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Ecosse
Member Since: 07 Jan 2005
Location: Grampian, Scotland
Posts: 889
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May be the first actual "design" fault I've found, everything else being a failure to fully implement! But today, freezing early on - so set the pre-heater (& it worked!!) and found cabin warm, front windows clearing - HOWEVER, the rear wiper blade was stuck solid - took 1/2 bottle of screen de-icer to clear it! Problem is that whereas the Disco II had a cleverly designed park position of the wiper that sat on top of heating elements in the glass, the Disco 3 does not as it parks below the glass/heating elements. Has anyone else noticed this - or indeed does anyone have heating elements near the wiper's park position? 
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 21st Feb 2005 8:07 am |
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Cocker
Member Since: 10 Feb 2005
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland.
Posts: 26
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The Pre-Heat worked !?!?!. Did you have to use the Radio/CD ON trick ?.
Not sure about where the rear blade sits....i'll have a look later on.....
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| 21st Feb 2005 10:33 am |
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Ecosse
Member Since: 07 Jan 2005
Location: Grampian, Scotland
Posts: 889
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Yes - although I wasn't using it overnight. I just went out to car early, programmed it leaving radio on, went back in for a bite of breakfast  and then when I went out it was humming away with interior nicely warmed. I will test tonight pre-programming it without the radio on. It certainly makes a mockery of LR's claims that it is not meant to be there!! - it certainly is, just they haven't properly set it up!! 
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| 21st Feb 2005 10:43 am |
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simon
Member Since: 11 Jan 2005
Location: Shropshire
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And my dealer tells me I don't have one fitted... but its clearly there humming away when you start up on a cold morning.
-s
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| 21st Feb 2005 11:19 am |
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Ecosse
Member Since: 07 Jan 2005
Location: Grampian, Scotland
Posts: 889
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Simon - I think there are really 2 elements to the heater:-
1. It is an engine fuel burning heater ie it provides additional heating to the engine on cold starts - seems to be controlled by a simple thermostat.
2. A Cabin/engine pre-heater ie with engine off the fuel burner will run under a timed control to then pre-heat the radiator water & therefore heat the cabin.
I suspect that the former is there on all Disco3 TDV6's but the later is the extra feature that is (half)working on the SE/HSE's
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| 21st Feb 2005 11:29 am |
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Gareth
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Member Since: 07 Dec 2004
Location: Bramhall
Posts: 26772
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Did your dealer claim to have fixed the FBH after you left the car with them for a few days recently? If they did, what did they tell you?
I have still had no answer from LRCS on this, although I did get an email from them last week telling me that work was ongoing. My dealer still has not got a clue, they don't even know what I'm talking about when I ask them if LR have fixed it yet.
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| 21st Feb 2005 12:35 pm |
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Ecosse
Member Since: 07 Jan 2005
Location: Grampian, Scotland
Posts: 889
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Dealer claimed not to have done anything & that LR Technical said that it was not functional - the confirmation I got today was by e-mail from LR CS, apparently from the "Lead Engineer" - see my posting in "General" for details. If you are getting a different answer, then it implies either that they are failing to run a basic database of user issues within CS or that they are simply telling each customer whatever comes to mind in an effort to put them off (which I think is very unlikely )
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| 21st Feb 2005 12:52 pm |
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Martin
Site Admin and Owner
Member Since: 06 Nov 2004
Location: Hook Norton
Posts: 18561
 
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Have added this to the Issues List as requested
Martin
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| 21st Feb 2005 2:31 pm |
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