just recharged/jump started but needs a trip to the dealer (a computer or gap tool etc). Is that true? I am having trouble confirming with simple searches. I’ll reach out to my local LR dealership but I don’t always get the best service. Just wondering if you had experienced this.

main vehicle battery under the electric seat ?? how many engineers with how many degrees thought that was a good idea ?? ( yeah i know there is a jump point under the bonnet , but come on )

Have you found an informed Land Rover technician who can buddy up with you with some of these bizarre faults? What an amazing opportunity for Land Rover to clear the air.

Must be because it’s in the garage being worked on a lot and not being driven much. I drive around 15 to 20 Miles a day and use mine for work, I must open the doors at least 20 times a day to get stuff out. More for the back door (using the boot button doesn’t fire up Pivi system) never had low battery warning in 2 years. 🤞🏼

Simon…I suspect that you may not have driven the car enough to bring it up to full charge and that is why it gets upset . When I had a fading battery, it did strange things to the tailgate operation so the tow bar might have a similar reaction to being disconnected or run down? In my experience, any such problems clear if you stop, switch off, lock up, wait 30 seconds then reopen as normal. A new version of “unplug it, wait and plug it in again”…it seems to work! I think a nice 100 mile run would make a big difference! 🤔🫢😀😀😀😀

Sorry if it’s a stupid question but is there not a plus and minus pole underneath the bonnet?. Or was that what you had charger connected to? So that you could put an external battery on it to start it?

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Too much electrical crap today!!!

first maybe wind the window down and disconnect the battery, I suspect that it has a seperate battery for the alarm as well

So this is a 48v mild hybrid, does that mean the 48v lithium battery NOT the 12v AGM battery starts the engine? So land rover I guide says do not charge the 12v battery if connected to the car, how do you know which battery is flat/low and how can you charge the 48v battery? My P400 is also not a daily driver and it keeps having fits due to low 12v battery, starts fine but no electric powered steering, your disconnect/reconnect the 12v battery worked a treat

So trying to start, made it sound like Scooby Doo..?

Regarding repeatedly opening doors etc: My previous JLR vehicles have given a warning on the display when the battery is low something like “Low battery- please start engine” Does the Defender not do this?

How far Land Rover has fallen since the days when England made proper Defenders and Range Rovers. It's tracking nicely with everything else.

Hi Simon what battery charger would you recommend for my Defender 110? Thanks Kim

Poor example of an Xmas jumper :)

If you have a flat battery and need to replace it how do you move the driver's seat to get to the battery if its flat? Is there some way to manually move it?

Land Rover software is a pile of shit, so glad I sold my 90 (at a small profit).

First time you have looked totally stressed.

did you do a double-lock. I was told that shuts down the computers entirely.

A great advert for the high tech reliance on the battery. Interlinking so much leaves the home diagnosis almost impossible to fathom. Flat battery = tow bar failure??? What would be the outcome of an MOT be with that buzzer going off? JLR have gone down a slippery slope of needless high tech to appeal to the i phone generation. Like an i phone, it does so much irrelevant stuff well but the actual phone operation is still clunky and poor. Defender use is marred by too much reliance on gizmos and bells (which appear flakey at best).

Oh, JLR 🤦🤦‍♀🤦‍♂

How many miles a day do you have to drive these cars to keep the battery charged up ?

Simon you do know all the haters are now going to say you see landrover is rubbish, that’s why o sold mine, that’s why I didn’t buy one blah blah, because no other vehicle has ever had a flat battery 😂 All owners should know logically this is a silly system and yes LR should get their asses kicked for this but it just needs to be managed. Did you not get a warning on the dash before it went flat?

Trying to steal your own car

Pivi reboot my ode!

It is frustrating how awful dealers knowledge of modern cars is, with one of my own (not a LR) it took a little while to understand the eccentricities of it. The car had genuine faults that were easily fixed at home but that dealers seem incapable of diagnosing. Faultfinding strange behaviour of a vehicle at home can be great fun if you don't actually need to use it but the prospect of it having a tantrum when you are offroad and out of phone coverage is not funny.

I think I will stick with my trusty 2004 Es premium discovery 2 Td5 these new ones are just too unreliable !

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Gotta wonder what these new defenders will be like in 20 year's time.