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adover



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Flat battery (airport related??)

Just returned from 8 days overseas leaving my FL2 in the airport car park. Returned to 'low voltage' on the radio and 'click' / no start on pressing the start button. Call to LR Assistance and 1 hour latter jump started and home.

I took the car to my dealership who (after 2 working days) tell me that the battery is okay and 'this happens at airports'. Just spoken to the Customer Relationship Centre who have the same story, it's due to the car waking up due to stray transmissions / radio traffic around the airport (this after I fell about laughing at the response).

My experience suggests that if you leave your FL2 at an airport for any length of time there is a one in three chance it will be flat when you get back.

Anyone else got a view on this? Really handy when you spend a fair bit of time overseas. Interestingly my original Freelander sat at an airport for 5 days a week for 9 months and started first time every time Andrew

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Mine did this last year, I insisted on a new battery and the problem hasnot recurred. LR batteries are Censored as are most new car batteries. It is one area where costs are cut to the minimum. You need a new battery. Thumbs Up

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Re: Flat battery (airport related??)

adover wrote:
... it's due to the car waking up due to stray transmissions / radio traffic around the airport (this after I fell about laughing at the response).


Is it Arpil 1st? I didn't know my car had a sleep mode .... Did you park right underneath the airport radar? Whatever will they think of next ....

Reminds me of the service manager who told me I have a digital radio ... just because the radio has a digital display ... it becomes a digital radio (as in DAB) with all manner of retuning requirements.

I don't know about LR going to TaTa land, more like bloddy lala land !!! Stornoway Grey GS ... What a fine motor Smile ... but not any more ... Big Cry ... psst look at my gallery!
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I had mine parked at a airport for 5 days

Not a single bit of trouble restarting it

I can confirm though i did not have any diagnostic equipment on me to test whether I was parked in a tranmission black spot.

Though in November I and going to make a tinfoil hat and wear it whilst walking away from my car just in case Laughing

What a load of LRCS Censored Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

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I think we all need to realise the FL2 has character and feelings and that is what you are seeing Laughing

Agree with Tandemman that battery related issues are higher than before in the industry, which might mean that they always have been but the cars are just so much more sensitive to battery issues these days. Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

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christian138



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The car was just sulking that you hadn't brought it back anything from your trip abroad Laughing 

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Quote:
it's due to the car waking up due to stray transmissions / radio traffic around the airport


Never heard so much crap in my entire life.

I would certainly agree with them if you parked right next to the antenna of a powerfull radio transmitter but you won't get that at an airport, most of their radio antennae are normally located off-site, some are several miles away and usually located on higher ground.

I quite often use a radio transmitter of several hundred watts and the antenna is no more than 10 yards away from the car and it hasn't caused any problems.

Sounds like the dealer is fobbing you off with one seriously lame excuse. ______________________
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Dave wrote:
I quite often use a radio transmitter of several hundred watts and the antenna is no more than 10 yards away from the car and it hasn't caused any problems.


With the car that is....what about you Laughing Once you've tasted GREY you'll never go back!

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Hi guys ,Ive parked mine at heathrow twice for three weeks and had no trouble at all starting. Laughing I have a LR2GS with privacy glass and winter pack

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Had LR Assist out on a different matter , and I mentioned to the guy that I had suffered a flat battery recently while parked in the driveway. He mentioned that "it's not unusual" , but the frequency had decreased after some software mods were done (didn't mention specifics). He did recount a tale of having to use the key to get into a car , because it was so asleep it wouldn't wake up Smile . After a hard reset (battery disconnect) it all burst back into life.
So these FL2s have a personality!

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Have to say this is no bull s**t my x-type jaguar did the same thing at east midlands airport last year i was told by recovery people and sturgess jaguar that the car goes into sleep mode and the key entry is the only way to start the motor.mention this to land rover dealer and they said freelander would also do this but after about 4 weeks then you need to take cap off door handle and insert the little key which is inside key fob to open the door this put the motor back into wake mode. Freelander2 GS TD4 Manual in Lago Grey Smile .Roof Mount DVD 9.2''Screen~Window Tints~Parrot CK3100 Bluetooth~Retro Fit Sony Satnav~iPhone Dashmount~Side Steps~Woodco Armrest~Mudflaps~Land Rover Sunglass Holder~LED Interior Lights~Private Plate.Evoque Collected 17th Sept 2012.


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RRS, Disco3 and FFRR all go to sleep if you park them with the suspension in access mode, also if you park them without engaging the electronic parking brake manually, the car will also engage it for you after 5-10minutes. But then if you do get a flat battery you cannot recover the car, even by winching it onto a trailer, unless you lift it onto a flatbed with a Hyab................................. because it's an ELECTRONIC parking brake, no power , no release. Big Cry Great design boys................................. How can carbon have a footprint, it has no feet?
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