Hey All. New Land Rover owner here. I picked up a 2008 Land Rover LR3 about 2 months ago and had been enjoying it immensely. About three weeks ago we took a small road trip and as we reached our destination everything electrionic started shutting down and the message Vehicle Fault, System Shutting Down appeared on the central dash screen and everything electronic stopped working. The doors unlocked, the hazard lights came on and couldn't be shut off and Other than that and the fact that the engine still ran, nothing else on the car worked. Once I had shut the car off, it would no longer start. We were visiting my brother and he had one of those car fault readers and hooked it up to the car. The only error listed was something to to with "A/C Transmission", nothing else. He cleared the faults and I was able to start the car. I drove it to where we were staying and the car worked great. I chalked it up to a weird glitch. The next day though it unfortunately did the same thing, but this time the system cycled through shutting down and rebooting non-stop the entire time we drove. Long story short, we took it to a local Land Rover/Jaguar dealer and dropped it off. They replaced the electronic parking brake module and another module and said they had found a fair bit of corrosion on the second module and plugs as well which they cleaned up. I picked it up several days later and about 30 minutes later it did the same thing. Back to the dealer I went. It's been at the dealership for almost 3 weeks now and they have not been able to figure out what the problem is. They said they have found a fair amount of corrosion on many of the connectors which they have been cleaning as they've gone along, but so far no module fails when tests. We got a Car Fax before buying it and the car had an immaculate record and the car itself looks immaculate without a scratch or scuff anywhere. I also spoke with the mechanic and he is fairly confident the car has never been involved with a flooding incident or anything like that.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be that the actual Land Rover service center may be missing? We are at a loss, and are seriously thinking of selling it at a loss if it does get fixed because we can't afford to have this happen twice.
About the only good that's come of all this is the dealership gave me a brand new fully loaded Jaguar XF to drive for the past 3 weeks!
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what the problem might be that the actual Land Rover service center may be missing? We are at a loss, and are seriously thinking of selling it at a loss if it does get fixed because we can't afford to have this happen twice.
About the only good that's come of all this is the dealership gave me a brand new fully loaded Jaguar XF to drive for the past 3 weeks!
